Jump into the abyss

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Movie
Original title Jump into the abyss
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length
102 (1933)
93 (1993)
 Minutes
Rod
Director Harry Piel
script Werner Scheff Hans Rameau
production Harry Piel
for Ariel-Film, Berlin
music Fritz Wenneis
camera Ewald Daub
cut Max Brenner
occupation

Jump into the Abyss is a German action and crime film by and with Harry Piel from 1933.

action

Harry Peters is a representative of an insurance company and is skiing in a winter sports area in the Bavarian Alps when he meets a mysterious man on the way. He tries, but in vain, to hide his face from Harry's sight. When Peters arrives at his destination, the palace hotel, he learns that a fatal accident should have occurred up on Devil's Ridge. In the hotel he meets an old friend, Betty Bergen, who works as a secretary in the service of General Manager Schenk. Harry also makes the acquaintance of the ominous Baron Moll, who obviously has something to hide. Harry learns that the fatally injured person on the Teufelsgrat is said to be a certain Walter Volkmann, a businessman who was insured with the company Peters represented. Rumor has it that his company was in dire straits. Besides Eva Volkmann, the beneficiary of the life insurance is his alleged widow and Volkmann's partner Schöning.

Harry Peters' nose tells him that something must be wrong here. Accompanied by the mountain guide Geiersbacher, who led the fatal mountain tour, he commits the alleged crash site. In search of the corpse, the mountain guide is attacked by an unknown person and pushed into an abyss, while Harry Peters only barely escapes. After further research, Peters suspects that behind the attack and the strange disappearance of Volkmann must be that partner and the opaque Baron Moll. Both try to hinder Harry in his research as best they can. Peters soon realized that it could not have been a fabricated "skiing accident", but rather insurance fraud. Volkmann lives!

When Eva Volkmann, Baron Moll and partner Schöning leave in a hurry, he secretly follows the three of them. The hotel guests, who behaved suspiciously from the start, decided to act, and that means: Volkmann must die in order for there to be a corpse - his corpse! To do this, the insurance fraudsters go back to the mountains. Peters follows their tracks in the snow in a daring way. When Volkmann is now being led to the Devil's Ridge by Moll and Schöning because they want to plunge him into the abyss from there, Harry intervenes at the last moment. Some villagers, informed by Betty, come to his aid, and after a real brawl, the gangsters can be arrested. There is also a happy ending for Harry and Betty.

Production notes

Jump into the Abyss was filmed entirely in February 1933 and premiered on March 30, 1933 in Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo . In Austria the film was sold under the title Traces in the Snow . The outside location was the Zugspitze with the Schneefernerhaus . After the war it was first broadcast on television on November 6, 1993 on SAT.1.

The film structures come from Willi A. Herrmann and Artur Günther . Eugen Hrich took care of the sound. Eigil Wangøe worked as a still photographer on this production.

For the Jewish actors Hermann Vallentin , Hermann Blaß and Georg John this was the last film appearance in Germany or their farewell performance in front of the camera. Jump into the Abyss was one of the first productions to be made entirely in the Third Reich .

Reviews

The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote after the Berlin premiere: "This time too, Harry Piel shows the qualities that he owes his popularity to with the audience."

In Xenix.ch it says: "Harry Piel - dynamite director with a predilection for exploding houses and bridges, officially never doubled action actor - has also come up with a lot in this film to keep his audience in suspense."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Jump into the Abyss". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , April 8, 1933, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil
  2. ↑ jump into the abyss in xenix.ch

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