To new shores
| Movie | |
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| Original title | To new shores |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Detlef Sierck |
| script | Kurt Heuser |
| production | Bruno Duday |
| music | Ralph Benatzky |
| camera | Franz Weihmayr |
| cut | Milo Harbich |
| occupation | |
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On New Shores is a German feature film by Detlef Sierck (later Douglas Sirk ) from 1937 . It is based on the novel of the same name by Lovis H. Lorenz .
After several Swedish productions and the Austrian film premiere , Zarah Leander achieved her final breakthrough with audiences with her first German feature film On New Shores . The hits of the film were not insignificant for her success: Yes Sir , I stand in the rain and deep longing , songs that Zarah Leander performed at her concerts until the end of her career.
action
The revue star Gloria Vane is in a relationship with the conceited aristocrat Albert Finsbury, who is assigned to serve in the royal cavalry in Australia . Out of love and in order not to jeopardize Finsbury's promising career as an officer, she covers a bill fraud that he committed to his friend before his departure. She assumes all the guilt in court and is deported to the Paramatta penal colony in Australia as a punishment for seven years . Finsbury, who is on duty at the same location in Australia, learns of her presence through a letter from Glorias, who is increasingly losing her courage to face life, but does not know the real reason. In order not to endanger his career, he hesitates to respond to her letter for help. Instead, Finsbury is already reciprocating the governor's daughter's advances and has another mistress.
Meanwhile, the nearby farmer Henry Hoyer falls in love with the prison inmate Gloria and offers her marriage. By law, she would be released from the prison camp if she married. She half-heartedly agrees, but flees before the wedding. She wants to see Finsbury, who is at a reception, and is not admitted. However, from outside she hears that his engagement will be announced.
On the eve of Finsbury's wedding to the governor's daughter, Albert Finsbury finally meets Gloria Vane again in a nightclub where Gloria sings. Gloria explains to Finsbury that she no longer loves him. In pain, she refuses his offer to stay together forever. After learning from her that she was convicted of the check fraud he committed and that she no longer loves him, Finsbury commits suicide.
Meanwhile, Gloria goes back to the prison station. Farmer Hoyer, who has heard that Finsbury is getting married, tries his luck again and meets her there. Gloria decides to grant farmer Hoyer's renewed proposal, and they marry immediately afterwards.
background
The shooting took place both in the Ufa studios in Neubabelsberg , today's Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam , and in the outdoor area there. The shooting took place from mid-March to mid-May 1937.
The premiere of the film took place on August 31, 1937 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
With Zarah Leander as a new attraction from Sweden, Ufa was finally able to build a new, very promising star to succeed Marlene Dietrich . The film received the rating "artistically valuable" from the film testing agency .
Reviews
“A star film from Zarah Leander's heyday, who was deported to Australia here as a popular London vaudeville singer around 1840 because of a check forgery that was not committed by her but by her lover. Routinely staged by Detlef Sierck, who later became a master of Hollywood melodrama under the name Douglas Sirk. "
"This melodrama, which gave Zarah Leander the opportunity to integrate her sensual charisma into the role model of heroic lovers, is captivating with its stylistic unity.
“The women's prisons in Australia are oppressive because the concentration camp is in them, almost educational. Sierck's jailer in her expressionless cruelty, stubbornly obeying the law, was the ancestor of many real guards in these milieus. "
See also
literature
- Lovis H. Lorenz : To new shores. Novel . Keil Verlag Scherl, Berlin 1936, 271 pp.
Web links
- To pastures new in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- To new shores at filmportal.de
- To new shores at murnau-stiftung.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Michael Bock and Michael Töteberg: "The Ufa Book - Art and Crises, Stars and Directors, Economy and Politics (The International History of Germany's Largest Film Group)" . Verlag Zweausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 358.
- ↑ Detlef Sierck / Douglas Sirk - director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 8, F 4
- ↑ To new shores on murnau-stiftung.de
- ↑ Filmportal: “To New Shores” filmportal.de, accessed March 15, 2019
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , Berlin, 1998