Migratory Birds (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Migratory birds |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Meyer |
| script | Rolf Meyer |
| production | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera |
Albert Benitz Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
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Zugvögel is a 1946 drama by Rolf Meyer with Carl Raddatz and Lotte Koch in the leading roles.
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The migratory birds are a number of young people who, in the first year of peace in occupied Germany , let themselves drift on the Weser and discuss the condition of their war-torn and troubled homeland in long conversations during a contemplative canoe trip. The realization soon matures in them that one should leave the past behind without exposing oneself to oblivion and look forward by concentrating on rebuilding the country. In these moments of escalating, philosophical self-contemplation, the somewhat older Georg joins the group, who teaches boaters who tend to be introspective a good dose of pragmatism.
Georg makes it clear to everyone how little they have reason to complain or to be hopeless thanks to their youth and health. He calls on the young fellow travelers not to drift along any longer, but to finally dare to make the urgently needed new beginning. Georg himself emerged from the recent war due to a severe head injury with severe wounds. While the other boaters gradually find each other, Georg, who temporarily believes he has found a kindred spirit and great love in Renée, no longer sees a future for himself and seeks suicide in the North Sea. What becomes of the other migratory birds on the Weser, whether they translate their unctuous words into deeds, the film leaves open.
Production notes
Zugvögel was created in 1946 in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio and in the Weser region and was premiered on May 23, 1947 in the Berlin Astor cinema.
Robert Leistenschneider took over the production management. The film structures were created by Ernst H. Albrecht .
Reviews
Der Spiegel recalled the flick's great failure: “The audience got the impression that young productions should never let their directors - in this case Rolf Meyer - write their scripts themselves and shouldn't let others do it before a really exciting one Film plot is found. Not just a common thread for precocious and rather cramped self-analyzes. The film met with open rejection when it premiered on Kurfürstendamm. Serious scenes were laughed out loud. In general, and especially by the young people, the film was found boring. "
The Lexicon of International Films saw the film as one of “the first attempts at a West German feature film: a rubble film without rubble, shot in the open air area outside of the bombed cities. The reconstruction pathos and the didactically presented optimism seem tense and naive; The acute post-war needs are discussed, but are too hastily turned positive. The production company only made three films, then the British military government revoked its license in May 1948. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 13.
- ↑ Red thread for self-analysis. In: Der Spiegel. Issue 22/1947 of May 31, 1947. From Spiegel.de, accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ Migratory birds. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 3, 2019 .
Web links
- Migratory birds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Migratory birds at filmportal.de