Towing train M 17

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Movie
Original title Towing train M 17
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 77 minutes
Rod
Director Heinrich George
script Willy Döll
production Justin Rosenfeld
music Will Meisel
Alex Stone
camera AO Weitzenberg
cut Ella Stein
occupation

Schleppzug M 17 is a 1932 German drama film by and with Heinrich George , who plays the tugboat Henner Classen. His wife Marie is played by George's actual wife Berta Drews at the time , the young woman who almost became his undoing, Betty Amann .

action

Henner Classen lives with his wife Marie and their two underage son Franz on a barge sailing the German inland waters. When Henner wants to set off for Berlin with his boat, Marie witnesses a serious argument between a drunk man and his adult son Jakob in a small town. Henner takes this on board at Marie's intervention to protect him from the beating father. The river boatmen set out in three. All four get along very well from the start, and Jakob seems to have a good knack for the things that need to be done on board. One approaches the big metropolis, as its harbingers the tall houses along the shipping route gradually emerge. Finally the barge is moored on the quay of the port. As night fell, Henner witnessed an incident near the warehouse. Two men and a woman, who apparently have broken into a shed, run away along the pier after injuring a night watchman in their break, pursued by the police. The two crooks escape in a motorboat, but leave the young woman alone, who falls into the harbor. Henner pulls her out of the water and takes the girl to a storage shed. The little wildcat, part of this trio of hoodlums, fights back violently when Henner tries to hold her. Henner, who does not yet fully understand the connections, does not deliver Gescha, that is the girl's name, to the police, and she thanks him by spontaneously kissing Henner at the end of the tussle.

Henner has been completely confused since then, his hormones make him completely pissed off. All his thoughts revolve around this wicked thing that he really wants to see again. So the next day he goes on a pub crawl, hoping to find the lascivious Ganovin again. His family doesn't know where he is, nor does he know anything about his inflamed amour fou . When he spotted Gescha on a family excursion in downtown Berlin on Potsdamer Platz , Henner left his family standing without warning. In the evening he comes home on his little boat and doesn't even feel compelled to give his wife, whom he deliberately keeps quiet, an explanation for his strange behavior. After all, Henner even has the audacity to bring Gescha on board. Now Jacob intervenes. He instinctively recognizes the ominous effect of this vicious, amoral woman and the power she wields over the actual good colossus of river boatmen. Jakob tries to drive Gescha out of all the family idyll. First with kind words, then with emphasis. A dispute ensues, and Jakob runs after Gescha when she finally goes ashore to prevent her from returning to the M 17 barge. Jakob is hit by a car and seriously injured. Gescha's flight will soon come to an end as well, she falls into the clutches of the police, who were already looking for her after her two cronies were arrested. For Henner, these dramatic events are like a final wake-up call, he takes Jakob back on board like a big son: Thanks to Jakob, Henner has recognized what he has in his family.

Production notes

Schleppzug M 17 was Heinrich Georges' only film director, made between September 5 and 28, 1932 in the Sirius studio in Berlin (interior shots) and on the Ruppiner See (exterior shots). George shot the majority of the film, Werner Hochbaum was obliged to re-shoot for a good three days . The film structures were created by Carl Haacker and Robert Scharfenberg , the latter also taking on the production management with Max Maku. Richard Dochan was the musical director. The premiere of the film took place on April 19, 1933 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo . In Austria the film was also shown under the title Meat in Fetters ; the international title is: Tugboat M 17 .

The following music tracks were played:

  • Is it really true (Music: Will Meisel and Alex Stone. Text: Etienne Blanche, Günther Schwenn and Peter Schaeffers)
  • Schifferlied (music: Will Meisel, text: Reinhold Amthor)

For this film, George brought his wife Berta Drews in front of the camera for the first time. Also Wilfried Seyferth , who embodies the young Jacob was here his debut as a film actor.

Reviews

“The city is Berlin and of the at least two films that 'Schleppzug M 17' is at least, the one that is much more interesting is probably not a symphony like the one that Hochbaum admired Ruttmann made, but it is a flirtation from the big city. In the other, much less successful film, the skipper gets off the tugboat and goes amorous astray, becomes a cheated cheat and is in a mess full of self-pity. Still a really great scene, of course, when the man in mourning and drunkenness at the end of the party, between scraps of paper that is no longer partying, is rocking and tipping. "

- Cargo. Film media culture

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Apart from melodramatic clichés, the film gives realistic insights into the everyday life of a boatman."

“When Henner leaves his wife and son for Gescha when leaving the country at Potsdamer Platz, the fatalistic submission scenario based on the pattern from The Blue Angel or Asphalt is worked out in a semi-documentary manner under the open city sky. Later, at a masked ball with a maritime theme, Henner's inner unsteadiness on land translates into a swaying and dizzying surface. When the family barge finally lifts the anchor again, the banks are drawn around the refined captain. "

- Zeughaus Kino

The author and critic Karlheinz Wendtland was of the opinion that the material had a lot to offer with Heinrich George's talent, but criticized the fact that George "as his own director had taken up undue space for himself". Werner Hochbaum, who took over the direction towards the end of the shooting, could not change anything.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Towing train M 17 at deutsches-filminstitut.de
  2. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 4th year 1933. Berlin-Berchtesgaden 1992, p. 157
  3. ↑ Tow train M 17 on cargo-film.de
  4. ↑ Schleppzug M 17. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Tow train M 17 In: Zeughaus Kino
  6. ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1933 and 1934, edited by the author Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, Chapter: Films 1933, Film No. 45.