Shiva and the gallows flower
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shiva and the gallows flower |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 (created 1945 ) |
| length | approx. 76-80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans Steinhoff (1945) Michaela Krützen (1993) Hans Georg Andres (1993) |
| script | Hans Steinhoff Hans Rudolf Berndorff Michaela Krützen (1993) Hans Georg Andres (1993) |
| production |
Ludwig Carlsen for Prague film Hans Steinhoff Joachim Ortmanns (1993) Carl-Ludwig Rettinger (1993) |
| music |
Werner Eisbrenner Rainer Brüninghaus |
| camera |
Carl Hoffmann (1945) Axel Block (1993) Rüdiger Meichsner (1993) |
| cut |
Margit Bauer Dagmar Lichius |
| occupation | |
Also: Eugen Klöpfer , Ernst Dernburg , Heinz Moog , Harald Paulsen , Hilde Hildebrand , Hubert von Meyerinck , Erich Dunskus , Leopold von Ledebur , Carl-Heinz Schroth , Karl Hannemann , Kurt Vespermann , Ernst Rotmund , Walter Gross , Lutz Götz , Jakob Tiedtke , Wolf Trutz , Otto Matthies , Werner Pledath , Werner Stock , Franz Stein , Victor Janson , Herbert Hübner , Gerhard Bienert , Julius Frey , Willi Rose , Werner Schott , Albert Florath , Bruno Harprecht , Nikolai Kolin , Andrews Engelmann
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Shiva and the Gallows Flower is one of the last productions of the Nazi film industry. Production of the thriller based on a detective novel by Hans Rudolf Berndorff published in 1943 began in the Barrandov Studios in Prague in 1945 and was not completed due to the invasion of the Red Army . The main role of Kriminalrat Dongen is occupied by Hans Albers or in the post-shoot with Manfred Zapatka . It is the last work as a director by Hans Steinhoff , who died when his plane was shot down while trying to escape from besieged Berlin to Spain.
action
At the center of the plot of the thriller is Detective Dongen, known as Shiva , who exposes a Russian painter as a counterfeiter. The artist, who is obsessed with his work, had unconsciously etched a motif from his picture “Man on the Gallows” on the printing plates with which he produced his counterfeit money. Dongen's investigative work leads to the man ending up on the gallows.
Filming
A documentary film from 1993 recalls the circumstances of the filming in Prague at the time and refers to how the film fragment was rediscovered in the Federal Film Archive and then reconstructed. This also means that clapboards and the voice of the production manager can be heard and different takes of the same shot are shown in succession. There are intercuts in which contemporary documentary and newsreel material has been incorporated, which reminds us that there was a war during the shoot in 1945. Scenes for which no sound was received were resynchronized. Furthermore, the film has been supplemented with interviews, for example with the French assistant director at the time, who had been conscripted as a prisoner of war for film work. Czech workers who were working in the Barrandov studios in Prague at the time also have their say. In addition, the German actresses report Margot Hielscher and Mady Rahl on the conditions at the time a film production usage were.
History of origin
After the destruction of German film studios and the threat of bombing raids on Germany, a large number of the German filmmakers considered important by the National Socialist government moved to Prague. The well-equipped film production facilities still functioning there were used by the newly created production company Prag-Film for the production of German feature films. Hans Steinhoff was commissioned to film the crime novel by Hans Rudolf Berndorff . The shooting of the film, which began on January 6, 1945, has a budget of 2.3 million Reichsmarks and was not completed as a result of the Czech uprisings .
The cast list of the film reads "down to the smallest supporting role like a Gotha of German film celebrities", since star actors also took supporting roles in order to be allowed to work in the then relatively safe city of Prague. Julius von Borsody was responsible for building the original film from 1945 .
Fragments of the film, shot in 1945, were assembled by Hans Georg Andres and Michaela Krützen with scenes, interviews and documentary parts re-shot in Prague, and in 1993 under the title Shiva and the Gallows Flower. The last film of the Third Reich was released after the film was approved in an FSK test on October 26, 1994 from the age of 12 with the addition of "no public holidays". The film was first broadcast on German and French television on November 27, 1993 in the Arte program. It was shown in the cinema for the first time on October 27, 1994.
criticism
The film's plot sums up the lexicon of international films in a short sentence: “A commissioner exposes an 'possessed' Russian painter as a counterfeiter and brings him to the gallows.” It was also said about the “mixture of historical feature film material, re-shot Scenes, interviews and documentary parts ", it is an" altogether revealing picture of the time in an attractive preparation ".
Web links
- Shiva and the gallows flower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shiva and the gallows flower at filmportal.de
- Shiva and the gallows flower at filmportal.de
- Shiva and the Gallows Flower Movie Poster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shiva and the gallows flower at murnau-stiftung.de
- ↑ a b c d Shiva and the gallows flower at filmdienst.de
- ↑ a b c Dorin Popa: OW Fischer, His films - his life ; Heyne, Munich 1989; ISBN 3-453-00124-9 ; Pp. 34-38.
- ↑ Shiva and the gallows flower. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .