Lost race
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lost race |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 86, 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Neufeld |
| script | Curt J. Brown |
| production | Eduard Hoesch |
| music | Frank Fox |
| camera |
Willi Sohm Hannes Staudinger |
| cut | Rosmarie Voltin |
| occupation | |
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Lost race is an Austrian film drama from 1948 by Max Neufeld with the two top stars Curd Jürgens and OW Fischer in the male lead roles and Elfe Gerhart as both objects of desire.
action
Paris 1937. The young Austrian draftswoman Constanze Harrer has found herself in the city of fashion where she is hoping for a career. Here she meets two daring harness racers, compatriot Robert Rimml and Englishman George Miller. Both have done it to her, and soon a competition for the coveted woman breaks out between the two riders. Constanze quickly falls in love with the pretty Briton, but one finally loses sight of each other when Constanze has to return to her native Vienna. Since the Second World War broke out a little later, George also returned home to Great Britain. Constanze and Robert meet again soon, and Robert helps her to save her brother, who has deserted the army, by taking him across the border to a safe country.
This relief operation brings Constanze and Robert closer. Constanze is hired by him as a secretary at his stud farm, and Miss Harrer becomes Ms. Rimml. As fate plays out, George Miller has been taken prisoner by Germany and is used as a prisoner of war at the stud. The old passion between him and Constanze quickly flares up again. In the further course of the war, Robert, in turn, was taken prisoner by the Allies. In 1945 George wanted to take Constanze with him to England, but Constanze proved to be a loyal wife and stayed with her exhausted and sick husband, whom she devotedly nursed to health after his return to the stud farm.
Production notes
Lost Race was created between August and October 1948 in Vienna and the surrounding area (Trabrennplatz Krieau) and in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios and was premiered on December 20, 1948 in the Vienna Apollo Film Theater. The German premiere took place on March 24, 1950 in Mönchengladbach. The flick was later renamed You mustn't leave me.
Film producer Eduard Hoesch also took over the production management. Gustav Abel designed the film structures.
Reviews
“Two trotting jockeys friends, one Austrian, the other English, fall in love with the same girl, the Second World War is coming. The men suddenly become enemies. When one could take advantage of that against the other - because of course a woman can only love one - the solidarity of cosmopolitan professionals prevails ... A stubborn work of the cautious return, hardly only return home of the emigrant Max Neufeld: incomparably more fluid and diligent than his pre-war films, but also tighter, more inhibited - as if one couldn't allow oneself to break out, as if all individuality had to be put aside. "
The lexicon of the international film decreed briefly: “A sweet ballad of tears full of false feelings. Incredible and clichéd. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
- ↑ Lost Race. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Lost the race in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lost race at filmportal.de