Gripsholm Castle (film)

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Movie
Original title Gripsholm Castle
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kurt Hoffmann
script Herbert Reinecker
production Kurt Hoffmann
for independent film
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Richard fear
cut Kurt Hoffmann,
Ursula Kahlbaum
occupation

Gripsholm Castle is a German film adaptation by Kurt Hoffmann from 1963. It is based on the story Gripsholm Castle. A summer story that Kurt Tucholsky published in 1931.

action

Secretary Lydia and writer Kurt, known as Daddy, have not known each other for a long time, but are newly in love and, at Lydia's instigation, decide to take a four-week vacation in Sweden . Lydia's best friend Billie, who is enthusiastic about the country, lives there. Kurt is given the task of writing a beautiful love story by his publisher and then sets off from Hamburg with his “princess” . After a stopover in Copenhagen, both land in Stockholm , but Lydia doesn't approve of the posh hotel. After a long search, they both find Gripsholm Castle , which meets their demands for a holiday in a quiet idyll. You move into a holiday apartment in the castle. The days go by peacefully, except for a brief argument about Kurt's refusal to marry.

One day they both receive a postcard from Karlchen, Kurt's best friend, who comes to visit them. He has a crush on Lydia and a warm friendship quickly develops between all three. Billie also appears, following a postcard from Lydia, but the three of them soon become friends again because Karlchen has to leave early. Now it is Kurt, who in turn adores Billie and is encouraged by Lydia to flirt with her best friend. Finally, stimulated by mulled wine and crossword puzzles , you spend a night as a three.

Billie has left, the holidays are drawing to a close and the last evening at Gripsholm Castle is falling with a stately evening glow. The next day brings the departure by ship and soon Lydia and Kurt are confronted again with the hectic and noisy everyday life in Hamburg. Still, Kurt would like to say something to Lydia - about love or marriage? - but it cannot do it even on a bell tower high above the noisy city.

production

Gripsholm Castle, the main setting for the film

The shooting lasted from June 24th to August 13th, 1963. The Acra-Filmstudio Berlin-Pichelsberg served as a studio. The outdoor shots were taken on site at what is now the Axel Springer AG publishing house in Hamburg , on the Fehmarnsund Bridge , in and around Gripsholm Castle in Sweden , in Copenhagen and Puttgarden . The film premiered in several cities on October 4, 1963. At that time it was rated as FSK 18, but has now been approved as FSK 6.

The film moves Tucholsky's history from the 1920s to the present. In contrast to the narrative, the film completely lacks the parallel storyline about the children's home.

Awards

criticism

The film-dienst wrote that the "slightly updated film adaptation" of the novel of the same name is "processed by comedy specialist Kurt Hoffmann into undemanding cinema entertainment."

"Kurt Tucholsky's cheeky-melancholy love story has been toned down to a leisurely, exuberant cinema piece that is primarily entertaining when Tucholsky is quoted," said Der Spiegel and regretted that the role of the “missingsch” -speaking secretary Lydia now appears hyped German.

Cinema found: "Kurt Hoffmann staged 'Tuchos' novel from 1931 as relaxed, slightly modernized fun."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
  2. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 7. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3285.
  3. See detailed .: Gripsholm Castle . In: Film-Dienst , No. 42, 1963.
  4. New in Germany: Gripsholm Castle . In: Der Spiegel , No. 42, 1963, pp. 114–115.
  5. See cinema.de