Promise Road
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| Original title | Promise Road |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Imo Moszkowicz |
| script | Hans Jacoby |
| production | Luggi Waldleitner |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Elisabeth Neumann |
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Straße der Verheißung is a German melodrama from 1962 by Imo Moszkowicz with Mario Adorf in the leading role as a man between two women ( Karin Baal and Johanna von Koczian ).
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Seaman Joe is on shore leave in Naples and is wondering what pleasure to pursue after a long time on the high seas. He comes to the conclusion that the principle of chance should make the decision for him. And so, at a fork in the road, he throws a coin. Should he go right or left? Well, the coin decides "to the left", and the decision leads him directly to a Neapolitan harbor bar, the Paradiso bar. In this establishment he met the blonde striptease dancer Nina and immediately fell in love with her. Both get closer and eventually marry. Everything could have been perfect had it not always been for Joe: what would have happened if the coin had made the other possible decision and he had taken the other path, the one to the right?
The second variant of his decision shows Joe's alternative life; his path leads in a completely different direction: he falls into the clutches of a luxurious, beautiful creature named Valentina. Was the way to her possibly the eponymous “Road of Promise”? The noble black-haired woman definitely has more class than the little cashmere dancer, but is also clearly more strenuous and demanding than the other. Valentina loves luxury and is used to full attention. She lives in a universe in which the simple-minded, good-natured sailor would not have found his way. In this respect, Joe had made the right choice with the first choice.
Production notes
The Promise Street was created between September 3 and October 5, 1962 in Naples and the surrounding area as well as in Munich (studio recordings in the Carlton studio). The premiere took place on November 13, 1962 in Munich's Stachus Palace. The first German television broadcast took place on June 29, 1968 on ARD .
The film structures were designed by Wolf Englert , and Bruno Monden carried out their execution.
Reviews
“The film shows both possibilities, but does not reveal what it actually aims to do. Does he want to demonstrate our dependence on fate? Then he made the solution too easy for himself in both cases. If he only wanted to give a study of people in everyday life, he could not find the right dramaturgical foundation for the simple fable. Nevertheless, the production by Imo Moszkowicz captivates through the highly explosive acting solo effort by Mario Adorf. His partners Karin Baal and Johanna von Koczian are well contrasted. The camera (Klaus von Rautenfeld) and again the music (Martin Böttcher) are remarkable. "
In Films 1962/64 the following can be read: "The two-lane intertwined plot serves doubly suspicious derailments."
The Protestant Film Observer doesn't think much of the work: "Primitive, boring German pseudo-problem film."
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1962/64. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 163
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 627/1962
Web links
- Road to the promise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Promise Street at filmportal.de