Tender secret
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tender secret |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Schleif |
| script |
Wolfgang Wilhelm Henry R. Sokal |
| production | Harry R. Sokal |
| music | Mark Lothar |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Hermann Ludwig |
| occupation | |
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Tender Secret (alternative title: Holidays in Tirol ) is a German black and white film from 1956 by Wolfgang Schleif . The script was written by Wolfgang Wilhelm and Henry R. Sokal . It is based on the 1935 story “What happened on the lake” by the German-Swiss children's book author Lisa Tetzner . The main roles are occupied by Hans Söhnker , Edith Mill , Irene von Meyendorff and Michael Ande , the latter in a double role.
action
The eleven-year-old boy Rosemary grows up in the household of his widowed father, the industrialist Robert von Stetten, who hardly has time to look after his son because of so many business appointments. One day, Stetten receives a letter from his sister Charlie, who lives in the USA, in which she announces that she will soon be paying a visit to her home country in order to be able to show her daughter Beate the family castle and to take this opportunity to meet her nephew Rosemary. The boy is sent ahead to the castle in the mountains by his father.
The next morning the boy runs down to the lake and promises the servant Franz that he will be back on time for breakfast. On the bank he meets the thyme of the same age, which looks astonishingly similar to him, but otherwise looks a bit ragged. Rosemary learns from Thyme that he cannot remember his father and that his mother was taken prisoner of war when he was five years old. The congregation cares for himself. In order to earn extra income, he does small jobs for some farmers.
The two boys quickly become friends. They go out on the lake in a boat, but they are so clumsy that the boat capsizes. Rosemary just manages to save his new friend on the shore. Then he goes into the village to get help. But he is already so weakened that he collapses unconscious before he even reaches the first houses. The fishermen who find it take it for thyme and bring it to his hut . Meanwhile, thyme is found by the servant Franz and brought to the castle.
When rosemary comes to, he decides to pretend it is thyme first. He visits him secretly in the castle - when he woke up, Thyme believed he was enchanted - and asks him to continue playing his new role.
Rosemary has been living in Thyme's hut for a few days now, doing his work, but is often quite clumsy, so that his employers shake their heads in ignorance. They can not understand how to get from one day to the other, for example, the milking can unlearn. On the other hand, in the role of the rather poor pupil thyme, rosemary amazes the village teacher with outstanding academic achievements, e.g. B. by singing the French national anthem , which not even the teacher could perform correctly.
When Thyme's mother, Anna Retzer, unexpectedly returns from captivity, Rosemary gets to know something that has been denied him: maternal love and tenderness. He is so happy about this that he continues to hide his identity. The two children decide to secretly exchange their clothes at a fair that is currently taking place and to return to their ancestral lives.
But this plan is thwarted by Robert von Stetten, who has meanwhile arrived at the family estate. Because it cannot be avoided that Robert and Anna meet. Both used to be secret lovers. The only reason the marriage did not take place was because Robert’s family stopped this inappropriate wedding. But now nothing stands in the way of family reunification.
Production notes, publication
The outdoor shots were taken at Ferchensee near Mittenwald in Upper Bavaria , in front of and in Berlepsch Castle in Hesse, in Scuol - Tarasp (and Tarasp Castle ) in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and in Seefeld in the Austrian state of Tyrol , the indoor shots in the Bavaria Film studios in Grünwald-Geiselgasteig . The buildings were designed by the film architects Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter . Nora Korty contributed the costumes.
The film premiered on March 8, 1956 in Munich, in Austria it was shown in July 1956 under the title Ferien in Tirol and in Italy under the title Il ricco e il povero .
criticism
The lexicon of international film drew the following conclusion: "Warm-hearted and cozy, but in the current context more oriented towards homeland film mood than childish design."
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by the publishing house of the same name in Mannheim, without a number
Web links
- Tender secret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tender secret at filmportal.de
- Tender Secret Fig.Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 3137 (in the picture: Michael Ande, Hans Söhnker, Edith Mill)
- Holidays in Tyrol Fig. Film poster at filmportal.de
- Holidays in Tyrol full film
- Tender secret Five pictures from the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holidays in Tyrol Ill. Title page Illustrierter Filmkurier (in the picture: Edith Mill, Hans Söhnker, Michael Ande)
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4393
