Sophienlund (1943)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sophienlund |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 14 |
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| Director | Heinz Rühmann |
| script |
Helmut Weiss Fritz Peter Buch |
| production | Heinz Rühmann (production group) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
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Sophienlund is a 1942 German feature film by Heinz Rühmann with Harry Liedtke , Käthe Haack and Hannelore Schroth in the leading roles. Screenwriter Helmut Weiss , together with Fritz von Woedtke, also provided the stage play template of the same name (1941).
action
Germany, in the manor environment. The equally successful and economically well-off writer Erich Eckberg resides on the lordly country estate "Sophienlund" with his wife Sigrid and three children, the twins Knut and Michael and their daughter Gabriele. Tomorrow Knut, who likes to work in agriculture, and Michael, who is a music student at the conservatory, will be 21 years old; at that time the age at which one came of age. The evening before begins with a bang: The two boys learn from their father that it was not their "mother" Sigrid who gave birth to them both, but a certain Stella Sörensen, Erich's wife from his first marriage. Stella died when both were born. There is also a nasty surprise for Gabriele, who is usually called Gabi. She too does not have Erich and Sigrid as biological parents, only Sigrid. Gabi is, as they say, the fruit of a passionate love with an Italian drawing teacher who died in an accident before Gabi was born. When Erich and Sigrid got married, the Eckbergs decided, of course, to treat all three children as their own and to let them grow up in their home on Gut "Sophienlund". But now the moment of truth should finally come.
The shock of the truth evokes very different reactions in each of the three grown-up children. While Gabriele finds all the new discoveries extremely exciting, but will continue to love her social father no less than before, the world collapses for the two boys. Knut is pissed off because he feels lied to and betrayed after all these years of well-kept family secrets. He decides for himself to leave the next day and henceforth to live in the city on his own two feet. Michael reacts even more dramatically: He gets drunk without restraint and demands from his father to release his own wife, Sigrid, because he has fallen in love with his own "mother", who is actually not his own, for some time . Erich is stunned about it. Gabriele is meanwhile traveling to Knut, because she has loved her "brother" for a long time. Since he is not related to her, everything is now possible; also a relationship between the two and even a marriage.
After Gabis and Knut's departure, it became frighteningly quiet on “Sophienlund”. Music student Michael pouts to himself when he receives a visit from Birgit Lundquist, who like him is attending the conservatory. Birgit wants to know what's going on because she has received a telegram from him in which he informs her that he will not attend the upcoming concert. In truth, she hopes to finally be able to win him over, because she loves the young man, but does not know that he is drawn to the much older Sigrid. The Eckbergs managed to get Michael Birgit at least one chance, and so the planned concert will take place after all. In time for the big birthday party, everyone is reunited on “Sophienlund”, and Gabi and Knut announce their engagement. In just 24 hours the smoke of a solid, familiar theatrical thunder cleared again.
Production notes
The shooting took place from September 2nd to November 11th 1942 in and around Berlin (UFA-Stadt Babelsberg and Buckow Castle near Strausberg). The premiere was on February 26, 1943 in Berlin (Gloria-Palast and Kosmos-Palast in Berlin-Tegel).
Rühmann and Liedtke had worked together shortly before, in 1941, on the successful film Quax, Der Bruchpilot . In his next film, Das Konzert , Liedtke also played the leading roles with Käthe Haack, and there, too, they appeared as an honorable married couple.
Robert Leistenschneider took over the production management, Willi A. Herrmann designed the film structures, Manon Hahn the costumes. Alfred Zunft was responsible for the sound. The song “Everything goes better with music” is played.
The production costs amounted to 1,114 million Reichsmarks. After just one month of playing, this film had already raked in RM 249,000 at the box office.
The film received the rating “artistically particularly valuable”.
In 1956, Helmut Weiss re-staged the material under the title Engagement at Lake Wolfgang . Another Sophienlund film adaptation by Weiss followed in 1963 as a German television production.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films says: "A spirited comedy with sympathetic actors."
Boguslaw Drewniak said: "This film, too, was only entertaining for the undemanding, but still an audience success, which was almost entirely thanks to Heinz Rühmann's direction - so many critics."
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 214 f. (061.43), Berlin 2001
- ↑ Sophienlund. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 247
See also
Web links
- Sophie Lund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sophienlund at filmportal.de