Red is love

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Movie
Original title Red is love
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Karl Hartl
script Karl Hartl
production Toni Schelkopf
for Bavaria Filmkunst
music Ulrich Sommerlatte
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Adolph Schlyßleder
occupation

Rot ist die Liebe is a German homeland film by Karl Hartl , which was produced in 1956 and was released in theaters in January 1957. It is based on the autobiographical novel The Second Face , published in 1912 . A love story from Hermann Löns .

action

Poet Hermann Löns celebrates his 40th birthday far from his house, where the well-wishers arrive, in the Lüneburg Heath together with his friends Heidekarl, Annemieken and the landlady of the "Blue Sky". Meanwhile, Hermann's wife Lisa knows how to appease the guests with excuses. Hermann's Swiss cousin Rosemarie appears unexpectedly , who has always raved about the poet but has lost him to Lisa. The teenager has become a young woman, and Hermann falls in love with her when he sees her again after all these years. They both spend days on the heath teaching them animal identification; together they save a young heather from drowning during a thunderstorm .

After a few days, Hermann returns home to Lisa. Rosemarie meets Prince Niko, who is friends with Hermann. Both spend more time together than Hermann would like. Lisa, however, reveals to him that Rosemarie is in love with him and asks her to leave the house. When Hermann and Rosemarie later go for a walk, Hermann indicates that Rosemarie should move out. She confesses her love to him and asks him to leave Lisa for her. He refuses.

Hermann throws himself into work, months go by. Reports from different parts of the world appear in the magazines , showing Rosemarie at the side of Prince Niko. After a year the prince returns to the heath with Rosemarie. You have had numerous souvenirs from the trips sent to Hermann and invite him and Lisa to come to you on Sunday. Hermann refuses a visit to Rosemarie, also for Lisa's sake.

The day before the now canceled visit, Hermann ends up in the pub, where he gets drunk. Lisa suspects him to be Rosemary and rushes to her. There she learns that the planned party is not a welcome party, but an engagement party . Hermann also found out about the engagement in the pub and rushes to see Rosemarie. She leaves him standing - she fought too hard with Niko for her happiness to now give it up for him.

Hermann begins to finish his novel in a hurry and therefore even transfers his friend Niko, as he has little time left for writing. After completing the last line of the novel, Hermann pretends to Heidekarl that he wants to get a beer in the “Blue Sky”. He disappears into the misty heather and does not return.

A large-scale search begins, in which the population, including Prince Niko, Lisa and Rosemarie, participate. You finally find Hermann after two days in the moor. He is feverish but is slowly recovering. Through his hallucinations and dreams he finds his way back to Lisa. Hardly recovered when the First World War broke out. Hermann is drafted, but plans their future together with Lisa at the train station. The train departs, the sun sets blood-red in the heather.

production

To be seen in the film: herds of heather sheep in the heather grass

The shooting took place from August 25 to September 1956 in the Lüneburg Heath around Fallingbostel and Walsrode . The interior shots were taken in the Bavaria film studios and in the Göttingen film studio . The film premiered on January 17, 1957 in the Palast Theater in Hanover .

The idealized film biography only symbolizes Hermann Löns' death. Löns fell in 1914, shortly after the start of the First World War.

criticism

In 1957, Der Spiegel was amazed that the Heimatfilm discovered Löns so late in the day. Now he dedicates it with red is love a “biographical song table. In free distortion of the facts [...] Karl Hartl colored the events in the mostly friendly Fallingbosteler Moor eastman. Dieter Borsche , in a fashionable suede jacket, as a tested poet's soul, goes a long time to two women ( Barbara Rütting and Cornell Borchers ). "

The film-dienst wrote in 1957: “... it is regrettable that the film did not know how to put a better biographical memorial to the folk singer Löns than this strip, which finds nothing else to show than Dieter Borsche in the endless back and forth between two women ". The script is superficial in the drawing of the psychology of individual characters, the tone of the novel is not hit and “the mental facts are just as smoothly ironed as the characters and the milieu. Only the heathland, the most beautiful in the Lüneburg conservation area, shows itself in a minimum of coloristic embellishment. So the infamous ' green-is-the-heather ' effect doesn’t stay away. "

The 1990 from the service movie- edited Encyclopedia of the international film called Red is love as "externally-consuming [literary] adaptation".

Cinema found: “Pompous-pathetic heath drama based on Löns' autobiographical novel 'The Second Face'. Conclusion: Too much sadness and too little verve. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New in Germany: Red is love . In: Der Spiegel , No. 5, 1957, p. 42.
  2. ↑ Sa .: red is love . In: film-dienst , No. 5, 1957.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 6. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3164.
  4. ↑ Red is love. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 6, 2018.