Call to conscience
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Call to conscience |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Anton |
| script |
Jacob Geis Vring Wiemer Herbert Engelsing |
| production | Karl Anton Robert Wüllner |
| music | Franz R. Friedl |
| camera | Herbert Körner |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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Call to Conscience is a 1944 crime film directed by Karl Anton , which had its world premiere in Austria on October 11, 1949. It was released in theaters in East Berlin on February 3, 1950 and in West Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany on May 14, 1951. The film is one of the defectors and was subject to review by the Soviet military censors .
In Austria it was also called the Call of Conscience . In the German Democratic Republic and partly in the Federal Republic of Germany, it also operated under the title of criminal record André .
action
Ten years ago the “Andree case” was apparently solved. Now Kriminalrat Husfeld is supposed to roll him up again because doubts have arisen about the guilt of Helga Andree, who was convicted at the time. She is said to have pushed her former competitor, the singer Elinor Gyldenborg, down from the roof garden and killed her. Husfeld gets advice from his friend, the writer Volkmar Hollberg. He turns the case into a radio play that is broadcast on the radio under the title Der Sprung vom Dachgarten . The program awakens memories of the night of the crime in those present. Helga Andree, like numerous other guests, was in Gregor Karpinski's house when the singer Elinor Gyldenborg fell down from the roof garden. At that time Helga and Elinor were both in the doctor Dr. Karpinski in love. Dr. Karpinski, on the other hand, was excluded as a perpetrator because he had been sitting at the piano and playing the moonlight sonata at the time the singer died . Volkmar Hollberg was also out of the question as a perpetrator, as he had numbed his severe headache with alcohol and fell asleep on the couch in the doctor's office. Karpinski's other guests gave each other an alibi for playing poker together in the salon.
After the radio play was broadcast, protests from some of those involved and some interesting information were received. Completely new insights arise for Husfeld from the fact that Dr. Karpinski can hardly play the piano, let alone the moonlight sonata . He owns a self-playing piano . Driven into a corner, Karpinski surprisingly accuses Hollberg, who was ill at the time, of knocking the singer off the roof. Because of the strong pain relievers, Hollberg did not know what he was doing. Confused and convinced of Karpinski's own statement, Hollberg confesses the act. The tide turns surprisingly: Dr. Karpinski shortly thereafter confesses to the murder and then kills himself with snake venom . He had turned on the self-playing piano and pushed Elinor Gyldenborg down, unnoticed by the guests. The singer, who suffered from incurable throat cancer , had taken out high life insurance on him. Now finally Helga Andree can breathe a sigh of relief, who is acquitted of any guilt for Elinor's death. There is also a particularly happy ending for her family: Hollberg and Helga's daughter Ingrid become a couple.
background
The film was produced by Tobis Filmkunst . At the end of the war he was in the music synchronization. The completion was done by DEFA . Therefore the film belongs to the so-called defectors .
The shooting took place in the months of August / September 1944 in the vicinity of Prague and in the Raditz studio in Prague.
Jacob Geis wrote the screenplay based on a manuscript by Vring Wiemer and Herbert Engelsing . In addition to the moonlight sonata, the film also includes compositions by Frédéric Chopin ( Oh, it's so dark in death's chamber, I want to waste my time on you, Raindrop Prélude No. 15 in D flat major ) and Georg Friedrich Handel ( Largo from the opera Xerxes ) to listen.
This was the last film for the long-time film architect Gustav A. Knauer , who designed the buildings here together with Fritz Lück . He retired at the end of the war.
Reviews
“A murder case is solved through the cooperation of the radio. Despite well-known actors, a poor crime film with superficial motivation and low tension. (West German title: criminal file André ")". "
Web links
- Call to the conscience in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Call to Conscience Movie Poster
- Call to Conscience Illustrated Film Courier No. 712
