Love '47
Love '47 | |
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Directed by | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
Written by | |
Produced by | Hans Abich |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Franz Weihmayr |
Edited by | Walter von Bonhorst |
Music by | Hans-Martin Majewski |
Production company | Filmaufbau |
Distributed by | Panorama-Film |
Release date | 7 March 1949 |
Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Love '47 (German: Liebe 47) is a 1949 German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring , Hilde Krahl and . It was part of the cycle of rubble films made in post-war Germany. A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation. Eventually they convince each other that life is worth living after all.
The film was shot at the with sets designed by the art director Walter Haag. It was partly based on the play Draußen vor der Tür by Wolfgang Borchert, with many extra scenes added showing the experience of a woman on the home front whereas the original stage work had concentrated only on the perspectives of soldiers coming home.[1] The film is particularly notable for its sympathetic treatment of its female protagonist.
Cast[]
- as Jürgen Gehrke
- Hilde Krahl as Anna Gehrke
- as Monika Gehrke
- Karl John as Beckmann
- as Lisa Beckmann
- Hedwig Wangel as Mutter Beckmann
- Grethe Weiser as Frau Puhlmann
- as Frau Kramer
- Albert Florath as Unternehmer
- Erich Ponto as Alter Mann
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Direktor Engelbrecht
- Paul Hoffmann as Oberst
- as Frau des Obersts
- as Tochter des Oberst
- Herbert Tiede as Schwiegersohn des Obersts
- Leopold von Ledebur as General
- Heinz Klevenow as Ein Panzermann
- as Von Wehrzahn
- Helmuth Rudolph as Alfred
- as Peter
- Erwin Geschonneck as Kriminalbeamter
- Inge Meysel as Betty aus Berlin
- as Tante Eva
- Tilo von Berlepsch as Vetter Fritz
References[]
- ^ Shandley p. 71–72
Bibliography[]
- Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2001.
External links[]
- German-language films
- 1949 films
- 1949 drama films
- German drama films
- West German films
- Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- Films set in Hamburg
- Films set in 1947
- Films about Nazi Germany
- German films based on plays
- German black-and-white films
- 1940s German film stubs