The Rape of the Sabine Women (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The robbery of the Sabine women |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Hoffmann |
| script |
Emil Burri , Johannes Mario Simmel |
| production |
CCC-Film GmbH, Berlin ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Ernst Steffan |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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The Robbery of the Sabine Women is a film by Kurt Hoffmann from 1954 . It is based on the play of the same name by the brothers Franz and Paul von Schönthan and is the second German-language sound film adaptation after Robert A. Stemmle 's film of the same name from 1936.
action
By organizing a festival, the residents of a small health resort can finally get the express train to stop at their station. The smear theater director Emanuel Striese, who struggles with numerous problems in the ensemble and is also not well off economically, learns that high school professor Gollwitz wrote a play called The Robbery of the Sabine Women as a student , which he now describes as a youthful sin. Striese wants to perform it with his family and can persuade Gollwitz to publish this Roman tragedy, although Gollwitz only agrees on the condition that he is not named and that his wife does not find out about it.
The interest of the population in the upcoming performance is very high, especially since word gets around that the author is a local poet. Of course, von Gollwitz's wife comes back from vacation early and everything is going completely differently than planned, so that the performance threatens to turn into a fiasco. In the end, Ms. Striese finally has a saving idea: She lets the tragedy play out as a comedy, which makes the performance a success after all.
Production notes
The film was produced from mid-December 1953 to the end of January 1954 in the CCC-Film studio in Berlin-Spandau. The exterior shots were taken at Pichelsberg Castle . The buildings were created by Hermann Warm , Paul Markwitz and Erich Grave , the production management was in the hands of Walter H. Guse . The premiere took place in Mannheim on April 2, 1954.
Reviews
- "(...) classic drama about the joys and hardships of theater life; Knuth's most sympathetic role as the tragicomic, Saxon smear comedian Emanuel Striese, touching in the famous Striese monologue about the culture-creating function of the" Schmiere "." (Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV", 1990
The famous Striese monologue was unmistakably penned by Curt Goetz , who modernized the outdated original work and brought it to the stage himself with his “traveling theater group”.
- "(...) a warm and warm pleasure that is encouraged by an emphatic sense of family and is hardly disturbed by the many silly things around it." - 6000 films, 1963
literature
- Franz and Paul von Schönthan : The robbery of the Sabine women . In Helmut Schmiedt (Hrsg.): Bühnenschwänke . With an essay by Volker Klotz . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000. ISBN 3-8260-1833-8
Web links
- The Rape of the Sabines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The robbery of the Sabine women at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 455
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 667-668
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 349