Give Us This Day
- Sam Wanamaker: Geremio
- Lea Padovani: Annunziata
- Kathleen Ryan Kathleen
- Charles Goldner: Luigi
- Bonar Colleano: Julio
- William Sylvester: Giovanni
- George Pastel: The Lucy
- Karel Stepanek: Jaroslav
- Sidney James: Murdin
Action
New York, in the early 1920s: the Italian immigrants Geremio works as a bricklayer on construction. The meager income allows him a certain deprivations of life. But it is time, as he finds, in spite of shortage of money to get married at last. And so he asks the neighbor Kathleen, into which he has fallen in love, whether she wants to marry him. She refuses, not without pride, because he too little deserve as a bricklayer. When his buddy Luigi one day a picture of the Italian Annunziata shows, it is done immediately to Geremio. He writes of the young woman that he had fallen in love with her and wants to marry her. Annunziata agrees - on the condition that he has a small house.
While saving Geremio for quite some time, but by no means enough money for a house. And so he swindles Annunziata before he was a homeowner what they are coming from Italy. Both marry and spend three honeymoon in a specially rented by Geremio house of the Annunziata believes that it constitutes Geremios. After the initial disappointment now save both for the joint to stay. In their lives, but soon enters the routine: Rasch is born a child, and then another one and another one ... The economic crisis as a result of the stock market crash of 1929 leaves the dreams of owning a house quickly burst, and in the end loses Geremio even for a temporary working.
To support the family, he is now even willing to accept a very dangerous job, which offers him his former foreman Murdin. The doubts that he has to be, wiped of the absolute necessity to finally make money. He persuades his pal Luigi and three colleagues with whom he was always on the building, to come with him. It happens to what was to come: Luigi is seriously injured as a result of an accident at work and is left crippled. Geremio begins his guilt in alcohol to drown and Bandelt again with Kathleen. But then he finally remembers and wants to warn about the miserable conditions of safety on the job site the other workers. But suddenly are the ground on which he stands by, and Geremio falls into a concrete tub and sinks. He still tries to save himself with his last strength and spreads it out of his arms, so he, like Christ on the cross will appear.
Annunziata receives $ 1,000 after a hearing as compensation from the insurance company. Desperate, she asks the priest her bystanders "What is a human life worth? ". Now, as a widow, she could after nine years of hard saving with this amount finally afford the long-awaited cottage ...
Reviews
The modern film criticism found almost throughout laudatory word for the film, the "American Dream" was then called " Marxist " scourged by some contemporary critics in the U.S. as "socialist " and because of his socially critical statement and his strong doubts on. One of the word 's leading critics, columnist Hedda Hopper, director Edward Dmytryk repeatedly attacked personally.
Reclams film leader was: " Dmytryks best film. Here the milieu of the Italian workers in New York is portrayed accurately and realistically - the primitive dwellings, the courtyards, the dirty streets. Dmytryk makes quite unemotionally clear how the constant worry about their jobs and livelihoods may wear a life as a happy marriage is gradually deformed by the worries of everyday life. "
The lexicon of the International film stated: " harrowing drama with precise milieu drawing. The sincerity of social commitment makes up for formal shortcomings. "
The great people lexicon of the film called House of longing an "excellent [n ] social and social study ".
Only Halliwell's Film Guide found fault: "An unconvincing, self - pitying wallow, a very curious enterprise for a British studio ."
Background
Director Edward Dmytryk most end of the 40 years from two films to the UK when he was de facto boycotted in his home because of his temporary refusal to cooperate with the Committee on Un-American Activities and naming names of suspected communists in Hollywood. His main actor Sam Wanamaker was blacklisted and went out selbigem reason to England. Writer Ben Barzman was the third of the film crew, who had left the United States on the run from McCarthy's anti-communist " witch-hunters " in the direction of Europe.
The premiere took place in London on 14 October 1949. In the Federal Republic of Germany Haus der Sehnsucht was shown on July 21, 1950 for the first time the first time.
The film was based on the story of Christ in Concrete by Pietro di Donato.
Production costs amounted to approximately $ 500,000.
The Filmbauten designed Alex Vetchinsky.