Hanna Amon

Edited byWalter BoosMusic byHans-Otto BorgmannDistributed byHerzog-Filmverleih106 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Hanna Amon is a 1951 German Agfacolor drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Kristina Söderbaum, Lutz Moik and Ilse Steppat.^[1] It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location in Upper Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Berthel and Rochus Gliese. It was the second film after Immortal Beloved (also 1951) in a post-war comeback by director Harlan and his wife Söderbaum, who remained controversial figures due to their association with the Nazi era.^[2] Both films were major commercial hits, despite calls for a boycott.^[3]

Synopsis

Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. While Hanna of local veterinary and Thomas Brunner of the mayor's daughter is secretly admired and sought after, the siblings have eyes only for each other. Thomas, however, forfeited the much older, seductive Vera Colombani, a castle owner. He follows her (his sister, defying the warnings) to the south, where they spend the winter. Thomas is dropped in the wake of the Colombani and returns repentant return to the home farm. But when he meets again with his former lover, he triggers a disaster the Colombani and eventually fall victim to Hanna.

Cast

• Kristina Söderbaum as Hanna Amon
• Lutz Moik as Thomas Amon
• Ilse Steppat as Vera Colombani
• Hermann Schomberg as Alois Brunner
• Susanne Körber as Rosl, Tochter des Bürgermeisters
• Elise Aulinger as Frau Brunner
• Hedwig Wangel as Frau Zorneder
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Bürgermeister
• Emmy Percy-Wüstenhagen as Bürgermeisterin
• Brigitte Schubert as Lioba
• Günther Hadank as Pfarrer
• Wolf Ackva as Entresser
• Franz Schafheitlin as Gefängnisdirektor
• Jakob Tiedtke as Wirt
• Ferdinand Anton as Hans Zorneder
• Caspar Harlan as Hannes

References

Bibliography

• Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Berghahn Books, 2012.
• Halle, Randall & McCarthy, Margaret. Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Wayne State University Press, 2003.
• Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.

External links

• Hanna Amon at IMDb
• Hanna Amon bei Deutscher Tonfilm.de