Tonio Kröger (film)

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Movie
Original title Tonio Kroeger
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rolf Thiele
script Erika Mann
Ennio Flaiano based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mann
production Franz Seitz junior
Hans Abich
music Rolf Wilhelm
camera Wolf Wirth
cut Ingeborg Taschner
Heidi Genée under her real name Heidi Rente
occupation

Tonio Kröger is a German feature film by Rolf Thiele from 1964 based on the original of the same name by Thomas Mann . In addition to Jean-Claude Brialy and Mathieu Carrière in the title roles, Nadja Tiller plays another leading role.

action

Tonio Kröger, patrician son from Lübeck , lives as a writer in Italy, his mother's home. During a visit to the theater in Florence, his memories wander into the past, back to his school days - to Hans Hansen and Inge Holm. He still feels a furtive longing for a bourgeois life that he cannot lead, but for which he sometimes envies others. Tonio makes a decision: he leaves Florence with all its temptations and goes to Munich . His girlfriend, the talented painter Lisaweta Ivanovna, lives there, with whom he can talk about all matters of art at a high level.

But Tonio is restless. He left Munich behind and traveled on to Alsgaard, a Danish seaside resort, but shortly before that he made a stopover at his parents' house in Lübeck. Memories are awakened here, but after the death of the old consul Kröger , the building was sold to the city, which converted it into a public library. Tonio stays in a small beach hotel in Alsgaard. One evening, day trippers celebrate a happy party there. In a moment Tonio thinks he sees Hans Hansen and Inge Holm dancing by, both of whom he has never forgotten, because he wrote secretly for them only. Whenever he received applause, he always looked to see if Inge and Hans were in the crowd. When the festival is long over, Tonio Kröger is still thinking about what happened back then. Now it is only Lisaveta that he wants to see. One day he can finally hold her in his arms.

production

The shooting took place between January 27 and May 1, 1964. The film was shot in Lübeck ( Schabbelhaus , Rathaus , Buddenbrookhaus ), Florence , Skagen , Munich and the UFA Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof . The film was first presented on August 31, 1964 at the Venice Film Festival . The German premiere took place on September 2, 1964 in Lübeck.

Contrary to numerous other claims, the film was a purely German production, albeit in collaboration with two French film companies.

Wolf Englert designed the film structures, Maleen Pacha the costumes. Petrus Schloemp assisted cameraman Wolf Wirth . Irene Mann took over the choreography of the dances .

criticism

The lexicon of the international film judged: "Rolf Thiele's attempt to stage the multi-faceted and thoughtful model as a neat salon piece has unfortunately only been moderately successful and suffers from arbitrary arts and crafts."

In its issue 38 of September 16, 1964, Der Spiegel wrote on page 113: “Rolf Thiele, the problem erotic in German film lost in thought, has this fourth post-war film adaptation of a Thomas Mann work with real man quotes, but even more real Thiele -Touch given. Mann's Luebian patrician son, who vacillates between spirit and life, bears heavily on the spirit and attitude to life of the "Labyrinth" and "Venusberg" director: Kröger (Jean-Claude Brialy) suddenly and symbolically climbs out of the chamber of an Italian pleasure girl onto a finely ornamented one Graveyard; escaped to the Danish coast, a macabre, staring doll is washed up at his feet; Lübeck is always shrouded in fog and modern people - Thiele wants to know - are very frustrated. Thomas Mann's daughter Erika shook hands with the script. "

literature

  • Tobias Kurwinkel: Apollonian outsiders. Configurations of Thomas Mann's "basic motif" in narrative texts and film adaptations of the early work. With an unpublished letter from Golo Mann about the making of the film adaptation “Der kleine Herr Friedemann”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3826046247

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Films Volume 8, S. 3851. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  2. ^ Tonio Kröger in spiegel.de