모탈 스톰

모탈 스톰 (1940)

The Mortal Storm

폭풍이 몰아친 그날, 한 가족의 평화가 무너졌다

1933년 독일 알프스의 작은 마을. 존경받는 대학교수 로트 박사의 가족은 그의 예순 번째 생일을 맞아 화목한 시간을 보낸다. 그러나 바로 그날 히틀러의 총리 임명 소식이 전해지면서, 나치에 열광하는 의붓아들들과 이를 거부하는 가족 사이에 깊은 균열이 생긴다. 딸 프레야는 나치 당원인 약혼자 프리츠 대신 가족의 오랜 친구이자 정권에 맞서는 청년 마르틴에게 마음이 끌린다. 광기가 일상을 잠식해 갈수록 이들은 신념과 사랑을 지키기 위해 위험한 선택을 해야 한다.

개봉일
1940-06-20
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (104)
상영 시간(분)
1시간 40분
장르
드라마
감독
Frank Borzage

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The Mortal Storm is a 1940 American drama film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Frank Borzage and stars Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. The film shows the impact on Germans after Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and gains unlimited power. The supporting cast features Robert Young, Robert Stack, Frank Morgan, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond and Maria Ouspenskaya.

Production

The film is based on the 1937 novel The Mortal Storm by the British writer Phyllis Bottome, who had moved to Austria in 1924 when her husband Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis was posted there. Dennis was a British diplomat and an MI6 station head with responsibility for Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. In 1930, she moved to Munich. She witnessed the rise of fascism, the rise to power of the Nazi party and the transformation of Nazi Germany.

The film's script diverged considerably from the story told in the book, but Bottome felt that the film retained the book's essence. However, Bottome wrote: "What it is to be a Nazi has been shown with unequivocal sincerity and life-likeness, but in the scene between the Jewish professor and his son, Rudi, there was a watering down of courage.

The Mortal Storm was the only MGM movie to explicitly criticize the Nazi regime before America’s entry into World War II in December 1941. The film, however, made only oblique references to its antisemitic policies.

The Freya Roth character is the daughter of a Junker mother and a "non-Aryan" father. It is implied that Freya, her father and Rudi are Jews, but the word "Jew" is never actually used, and they are identified as "non-Aryans." However, in the scene where professor Roth is visited by his wife in the concentration camp, the sleeves of his shirt bear the large letter J (possibly to represent the yellow Star of David that Jews were forced by the Nazis…

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, was aware that Warner Bros. studio pictures had been banned in Germany after their release of the anti-Hitler Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939). Mayer was loath to lose the lucrative German market. As such, MGM films were presented to the Nazi German consul for approval, and objectionable scenes were modified before the film’s release in Germany.

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