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Das unsterbliche Herz

Deutschland 1938/1939 Spielfilm

The Immortal Heart

Nuremberg at the time of Albrecht Dürer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: Peter Henlein, an art locksmith, is looking for a way to make rifle bullets more accurate by creating a new shape. Just as he is welding two round bullets together to form an elongated one, he discovers that his assistant Konrad is trying to steal it from him. A scuffle ensues, during which Henlein's new bullet hits him in the chest. The doctor, who does not suspect that there are two separated bullets in the body removes only one.

Although Henlein is troubled by the remaining bullet, which should be removed immediately, he decides to follow a sudden inspiration and build a spring-powered clock. He refuses a rescue operation and retreats to realize his idea. Only when he has completed the pocket watch, the "Nuremberg Egg," does he return to the city. He gives the clock to Behaim and dies peacefully, but not before giving Konrad and his wife his blessing for a future together.

Credits

Director

  • Veit Harlan

Screenplay

  • Werner Eplinius
  • Veit Harlan
  • Richard Billinger (ungenannt)

Director of photography

  • Bruno Mondi

Editing

  • Marianne Behr

Music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

Cast

  • Heinrich George
    Peter Henlein
  • Kristina Söderbaum
    Ev, seine Frau
  • Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
    Barbara Henlein
  • Paul Henckels
    Güldenbeck
  • Paul Wegener
    Dr. Schedel
  • Michael Bohnen
    Martin Behaim
  • Raimund Schelcher
    Konrad Windhalm
  • Franz Schafheitlin
    Burghauptmann Zinderl
  • Eduard von Winterstein
    Richter Sixtus Heith
  • Jakob Tiedtke
    Schöffe Weihrauch

Production company

  • Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) (Herstellungsgruppe Gerhard Staab)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Veit Harlan

Assistant director

  • Wolfgang Schleif

Screenplay

  • Werner Eplinius
  • Veit Harlan
  • Richard Billinger (ungenannt)

based on

  • Walter Harlan (Bühnenstck "Das Nürnbergisch Ei")

Director of photography

  • Bruno Mondi

Assistant camera

  • Erich Grohmann

Still photography

  • Erich Kilian

Production design

  • Hermann Warm
  • Johann Massias

Costume design

  • Arno Richter

Editing

  • Marianne Behr

Sound

  • Emil Specht

Music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

Conductor

  • Alois Melichar

Music performer

  • Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin)
  • Prof. Walther Körner (Orgel)
  • Die Regensburger Domspatzen (Regensburg)

Cast

  • Heinrich George
    Peter Henlein
  • Kristina Söderbaum
    Ev, seine Frau
  • Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
    Barbara Henlein
  • Paul Henckels
    Güldenbeck
  • Paul Wegener
    Dr. Schedel
  • Michael Bohnen
    Martin Behaim
  • Raimund Schelcher
    Konrad Windhalm
  • Franz Schafheitlin
    Burghauptmann Zinderl
  • Eduard von Winterstein
    Richter Sixtus Heith
  • Jakob Tiedtke
    Schöffe Weihrauch
  • Ernst Legal
    Bader Bratvogel
  • Wolf Dietrich
    Graf Pankraz
  • Hans Quest
    Henner
  • Josef Dahmen
    Matrose
  • Bernhard Minetti
    Martin Luther
  • Lilli Schoenborn
    Frau bei Bratvogel
  • Milena von Eckardt
    Fischfrau
  • Heiner Dugal
    Fischerjunge
  • Fred Köster
    Kaiser Maximilian
  • Klaus Detlef Sierck
    Junge bei der Beerdigung
  • Wolfgang Eichberger

Participation

  • Berliner Symphonie-Orchester (Berlin)

Production company

  • Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) (Herstellungsgruppe Gerhard Staab)

Unit production manager

  • Gerhard Staab

Location manager

  • Arthur Kiekebusch
  • Fritz Anton

Original distributor

  • Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin)

Shoot

    • Juli 1938 - Dezember 1938: Nürnberg (Nürnberger Burg, St. Lorenz Kirche), Binz auf Rügen, Swinemünde, Ostsee
Duration:
2941 m, 107 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 26.01.1939, B.50516, freigegeben ab 16 Jahren

Screening:

Berliner Erstaufführung (DE): 14.02.1939, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Titles

Additional titles
  • Arbeitstitel Der Titan
  • Originaltitel (DE) Das unsterbliche Herz

Versions

Original

Duration:
2941 m, 107 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 26.01.1939, B.50516, freigegeben ab 16 Jahren

Screening:

Berliner Erstaufführung (DE): 14.02.1939, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
108 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, 3.0

Prüffassung

Duration:
2882 m, 105 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.08.1950, 01658, Uneingeschränkt

Duration:
2915 m, 106 min
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 26.11.1942, B.57971, Jugendverbot

Duration:
6 Akte, 2515 m, 92 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 25.01.1984, 01658 [4. FSK-Prüfung];
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 06.11.1952, 01658 [2. FSK-Prüfung]

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