The Last Illusion

The call ( international title: The Last Illusion ) is a tragic movie by Hungarian director Josef von Báky, based on a screenplay by Austrian director and actor Fritz Kortner. The on April 19, 1949, first performed in Berlin marble house cinema took part in the International Film Festival of Cannes 1949.

" The Call " belongs to the genre of films debris. It is about a Jewish professor who returns a few years after the end of World War II from a 15-year exile in the USA to Germany. While he gets his former job, but makes as many other returnees experience that both earlier colleagues and his family have not stored the internalized reactionary and Nazi views and therefore experiences harassment and rejection. In the grueling fight against these settings he dies.

The main role of the professor is played by Fritz Mauthner Kortner itself. The plot of the film bears traces of his life: Kortner, actually Fritz Nathan Kohn, was also a Jew, emigrated from the Third Reich in the United States and returned to Germany in late 1947. In other roles, for example, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Charles Regnier, Lina Carstens, William Sinningen, Michael Murphy, Ernst Schröder, Paul Hoffmann, Arno Assmann, Alwin Edwards, Harald Mannl, Friedrich Domin, Hans skein, Fritz Benscher, Hans Clarin, Anne Marie Holtz, Walter Janssen, Georg Lehn, Wolfsried Lier to see Angelika Schrobsdorff. The camera led Werner Krien, the film music was written by George Haentzschel, as production designer worked Fritz Maurischat. Wolfgang Becker cut the film and assisted in directing. Production company was founded by Joseph of Báky object-glass -Film GmbH in Munich- Geiselgasteig, production manager Richard King.

A special feature of the film is that the characters speak German or English depending on the situation, what the Americans is realistic for the USA - exile of the main character as well as generally for the period of former occupation of Germany by, inter alia.

1949 in film Film score Georg Haentzschel Fictional film 1949 Cannes Film Festival Charles Régnier
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