Engagement at Wolfgangsee

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Movie
Original title Engagement at Wolfgangsee
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Weiss
script Fritz Peter Book
Fritz von Woedtke
Helmut Weiss
production Alfred Lehr
music Hans Lang
camera Walter cloth
cut Use Wilken
occupation

Verlobung am Wolfgangsee is an Austrian homeland film from 1956, which belongs to the genre of the so-called "light muse". Helmut Weiss directed the film ; the soundtrack comes from the pen of Hans Lang .

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The writer Erich Eckberg and his wife Sigrid have had a harmonious marriage for 18 years and live together with their twin sons Knut and Michael and their daughter Gabi on a stately home on Lake Wolfgang . The family idyll turns upside down when the parents tell "their" children on the eve of the 21st birthday of the twin sons Knut and Michael that they are not biological siblings: Erich Eckberg was married to the film actress Stella Söring, who was at the birth of the twin sons Knut and Michael died. His second wife Sigrid shares his fate, as daughter Gabi comes from her first marriage to an Italian art teacher who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Switzerland . While 18-year-old Gabi quickly and optimistically accepts the new family situation, Knut and Michael go through differently motivated conflicts of conscience until the next day.

Knut accuses the parents of dishonesty and initially refuses to admit what a life without a new mother would have meant. In addition, Gabi, who has always loved her supposed big brother, is no longer his biological sister. Michael, who absolutely loves his stepmother Sigrid, drinks over thirst for the first time and asks his father to let Sigrid go for him.

But towards the evening of the next day, harmony is restored after the (inner) conflicts have been overcome. Knut becomes engaged to Gabi and Michael also hints at his love for his Conservatory colleague Barbara Cleving at the birthday dinner. In the final scene, the family members cheerfully toast each other - after all, they are all related to each other through the impending marriage.

Reviews

  • "Despite the delicate prerequisites, entertainment developed cleanly and with a light hand." - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 462
  • "Liebesschmonzette (...) Above all, the sons act more papal than the Pope in this stuffy film in 1956. Their reaction fits seamlessly into an - interestingly cast - Heimat film full of false sounds." (Rating: 1 star = weak) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 876-877

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