Black Forest Girl (1950)
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| Original title | Black Forest girl |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script | Bobby E. Lüthge |
| production | Berolina film production, Berlin ( Kurt Ulrich ) |
| music | Frank Fox |
| camera | Kurt Schulz |
| cut | Margarete Steinborn |
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Schwarzwaldmädel is a German operetta film adaptation from 1950. Directed by Hans Deppe . The Black Forest girl Bärbele is played by Sonja Ziemann , Rudolf Prack plays the painter Hans Hauser, Paul Hörbiger a cathedral music director and Gretl Schörg a revue star. The story of the film is based on the operetta of the same name by Leon Jessel with the libretto by August Neidhart .
action
At a stage ball , the young painter Hans Hauser met the secretary Bärbele Riederle, who appeared in the costume of a Black Forest girl . Hans Hauser is close friends with the revue star Malwine Heinau, who is also at the ball with her stage partner Richard Petersen. Malwine, the star of the big ice revue in the Kristallpalast, wears a precious piece of jewelery that evening that the jeweler Bussmann actually only provided for advertising shots. His employee, Theo Patzke, who is responsible for the safety of the jewelry, fell so deeply in love with Malwine that he could not refuse her request to be allowed to wear this jewelry to the ball in the evening. Full of horror, he suddenly sees his boss Fritz Bussmann at the ball. With his presence of mind, he has Malwine hand over the jewelry. When Bärbel Riederle, Bussmann's secretary, notices that Patzke drinks more than is good for him, she takes the jewelry to be on the safe side.
Malwine flirts, as always, unabashedly with all men, and Mr. Bussmann is also one of her admirers. She asks boldly: “Does love always have to be a tragedy?” Her stage partner does not take her flirting tragically any further, but Hans Hauser wants to show her on this evening what it is like for the partner when you behave like that. And then the adorable “Black Forest girl” Bärbele Riederle comes in handy. Unexpectedly, he falls seriously in love with the young lady in the course of the evening. But as the saying goes: “Girls from the black forest, they are not easy to get!” When he looks around, his “Black Forest girl” has disappeared. Bärbele won a main prize at the raffle, a small car, and went on a trip to the Black Forest to represent her aunt, who is the housekeeper at the Domkapellmeister Römer in the Black Forest community of St. Christoph. During her hasty departure, she did not think of forwarding the jewelry to the jeweler. So Theo Patzke has to follow suit. The jeweler Bussmann, on the other hand, believes that Theo Patzke wants to appropriate the jewelry and follows it. At the end, everyone meets again in St. Christoph, as friends Hans Hauser and Richard Petersen as well as Malwine Heinau want to spend their vacation in the Black Forest. The matter with the jewelry is cleared up quickly. Mr. Bussmann stays anyway because he thinks he has a chance with Malwine: "Malwine, oh Malwine". The host of the “Blauer Ochse” inn would love to pair the well-off guest with his daughter Lorle. Lorle is with the servant Gottlieb and he knows no mercy when it comes to his girl, and follows everything Fritz Bussmann does with suspicion. Domkapellmeister Blasius Römer, who got to know Bärbele better through her substitution in his household, has silent hopes for the charming young woman.
Richard Petersen wants to reconcile his friend Hans with Malwine, but Hans has long since had other plans. He knows that Bärbele is the right one for him. The offended Malwine puts a lot of obstacles in the couple's way. But it does come to a happy end: At the big Cäcilienfest with Bärbele as Black Forest queen in the pageant, “to dance the violins” will sound later and Hans can finally embrace his Bärbele. And Richard Petersen can finally confess his love to Malwine after his friend is no longer interested. And of course there is also a happy ending for Lorle and Gottlieb. Only Domkapellmeister Römer, Fritz Bussmann and Theo Patzke get away with nothing: "In Lenz you can think about it, but it will be autumn, then give up!"
Production, publication
The operetta had already been filmed three times ( 1920 , 1929 and 1933) without any notable success. It was only Deppe's color film with its romantic, optimistic mood that reached the audience and ended the phase of the debris films .
