Gypsy Blood (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gypsy blood |
| Original title | Iassy |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernard Knowles |
| script |
Dorothy Christie Campbell Christie Geoffrey Kerr |
| production | Sydney Box |
| music | Henry Geehl |
| camera | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| cut | A. Charles Knott |
| occupation | |
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Gypsy Blood (Original Title: Jassy ) is a British drama film directed by Bernard Knowles from 1947 with Margaret Lockwood , Patricia Roc , Dennis Price and Basil Sydney in the lead roles. The film was produced by Gainsborough Pictures for the Rank Organization based on the novel Jassy by Norah Lofts .
action
England in the 19th century : one evening, the landowner Christopher Hatton, in a completely drunk state, first gambled away his wife's jewels and then, in order to win back all of his belongings, the Mordelaine land to the seedy character Nick Helmar. His son Barney, who has just returned from a romantic get-together with Nick Helmar's daughter Dilys, cannot avert defeat in the game. So the Hattons are compelled to move in shame to a shabby hut in a nearby village.
One day, while his horse is being shod by the blacksmith Bob Wicks, Barney witnesses some superstitious villagers torturing a young woman. On the spur of the moment, he saves her. The woman is the wild and spirited Jassy Woodroofe, who is accused of being a witch because her mother has gypsy blood in her veins and the daughter is said to have the gift of second sight. Jassy instantly falls in love with her savior Barney and Barney manages to convince his mother to hire Jassy as a servant.
Christopher Hatton, however, cannot get over the shame and defeat in the game and the new owner Nick Helmar delights in Hatton's desperation and continues to give Christopher credit for gambling , but when Christopher is caught cheating, he withdraws, ashamed and dishonored, and commits Suicide. After Nick Helmar discovered Christopher's body in one of his upstairs rooms, a short time later, to make matters worse, he found his wife Beatrice in the arms of a lover. When she admits that the affair has been going on for months, Nick Helmar agrees to a divorce.
Tom Woodroofe, Jassy's father, is able to convince the employed workers at a heated village meeting to march to the Mordelaine estate to demand better wages and working conditions from their new owner. At the front door, however, they are already met by the drunk Nick who is armed with a shotgun. First there is an argument and then a fight between Nick and Tom, Nick's shotgun goes off and Jassy's father is fatally wounded.
In the following years, Mrs. Hatton sees that the relationship between Jassy and Barney is threatening to get closer and more intimate, so she sends Jassy away, but not without first providing her with excellent testimonials and references for a new job as a servant. By chance, Jassy Dilys meets Nick Helmar's daughter and becomes friends with her. Dilys takes Jassy to the Mordelaine estate and introduces her to her father as her new friend. Nick believes he has heard the name Woodroffe before, and Jassy reminds him that Tom Woodroofe was her father. Nick Helmar apologizes for what he did and asserts that he was drunk and not sane. When Dilys takes her friend Jassy to Barney, she is annoyed that the old romance between the two is threatening to flare up again, although she knows that Dilys has in the meantime also hooked up with a young man named Stephen Fennell.
One day Jassy is playing chess with Nick Helmar and he offers her the job of housekeeper and caretaker for Mordelaine. Jassy agrees and restructures the staff. At the suggestion of Mrs. Wicks she hires Lindy, who doesn't speak but does her job reliably. Dilys has since secretly got engaged to Stephen Fennell. Meanwhile, Nick Jassy proposes marriage. She agrees, but only on the condition that Nick gives her Mordelaine as a wedding present. Nick agrees and the two marry - but Jassy insists on having separate bedrooms. Nick becomes more and more irascible and violent towards Jassy in the marriage, who in turn is more and more distant. In his anger, Nick rides out drunk and has a riding accident. Lindy finds him and can contact Jassy. The victim is brought back to Mordelaine, where the doctor prescribes a strict diet and categorically forbids alcohol. When Jassy visits Dilys and Stephen one evening, Lindy decides that Nick, whom she hates for what he has done to Jassy in the past, is poisoned with rat poison in the wine.
Jassy is suspected of complicity and murder along with Lindy and arrested. Despite their alibi for being absent during the time of the crime, they are both equally believed to be guilty and convicted. The shock of Jassy's conviction makes Lindy speak and she exonerates Jassy in a show of strength by confessing that she is solely responsible for the murder of Nick Helmar. Jassy is then acquitted. Jassy, in turn, signs over her Mordelaine property to the old and rightful owner Barney Hatton and the reunited couple marries.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created by the Eagle-Lion Synchron Atelier Hamburg. Volker Becker was responsible for the dialogue script and dubbing.
| role | actor | Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Jassy Woodroofe | Margaret Lockwood | Till Klockow |
| Dilys Helmar | Patricia Roc | Gisela Hoeter |
| Christopher Hatton | Dennis Price | Curt Ackermann |
| Nick Helmar | Basil Sydney | Rudolf Reif |
| Barney Hatton | Dermot Walsh | Ernst Klipstein |
| Lindy | Esma Cannon | Ina Albrecht |
| Elizabeth Twisdale | Cathleen Nesbitt | Lotte Koch |
| Mrs. Helmar | Linden Travers | Ingeborg Grunewald |
| Mrs. Hatton | Nora Swinburne | Hella Mora |
| Sir Edward Follesmark | Ernest Thesiger | Fritz Odemar |
| Maggie | Jean Cadell | Mia Hellmut |
| Tom Woodroofe | John Laurie | Harald Mannl |
| Stephen Fennell | Gray Blake | Harald Wolff |
| Architect Sedley | Bryan Coleman | Will-Jo Bach |
| Sir William | Clive Morton | Herbert Gernot |
| Bob wank | Torin Thatcher | Bum Krueger |
| Mrs. wank | Beatrice Varley | Gertrud Spalke |
| Mault | Eliot Makeham | Hermann Menschel |
| Jim Stone | Maurice Denham | Bert Brandt |
| Kathleen Hamilton | Joan Haythorne | Erika Block |
| Sir Edward Walker | Alan Wheatley | Heinz Uttendoerfer |
| Sir John Penty | Hugh Pryse | Wolfgang Eichberger |
background
Louis Levy was the musical director. Sound engineer was BC Sewell. The production design is by Maurice Carter and George Provis. WT Partleton was responsible as a makeup artist. Elizabeth Haffenden provided the costumes . Douglas Peirce was the production manager. The film was set in Aldbury, Hertfordshire , England .
Gypsy blood began on August 12, 1947 in Great Britain and on September 27, 1949 in the Federal Republic of Germany .
Reviews
"Colportage with actors who at least strive for credibility."
Individual evidence
- ^ Gypsy blood in the British Board of Film Classification
- ^ Zigeunerblut In: Film-Dienst , Volume 57, Issues 1–6, Catholic Institute for Media Information, Catholic Film Commission for Germany, 2004.
- ↑ Gypsy blood in the synchronous database.
- ↑ Gypsy blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Gypsy blood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .