Petersburg nights
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Petersburg nights |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Martin |
| script |
Max Nosseck , Johannes Hendrich |
| production |
CCC-Film GmbH, Artur Brauner |
| music | Michel Michelet |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Kurt Zeunert |
| occupation | |
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Petersburg Nights is a German film drama by Paul Martin from 1958. The leading roles are occupied by Ewald Balser , Johanna von Koczian , Ivan Desny , Claus Biederstaedt and Therese Giehse .
The screenplay by Hendrich and Nosseck, both written under the name Henry Ossdrich, is based on a story by Viktor Tourjansky and Robert Thoeren .
action
Petersburg around 1900: Tatiana Iwanotitsch ran away from the boarding school, which she attended at the request of her father Ivan, and collapsed when she came home due to bilateral pneumonia. The housekeeper Ivanotitsch Antonida takes care of the girl, because her father has to fulfill his obligations in the nightclub "Hermitage" today too. When he asks his employer Alexander Drubin for a few vacations, he reacts coldly and only says that if he leaves now, it will be forever and then he can move out of his house, which is his own. Then he smugly wants to know whether Ivanotitsch can now redeem his promissory notes. Ivan Iwanotitsch used to be a wealthy man, but has lost everything to his gambling addiction and now works as a managing director in Drubins Luxusetablissement, which he uses to very young women in his private room to seduce. There was a time when Ivanotitsch had Drubin's father in his hand and showed no mercy towards him. Now the tide has turned.
When Tatiana, who has since recovered, goes to a ballet performance with Antonida, she is discovered by Drubin, who is entranced by the young woman's beauty. Tatjana meets the bon vivant without her father's knowledge. She uses the music student Viktor Kardoff, who gives her piano lessons, as an alibi. When Viktor notices this, he is very disappointed, especially since he is in love with Tatiana. When that happens again, Kardoff withdraws, disappointed.
Tatjana sneaks out of the house that evening to accept Drubin's invitation to a nightclub. This time he had his booth there decorated with roses. At a certain time Ivanotitsch's door is to be locked from the outside. It was a coincidence that Ivanotitsch found out who was in the Drubins Séparée this time. When he opens the door, his anger at Drubin is limitless. Now be it enough he hits him. His daughter is his. When Drubin offers to return the promissory notes in his possession if he allows him to spend a few weeks in Paris with his daughter, Ivanotitsch slaps him. Drubin then explains to him how hypocritical he is, because if it hadn't been for his daughter, he would have darkened the room and locked the door as usual.
Tatjana, who ran away in the first shock, asks when she returns from Drubin why he tortured her father so much, whereupon he tells her how things are with her father. She even offers herself to him, so that he can release her father from his guilt and no longer humiliate him and explains to him that she was not in love with him, but only been with him out of curiosity, but he nevertheless everything, really everything, about her could have. Drubin is so impressed by the young woman's selfless gesture that he leads her to the carriage that is supposed to take her home. On departure, he tells her that he never wants to see her father in the “Hermitage” again, which he will be very happy about.
Viktor Kardoff appears with the Ivanotitschs, Tatjana was the first to run to him in her distress, but had not found him. Tatjana tells him that she needed him and this time not as an excuse.
production
Production notes, filming
The shooting lasted from February 24th to March 1958. They took place in Munich and in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau. The production line was incumbent Horst Wendlandt , the manager Richard Oehler and Kurt Rendel. The script for the script goes back to Viktor Tourjansky and Robert Thoeren . Emil Hasler and Paul Markwitz were responsible for the film construction. Manon Hahn contributed the costumes.
George Kobakhidze, Rostom Tzerethli and the dance group Vladimir Ignatov dance. Wladimir Slastcheff, Irina Bondireva and Nadia Apletchena will sing. The gypsy orchestra Jonel Dinidu and the large balalaika orchestra Scheherazade play.
FSK exam, publication
The film was tested on July 16, 1958 under the number 17450 and approved for those aged 16 and over with the note “no public holidays”. The film was first distributed by Deutsche Film Hansa GmbH & Co. (DFH) Hamburg.
The premiere of Petersburg Nights took place on August 5, 1958 in the Filmbühne Wien in Berlin. It was first broadcast on German television on June 4, 1991 on ZDF .
In Sweden the film was released on February 9, 1959 under the title Svarta ögon , in Denmark on September 2, 1959 under the title Sorte øjne and in Finland on April 22, 1960 under the title Mustat silmät . It has also been published in Brazil (Olhos Negros) , France (Les yeux noirs and Les Nuits de St. Petersbourg ), Greece (Nyhtes tis Petroupoleos) , Italy (Notti di Pietroburgo) , Spain (Tatiana Ojos Negros) , Portugal (Olhos Negros ) and in the USA under the television title The Devil from Petersburg . The English title is Petersburg Nights .
criticism
The Hörzu was at that time was "acceptable" to the film.
The film service was unable to gain anything from the film, which was reflected in the criticism as follows: “Nobleness makes everything good! After a miserable script with a lot of effort and prominent actors just as decorative as tired and sentimental staged. "
Cinema's verdict was even more drastic: "Fifties stars (also there: Therese Giese and Claus Biederstaedt) torture their way through sticky kitsch." Conclusion: "Ramshy drama full of burned-out stars."
The criticism in the mirror was also negative. There it said: “The naturalness and the solid technique of the young stage actress Johanna von Koczian are suffocated here in false emotions and in sultry Eastman color splendor. This time, Ewald Balser, who was already angry from the German film, has to push open the chambre-séparée-door as manager of a feudal nightclub and avenging father, behind which the selflessly loved and inexperienced daughter is soaked in champagne by the most poisonous of his enemies while listening to balalaika. "
Web links
- Petersburg Nights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Petersburg nights at filmportal.de
- Petersburg nights on filmposter-archiv.de
- Petersburg Nights Fig. Film poster see page artur-brauner.deutsches-filmmuseum.de
- Petersburg Nights Fig. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 4360 (in the picture: Ewald Balser, Johanna von Koczian, Ivan Desny, Claus Biederstaedt)
- Petersburg Nights Illustrations of various film posters, see page encyclocine.com
- Petersburg Nights Place 37 among the 50 most successful films from 1958, see page wernersudendorf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Les Yeux Noirs see page themoviedb.org
- ↑ Les Nuits de St. Petersbourg see page movie-poster-galaxy.com
- ↑ Tatiana Ojos Negros see page IMDb. com
- ↑ Petersburg Nights see page hoerzu.de. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Petersburg nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Petersburg Nights see page cinema.de (including 18 film images). Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Petersburg Nights (Germany) see Der Spiegel 33/1958, August 13, 1958. Retrieved October 4, 2019.