Between two hearts

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Movie
Original title Between two hearts
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1934
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Herbert Selpin
script Curt J. Brown
production Walter Zeiske for Terra-Film AG
music Franz Grothe
camera Bruno Timm
cut Lena Neumann
occupation

Between Two Hearts is a drama by director Herbert Selpin from 1934. The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Ulla, the daughter of the writer Werner Scheff . Harry Liedtke plays the industrialist Detlev Sonnekamp in the main role .

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The industrialist Sonnekamp is informed by his servant that a young lady has been waiting for him in his library for hours. This claims that the daughter of Dr. Georgius, a childhood friend of Sonnekamp's. When Sonnekamp explains to the lady that he has never heard the name "Georgius" before, she points out a letter from her mother addressed to him, which Sonnekamp actually finds in his unfinished inbound mail.

Sonnekamp is surprised to see the content of the letter, which says that he is the father of the young lady, Ulla, and that he had a love affair with her mother during his student days, who died after the birth. Ulla's aunt then took her in, raised her and married Georgius. After her financial possibilities were severely limited by the death of Sonnekamp's father, she was worried about Ulla's future and therefore sent her to her father in Berlin. Georgius and his wife hope that Sonnekamp will not pass the contents of the letter on to Ulla, because they are of the opinion that Ulla should better not know about these circumstances.

Meanwhile, Ulla hopes to see the Flieger Söldin again in Berlin, whom she had already met in Munich. Her wish comes true, she actually meets him at the airport.

Sonnekamp begins to develop a fatherly love for his (supposedly) biological daughter Ulla and wants to protect her from harm. By chance he learns that the pilot Söldin is already married and has a child with his wife. He feels obliged to inform his daughter Ulla about these circumstances. As a result, Ulla explains to her (supposed) father that she really doesn't love Mercenary, but him, her father. Thereupon Sonnekamp recognizes the impending danger, because his feelings towards Ulla have already outgrown his fatherly love.

Sonnekamp drives his daughter to Munich. So that he doesn't run the risk of falling further in love with Ulla, he takes the singer Inge Leuthoff with him on the trip. Ulla watched jealously how Sonnekamp and Leuthoff continued to Garmisch after the trip to Munich. Once there, Sonnekamp unexpectedly meets Georgius, who urgently tries to talk to him in order to inform him that his wife has confessed to him that Ulla is not her sister's child after all. In reality, she died immediately after the birth and she then adopted another child, solely for the purpose of being able to receive the severance payment offered by Sonnekamp's father without the latter knowing that the biological child had not survived the birth.

The plot of the film thus has a happy ending. Sonnekamp, ​​who no longer has to worry about whether he loves his own child beyond his father's degree, immediately goes back to Ulla and takes her in his arms.

Release dates and different film titles

The film premiered in Germany on January 30, 1934 . Further publication dates (abroad) were January 27, 1936 in the USA (there under the title Between Two Hearts ). It was shown in Austrian cinemas under the title My dear stupid girl .

Production notes

Bruno Lutz was responsible for the film construction together with Robert A. Dietrich , Kurt Wunsch photographed the actors and the set . Walter Zeiske directed the production . Various mountains in Bavaria were used as filming locations .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Between two hearts (1934) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved July 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Between two hearts. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved July 27, 2015 .