Summer nights
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Summer nights |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Ritter |
| script |
Gustav Kampendonk Vera Bern |
| production | Karl Ritter |
| music | Winfried Zillig |
| camera | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| cut | Margret Noell |
| occupation | |
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Sommernächte is a German feature film from 1944. René Deltgen , Suse Graf and Ernst von Klipstein played the leading roles under the direction of Karl Ritter . The working title of the film was Your Secret Husband .
action
The Berlin doctor Dr. As every year, Thomas Thomas spends his summer vacation in the Masurian Lake District . Here he owns a small log cabin and pursues his hobby, fishing . The beauty of this piece of nature gives him the strength he needs for his demanding job. His old friend Dunhus, who watches over the fish-rich lake, welcomes him, like every year, with joy.
The next day, when Thomas has a particularly big pike on the hook, a girl calls out to him and the fish is gone. Thomas doesn't answer politely with a proper curse , but doesn't pay any more attention to the girl, but leans back and dreams a little in the warm sun. Gabriele, that's the name of the young woman, has become curious and swims over to the man who can swear so beautifully. And she realizes that Thomas is a charming chat-maker who is really easy to talk to. Thomas also likes the young woman exceptionally well. Gabriele goes through a lot during the conversation, for example that someone could be looking for the fleeting adventure of a summer and so when she says goodbye, Thomas lets know by the way that she is married and is expecting her husband in the next few days. Thomas didn't expect that, but doesn't want to show his disappointment. Gabriele, who is not married at all, now mobilizes her childhood friend Kuno, who is also a passionate fisherman, to help her and spend his vacation with her at the lake and take on the role of her husband. Kuno lets himself be persuaded and arrives. He got on very well with Thomas right away. For Thomas this means that he has to pull himself together even more, as this makes his feelings for Gabriele even more impossible.
When he saw Kuno flirting with the pretty Uschi, daughter of the manor owner General a. D. Brosseit caught, he is quite indignant. How can he, with such a great woman at his side. Kuno's feelings for Uschi are actually of a serious nature, which doesn’t make the tricky situation he has kindly put himself any easier. When Uschi incidentally learns that the man who flirts so violently with her has a wife, she lets him feel her handwriting. Gabriele also regrets the comedy she is playing to Thomas. She is more and more convinced that Thomas' feelings for her are not fleeting, but serious and sincere. He suffers from the situation. On a mild summer night, she falsely assumes that Kuno has cleared up Thomas and stays with him. Thomas, who still has no idea, is happy and wants to ask the newly found friend to let Gabriele go.
Until the ball finally untangles itself and Thomas and Gabriele become a happy couple and Kuno still gets his Uschi and even old Dunhus has to admit defeat to Ernestine, who has been courting him for almost fifteen years, there are still some tricky situations.
production
The film premiered on June 26, 1944 in Berlin's border cinema BTL-Lichtspiele in Potsdamer Strasse , in the Tiergarten district . Shooting for the film began on June 25th with the studio shooting. The outdoor shots started in mid-July. From the end of August to mid-September 1943 further studio recordings followed (sound film studio Carl Froelich, Berlin-Tempelhof, Ufastadt, Babelsberg). It was filmed in the Masurian Lake District , in Lower Lake and in the vicinity of Rudczanny in East Prussia .
Summer Nights was Ritter's last production in the Third Reich . After that, until April 1945 he concentrated exclusively on (group) production management.
The production company was UFA -Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) Production Group Karl Ritter. Gustav Rathje was in charge of production and Willi Rother and Emanuel Kacha were in charge of recording . Wilhelm Vorwerg and Rudolf Linnekogel were responsible for the buildings . The costumes come from Gertrud Steckler and the sound from Ernst Walter. The stills took Viktor von Buchstab on.
The production costs amounted to around 725,000 RM. By January 1945, the gross profit for summer nights was RM 1,641,000.
criticism
An atmospheric summer film that transmits much of the atmosphere of those vacation days in the Masurian lake landscape to the viewer!
“During a vacation on the Masurian Lakes, a doctor from Berlin falls in love with a young woman who tests the persistence of his feelings by pretending to be married. Light-weight holiday and love comedy by the Nazi director Ritter, who gains a little charm from the atmospheric East Prussian landscape. "
See also
Web links
- Summer Nights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer nights at filmportal.de
- Summer Nights Film Stage Volume II No. 59
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilm, 13th year 1944/45, p. 110. Berlin 2002
- ↑ Summer Nights Filmpost number 80 adS eva-lichtspiele.de
- ↑ Summer nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .