Roses for Bettina
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Roses for Bettina |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | GW Pabst |
| script |
FD Andam Werner P. Zibaso |
| production | Günther Stapenhorst |
| music |
Herbert Windt using melodies by Peter Tschaikowsky and Maurice Ravel |
| camera | Franz Koch |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
| occupation | |
and Jaspar von Oertzen , Fritz Lafontaine , Ellen Frank , Heino Hallhuber , Johannes Buzalski , Gusti Kreissl | |
Rosen für Bettina is a German feature film from 1956 by GW Pabst . The main roles were played by Elisabeth Müller , Willy Birgel and Ivan Desny .
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Bettina Sanden has come a long way in her job, as a solo dancer at the opera she has climbed her artistic Olympus. The ballet evening with her as the star of the Nutcracker Suite and the Boléro received frenetic applause, and she enjoys the overwhelming success at the side of her ballet master Kostja Tomkoff, who is also her lover. But one day severe pain, which she suddenly felt, cast a great shadow over her artistic and personal happiness. She then consults a doctor. The highly respected medical professor Förster has to tell Bettina the terrible news that she has polio and that the chance of recovery is rather slim. Bettina Sanden is devastated, she knows that she will have to give up her dance career in the future. To make matters worse, Kostja also turns out to be an extremely bad friend, because in this hour of need he leaves her alone and in the lurch.
Tomkoff, meanwhile, turns to another woman and leaves for Barcelona. His new one is called Irene Gerwig and is not only younger than Bettina, but to make matters worse, she is also the beneficiary of her illness and Bettina's successor as a solo dancer. While Bettina gradually loses her belief in life and can no longer walk, the much older Prof. Förster turns out to be a true friend in times of need. When she suffers a severe relapse due to the psychological stress, it is Förster who ensures that Bettina is admitted to his sanatorium. The good Upper Bavarian air and the caring treatment by the head physician allow Bettina to gradually recover, especially since Prof. Förster confesses his love to her one day. Finally healed, Bettina Sanden says goodbye to her stage career with a light heart and decides to be the wife at the side of her savior.
Production notes
Rosen für Bettina was created between January 11th and March 16th, 1956 in Upper Bavaria (Murnau) and was premiered on March 28th, 1956 in the Munich Chamber Light Play. On March 5, 1963 the first television broadcast took place on DFF 1 (GDR).
Otto Pischinger and his wife Herta Hareiter designed the film structures, Franz Hofer was a simple cameraman under Franz Koch's chief camera.
Reviews
“A dancer (Elisabeth Müller) suffers from polio - and so GW Pabst, the director, can commute back and forth between two favorite locations of the film, the stage and the hospital. But the excellent ballet scenes and the correct medical details surround only a poor, conventional love affair with consolation from the doctor and rescuer (Willy Birgel). Hollywood aspirant Elisabeth Müller confuses the malignant infectious disease with sheer hysteria. "
“The title itself evokes tried and tested associations. Men in white coats; that pulls. State-of-the-art luxury hospital. On top of that, the film of a dancer. This time not the usual pulmonary consumption, this time spinal palsy, because this was the topic that was assumed. While the sick dancer is lying down, her next person and workmate, the choreographer of the ballet, is looking for the expanse (as far as Barcelona) and another dancer, whereupon the kind doctor (Willy Birgel) leads the recovered and walking in the car into a new life . How these people treated each other in this sterile atmosphere is very unbelievable and uncomfortable and very far from the seriousness of the subject. Long dance passages to Tchaikovsky's ' Nutcracker Suite ' and Ravel's ' Boléro ' have to get over it. "
"The seemingly constructed entertainment film - a routine work by GW Papst - contains two ballet performances by the Munich State Opera."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , No. 15, April 11, 1956
- ↑ Roses for Bettina in Die Zeit of April 12, 1956
- ^ Roses for Bettina in the Lexicon of International Films
Web links
- Roses for Bettina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Roses for Bettina at filmportal.de