And again 48
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | And again 48 |
| Country of production | Germany ( SBZ ) |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav von Wangenheim |
| script | Gustav von Wangenheim |
| production | DEFA , HG Kurt Hahne |
| music | Ernst Roters |
| camera | Bruno Mondi |
| cut | Lena Neumann |
| occupation | |
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And again 48 is a German DEFA film by Gustav von Wangenheim from 1948.
action
Berlin in 1948: Students from Berlin University take part as extras in a feature film that deals with the revolutionary year of 1848 . Director Hoffmann puts his artistic demands above everything and stages the bourgeois revolution as an exclusively comic matter. The young Else Weber, who studies history at the university, contradicts him, saying that the revolution was the way to create a united Germany on a democratic basis. The failure is not funny, but tragic. If you staged it differently, it would mean that Bismarck's troops would have been right in the end. Hoffmann, who has already heard something similar from his film architect Ring and other members of the film staff, has the students released from film work. The anger of the students is now directed against Else, since they all could have used the earnings from the film. Medical student Heinz Althaus in particular positions himself strongly against Else. In a scheduled discussion, Else should explain herself to her fellow students.
Else lives with her sick sister Betty and her son in a small apartment. She lost her husband and child in the war, and Betty, on the other hand, lives in the uncertain whether her husband will return. Else knows that Betty's husband has fallen, but hides this from her sister out of consideration for her health. Often she has to be accused of being emotionally cold, but only gives herself unemotional. She grieved too often in the past. Now she throws herself all the more intensely into the past of her country and researches the revolution of 1848. Inspired by the shooting, she is planning an exhibition about 1848 with a group of like-minded students. She also wants to perform a historical cabaret on the revolution at the student dance. Heinz Althaus sees Else again in the library. He takes the books on the Revolution of 1848, which it has just returned, and begins to read into the subject. He soon realizes that Else is right. He is particularly fascinated by the figure of the student Gustav Adolph Schlöffel , who knowingly put himself into the hands of the enemy and stood up for the rights of the citizens. Else, however, remains suspicious of whether he is really interested in the subject.
The historical cabaret at the dance evening proves to be a great success. However, Else is fetched away by a neighbor after accidentally telling Betty about her husband's death. Now she fears that something will harm Betty. The sophisticated Lissy, who has her eye on Heinz and suspects Else to be a rival, spreads the word that Else's sister has died. Everyone is all the more irritated when Else announces the next number of the cabaret program and only then goes home. One week after the dance, the long-awaited discussion between the students and Else takes place. Else is outraged that it is printed in the newspaper that her sister has died, that this is not true and that, even if it does, it is nobody's business. She compares the anonymous scribe with the anonymous German who scratches forward and hunched back. The students encourage Heinz to take a position against Else, but he is cautious: he has not read enough about the 1848s to be able to form his own opinion. However, he tends to agree with Else in her opinion. As a result, his friends are now critical of him. Else, however, does not trust the former soldier Heinz and indirectly calls him a reactionary in front of Lissy , who also thinks that way today and that way tomorrow. Meanwhile, Heinz is learning new things, for example, he attends a lecture by Professor Kortlein, who, among other things, brings up and condemns the criticism of Else. The relationship between Else and Heinz improves. Else ensures that the students get a second chance while filming. Despite his occupation with 1848, Heinz did not neglect learning, as his fellow students believed, and passed his medical examination with very good results. Before Else can congratulate him, however, Heinz meets Lissy, who tells him that Else, in spite of everything, only sees him as a reactionary. Heinz is angry and leaves. He gets advice from the film architect Ring, who says that you don't need to look for a confrontation in love. He convinces Heinz to make it up with Else, and he too is sorry for her distrust of Heinz. Both meet while shooting the film, which is now taking the revolutionary cause much more seriously, and reconciles.
production
The film was made in the Berlin-Johannisthal studio with exterior shots from Berlin and the Wartburg .
And again 48 was released on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the March Revolution in 1848. It was Gustav von Wangenheim's second directorial work and his first film for DEFA. Horst Drinda made his film debut in And again 48 . The costumes come from Walter Schulze-Mittendorff , the film structures were created by Willy Schiller . The film premiered on November 5, 1948 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin .
criticism
The contemporary criticism found that in And again 48 "far too much has been crammed into the plot"; the film “captivates and has no empty spaces, it just doesn't quite work artistically.” Frank-Burkhard Habel noted that Wangenheim's film “showed artistic inconsistencies” and “did not go beyond a compulsory film contribution”.
The filmdienst designated Another 48 "counteract one [s] attempt had returned from exile in Moscow Gustav von Wangenheim, nihilistic view of history of young people after the war." As
Cinema wrote that Gustav von Wangenheim “tried to save the 'proletarian' film of the 20s into the post-war period in his first feature film at DEFA. Conclusion: Agitprop didactics in the film too top-heavy ”.
literature
- And again 48 . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , p. 640.
Web links
- Another 48 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- And again 48 at filmportal.de
- And again 48 at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 32
- ^ Leo Menter: Film Mosaic . In: Weltbühne , No. 46, 1948, pp. 1458–1459.
- ↑ And again 48 . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 640.
- ^ And again 48. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de