Regina Amstetten

Movie
Original title	Regina Amstetten
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1954
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Kurt Neumann
script	Kurt E. Walter
production	Ludwig Waldleitner
music	Lothar Bruhne
camera	Werner Krien
cut	Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann
occupation
Luise Ullrich : Regina Amstetten Carl Raddatz : From Freyberg Carl Esmond : Prof. Werner Grüter Paul Hartmann : Pastor Fehrmann Harry Meyen : Jürgen von Bredow Fritz Matthies : Kersten von Bredow Dinah Hinz : Hanna von Bredow Klaus-Jürgen Lenke : Werner Hans Hermann Schaufuss : Dr. Mahnke Arno Paulsen : Mr. Schirrwind Erich Dunskus : Ewald Erna Sellmer : Maria Franz Schafheitlin : Hotel porter Mohr Paul Bildt : Dr. Wiegand Herbert Hübner : Chairman of the medical congress Hans Stiebner : business traveler

Regina Amstetten is a German drama from 1953 directed by Kurt Neumann with Luise Ullrich , Carl Raddatz and Hollywood returnees Willy Eichberger , who appeared here under his US pseudonym “Carl Esmond”, in the leading roles. The story was based on a freely edited novella by Ernst Wiechert .

action

Germany in 1938. The widowed Regina von Bredow manages the family-owned estate in the Mecklenburg region for her two adult sons Jürgen and Kersten and their daughter Hanna. Shortly before the outbreak of war, Regina met the medical professor Werner Grüter from Switzerland in the nearby village of Bredow. It only takes a few days for the baroness and the musical surgeon to fall in love. When Grüter leaves the estate after five days, he promises Regina to marry her. But only a little later the future husband dies in an accident. Regina is now alone again and has to confess to her three children that she is expecting a child from the professor. Her two boys and also the daughter are very class-conscious and arrogant and feel shame at the fact that their mother will give birth to an illegitimate child.

An inter-familial conflict breaks out openly: Regina's children expect nothing less from Regina than that she follow medical advice and now, at an early stage, abort the fetus. Regina protests against the interference, she truly loved this man and is looking forward to the fruit of this love that is growing in her. She leaves the family estate in order to have the child far from Mecklenburg, in a large and anonymous city, under her maiden name Regina Amstetten and to go on living undisturbed. After the war, in which Kersten von Bredow had to lose his life, the older brother Jürgen, who has returned from Soviet captivity, finds the Bredow property destroyed by marauding Red Army soldiers and his mother, who earns her living as a hotel employee, finds an illegitimate one Son in Frankfurt am Main. There is reconciliation between the mother and the two remaining children.

Production notes

Regina Amstetten was created in 1953 in Göttingen (studio) and in Benningsen near Hanover (exterior shots) and was premiered on February 2, 1954 in Stuttgart. The Berlin premiere was nine days later.

The film cost 901,000 DM and was the subject of a lawsuit in the spring of 1954, shortly after its premiere. The widowed Rudolfine von Bredow said she had only made out slightly cryptic passages in her own life and complained of a violation of personal rights. A comparison was made.

Hans Tost took over the production management. Gabriel Pellon designed the film structures executed by Hans-Jürgen Kiebach .

useful information

For Luise Ullrich and her co-star Willy Eichberger (Carl Esmond), who embody the lovers here, Regina Amstetten meant a reunion after a good twenty years: in 1932/33 the two Viennese actors played together in Max Ophüls ' famous Liebelei film adaptation. While Ullrich then made a career in the Third Reich, Esmond made a name for himself in Hollywood with supporting supporting roles.

Reviews

In the mirror it was said: “Fantastically ideal and full of mood, the woman's fate film" Regina Amstetten "(with drifted traces of Ernst Wiechert's novella in the script) is made to the millimeter according to the tried and tested Ufa quality scheme. For 95 minutes, Luise Ullrich shines as the title heroine mother, as a mature, aristocratic landlady, newly in love and refugee in the piquant mild magic that has given her a new popularity boom since "Forget love not". "

The lexicon of international films judges: "German cinema melodrama with a lot of embarrassing pathos."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The honor of those von Bredow . Report in: Der Spiegel from April 21, 1954
2. ↑ ibid.
3. ↑ Regina Amstetten. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2020 .  

Web links

• Regina Amstetten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Regina Amstetten at filmportal.de