When both are guilty
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | When both are guilty |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hermann Leitner |
| script |
Hellmut Andics , Hermann Leitner, August Rieger |
| production | Schönbrunn Film, Vienna ( Ernest Müller ) |
| music | Carl de Groof |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Paula Dvorak |
| occupation | |
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When both are guilty is an Austrian feature film from 1962 by Hermann Leitner . Hanns Lothar , Nadja Gray , Michael Verhoeven and Robert Graf play the leading roles . The story is based on the novel No Night Without Tomorrow by Hans Nogly , published in 1959 .
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Richard and Hilde Goetz are a married couple from, as they say, “better circles”. She, who is a few years older than him, has already been married once and from this connection has her son, Jochen, who is now of legal age. Richard is an aspiring architect with lofty plans and hopes to have a brilliant career as a distinguished and sought-after building designer with her money, which is obviously in abundance. Due to the age difference, both connections are not exactly conflict-free, especially since Richard is cheating on his wife with his younger lover Carla Förster. Son Jochen's antics with the very young Josi also sparked discussions at home.
The professional breakthrough seems to be on the way when Goetz is given a major project, when Richard threatens to ruin all his future plans with a terrible misconduct: he causes a serious car accident with fatal consequences and then, having lost his head, commits a runaway. Wife Hilde, who is attached to Richard and desperately wants to support him in his ascent, then turns herself in to the police and claims that she was driving the vehicle at the moment in question. Both lawyer Dr. Hassfeld is now supposed to crunch them out, but the lawyer turns out to be a pig and begins to blackmail Richard and Hilde with his knowledge. Richard and Hilde can defend themselves against him by sticking together.
Production notes
If Both Are Guilty was written at the beginning of 1962 and premiered on March 14, 1962 in Berlin. In Austria, the country of production, the film could only be seen over a year later, from April 13, 1963. Here the age limit was reduced to 16 years.
Theo Harisch designed the film structures .
criticism
"The 'problem film' deals with its badly constructed topics in the style of German cinema novels of the post-war period: cared for superficial and completely meaningless, full of merely pretended life."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "With too many conflicts ... and a somewhat blurry ending thanks to moderate interpreters favored by dynamic dialogues ... quite gripping."
Web links
- If both are guilty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- If both are guilty at filmportal.de
