Diary of the beloved

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Movie
Original title Diary of the beloved
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1935
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Hermann Kosterlitz
script Felix Joachimson
production Adolf Rosen
music Paul Abraham
camera Willy Goldberger
Zoli Vidor
cut Laci Vidor
occupation

and Karl Ehmann , Jack Mylong-Münz , Ernst Prockl , Georg Schmieter , Norbert Rohringer

The real Marie Bashkirtseff in a self-portrait (1880)

Diary of the Beloved is an Austrian music and love film from 1935 by Hermann Kosterlitz . The title role of Maria Bashkirtseff was played by the Hungarian Lili Darvas , her lover, the great writer Guy de Maupassant , was portrayed by Hans Jaray . In the opening credits of the film it is pointed out that this is a fictional story and that one does not orientate oneself on historical processes and facts.

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The story is told based on Maria Bashkirtseff's diary entries. The fun-loving young Russian lives in Paris in the early 1880s and is an extremely ambitious young painter. Her closest confidante and fatherly friend is the good-natured, papa-like Dr. Walitzky. Her sinister and always very serious teacher Bassieux teaches Maria and makes her a marriage proposal, which she refuses because she wants to concentrate fully on her art. Maria's mother has no understanding for this, Maria should better get married. When she wanders through the city in search of motifs and is robbed and threatened by a gang of thieves while painting a little boy, she meets the young writer Guy de Maupassant, who she initially takes for a horse dealer - a mistake which the celebrated writer initially does not enlighten for his own amusement. After initial verbal squabbles, the two young people quickly begin to like each other - much to the chagrin of Bassieux, who has already had a clash with Maupassant and is getting grumpier because of Maria's rejection.

Maupassant is also in some trouble: a stubborn admirer, young Jenny, turns out to be extremely affectionate and shoots him in a fit of jealousy. Dr. Walitzky takes care of the graze wound on Maupassant's right hand. Maria is at his side and also wants to help. An old fortune teller, whom Maria and Guy meet in a pub, makes nebulous hints that do not bode well for their future. Soon, Maria's health steadily deteriorated. She often starts coughing and fainting. Dr. Walitzky is seriously worried. At a ball, Bassieux plans to take revenge on his rival for Mary's favor, Maupassant. But the also present Dr. Walitzky intercepts him beforehand and explains to Bassieux that both protégés are seriously ill. Thereupon Bassieux abandons his sinister plan.

Maria overheard this conversation by chance and now no longer wants to be with de Maupassant in order not to tie him to a terminally ill patient. He no longer understands the world when Maria Bashkirtseff suddenly gives him the cold shoulder. She lies before de Maupassant that the ambition of “high art” is more important to her than her feelings for him. Offended, de Maupassant leaves. When Maria was painting two little boys, she collapsed. In desperation, Dr. Walitzky to Bassieux and asks him to help fulfill Mary's last wish: to find Guy de Maupassant, who has gone into hiding for a few days, and to escort him to Mary's deathbed. It is there that the moribund painter and the vain poet prince finally reach a reconciliation. Maupassant also has the gold medal with him, which Bassieux has just been awarded for his artistic work. On behalf of Bassieux, de Maupassant told the dying that she had been awarded the medal. Maria Bashkirtseff's last words to Guy de Maupassant are: "I never stopped loving you".

Production notes

Diary of the Beloved is one of the last emigrant films in Austria before the film industry there had to submit to the pressure of National Socialist Germany and no longer employed Jewish filmmakers. The film enabled the Hungarian stage artist Lili Darvas to play her first lead role in a sound film.

Shooting began on July 29, 1935 in the Tobis Sascha studio in Vienna. The eight-stroke hit several cinemas in Vienna on October 4, 1935. In Germany, the film was banned from showing because of the large number of Jews involved.

The lyrics to Paul Abraham's music were written by Fritz Rotter . Artur Berger designed the film structures, Franz Meschkan took care of the equipment . Costume designer Ladislaus Coppel was responsible for the extensive, historical robes and robes. Herbert Janeczka and Alfred Norkus set the tone. Arthur Gottlein was one of three production managers and also served as an assistant director. Hans Heinz Theyer worked under Willy Goldberger's chief camera as a simple cameraman, Zoltan Vidor was camera assistant. André Zsoldos took over the production management.

An Italian version of this film called Il diario di una donna with Isa Miranda in the title role of Bashkirtseff and again Hans Jaray as Maupassant was produced.

The following music tracks were played:

  • Home, you remain my longing
  • In Paris women are an experience
  • And what does Monsieur Gaston say about it?

These titles were published by Sirius-Verlag, Vienna.

Reviews

In its edition of October 11, 1935, the Österreichische Filmzeitung saw in Diary of the Beloved a “lively staging of the film produced in the largest format”.

Paimann's film lists summed up: "Long, preparatory exposition until the conflict, which is still not fully convincing but effective in its psychological conditions, sets in ... tasteful direction, which lets the Darvas play her part with virtuosity, while her partners become more one with their roles."

film.at located “fateful shadows, plush-laden interiors, precious brocade” in the film and also found: “Never again has an“ immortal love ”been presented so naturally, so tenderly and intimately in Austrian films as it is here."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 6th year 1935. P. 182 (110.35), Berlin 1995
  2. ↑ The Jewish staff members were the director Hermann Kosterlitz, his screenwriter Felix Joachimson, the producer Adolf Rosen, the composer Paul Abraham and his librettist Fritz Rotter, the cameramen Willy Goldberger and Zoltan Vidor, his brother, the film editor Ladislaus Vidor, and the actors Lili Darvas , Hans Jaray, Szöke Szakall, Adolf Edgar Licho, Sigurd Lohde, Fritz Spira, Jack Mylong-Münz, the costume designer Ladislaus Coppel and the assistant director and unit manager Arthur Gottlein
  3. ↑ Diary of the Beloved in the Austrian Film Newspaper
  4. ^ Diary of the beloved in Paimann's film lists
  5. ↑ Diary of the Beloved on film.at

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