As long as you live (movie)

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Movie
Original title As long as you live
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Reinl
script Jochen Joachim Bartsch ,
Harald Reinl
production Hans Paul Fritsch ,
Oskar Marion
music José Muñoz Molleda
Symphony Orchestra of the City of Baden-Baden
camera Walter Riml
cut Gertrud Petermann ,
Jochen Joachim Bartsch
occupation

As long as you live is a German feature film from 1955 . Directed in this war film - drama , which at the time of the Spanish Civil War plays led Harald Reinl . Adrian Hoven plays the role of a German soldier of the Condor Legion , whose plane is shot down. Marianne Koch embodies Teresa, the woman who finds him injured in the mountains and helps him. Karin Dor represents the very young local Pepita, who is harnessed for his purposes by Comisario Malek.

action

Foreword in the film: This is the story of two young people who met at a time when brother was fighting brother.

While the Spanish Civil War is raging, Teresa, a Franco sympathizer, is out in the mountains with old Pedro when they watch a fighter plane crash. At the crash site they find the German soldier Michael. He is largely immobile and bleeds profusely.

Teresa wants to get water and bandages for the injured, but is discovered by soldiers of the Republicans and accompanied by a patrol sent back to the village. There she requests Mayor Torquito for the infirmary to protect her. Pepita, the mayor's daughter, is still very young, and allows Comisario Malek, who is playing a wrong game, to strongly influence her in his own way and to make her insecure anew. She doesn't even notice that he keeps making her divulge things that she should have kept to herself.

Meanwhile, the good-natured Pedro dragged Michael into a cave and looked after him as best he could. Teresa waits for an opportune time and uses it to return to Pedro and the injured man with bandages, water and food. As it turns out, Michael's leg is broken, making it impossible to escape through the mountainous landscape. Pedro wants to flee from the enemy through the mountains and asks Teresa to come with him. However, this refuses, because she does not want to leave Michael to his fate under any circumstances.

It is getting harder and harder for Teresa to get to Michael, as the soldiers hang around all over the mountains. Many days have now passed without her being able to get to Michael. In her need she turns to Mayor Torquito, who helps her again this time. Michael confesses his love to her and she can no longer hide how deep her feelings for him are. However, Michael still doesn't know that Teresa has already been promised to someone else.

In the meantime, a lot of bad things continue to happen in the village and then Mayor Torquito, Teresa's “guardian angel”, is shot. Comisario Malek, who has since found out that Teresa is hiding a German in the mountains, leaves her no choice. She has to accompany him to the hiding place that same night. There it comes to a dramatic duel between Malek and Michael. Michael emerges victorious and Teresa and Michael spend their last night together. At dawn, after opening her heart to the sleeping Michael, Teresa sneaks away sadly - back to her fiancé. You won't see each other again.

background

The film was shot from March 20 to June 20, 1955 in Seville , Granada and the Sierra Nevada . The interior photos were taken from June 6th to 20th, 1955 in the Afifa Atelier "Unter den Eichen" in Wiesbaden (Hesse). The film drama premiered in Germany on October 14, 1955.

Historical background: The Spanish Civil War was fought between July 1936 and April 1939 between the democratically elected government of the Second Spanish Republic and the putschists under General Francisco Franco . It ended with the victory of Franco's supporters. The fascist Falange and the national right in the military tried to come to power under Franco through a coup , but met unexpectedly strong resistance from the Republican government. The German Reich also intervened and sent the Condor Legion , a covertly operating unit of the German Wehrmacht , to support the fascists .

criticism

The television magazine Gong judged: "Ideologically controversial war film, which at best achieved a certain class through the appearances of Adrian Hoven, Marianne Koch and the very young Karin Dor."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As long as you live - film locations on www.imdb.com
  2. ↑ As long as you live - shooting dates at www.imdb.com
  3. ^ The New Film Program As long as you live , published by H. Klemmer Verlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.
  4. ↑ As long as you live - start date on www.imdb.com
  5. ↑ As long as you live In: TV magazine Gong No. 14 of March 30, 2012, p. 77