Headquarters Rio
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Headquarters Rio |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Engels |
| script |
Ludwig Metzger Berthold Ebbecke |
| production | Otto Lehmann |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Walter Pindter |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
| occupation | |
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Zentrale Rio is a German feature film from 1939 by Erich Engels . The actresses Leny Marenbach , Camilla Horn and Ita Rina can be seen in the leading roles . The film is the same year published novel ... Chiquita shot? by Rudolf Dortenwald .
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The young German widow Maria Halmborg has received a letter from a certain Mr Gomez from Rio that downright electrifies her: Her husband Erik is supposed to be still alive! Erik has been missing for a year and a half and was previously considered dead. Maria sets off immediately. On the ocean liner with which she embarked from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro, she met a young gentleman named Georg Michael Wenk, a businessman by trade. The general manager is on his way to the Brazilian metropolis to buy wholesale coffee beans for his company. Wenk offers the Brazilian inexperienced one to help her on site in the search. Arriving in Rio, Maria learns that her husband is said to have entered into a second marriage under the name Salieri.
With Wenk at her side, Maria drives to the address given by Gomez. She enters a villa while Wenk waits outside. Suddenly he hears gunfire and sees a woman piling through the villa's garden. In the house Maria discovers her husband - shot! Since Maria and Wenk are the only ones to be found on site, the Brazilian police temporarily arrest them as the top suspects. A little later, however, they are released again for lack of evidence. The police believe that they identified the bigamist's murderer in Chiquita Salieri, Erik's second wife. The servants say that Chiquita and her husband recently got into an argument because she is said to have had an affair with the conductor Ricardo Perez. The police, represented by the experienced inspectors Dossa and Gaveira, quickly find out that the weapon in the crime belongs to Senhor Perez. Chiquita immediately confesses to the crime, but becomes entangled in lies and contradictions during the interrogation that follows. And so the police are forced to release Chiquita again.
Kapellmeister Perez, in truth none other than Maria's tipster Gomez, now testifies that the chanson singer Diane Mercier, who appears in the same theater as him, also had access to his revolver. When questioned, Diane admits that she went to see Erik Salieri on the night of the murder. She wanted to force him at gunpoint to provide information about her sister's fate. This young woman, who has been missing for some time, was, according to Diane, driven into heroin addiction by Erik . There was a scuffle in which Diane Perez lost his pistol. Then she fled from the house, just as Wenk had seen. However, according to Diane Mercier, she did not shoot.
Things start moving when Maria Halmborg is kidnapped. The kidnapper was apparently watched by Maria as he murdered her husband. Obviously, the perpetrator comes from the drug trafficking milieu. The dealers are currently in the process of sinking boxes with the substance at a certain point in the Atlantic off Rio. Maybe Erik got in their way. Inspectors Dossa and Gaveira, who firmly believe in a connection between the drug deals and Salieri's murder, are feverishly looking for the kidnapped Maria. The little black bellhop Chico was kidnapped with her, but he was able to escape in the meantime and put the police on the right track. She can then pick up the drug nest, the central office in Rio, and free Maria. But the crook boss has flown out, and so the police use the Germans as bait for the criminals. In fact, the gangsters kidnap Maria again at a festival. Now the police strike for good. As the head of the gang, Dossa and Gaveira arrest a certain Marquez Cabana, who also turns out to be Erik's murderer. He had shot Maria's husband because he considered them unreliable. Maria and Wenk travel home to Germany and get engaged on board.
Production notes
Central Rio was filmed from May 19, 1939 until July of the same year in Hamburg (exterior shots) and in the film studio and premiered on October 5, 1939 in the Berlin atrium. The production costs amounted to an extremely moderate 668,000 Reichsmarks. By February 1941 the income amounted to 1.452 million RM. This made the Rio headquarters a notable box office success. On August 15, 1983, the German TV premiere took place on GDR television.
Alf Teichs was chief dramaturge. Production group leader Otto Lehmann also took over production management, Herbert Sennewald was one of two production managers . Willi A. Herrmann designed the film structures. Supporting actor Reinhold Bernt also served as assistant director together with co-author Ebbecke. Rudi Schuricke sang .
The Yugoslav Ita Rina , who had stood several times in Berlin film studios, especially in the late silent film years, returned to the Reich here for one of the three female leading roles and then almost completely ended her film career.
For Werner Fuetterer , who received one of the two leading male roles, this was the first film he starred in after returning from a theater tour in the United States.
Two music tracks were played: Camilla Horn sang the song “I don't think anything of love”, Rudi Schuricke sang “Señorita”.
The then teenager Helmut Egiomue († 1993), the son of a baker and confectioner from the former German colony of Cameroon , is one of the few black African actors who occasionally appears in the film of the Third Reich for so-called "exotic roles" the camera was brought. Egiomue was seen here in the role of a page and survived the racist persecution by the National Socialists in World War II as a forced laborer in the German aluminum production.
criticism
"Mysterious adventures on a tropical night determine ... what happens on the screen."
See also
Web links
- Central Rio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Headquarters Rio at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 10th year 1939. P. 208 (114.39), Berlin 1999
- ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks , mentioned in the foreword, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9
- ↑ Helmut Egiomue on myheritage.de
- ↑ The Egiomue family on books.google.de
- ^ Central Rio in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 1, 2019