The UFA film studio in Berlin-Tempelhof served as the studio . The film was shot from May 1 to June 3, 1950, which enabled cameraman Kurt Schulz to record numerous flowering fruit trees. The church of St. Peter's Monastery in the Black Forest provided an important backdrop , at the foot of which a folk festival takes place, during which the couples find each other. Other locations were Baden-Baden , the Black Forest and Garmisch .
Despite the local Black Forest color, the actual origins of the actors were irrelevant. At the premiere of the film on September 7, 1950 in the Universum-Lichtspiel-Theater in Stuttgart, Sonja Ziemann appeared in traditional Black Forest costume. The film premiered on February 4, 1955 in the GDR cinema . It was released in Austria on October 27, 1950 and in Portugal on January 21, 1953 under the title A Rapariga da Floresta Negra . It was also published under the title La fianacée de la Forêt-Noire in France. The international title of the film is The Black Forest Girl .
On August 30, 2013, Alive released the film on DVD as part of the "Jewels of Film History" series.
reception
The film, the first German post-war color production (both productions on Agfa Agfacolor by the Wolfen film factory ) , along with the film Das Kalte Herz shot in the GDR , attracted 16 million viewers to German cinemas. Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack won the Bambi readers' choice in 1950 and were therefore each awarded a Bambi .
Reviews
“The traditional costumes are colorful and the Black Forest firs are green; a triangular story creates a tangle, but in the harmonious, cheerful world everything ends happily - 'and the violins sound too'. A home, music and equipment film that made hearts beat faster in the fifties. "(Rating: 2 stars = average)
"The modernized film version of Leon Jessel's operetta, a sweetish Schnulze, was the first color production after the end of World War II, shaped the style of the new German Heimatfilm and became an immense public success."
First Federal Republican Heimatfilm and first color film production after the war. The film adaptation of the well-known operetta in the (then) new “Heimat” style with a modernized plot and effective setting was a great public success. (Earlier adaptation: "Black Forest Girl", 1933)
In this first German post-war color film, the well-known operetta is being reawakened in the (then) new 'Heimat' style with a modernized plot and effective setting.
EPM film-dienst came to the verdict “that it is not surprising that this first new German color film is growing into a huge audience success, since it [proceed] according to the infallible recipe: 'Something for everyone . ' For nature lovers, there would be landscapes like from a picture book, music lovers can now indulge in choral singing, soon in Tschintara, and those who [want] feast on the dance will get all sorts of things from the ice revue to the traditional costume dance at the Cecilia Festival required. [...] The audience flee from the harsh reality hyper-amused in the colorful dream fields. Why not? This harmless feast for the eyes and ears [is] at least worth seeing than many a horror and villain film. "
Awards
- Film Award Bambi of the year 1951 for the business successful film
- Kassenschimmel 1951 for the Berlin trade journal Filmblätter for the most popular feature film in the 1950/51 season
literature
- Ricarda Strobel : Home, love and happiness. "Black Forest Girl (1950)". Fischer Filmgeschichte, 3, 1945 - 1960. Ed. Werner Faulstich , Helmut Korte. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1990, pp. 145-170
Web links
- Schwarzwaldmädel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Schwarzwaldmädel at filmportal.de
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Schwarzwaldmädel - The wrong side of the Heimatfilm For
information on Heimatfilm and especially the film Schwarzwaldmädel see page filmzentrale.com - For the Heimatfilm of the 50s including the film poster Schwarzwaldmädel , see also cinema history 1950
- Black Forest Girl on filmposter-archiv.de (three different film posters)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 150-151
- ↑ Schwarzwaldmädel "Der Heimat-Kultfilm" from 1950 Ill. DVD cover "filmjuwelen"
- ^ Rüdiger Klausmann: The youth prevail. In: Bambi.de. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ See Adolf Heinzlmeier , Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 731.
- ^ Lexicon of International Films . tape 7 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-16322-5 , p. 3359 .
- ↑ Black Forest Girl . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ See 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 385
- ↑ Schwarzwaldmädel EPM film-dienst, No. 41 of November 3, 1950 at filmportal.de.
- ↑ Black Forest Girl . In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 22, 2018 .
