Two blue eyes (1955)
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| Original title | Two blue eyes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script | Kurt E. Walter |
| production |
Real-Film GmbH, Hamburg ( Walter Koppel ) |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
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Two blue eyes is a German melodrama from 1955 by Gustav Ucicky with Marianne Koch and Claus Holm in the leading roles. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Josef von Babay .
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The blind Christiane Neubert, who earns her living as a telephone operator, and the engineer Dr. Michael Arndt, who works in the same industrial plant as Christiane, love each other and plan to walk their lives together. But Christiane's foster mother, Mrs. Friedrich, has other things in mind; she would rather see her former ward married to another man, and she has already picked out this marriage candidate: it is test driver Eddi Witt. Witt is employed in the same engine company as the two lovers who are a thorn in his side. Eddi is quite a bastard, because he is not only unscrupulous, but is only aiming for Christiane's inheritance with the intended marriage. In addition, he sabotages Arndt's new, groundbreaking invention.
Christiane, who lived in a kind of snail shell for a long time due to her blindness, finds her self-confidence back through her love for the kind-hearted engineer and is now also ready to undergo a crucial eye operation, which she will do for fear of possible failure , has always flinched. The operation actually succeeds, and Christiane can finally see. Meanwhile, things are coming to a head in the company. Witt does not shy away from sabotage in relation to Arndt's invention, but this is discovered and the villainous test driver is dismissed, while Michael Arndt, who is at times suspected, is fully rehabilitated. Now nothing stands in the way of the happiness of the two lovers, and foster mother Friedrich no longer has anything to object to this connection.
Production notes
Two blue eyes was created on August 23, 1955. The studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek served as the studio, while the exterior shots were taken in Göttingen and Kampen (Sylt) . The first part of the film was shot in black and white and the second part in color and had its world premiere on November 4, 1955 in Kiel and Braunschweig.
Gyula Trebitsch was production manager, Heinz-Günter Sass was production manager. Herbert Kirchhoff and Albrecht Becker created the film structures, Werner Schlagge provided the sound. Erna Sander was responsible for the costumes.
Reviews
In its November 9, 1955 issue, Der Spiegel found: “Marianne Koch, the lovely and well-behaved Federal Film Prize winner, plays the main role in a kind of young girl film: a pure blind woman who despite intrigues and prohibitions wins a good groom and, moreover, eyesight. After the successful operation, the film, which was previously black and white, is colored in different colors - Gustav Ucicky, the director of the talkative affair, cannot be shown to have any other optical idea. "
“A sentimental love story between a blind operator and a lonely, selfless engineer. Kitsch melodrama in the style of the 50s. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 580 f.
- ↑ criticism in Der Spiegel 46/1955
- ↑ Two blue eyes in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 24, 2018
Web links
- Two black eyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two blue eyes at filmportal.de