Roses in autumn

Movie
Original title	Roses in autumn
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1955
length	107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Rudolf Jugert
script	Horst Budjuhn
production	Divina Film ( Ilse Kubaschewski )
music	Franz Grothe
camera	Werner Krien
cut	Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann
occupation
Ruth Leuwerik : Effi Briest Bernhard Wicki : Geert von Innstetten Carl Raddatz : Major von Crampas Lil Dagover : Mother Briest Paul Hartmann : Father Briest Günther Lüders : Alonzo Gieshübler Lotte Brackebusch : Roswitha Margot Trooger : Johanna Heinz Hilpert : Minister von Cramer Eva Vaitl : Mrs. by Cramer Lola Müthel : Marietta Hans Cossy : Mr. von Wüllersdorf Hedwig Wangel : Consul Rhode Willem Holsboer : Pastor Lindequist Maria Krahn : Mrs. Lindequist Barbara Born : Anni von Innstetten Gundel Thormann : Sidonie von Grasenabb

Rosen im Herbst, a German feature film from 1955 . Directed by Rudolf Jugert , Ruth Leuwerik , Bernhard Wicki and Carl Raddatz play the leading roles, and Lil Dagover , Paul Hartmann and Günther Lüders play key roles . It is a film adaptation of the novel Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane . The premiere of the film took place on September 29, 1955 in Nuremberg .

action

The career-conscious district administrator Geert von Innstetten wants to marry 18-year-old Effi Briest. She does not reject him, but is not happy at the side of the much older and very conscientious man. In the small Pomeranian town where Innstetten does his job as district administrator, Effi is socially isolated. Because of her husband's neglect, she begins an affair with Major von Crampas. The relationship ends when Innstetten goes to Berlin for work .

Effi and Innstetten find each other again and spend happy years with their daughter in Berlin. By chance, Innstetten finds letters from Crampas to Effi and challenges him to a duel ; Crampas falls. When the Innstetten divorce , the child is given to the father. Effi has to stay afloat financially with piano lessons. Her parents also turned away from her because of the social scandal. Only when Effi is terminally ill do her parents allow her to return to her parents' house, where she dies.

Production notes

The film was directed by the production company KG Divina GmbH & Co. produced. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG .

The shooting lasted from May 26th to July 25th 1955. The outdoor shots were made in Besenhausen near Göttingen as well as on Sylt and Bredstedt , the studio recordings in the studios of Bavaria Film in Geiselgasteig .

With his Effi Briest adaptation Rosen im Herbst , director Jugert gives the character Innstetten a more human and emotional character, who treats Effi more tenderly than the character in the novel. Ruth Leuwerik, who played Effi Briest, who was initially 18, was 31 at the time.

Paul Hartmann, who plays Effi Briest's father here, played Major von Crampas in The Step on the Road in 1939 .

Awards

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable .

Reviews

• “'Effie Briest' now under Rudolf Jugert's direction on the colorful wide screen: The muted, sober dialogues - apart from small and well-adapted literal fontans - are to some extent overwhelmed by the symbolic foaming waves and luxurious silk robes. As the daughter of the landowner Effie, Ruth Leuwerik, graceful and also sufficiently Markish, corresponds to the novel. On the other hand, Bernhard Wicki is for the role of Instetten, the ambitious and correct over-Prussia, but tempered and soft to the south, as hard as he tries to bite his own way. ”- Der Spiegel from November 30, 1955

• "Theodor Fontane's 'Effi Briest' as a well-groomed entertainment cinema (...) Carefully staged, lavishly furnished, but very focused on the outside." - Lexicon of international film

• "(...) because of the cast, incomprehensible uninspired film that rolls down the fine notes of Fontane." (Rating: 1 out of 4 possible stars = weak) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV"

• “Careful, very elaborate efforts, but only for external things.” - 6000 films, 1963

• “Only the setting and the names are reminiscent of Fontane's 'Effi Briest'. Nothing remained of what Fontane tried to portray with his poetic power. A meaningless, cheap entertainment. ”- Protestant film observer

literature

• Theodor Fontane : Effi Briest. Novel . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2008, 364 pages, ISBN 978-3-458-35074-3
• Jonathan Schilling: Prussia again in the film. On images of Prussia in films with Ruth Leuwerik, in: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , NF, 29th vol., 2019, H. 1–2, pp. 201–221.

Web links

• Roses autumn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Roses in autumn at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1955 ( online ).
2. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
3. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" (expanded new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 687.
4. ↑ 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. 362
5. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 916/1955.