In camera (1937)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | In camera |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Wegener |
| script |
Otto Linnekogel Helmut Brandis |
| production | Franz Vogel |
| music | Hans Carste |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
| cut | Fritz C. Mauch |
| occupation | |
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A German crime and judicial film from 1937 starring Olga Chekhowa and Iván Petrovich is in camera. It was the last cinema production by the actor Paul Wegener .
action
It's New Year's Eve and the family of the banker Sparrenberg is celebrating in a Berlin ballroom. The desk phone rings and Brigitte Sparrenberg is asked. After the phone call ends, Brigitte's mood has hit rock bottom and she begs her husband to take her home immediately. The banker's wife is still annoyed the next morning. Yesterday's caller was a certain Baron Gaffris, a windy guy Brigitte was once very in love with. But the sleazy aristocrat had only sought her acquaintance back then in order to use her charm to get to important business people and then take them down according to all the rules of the art. This flirtation ended very badly: Gaffris was convicted of fraud in a trial and had to go to jail, while Brigitte, whose ignorance bought the court from her, got away with a black eye and was acquitted. Brigitte never told her husband, the banker, anything about this ugly story that Gaffris is now trying to exploit. He blackmailed Brigitte into telling the banker about his wife's past life. Ina Sparrenberg, Brigitte's daughter, also learns everything about the baron and his sinister intentions via detours. Ina immediately goes to her mother's side.
Gaffris, who intends to exempt the Sparrenberg bank, receives a visit from Brigitte. She wants to appeal to his decency again and talk him out of his latest mess, which on top of that could endanger their marriage. But he just laughs at her. After a loud argument, Brigitte leaves Gaffris's house. A little later, Ina comes to her mother in a state of dissolution and tells her that she too had gone to Gaffris', but only found him dead. Before her daughter Ina could possibly be accused of murder, Brigitte goes to the police and explains that she injured Baron Gaffris with a Malay dagger, a kris , during the dispute . It turns out that the small cut was enough to kill the villain because it was drizzled with poison. A trial ensues that Ina cannot take part in because of a nervous condition that caused her to become ill as a result of all this excitement and which tied her to the hospital bed. Ina, who had been prescribed absolute bed rest, found out almost too late about the trial against her beloved mother from the newspaper. Ina immediately gets up and goes to court. She is allowed to give her testimony behind closed doors. Ina says that she turned up at Gaffris' house shortly after her mother's visit to talk him through. He then immediately attacked her. She grabbed the kris to fight it off. This is how the cut was made. The head of the court, who had had doubts about Brigitte's self-accusatory testimony for some time and assumed that she was to blame for someone else, then dropped the case against Brigitte Sparrenberg.
Production notes
Behind closed doors was filmed from April 1, 1937th The film passed the film censorship on June 30, 1937 and was premiered on August 5, 1937 as part of a closed press presentation in the Hamburg Passage Theater. The mass start was on August 27, 1937 in two Berlin cinemas.
Otto Moldenhauer designed the film structures executed by Paul Markwitz . Bruno Balz provided the music texts. Hans Schönmetzler was the production manager , Viktor von Struve was production assistant. Eugen Klagemann took the still photos, Werner Pohl took care of the sound.
Two music tracks were played:
- My heart is a queen
- O Bella Rosa!
criticism
The lexicon of the international film says: “A crime film about an impostor affair, about fake bills of exchange and a murder in self-defense. The plot is more like a novel than realistic, yet largely exciting and atmospherically dense. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ In camera. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2019 .
Web links
- In camera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In camera at filmportal.de