Goodbye, Franziska (1941 film)

Goodbye, Franziska
Goodbye, Franziska
	Marianne Hoppe in a scene from the film.
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Curt J. Braun; Helmut Käutner;
Produced by	Hans Tost
Starring	Marianne Hoppe; Hans Söhnker; Fritz Odemar; Rudolf Fernau;
Cinematography	Jan Roth
Edited by	Helmuth Schönnenbeck
Music by	Michael Jary
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	24 April 1941;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Goodbye, Franziska (German: Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska!) is a 1941 German romance film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Marianne Hoppe, Hans Söhnker and Fritz Odemar.^[1] It portrays the relationship between a globetrotting reporter and his devoted wife. The film was remade in 1957.

After World War II, the Allied Forces banned the film from being shown in the German-occupied area because of its ending, which reminded the viewers to support the war effort. Director Käutner was eventually able to convince officials that the propaganda sequence was in no way a reflection of his political ideology and was added at the behest of Nazi censors. The remainder of the film was fairly apolitical, and, as such, it was brought back in circulation a few years later; the propaganda end sequence is not seen on current prints of the film.^[2]

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios.

Synopsis

Reisiger travels over the world, in search of news stories. He meets and marries Franziska, after her pregnancy, but continues to leave her. One colleague, dying, tells him to go home, and he returns. When World War II breaks out, he must leave again for war but is reluctant. Franziska urges it on him, reminding him that he managed for many years, and this is more important. She sees him off at the railway station among many wives seeing of their husbands.^[3]

Cast

Marianne Hoppe as Franziska Tiemann
Hans Söhnker as Michael Reisiger
Fritz Odemar as Professor Tiemann
Rudolf Fernau as Dr. Christoph Leitner
Hermann Speelmans as Buck Standing
Margot Hielscher as Helen Philips
Herbert Hübner as Ted Simmons
Frida Richard as Kathrin
Klaus Pohl as Briefträger Pröckl
Elmer Bantz as Der junge Begleiter von Helen Philips
Traute Baumbach as Das mollige Animiermädchen in Seaman's Paradiese
Louis Brody as Der Portier im südamerikanischen Hotel
Josefine Dora as Frau Schöpf
Angelo Ferrari as Gast im Seaman's Paradise
Ursula Herking as Nettie
Karl Jüstel as Gast im Seaman's Paradise
Rudolf Kalvius as Ein Anwalt
Gustl Kreusch as Animierdame
Evelyn Künneke as Singer'Sing Nachtigall Sing'
Renate Mannhardt as Die exotische Tänzerin
Vera Mayr as Krankenschwester
Annemarie Schäfer as Das melancholische Mädchen
Marianne Stanior as Das Animiermädchen mit Michael
Hans Wallner as Der Ober im Ratscafe
Erich Ziegel as Arzt
Ernö René
Ruth Kruse
Edith Hildebrandt
Beryl Roberts
Marianne Beckmann

References

^ Hake p. 243
^ Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010, page 169.
^ Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 142 ISBN 978-0-9627613-1-7

Bibliography

Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

Goodbye, Franziska at IMDb

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[1] Hake p. 243

[2] Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010, page 169.

[3] Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 142 ISBN 978-0-9627613-1-7

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