Die goldene Stadt
(1942)
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导演:威特·哈尔兰
主演:Kristina Söderbaum / Eugen Klöpfer / Annie Rosar / Rudolf Prack
类型:剧情
片长:Spain: 109 分钟 / Germany: 110 分钟
地区:德国
语言:德语
别名:The Golden City
上映时间:1942
IMDb:tt0034800
《黄金城》电影简介
Die goldene Stadt opened in late November 1942. An anti—Czech melodrama about a country girl who goes to the big or ‘golden’ city (Prague), it loosely belonged to the Heimat genre, in that the city constitutes the ‘other''. Good Germans reside in the Heimat (by definition a city is never a Heimat) and, in this case, work the farm, while in the city, live inferior and degenerate Czechs. The country girl (with a German father and Cziech mother), in defiance of her father, goes to the city to her aunt. Her male cousin, a dissolute Czech, gets her pregnant.
Returning home, she commits suicide, as her unhappy mother had earlier, and in the same manner, by drowning in a swamp. Drowning in a swamp was a fate meted out to wayward Germans or half-Germans, as in the 1935 film Friesennot (Friesians in Peril), re-released a year before this film under the new title Dorf im roten Sturm (Village in the Red Storm) after the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Die goldene Stadt was based on a play, Der Gigant (The Giant), by Richard Billinger in which there had been no ethnic difference, all members of the family being German. There had also been no unhappy ending since the girl returned to live on the farm with her illegitimate offspring. (Billinger, who came from the same part of Austria as Hitler, had been sympathetic to the Nazi cause, though his homosexuality complicated matters).
In this film the city—country conflict was racialized, the heroine is provided with a Czech mother. As befits Nazi misogyny, it is always the mother`s origins, not the father’s, which are tainted. Not everyone from the city, however, is bad: the engineer who comes to drain the swamps is a sympathetic character who understands rural problems. The engineer occupied a special place in Nazi thinking. Though emphasizing tradition and rejecting Weimar ‘jewish` modernity, Nazis could not oppose modern technology tout court, since it was needed to strengthen Germany’s economic and military position. This accounts for some of the ambiguities inherent in the Nazi embrace of modernity. Nevertheless, this film coincided with a series of films concerned with the exodus from farming communities. Agriculture had become even more important in wartime, and women were not expected to desert, especially when men were at the front.
The father, played by Eugen Klöpfer, Söderbaum’s father in Jud Süss, is a harsh character; his treatment of his daughter verging on the sadistic, not untypical of how young females are treated in Harlan films. The script underwent many changes: Goebbels interfered to ensure that the girl died at the end. At one point the father justifies his mistreatment of his daughter on the grounds that she bore a close resemblance to her unfortunate (and wayward) mother. The poor girl is a victim: the housekeeper who encouraged her to go to the city becomes engaged to her father and joins in persecuting her. After his daughter dies, her father decides to bequeath his property to the neighbouring farmer to whom she had been engaged. ‘Blood and Soil'' or Blut und Boden, belonged to the völkisch ideology espoused by the Nazis; films promoting it were often referred to as ‘Blubo’ films. In such films the patriarch usually wins. In this case, however, the father’s final decision suggests that Boden (soil) has triumphed over Blut (blood), additional evidence, were that necessary, of the dispensability of females, since the farm will go to someone not blood-related. There are echoes here of the Nazi opposition to the hereditarian principle, which in this case has not targeted the aristocracy or the monarch, but a blood relative (female) who has committed Rassenschande. The farmer bequeathed his farm to the most suited person. just as the Nazis were most suited to running the state.
Söderbaum drowned in so many Harlan films that she earned herself the soubriquet the Reichswasserleiche (the Reich’s drowned corpse). To women the film’s message, at a time when many were not content to remain on the farm, was unmistakable: stay at home and do as father says. Given the heroine`s tainted origins, audiences should not have expected a happy end. But since Söderbaum was very popular, some may have felt she deserved better. Die goldene Stadt won a prize at the Venice Film Festival for its colour cinematography; Söderbaum also won an award for her acting. The film prize may have been for the novelty of a European colour film; the acting prize may have been an act of kindness towards the wife of the leading film director of Italy’s wartime ally.
from: Susan Tegel: Nazis and the Cinema (2007), pp 184-86
《黄金城》演员表
Rudolf Prack Rudolf Prack 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:卡尔·梅 / 黄金城 / 小孤雏
路易斯·拉尔夫 Louis Ralph 演员 Actor 代表作:间谍 / 伟大的国王 / 玛丽
Maria Loja Maria Loja 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:伟大的国王 / 小调罗曼史 / 轮流
Walter Lieck Walter Lieck 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:吹牛大王历险记 / 小调罗曼史 / 黄金城
Josef Reithofer Josef Reithofer 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:加利福尼亚的皇帝 / 克鲁格总统 / 黄金城
Dagny Servaes Dagny Servaes 演员 Actress 代表作:法老王的妻子 / 黄金城 / 弗雷德里希·席勒:天才的胜利
弗里达·李察 Frida Richard 演员 Actor 代表作:浮士德 / 尼伯龙根:西格弗里德之死 / 圣山
Ernst Rotmund Ernst Rotmund 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:巴斯克维尔猎犬 / 小调罗曼史 / 哈巴涅拉
Hans Hermann Schaufuss Hans Hermann Schaufuss 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:公爵的钱财 / 鸳鸯梦 / 伟大的国王
Liselotte Schreiner Liselotte Schreiner 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:黄金城 / Katharina Knie - Ein Seiltänzerstück / Jedermann
汉斯·斯腾伯格 Hans Sternberg 演员 Actor 代表作:三生计 / 伟大的国王 / 人靠衣装
欧根·克洛普弗 Eugen Klöpfer 演员 Actor 代表作:犹太人苏斯 / 燃烧的大地 / 街道
恩斯特·勒加尔 Ernst Legal 演员 Actor 代表作:蜡人馆 / 他是福尔摩斯 / 登陆新滩头
Paul Klinger Paul Klinger 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:Die weiße Spinne / 飞行教室 / 我的奋斗
Kurt Meisel Kurt Meisel 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:无情战地有情天 / 奥迪萨密件 / 伟大的国王
克里斯蒂娜·泽德尔鲍姆 Kristina Söderbaum 演员 Actress 代表作:犹太人苏斯 / 伟大的国王 / 科尔贝格
Annie Rosar Annie Rosar 演员 Actress 代表作:第三人 / 黄金城 / 冰淇淋的滋味
Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:吹牛大王历险记 / 犹太人苏斯 / 柏林叙事曲
Josef Dahmen Josef Dahmen 演员 Actor 代表作:马布斯博士的遗嘱 / 科尔贝格 / 失落者
Hugo Flink Hugo Flink 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:伟大的国王 / 黑色的梦 / 小调罗曼史
Else Ehser Else Ehser 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:穿制服的女孩 / 城堡 / Hanneles Himmelfahrt
William Huch William Huch 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:登陆新滩头 / 黄金城 / 隐形人穿城记
Maria Hofen Maria Hofen 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:吹牛大王历险记 / 帕拉塞尔苏斯 / 黄金城
Karl Harbacher Karl Harbacher 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:吹牛大王历险记 / 柏林亚历山大广场 / 除夕夜
Emmerich Hanus Emmerich Hanus 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:他者 / 黄金城 / Ave Maria
Rudolf Vones Rudolf Vones 演员 Actor/Actress 代表作:黄金城 / The Way to Freedom / 吕措战机中队