And one day we will find each other again ...
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | And one day we will find each other again ... |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Müller |
| script | Ernst Hasselbach |
| production | Studio 45 - Film GmbH, Berlin ( Helmuth Schönnenbeck ) |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
and Morchen, the dog | |
And one day we'll find each other again ... is a German feature film from 1947 by Hans Müller with Paul Dahlke and a number of young actors in the leading roles. The story was based on a novella by Hertha von Gebhardt. The film was shown in Austria under the title Seduced Youth :
action
Germany in the spring of 1945. The Allies are close to the complete occupation of the country, and everything in the defeated country seems to be in the process of dissolving. Five boys from a school class relocated from the war zone to Westphalia, still inspired by the belief in the Führer and Final Victory, decide to go to Berlin to help free the city besieged by the Red Army from the Russian stranglehold. The older, more experienced teachers such as Studienrat Bockendahl are concerned about what will happen to their country in the face of the strong upheavals. The five adolescents first travel to their highly esteemed teacher Assessor Paulke, who has so far been a deeply loyal representative of National Socialist ideology, but who, with wise foresight, tries to get rid of his brown past as quickly as possible. He asks his astonished students to help him to get rid of his SA-Kluft, which identifies him as a storm leader. The blond student Wolfgang in particular is stunned by Paulke's defeatism; a world collapses for him. The boys, including the dog that runs after the youngest of the gullible brats, march on and continue to face the consequences of the war unleashed by Hitler's Germany.
On a crowded train a desperate woman says: "We have all been silent for far too long, with everything, but now we have to talk, how long does he want to go on, this ..." She wants to say "Murderer", then Wolfgang will take her interrupted. He contradicts and desperately prays down what has been learned: “What else do we have but faith in the Führer and in victory?” Finally the first of the pupils falls, and gradually even the most devout young Nazis among them begin to doubt the sense of their insane undertaking. At a wooden cross that the boys are erecting for their dead friend in the middle of the Berlin battlefield, Wolfgang whispers to the older Private Gehlhorn that he can now only see Hitler as a murderer, as his mother did when she did received news of his father's death on the Soviet battlefields. Gehlhorn not only becomes the boys' fatherly protector, but also a reminder for more humanity and a peaceful future. Gehlhorn also ensures that Wolfgang is delivered undamaged and purified to his mother. This is the end of the war for him and the other teenagers. What remains is a hope that manifests itself in Goethe's words (from "Hermann and Dorothea"): "And one day we will find ourselves again above the ruins of the world, we will be creatures again ..."
Production notes
And one day we will find each other again ... was created between April 25 and July 10, 1947 in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio, in Lüdenscheid and the surrounding area and at Altena Castle in Westphalia. Gerhard Ladner created the film structures, Helmuth Schönnenbeck and Peter Wehrand were production managers . The premiere took place in the Filmbühne Wien in Berlin on December 2, 1947.
The film structures were created by Gerhard Ladner , Peter and Dieter Wehrand served on producer Schönnenbeck's side as production managers.
Carl Raddatz can be heard as the narrator .
Reviews
In Der Spiegel it was said: “Real newsreel pictures stand unreconciled next to the somewhat flimsy camera work, which should rather be part of a cheap advertising film. And just as incompatible are the problems of these gruesome months and the inadequate artistic means. Dramaturgy and direction (Hans Müller) are so loosely tailored that a speaker (Carl Raddatz) has to help over the transitions. "
The Lexicon of International Films saw the film as “a film that shows the youth of that time as victims of their upbringing. It is not equally convincing, but it is respectable in comparison to other time-sensitive attempts. At the same time a piece of historical object lesson. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 12
- ↑ Boys get by . Report in: Der Spiegel, issue 49/1947 from December 6, 1947
- ↑ And one day we will find ourselves again ... In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed June 9, 2019 .