Parole home
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Parole home |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans F. Wilhelm (first episode) Fritz Stapenhorst (second episode) Wolfgang Becker (third episode) |
| script | Hanns H. Fischer |
| production | Alfred Bittins |
| music |
Hans-Martin Majewski (first and second episode) Herbert Jarczyk (third episode) |
| camera |
Josef Illig (first episode) Wolfgang Mueller-Sehn (second episode) Kurt Grigoleit (third episode) |
| cut | Use Wilken |
| occupation | |
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Max and Leo
The foundling
The evil seven
Leila and Faruk from the Munich Bongobar are dancing, and the ballet Werner Stammer is playing | |
Parole Heimat is a three-part German film from 1955 that allegedly tells cheerful soldiers' stories from the time of the Second World War. The episode directors involved were Hans F. Wilhelm , Fritz Stapenhorst and Wolfgang Becker . Michael Cramer , Rolf Weih and Hermann Speelmans play the leading roles . The film is based on stories of the same name by John Forster .
action
The time frame for action is the Second World War . Several Wehrmacht soldiers try to get back home, to Germany, on winding paths from distant fronts.
Max and Leo
Western front. The German soldiers Max and Leo were taken prisoner by France in the late phase of World War II. To escape and return home, they break out of the camp in the south of the country and disguise themselves as two French road workers. In this outfit, they are picked up and asked to help out in a US army depot. There they steal two officer's uniforms and a jeep and set off for Nice as fake GIs . On the way, they pick up Corinna, a German member of the Wehrmacht, and her friend Kitty. Both help them to get back home with a fishing cutter behind the front.
The foundling
Eastern Front. After the armistice in Courland , one of the last war zones in the east still held by the Wehrmacht, the three German compatriots Werner, Reinhold and Richard left the troop unit, which was largely in the process of being disbanded, in May 1945 in order to move to the west, home, punch through. In an abandoned Baltic manor house, they discover a baby who has obviously been left behind on the run. After some discussion, and only reluctantly, the three men take care of the foundling. A little later, the soldiers were more than rewarded for this decision, because the infant proves itself to be a real pass to freedom at all Soviet controls. They are taken from a trek that is supposed to transport foreign workers who have been deported to the west and thus return to Germany unscathed. One of the men will eventually accept the life-saving foundling for his own and adopt it.
The evil seven
Southern Front, theater of war North Africa. Several German prisoners of war vegetate here in a British camp in Libya and are bored to death. Everyone is plagued by the longing for home. Seven of them, the Landser Willi, Fritz, Erich, Franz, Rudi, Ernst and Karl, are planning the big breakout. Disguised as North African locals, they first make their way to Tripoli, so the plan is to somehow get from there across the Mediterranean to the European continent. On the way they get help from North Africans who do not speak too well of the British, above all from Madame Janine, the puffmother of a cathouse. In Tripoli, the seven come up with a trick to leave the country unobtrusively. They can be packed in boxes and shipped home by a neutral Swedish freighter.
Production notes
The shooting took place in late summer / early autumn 1955 in the Carlton-Film-Atelier in Munich's Tulbeckstraße and in the makeshift studio in Verden an der Aller. The outdoor shots were taken in Achim an der Weser, in Verden, Bremen, Abbazia (Yugoslavia) and at the Egyptian locations in Cairo, Alexandria and Sakkara . The premiere took place on November 24, 1955 in Hanover (Kino Weltspiele), the Berlin premiere was on February 3, 1956.
With Auguste Reuss-Barth, producer Alfred Bittins also took over the production management. There were no film structures for the first episode. Dieter Reinecke created the sets for the second episode, and Willi Schatz created the sets for the third .
The film was commissioned by producer Alfred Bittins as a result of the commercial success of the four-part country strip Heroism after the store had closed.
Reviews
Der Spiegel ruled: "The box office success of" Heroism after the store closes "should be brought about again with slackened strength. But these escape adventures of German warriors are already quite monotonous and exhaustingly funny. In spite of the semi-comical defeat, the national-minded viewer can indulge himself in the fact that a German man outwits every winner, that the Russians know no water closets and that the natives of Africa hold together the Germans against the English. "
At Filmdienst it says: “… pleasing by various directors and staged by means of a lot of situation comedy bypassing reality. The winner and the vanquished are balanced against each other, but the "German compatriot", who knows how to get through even under extreme difficulties, triumphs. The harmless comedy accompanied the West German rearmament in the fifties. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parole Heimat in Der Spiegel 7/1956
- ↑ The watchword home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .