Black Eyes (1951)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Black eyes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Bolváry |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge , Curth Flatow |
| production |
CCC-Film , Berlin ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Frank Fox |
| camera | Herbert Körner |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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Black Eyes is a German feature film directed by Géza von Bolváry from 1951.
content
Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany met Helene Samboni, the lover of the President of the Chamber of Commerce Alexander Grabner and still wife of the artist Samboni, on the train from Nice to Vienna . Fedor falls in love with her without revealing his identity. In Vienna, Fedor loses sight of her and cannot forget Helene when he is greeted by his girlfriend, the gypsy Roszi, who is giving a party for him. Fedor is giving a violin concert in Vienna, where he sees Helene in the audience - but after the performance she is no longer in her box.
Helene has rushed home, where Alexander is demanding her divorce from Samboni. However, Helene last saw him in Cuba , where her relationship with Alexander began. She turns to the singer La Cubanera, who had worked with her and Samboni in Cuba, but she doesn't know anything about Samboni's stay. In her restaurant, however, Helene meets an unhappy Fedor, whom she confesses her love. She decides to flee with him from Alexander and immediately leave Vienna by train. Fedor fetches her papers from Helene's apartment and finds himself there across from a man whom he suspects to be Alexander. He reveals his love for Helene and leaves the apartment. Roszi, who had followed him to the stairwell, cannot hold him back from leaving with Helene.
Events come thick and fast: Alexander is found shot in Helene's apartment and Fedor, the last person in the apartment, is suddenly wanted as a murderer. The train in which Fedor and Helene are traveling derailed shortly before Graz and Fedor is believed to be among the fatalities. However, he had previously disembarked during a brief stop and had subsequently missed the train. When he hears about the arrest warrant for murder, he goes into hiding with the gypsies who help him to find the real culprit. Roszi goes to the police and says she didn't hear a gunshot while she was waiting in the stairwell. Fedor longs for Helene, who asks him to leave: Samboni has returned and wants to get into possession of Alexander's inheritance. When Fedor leaves Helene, he meets Samboni and recognizes in him the man he had seen in Helene's apartment and whom he had told about his love for Helene. Samboni is arrested and confesses to the murder of Alexander. Helene and Fedor can now begin a future together.
production
The rotation of black eyes place from 15 October 1951 to November 1951 in the CCC-Studios in Berlin 's Spandau district , the district Haselhorst instead. The outdoor shots were taken in and around Berlin. The buildings were designed by Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt , while Viktor von Struve was in charge of production . The film premiered on December 25, 1951 in the “Schauburg” on Salzstrasse in Münster .
criticism
Der Spiegel criticized the film for its "oily direction after the thought leaps of the screenwriter Bobby E. Lüthge". Black eyes present in an “all too transparent crime story” the “violin solos by Will Quadflieg, Gypsy dances by Angelika Hauff, chansons by Rosita Serrano, sorrows by Cornell Borchers and comical embarrassments by Georg Thomalla”.
The Lexicon of International Films rated Black Eyes as an “oily melodrama” in which “artist's love, jealousy, fiery gypsy music and an all too transparent crime story ... were mixed in a stylish and confused way”.
Web links
- Black eyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Black eyes at filmportal.de