John Glückstadt

• Dieter Laser: John Hansen, called ' John Gluckstadt '
• Marie -Christine Barrault: Hanna Hansen
• Johannes Schaaf: Mayor
• Dan van Husen: Wenzel
• Tilo Prückner: Michel
• Renate Schubert: Berta
• Juliette Wendelken: Christine Hansen
• Tilli Breidenbach: Mariken
• Uwe Dallmeier: gendarme Lorenzen
• Rudolf Beiswanger: neighboring carpenter
• Heinz Dohmes
• Fritz Hollenbeck
• Marianne Kehlau
• Heinz Gerhard Lück

John Gluckstadt is a German film from 1974 based on the novella A doppelganger of Theodor Storm. Directed by Ulf Miehe Dieter Laser and Marie -Christine Barrault play the lead roles. The German premiere took place at the International Film Festival on July 1, 1975. Nationwide, the movie was released on 22 August 1975.

Action

Northern Germany, mid-19th century. A dismissed from military service and unemployed John Hansen participates out of necessity together with the crooks Wenzel to a burglary. Hansen is caught by the police and brought to justice. The verdict: six years in prison. After serving his sentence in the penitentiary Gluckstadt, he returns to his small North German hometown, and will henceforth only called by the inhabitants John Gluckstadt. Hansen performs odd jobs and learns to know the unskilled worker Hanna. The two married and soon to be parents of a child.

But the couple is not happy; poverty is too great, and both are cut due to their low social status and his past from them hostile -minded society. When Hanna one day reminds her husband of his past, it comes to a violent quarrel. Hansen beats his wife so badly that she falls and dies shortly thereafter. However, Hansen's neighbor helps him to cover up the cause of death. John Hansen is now trying to come up with his small child alone to make ends meet. But the daughter is taken away from him and put into an orphanage. Since Hansen decides to desperation: he wants to kidnap his own child and flee with him to America to start from scratch and build a pristine and his daughter from the past future.

Awards

The film was nominated at the Berlinale in 1975 for the Golden Bear.

The Film Award winning lead actor Dieter Laser and director Ulf Miehe.

Criticism

In the FAZ, it was said that John Luck City " from its aesthetically was clearly designed for the cinema, which had already become a notable rarity in Germany " and summed up at all individual criticism of Miehes Director: "However, this has become quite a remarkable film whose melancholy monochrome meets about that atmosphere that we know from Fassbinder's "Effi Briest ". "

The lexicon of the International Films wrote: " The low-key with motivations and feelings film boasts of style, intensity and excellent performer. "

In Kay Weniger The great people lexicon the film, especially the performance of the lead actor was praised: "Even in his debut work, " John Luck City " by Theodor Storm, laser showed itself to be extraordinarily mature character actor. "