Impossible love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Impossible love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Waschneck |
| script | Erich Waschneck Frank Winterstein |
| production |
Detlef von Moltke Gertrud Keitzschner Curt Schwecht for Märkische Film GmbH |
| music | Wolfgang Zeller |
| camera | Bruno Mondi |
| cut | Friedel Buckow |
| occupation | |
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Impossible Love is a German feature film from 1932. Asta Nielsen plays the leading role, directed by Erich Waschneck .
action
Vera Holgk came to Berlin with her husband, a Russian officer, as a result of the October Revolution . Widowed by now, she has two young but grown-up daughters: Nora and Toni. In order to support the small family, she worked hard as a sculptor and found a job in a porcelain factory. One day at a social event, Vera met her young colleague Professor Steinkampp. Feelings awaken in her that she thought she had buried since her husband's early death. She feels a deep, inner bond with the young artist that goes far beyond the motherly and allows her to become completely woman again. In order to avoid disharmony in her relationship with her daughters, Vera initially hides her new acquaintance.
Professor Steinkampp seems to reciprocate her feelings. He even offers her his studio when Vera wants to take part in a sculpting competition. Nora and Toni notice the changes in their mother and feel that their bond with her threatens to loosen. But even the young women are gradually beginning to emancipate themselves, to cut themselves off from their mother and to go their own way. While Nora met and fell in love with the diplomat from Möllenhof, Toni is connected to the photographer Erwin Hammer. This in turn dreams of a career as a photo reporter, which ideally should lead him around the globe.
Vera Holgk actually wins the competition, whose participation she has so far not told her daughters. She tells both of them, but continues to keep silent about the emerging romance with Steinkampp. By chance in the form of a newspaper article, Vera's daughters now find out about this liaison. Shocked that her mother is obviously in her second spring, Nora leaves her parents' house. Toni, on the other hand, takes her mother's side and tries to help her by finding out more about Steinkampp. He is married! His wife is a woman who has been admitted to a mental hospital. Vera decides to get her own picture of the stranger in the clinic. In her bleak existence, she seems to cling to her husband's love, which gives her support and hope. Vera Holgk then decides, disaffected and deeply sad, to return to her old life.
Production notes
The film, based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Schirokauer , was also shown under the title Vera Holgk and her daughters . Filming began on November 23, 1932 and ended the following month. Exactly one month after shooting began, on December 23, 1932, Impossible Love was premiered. In the next six months the film was also shown in Austria, Denmark, Sweden and France.
Impossible Love was Asta Nielsen's first and only sound film. Four years later she returned from Germany to her Danish homeland forever.
The film received the rating "Artistic" and was banned from young people.
Hans Jacoby designed the film structures. Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler served as assistant to cameraman Bruno Mondi .
After 1945, Impossible Love was no longer shown.
Reviews
“Her art is so great that it asserts itself unabated in a changed time. Not least thanks to the voice, whose supple astringency adapts easily to the different situations and naturally grows together with the overall game. Ms. Nielsen was particularly successful in combining language and facial expressions. She leaves a lot of space for the silent appearance; so that the statement is not actually supported by the gesture, but the word arises from it. The language has hardly ever been used in such a cinematic manner. "
“Here the Danish virtuoso of acting had to speak like a woman 'between two ages', like a mother of two grown daughters (Ery Bos and Ellen Schwanneke), like a capricious lady who doesn't give up, but rightly still has a strong part in life want. The woman 'before sunset'! She speaks effortlessly for the sound film, but her hands, her eyes, her soul speak even more clearly and distinctly than her lips. Erich Waschneck has rediscovered the Nielsen. "
Web links
- Impossible Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Impossible love at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Oskar Kalbus : On the becoming of German film art . Part 2: The sound film . Berlin 1935, p. 95