Love's Carnival (1930 film)

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Love's Carnival
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German film poster
German Rosenmontag
Directed by Hans Steinhoff
Written by
Produced by Bruno Duday
Starring
Cinematography Werner Brandes
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 1 September 1930 (1930-09-01)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Love's Carnival (German : Rosenmontag) is a 1930 German drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff [1] and starring Lien Deyers, Mathias Wieman, and Eduard von Winterstein. [1] The film is base upon the play by Otto Erich Hartleben. [2] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth.

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The film was said to exemplify Steinhof's ideology, "a craftsmanlike director with a preference for entertainment films sure to draw an audience, but also for nationalistic , conservative subjects" [3] and even to "glorif[y] aggressive nationalism". [4]

Plot

Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors allege an affair between Traute and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch.

With the engagement officially ended, Hans becomes engaged to Hildegard, a young lady from a wealthy family. His own family is satisfied with this development, as they have apparently achieved their goal of preventing Hans and Traute from marrying.

Hans accidentally learns that his former fiancée, Traute, was not in fact unfaithful to him, but rather that the whole thing was staged. Furthermore, Hans learns that Traute still loves him.

Hans and Traute get back together; she visits him in his apartment while the annual street carnival is taking place outside. When Traute is alone for a moment, she overhears a loud exchange of words between Hans and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch from the next room. When she hears Oberleutnant Grobitzsch making disparaging remarks about her, Traute abruptly opens the door to the next room and accuses Hans of having broken his officer's word of honour.

The film ends with both of them taking their own lives.

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References

  1. 1 2 Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 460. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN   978-1571816559. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.
  2. ↑ Schönfeld, Christiane (15 June 2023). The History of German Literature on Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   978-1-62892-374-2.
  3. ↑ Kreimeier, Klaus (1 January 1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-22069-0.
  4. ↑ Gheorghiu-Cernat, M., Matei, V. (1983). Arms and the Film: War-and-peace in European Films. Meridiane, p. 127.
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