Chimney No. 4
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chimney No. 4 |
| Original title | La voleuse |
| Country of production |
Germany , France |
| original language | french , german |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Chapot |
| script |
Marguerite Duras , Jean Chapot |
| production |
Hans Oppenheimer , Claude Jaeger |
| music | Antoine Duhamel |
| camera | Jean Penzer |
| cut | Ginette Boudet |
| occupation | |
Sonja Schwarz: Mrs. Kostrowicz Mario Huth: Little boy | |
The Franco-German feature film Chimney No. 4 (OT: La voleuse ) was made in 1966 in Berlin and in the Ruhr area, with the HOAG (Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG) in Oberhausen as the setting. The main roles are Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli seen in their first film together.
action
The childless couple Julia and Werner Kreuz belong to the middle class and live in West Berlin. She gave birth to a child at the age of 19 and gave it away a few days later. The boy was taken in by the Kostrowicz family and has been raised ever since. Kostrowicz and his wife live in Oberhausen and he works in the rolling mill. Suddenly seized by a strong longing for the child, Julia Kreuz repeatedly travels to Oberhausen and sneaks around the boy's school and apartment. Her husband tries to dissuade her from these excursions, picks her up at the train station and locks her up, but without effect. He would rather have his own child with her, but the marriage is broken.
According to the law, Julia is right because there has never been a formal adoption. But Kostrowicz remains stubborn even with these arguments. One day Julia approaches the child in the swimming pool and takes him to her Berlin apartment. The angry foster father travels to Berlin, enters the apartment and takes the boy back to himself. However, when he arrives at Essen Central Station, the police await him and the child comes back to Kreuzens. Kostrowicz then sees no other way out and climbs up a chimney at the Oberhausen ironworks. The action of the desperate foster father caused a sensation in the public, which largely took his side. He announces that he will jump into the depths if the child is not returned to him by six o'clock next morning. Julia persistently refuses to respond to the pressure attempt. Her husband finally turns against her and tells her to hand over the boy to Kostrowicz. She only releases the child very late.
criticism
"Unusual portrait of a woman with Romy Schneider, who stood in front of the camera for the first time in Germany after her departure from the 'sissy' image: a psychogram based on an ambitious literary script developed in sparse black-and-white images and long dialogue passages."
“A very serious, strenuous film that does not quite achieve its ambitious goal of a literary-stylized form. Interesting work after all. "
Web links
- Chimney no. 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chimney No. 4. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed December 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 467/1966