Primanerinnen
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Primanerinnen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script | Rolf Thiele |
| production | Film construction GmbH, Göttingen ( Hans Abich , Rolf Thiele) |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut |
Caspar van den Berg Erwin Marno |
| occupation | |
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Primanerinnen is a German feature film from 1951. The film directed by Rolf Thiele is based on the novella "Ursula" by Klaus-Erich Boerner . It was their first leading role in a movie for both Ingrid Andree and Walter Giller .
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"The story of a first love will always be fraught with all the wishes and errors of being young, it will always begin with a tender encounter, an unexpected timid happiness and will end with the disappointing experience that the vows of love are inherent in the ability to forget", it says in Boerner's novella “Ursula”.
Thomas and Regine, two high school students, are friends. Regine is uncomplicated and Thomas particularly likes the fact that you can talk to her openly about everything. Regine is a little older than Thomas. When she gives her farewell party on the occasion of her high school graduation, Ursula is also invited, whom Thomas likes very much, although at first he says that there is nothing special about her. They both fall in love and spend the summer together. Every now and then Ursula creeps in the fear that she and Thomas are too young for such a great love.
When Ursula's father informs her that he has leased a property and they have to move away, the young couple has a hard time separating. However, they promise to get back together as soon as Thomas has passed his Abitur.
The year turns into years. Thomas meets Regine again at the high school graduation party and takes a liking to her again. Together they start studying in Hamburg. More by chance, Thomas returns to the place where he once fell in love with Ursula. He learns that Ursula is living there again with her father and is said to be engaged in the meantime. He would like to see Ursula again and see her. Ursula, who still loves him, is very happy when Thomas stands in front of her door. Their engagement was fake to keep potential applicants at bay. When Thomas mentions that his visit was more or less by chance, Ursula realizes that she has fooled herself and that Thomas dealt with the breakup very differently than she did. Thomas realizes for himself that his feeling for Ursula goes deeper and that he feels something for her that he never felt with Regine.
But Ursula can't help it and sends him away the next morning. Thomas leaves, he wants to clear his head and hopes that there will be a way back to Ursula afterwards.
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The film is based on the 1936 novella Ursula by Klaus-Erich Boerner, who once went to school in Bad Hersfeld and who also set the plot in Bad Hersfeld. In the film, Bad Hersfeld becomes the city of Herolfsbad.
Heinz Rühmann had already planned to film the material, but feared failure, as the similar film Viktoria, based on a novel by Knut Hamsun in 1935, had been a failure. After the end of the Second World War, screenwriter Otto Ensslin actively campaigned for a film adaptation of the material and finally found supporters of his plans in Hans Abich and Rolf Thiele. Initially, Maria Schnell, who was still unknown at the time, was intended for the role of Ursula, but she stepped back from the project in 1950 after her first film successes. A replacement was found for her in the then young actress Ingrid Andrée.
Rolf Thiele's script deviates in parts from Boerner's novella, so the film dispenses with Ursula's suicide out of disappointed love, which the producers no longer considered appropriate. The delicate Regine became a “perky girl” at Thiele, while the tall and rather bitter Ursula in the book was portrayed by the petite, little Andrée. "The first-person memories of the Hersfeld Priman were stripped of the blonde, de-souls and slipped," was how Der Spiegel summarized the script changes in 1951.
The shooting for primary school girls took place between July and August 1951 in the Goettingen film studio and on site in Bad Hersfeld. The buildings were created by Walter Haag and PH Koester, and producer Hans Abich also took over production management. The production costs amounted to 480,000 DM. The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 30, 1951 in the Bad Hersfeld cinema Roxy-Palast . In Austria, it was shown in cinemas under the title Girls of Today .
It was Thiele's first directorial work, and also the two main actors Ingrid Andree and Walter Giller received in Primanerinnen their respective first cinema star.
Web links
- Primanerinnen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "... and we are still so young" from the script Primanerinnen In: Der Spiegel 40/1951, October 3, 1951.
- “A strange urge” - a film about a love of a primary school In: Der Spiegel 40/1951, October 3, 1951.
- Primanerinnen Illustrated Film Stage No. 1327
- Primanerinnen images to film at Cinema .com
- Primanerinnen at filmportal.de
