Like a storm wind
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Like a storm wind |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Falk Harnack |
| script |
Heinz Oskar Wuttig Gina Kaus Maria Matray Answald Krüger |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Herbert Trantow |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut |
Kurt Zeunert Hannelore Friedrich |
| occupation | |
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A German melodrama by Falk Harnack with Lilli Palmer , Ivan Desny and Willy A. Kleinau in the leading roles is like a storm wind . The film is based on an illustrated novel by the long-time Hörzu boss Eduard Rhein , who published it under the pseudonym Klaus Hellmer.
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The 15-year marriage between the fun-loving Marianne and her husband Friedrich Eichler threatens to fall asleep after many years. Friedrich is a celebrated painter and is completely absorbed in his art. He hardly finds the time to take care of his lonely wife in sleepy Marburg. Not only their 13-year-old son Horst lives under one roof, but also the attractive Viktor Ledin, Friedrich's equally talented and unsuccessful painting student. While Friedrich has quasi locked himself in his studio, Marianne begins an affair with the much younger Viktor. Both feelings come over you like a storm wind, as the film title suggests. Since everyone lives in one house, this does not go unnoticed for long. Friedrich begins to punish his wife's adultery with disregard for the same, and both son and the housekeeper Emmy begin to cut Marianne. Viktor is planning a future together with his master’s wife and tries to convince Marianne to leave her husband.
Marianne decides to leave Friedrich, who is now emotionally completely cold, behind her and travels with Viktor to sunny Italy. In the meantime, Viktor meets the very young Gina in Taormina. The love affair in Italy between Viktor and Marianne continues after the two return to Munich. You live in very modest circumstances, because Viktor's own works of art cannot be sold. In order to build him up morally, Marianne uses a trick: She gives several of Ledin's paintings to an art dealer on commission and secretly buys one of the paintings herself. In this gallery Viktor meets Gina a little later, who asks Marianne to relax him. Ledin comes into contact with an art forger and is tempted by his success to go among the image forgers himself. Soon Viktor will have no more money worries.
While Marianne leaves her lover temporarily to meet a divorce appointment in court, Gina and Viktor Marianne use their absence for an intimate tête-à-tête. Marianne is not very pleased when she surprises the two of them on their return home in intimate togetherness. In order not to lose Viktor, Marianne secretly buys another gallery picture by Ledin. Despite all her efforts, a rift in Marianne's relationship with Viktor soon becomes obvious, especially since the latter learns that Marianne was the buyer of his two pictures. Marianne realizes that her lover is an unstoppable and characterless contemporary and draws the conclusions: She decides to return to her forgiving husband and her son, especially since he had tried to commit suicide some time beforehand because of his parents' marital problems to take.
Production notes
Filming of Like a Storm Wind began on October 31, 1956 and ended in December of the same year. It was filmed in the CCC film studios in Berlin-Spandau as well as in Taormina and Munich (external shoots). The world premiere took place on March 7, 1957 in the Lichtburg in Essen.
Horst Wendlandt took over the production management. Ernst Schomer and Hans-Jürgen Kiebach , assisted by Fritz Maurischat , designed the film structures. The French couturier Pierre Balmain , who had already dressed Lilli Palmer in silk for Teufel the year before (1955) , and Artur Brauner's wife Maria designed the costumes. Dieter Wedekind worked as a simple cameraman under Friedl Behn-Grund's chief camera. Wolfgang Bellenbaum was an assistant director.
Reviews
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Colportage material in the style of a magazine."
Cinema -Online called the film "morally angry to misogynist".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like a storm wind. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Short review on cinema.de
Web links
- Like a whirlwind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Like a storm wind at filmportal.de