Fate Symphony
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fate Symphony |
| Original title | The Magnificent Rebel |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Tressler |
| script | Joanne Court |
| music | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| camera | Göran Strindberg |
| cut | Alfred Srp |
| occupation | |
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Schicksals-Sinfonie (Original title: The Magnificent Rebel ) is an American film biography about Ludwig van Beethoven from the Disney production . Karlheinz Böhm plays the German composer under the direction of Georg Tressler .
action
Like a colorfully illustrated book, Ludwig van Beethoven's individual artistic life stages are traced.
Born in Bonn, he traveled to Vienna in 1792, began his composition studies with Joseph Haydn and turned down an offer from the powerful, wealthy Prince Lichnowsky to work under his patronage. Beethoven's artistic rise followed, and his love for a piano student, the beautiful Countess Giulietta Guicciardi , was not fulfilled. Then fate strikes, and Beethoven is struck by increasing deafness, which gradually threatens to drive the artist crazy.
Production notes
The shooting of the Symphony of Fate began on April 11, 1960 in Vienna and was completed at the end of June of the same year. The world premiere took place on November 2, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, the Vienna premiere on December 1 of the same year. In the United States, The Magnificent Rebel was broadcast as part of the Disney Land series on November 18 and 25, 1962 as a two-part television series.
Peter V. Herald was the line producer for the Disney Co. Willy Egger was one of the four unit managers . The film structures were designed by the married couple Werner Schlichting and Isabella Ploberger . The costumes were designed by Leo Bei . Frederick Stark was the musical director. Herbert Fux played his first speaking role here.
background
Beethoven actor Böhm, who immediately before had turned off the psychological thriller Eyes of Fear in England and, like director Michael Powell , had been sharply criticized for this work in the spring of 1960, which was later highly praised by cineastes, took this role primarily from Reasons of image rescue. In Kay Weniger's Das Großer Personenlexikon des Films , Böhm's biography says: Augen der Angst "received devastating reviews and almost destroyed Böhm's career, which he then achieved with Heile Welt roles (Beethoven in" Schicksals-Sinfonie ", good-hearted pastor in" The crook and the dear God ", Jakob Grimm in" Die Wunderwelt der Gebrüder Grimm ") tried to save."
Reviews
“The commercial high point and artistic low point in Tressler's career was the collaboration with Walt Disney on THE MAGNIFICENT REBEL, a film adaptation of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven. With a wildly grimacing Karlheinz Böhm in the title role, the film became an accumulation of all conceivable clichés on the subject of 'genius and deafness', which only had to do with Beethoven from a distance and at best satisfy an American audience with no prior knowledge, but only in Europe Could cause laughter. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "If you disregard the excessive use of poetic licenses and musical freedoms, there is a predominance of efforts to bring Beethoven ... and his music ... closer to wider circles."
“The life of Beethoven in a naive, carefree film adaptation. The careless handling of both the story and the works of Beethoven should be painful for many music lovers. "
The Movie & Video Guide wrote: “Böhm gives an intense Beethoven in this rather serious Disney film, absolutely nothing for children. Great music sequences and very good exterior shots in Germany, although the romantic perspective of the story never really attracts attention. "
Halliwell's Film Guide found: "Solid Disney Biography".
"" Unsolicited Walt Disney production. ""
Web links
- The Magnificent Rebel Part 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Magnificent Rebel Part 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fate Symphony. In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's Filmlisten , No. 2675_2, December 13, 1961, accessed October 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Fate Symphony. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 806
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 636
