Tonelli (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tonelli |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script |
Emil Burri Viktor Tourjansky |
| production | Georg Witt |
| music | Lothar Bruhne |
| camera | Franz Koch |
| cut | Werner Jacobs |
| occupation | |
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Tonelli is a German feature film from 1943 by Viktor Tourjansky with Ferdinand Marian in the title role and Winnie Markus in the female lead.
action
The famous artist Tonio Tonelli is the attraction in the Deutsches Theater in Munich with his tightrope act . Today is his last day in the Bavarian capital, because immediately afterwards he will travel to Zurich for a follow-up engagement. Tonelli drives to his wife Maja, who is staying at the hotel, whom he catches in a familiar tête-à-tête with his colleague Tino. He overhears the two secretly and learns that they are having an affair. The lovers intend to leave for Paris together immediately after their last appearance. Tonelli plays Tino and Maja, and there is an ugly, noisy scene. Maja, who has to perform again here in Munich with her husband as part of the tightrope act, fears that the extremely irritable mood could be very dangerous for the success of the act, because there everyone has to rely on the other one hundred percent. It happens as it should: The number ends in a disaster, because the rival Tino falls into the depths and is seriously injured and transported to the hospital. Since word of the marital jealousy drama spread like wildfire among the artists, the suspicion soon rests in the air that Tonelli helped out in the crash in order to get rid of the competitor once and for all. The allegation of attempted murder is in the air, and the prosecutor is already starting to investigate backstage.
Tonelli is now panicking. He suspects that he will be put behind bars for many years, so he runs away, picks up his little daughter Marietta from the hotel and disappears with her. While Tonelli places Marietta in a children's home and pays them in advance for several years, he goes into hiding himself. He finds a temporary place to stay with his old friend, the music clown Janko. Tonelli then works as a waiter in a cheap pub and finally joins the Cortrelli traveling circus. Here the former star artist does minor auxiliary work and is allowed to give the “stupid August” in performances a little later. Tonelli, who henceforth calls himself Joro, finds a new love in the pretty tightrope walker Nelly. When Tonelli / Joro discovered his daughter one day in the audience of the traveling circus, he almost panicked with rapture. As a made-up clown, Marietta cannot recognize him, and so Tonelli makes an extra effort this time to give his little ones a special pleasure as a clown with a tightrope act. The Cortrelli director quickly recognizes how much talent there is in this unknown artist and suggests a bigger role in the circus scene. Tonelli teams up with Nelly, and soon the duo raptures the audience as "Nelly & Joro". The reputation of being a sensational team precedes the two high wire artists. So one day both paths lead back to Munich, to the Deutsches Theater.
Tonio Tonelli wants to use the opportunity to draw a clear line under the relationship with his still-wife Maja. He makes an appointment with her and demands a divorce. He wants to give 25,000 marks to Maja, whom she lets go and withdraws the charges against him from yore. It seems like Maja wants to get into this deal. But when she finds out that her husband, Joro, is part of the sensational number "Nelly & Joro" as the make-up clown, she blackmailed Tonelli. He should take her back as a high wire partner and part with Nelly. Maja naturally refuses to divorce under these circumstances. Tonelli is dismayed and at a last meeting in Park Maja tries to teach him better. When he returns to the circus, he has blood splatters on his jacket. Tonelli is arrested immediately because he is under urgent suspicion of murder, as he is taught: Maja has been found dead. It comes to trial and Tonelli seems to have very bad cards. The confession of his old rival Tino, of all things, relieves him: he himself pushed Maja off a bridge out of jealousy when he saw and overheard them both in the park. Tonio wanted to rush to Maja to help, blood spattered his jacket. The former colleague and rival also acquitted him of the allegation at the time that he had Tino crashed. Tino says that Tonelli was not to blame for the crash. Freed from everything, Tonio Tonelli can start a new life with his beloved Nellye. Both of them will bring Marietta to themselves.
Production notes
Filming began on December 3, 1942 and continued until early May 1943. The film was filmed in the Bavaria studios in Geiselgasteig and in the Barrandov studios in Prague. The ring recordings were made in the Deutsches Theater in Munich. The first performance of the film was on July 12, 1943 in the Berlin UFA-Palast am Zoo and in the Primus-Palast in Berlin-Neukölln. On December 21, 1958, the German television premiere took place on ARD .
Bavaria producer Georg Witt also took over the production management. Ludwig Reiber and Rudolf Pfenninger designed the film structures. The film editor Werner Jacobs and the screenwriter Georg Hurdalek assisted director Tourjansky.
Tonelli cost 1.492 million Reichsmarks and grossed 4.49 million RM by May 1944. This made the film a huge box-office success. In the season from June 1, 1943 to January 31, 1944, this film was after Immensee , Das Bad auf der Tenne and Gabriele Dambrone in fourth place among the greatest movie theater hits of those eight months.
The film received the rating “artistically valuable”.
reception
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Heavy melodrama with an easily predictable tension curve, which rather awkwardly forces together popular topics such as circus artist milieu, married drama and murder affair."
In “Art of Propaganda. The film in the Third Reich ”is particularly related to the father role of the Marian character. There it says: “Especially the father figure of the rope artist Tonelli is created by Ferdinand Marian with an astonishing closeness to the daughter and everyday suitability for family care issues. At a time when the family fathers have often only been present sporadically for years, the film here presents a father beyond common clichés… ”
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 225 f. (066.43), Berlin 2001
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 631
- ^ Tonelli. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Manuel Köppen, Erhard Schütz (ed.): Art of Propaganda. The film in the Third Reich. S. 200. Berlin 2008.
See also
Web links
- Tonelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tonelli at filmportal.de