San Salvatore (film)

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Movie
Original title San Salvatore
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Werner Jacobs
script Felix Lützkendorf
production Carl W. Tetting
for Rotary Film
music Herbert Jarczyk
camera Knut Seedorf
Werner Kurz
cut Elisabeth Neumann
(as Lisbeth Neumann)
occupation

San Salvatore is a literary film adaptation by Werner Jacobs from 1955. It was based on the novel of the same name by Hans Kades .

content

In the Collina d'Oro sanatorium on Lake Lugano at the foot of the San Salvatore mountain, Dagmar Gerken from Hamburg has been hoping for a complete cure for her lung disease for three years. Two new doctors arrive at the sanatorium: The surgeons Dr. Robert Kant and Dr. Manfred Carrell should help in the development of new healing methods. Both have been friends for a long time.

On a walk Dagmar is a viper bite. Robert, who happens to be nearby, takes care of her. They both fall in love. However, while Dagmar can soon leave the sanatorium, Kant decides to stay in the Collina d'Oro for five years and do research. The disappointed Dagmar leaves without him and is accompanied by Manfred Carrell, who helps her with her first steps in everyday life. They both become a couple and get married. Manfred starts working as a surgeon in Munich and increasingly neglects Dagmar. He starts an affair with Katharina Hallberg and Dagmar, who finds out about it, hides her pregnancy and hurts him.

Robert appears in Munich, where he wants to present new surgical methods at a congress. He also meets with Dagmar and realizes how unhappy she is and how much he still loves her. At the congress there is a scientific dispute about Robert's new surgical methods, with Manfred taking a stand against his former friend. When Robert later confronts Manfred about his affair with Katharina, Manfred refuses to interfere.

Manfred's sister Trude succeeds in an interview to convince Katharina to give up Manfred. When Manfred angrily confronts his sister, Dagmar is an involuntary listener. She realizes that she no longer means anything to Manfred and passes out. As a result, she lost her unborn child and her lung disease began again. Although Manfred wants to make amends for his behavior, Dagmar now rejects him. She returns to Lugano , where Robert saves her life with his new surgical method. Dagmar and Robert can now start a life together.

production

View of Mount San Salvatore

The interior shots took place in Munich-Geiselgasteig and Hamburg. Individual operation scenes were filmed in the Charité in Munich, with Charité doctors assisting in scenes. The exterior shots were shot in Lugano. The first performance of San Salvatore took place on March 9, 1956 in the Lichtburg in Essen .

criticism

The contemporary criticism found that Dieter Borsche as Dr. Kant would have found back "to his own moral rigidity" in San Salvatore : "The situations ... are far worse against nature than the dialogues."

The lexicon of international films described San Salvatore as an “unrealistic ' magic mountain ' cut” in which “sentimentality and sadness” would prevail.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The view of the mountain was used for the film posters and programs.
  2. ↑ Will Quadflieg: We always play. Memories . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1976, p. 119.
  3. ↑ a b film: San Salvatore . In: Der Spiegel . April 18, 1956, p. 43.
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 7. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3217.