As long as you are there (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Just Like Heaven |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Braun |
| script | Jochen Huth |
| production |
NDF , Munich (Harald Braun) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Helmuth Ashley |
| cut | Claus from Boro |
| occupation | |
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As long as you are there (subtitle: dream factory , also in the spelling as long as you are there ) is a German fiction film from 1953 by Harald Braun . In addition to Maria Schell and OW Fischer, the main roles are occupied by Hardy Krüger , Brigitte Horney and Mathias Wieman .
action
Eva Berger fled to the west from the eastern German territories at the end of the Second World War . Now she works as an extra in the film. The director Frank Tornau, a cynic, becomes aware of her and makes test shots of her. She tells him her life story, which Tornau not only considers extremely interesting but also lucrative film material. So he hires his friend and author Paul to write a corresponding script. The author assumes that Tornau's star actress Mona Arendt will play the leading role. However, Tornau wants Eva to play herself in the film. Eva's husband Stefan, who is also affected by the film, since it is also about his life, is not very enthusiastic about the idea, on the one hand because he does not want to put Eva through the exertions of having to go through everything again, on the other hand he does not know exactly how he should classify his wife's relationship with the difficult-to-see director. Since Eva really wants to make the film, he agrees.
In fact, filming Eva is increasingly becoming an ordeal. Not only because she has to face her difficult past again, but also because she feels increasingly torn between Stefan and Frank and no longer really knows what she really wants. When the last day of filming approaches, on which Eva has to play the scene in which she is faced with the decision to get to safety and jump on the rescue train, which her husband, who is wounded in the leg, can no longer reach, or to stay with him , she feels transported back in time and relived the moment when she was guilty and collapses. She is also aware that Tornau sees a decision for or against him in the scene. Since her husband Stefan is also present on the last day of shooting, Eva becomes aware of where she belongs - with Stefan the moment she sees him running along the edge of the scene. Frank Tornau has lost the fight for the woman who should help him to overcome his inner emptiness.
production
Production notes, background
The film was produced by the NDF Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft mbH (Munich-Geiselgasteig). The shooting took place from April 20 to June 8, 1953 in Munich and the surrounding area, on Wallberg and in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The buildings were designed by Walter Haag , while Georg Richter was in charge of production . The working title of the film was Happy End . The first rental took place through Schorcht Filmverleih GmbH (Munich).
Screenwriter Jochen Huth wrote another screenplay 17 years after the Burgtheater “about the relationship between the art of acting and reality”. At the time, OW Fischer was also cast in the Willi Forst film. Director Braun originally wanted Gustaf Gründgens to play the role of director , after whom OW Fischer Braun was the second choice. Fischer preceded his reputation for not being exactly comfortable, which he also demonstrated in this film. He disliked the fact that it wasn't he, the adored lover, who ended up getting the wife, but that she decided for her husband. It took Braun some persuasion to convince Fischer that this decision was the right one. With this, their third joint film, the dream couple Fischer / Schell catapulted themselves “to the top of all German actors”. OW Fischer earned a Bambi for the first time for the film, which was an “enormous box office success” . Appearances by the couple in public degenerated into mass gatherings.
Just like OW Fischer, Maria Schell was not easy to deal with, because like him she could be very persistent if something did not make sense to her and she "contradicted [said] intelligently until she was convinced of the correctness of the opposite" . Their luck was that Fischer and Schell were extremely popular with the public, and they were also "performers of special standing" who had a very wide range of expressive possibilities. Rudolf Augstein also dedicated a cover story to Schell in Spiegel 25/1953 and stated that she was “one of the very few actresses in German film who can actually derive their job title from their acting skills and not from their camera-attractive appearance ".
publication
On August 8, 1953, Solange Du da bist was subjected to an FSK test under the number 06361 and approved for children aged 12 and over with the addition of “holiday-free” and then premiered on August 27, 1953 in the Passage in Hamburg. The film was released in GDR cinemas on June 25, 1954. On September 7, 1963 he was seen for the first time on television in the ZDF program . The film opened in Austria and the Netherlands in February 1954, in Sweden in November 1954, in Finland in January 1955, in Argentina in April 1955, in Denmark and Portugal in May 1955, in Spain in June 1955 and in France in the year 1956. It was also published in Brazil, Canada, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the USA, there under the title As Long as You're Near Me . The film was also presented on March 13, 1954 at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina .
reception
criticism
“Harald Braun film of human weight and high ethos as well as remarkable design. Although not of the best credibility and cohesion, overall recommendable. Recorded in the 1953 annual best list of the film league. "
Reclam's Lexicon of German Films was of the opinion that “the film , which is characterized by a humane disposition, combines Braun's central motif, the dramatization of moral and spiritual conflicts, with neo-Romanist approaches”. It also said: "The haunting play by Maria Schell and OW Fischer gives the melodrama its emotional intensity."
The author Herbert Spaich wrote in his biography about Maria Schell: “ As long as you are there , one of the most remarkable examples of film in film is facing a difficult problem of the time: the situation of refugees from the East in West Germany. In addition, Harald Braun reflects on the relationship between reality and film, the fate of mixing the two. Despite the abundant variety of problems, Solange du there is exciting cinema. ”And further:“ Harald Braun presented a 'new' Maria Schell in his film: without the earlier touches of loyalty […] she simply plays suffering and hope in a fatal one Time. And again she is the woman between two men: a conflict on the verge of self-destruction. ”[…]“ Maria Schell plays the role with pronounced restraint, she discreetly presents a crisis without sentimentality. Harald Braun's direction makes it clear that the great qualities of this actress consist primarily in the portrayal of subtle human nuances. "Qualities that were" hidden in the previous films by the platitudes of the story and the inability of the directors ", it said .
The lexicon of international film summarized his judgment as follows: “Director Braun, who raised time-related questions of life in his post-war films (including Nachtwache, Der falling Stern) , warned against marketing his own fate, but his film turned into a psychologically incredible melodrama without artistic Unity. "
The Literaturhaus München wrote: "OW Fischer and Maria Schell shine in this film."
Cinema drew the conclusion: "Heartwarming, but not always believable."
Awards
The film was invited to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1954 , but did not receive any awards. The screenplay by Jochen Huth was awarded the German Film Prize that year. As long as you are there received the 1953 Bambi in the category of artistically most valuable film . The FBL awarded the title valuable. The film was included in the 1953 annual top list by the Catholic Film League . The film was recommended as the best film of the month (October 1953) by the Evangelical Film Guild .
Web links
- As long as you're there in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- As long as you are there at filmportal.de
- As long as you are there movie poster from 1953 adS filmposter-archiv.de
- As long as you are there Illustrated film stage No. 2031 (Cover picture: OW Fischer, Hardy Krüger, Maria Schell)
- As long as you are there (1953) Information on the film adS dieterleitner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ As long as you are there Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1743, February 1954
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 369 f.
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^ Dorin Popa: OW Fischer - His films - his life , Heyne Filmbibliothek No. 32/111, pp. 63–66
Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-453-00124-9 -
^ A b Herbert Spaich: Maria Schell - Your Films - Your Life , Heyne Film Library No. 32/99, pp. 58–61,
Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1986, ISBN 3-453-86101-9 -
↑ 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. 402 - ↑ As long as you are there (1953) adS film.at. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
- ↑ As long as you are there. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 19, 2017 .
- ↑ As long as you are there (1953) adS literaturhaus-munechen.de
- ↑ As long as you are there (1953) adS cinema.de (with 9 pictures from the film)
- ↑ As long as you are there. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on July 9, 2017 .
