Die große Liebe (1931 film)

The Great Love (German: Die große Liebe) is a 1931 Austrian drama film directed by Otto Preminger, the first of his career. The screenplay by Ernst Redlich and Johannes Riemann is based on a true story, and was adapted from the play by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar.

Not to be confused with The Great Lover (1931 film).
The Great Love
Film poster
Directed byOtto Preminger
Produced byPhilipp Hamber
Written byFritz Gottwald (play)
Rudolph Lothar (play)
Ernst Redlich (screenplay)
Johannes Riemann (screenplay)
StarringHansi Niese
Attila Hörbiger
Betty Bird
Music byWalter Landauer
CinematographyHans Theyer
Edited byPaul Falkenberg
Production
company
Allianz-Film
Distributed bySüd-Film
Release date
31 December 1931
Running time
76 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Berger and Emil Stepanek.

Plot

Ten years after the end of World War I, Austrian soldier Franz leaves Russia and returns to his village, where he is reunited with Frieda, a woman who believes he is her long-lost son.

Production

Shortly after directing the legal melodrama Voruntersuchung (Preliminary Inquiry) for Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt, Otto Preminger was approached by industrialist Heinrich Haas, who had an interest in the burgeoning Austrian film industry and thought Preminger might be interested in directing for the screen. Although Preminger knew nothing about filmmaking and had little passion for the medium, he decided to accept the assignment to keep busy during the summer, when the theater was closed. He cast Attila Hörbiger from the Josefstadt company and Viennese musical comedy star Hansi Niese in the lead roles and managed to elicit from them an acting style better suited to the screen than stage. The film was produced by Philipp Hamber, at the time owner of Allianz Film GmbH.[1][2] Although the film, which opened at the Emperor Theater in Vienna on 21 December 1931, was a critical and commercial success, in later years Preminger described it as a juvenile folly he preferred to forget.[3][4]

Cast

References
  1. Kay Weniger: Zwischen Bühne und Baracke, S. 158. Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9
  2. Werner Michael Schwarz, Die Brüder Hamber und die Kiba. Zur Politisierung der Vergnügens im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit. In: Christian Dewald (Hrsg.), Arbeiterkino. Linke Filmkultur in der ersten Republik, Wien 2007, S.118
  3. Hirsch, Foster, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2007. ISBN 978-0-375-41373-5, pp. 34-35
  4. Pratley, Gerald, The Cinema of Otto Preminger. London: Zwemmer Books 1971. ISBN 0-302-02152-3, pp. 40-46


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