The pastor of Kirchfeld (1955)

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Movie
Original title The pastor of Kirchfeld
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Ilse Lotz-Dupont
Tibor Yost based on the folk play of the same name by Ludwig Anzengruber
production Hans Deppe
Wilhelm Gernhardt
music Heinrich Riethmüller
camera Willy Winterstein
cut Johanna Meisel
occupation

The Pfarrer von Kirchfeld is a German feature film from 1955 by the director Hans Deppe . Ilse Lotz-Dupont wrote the script together with Tiber Yost. It is based on the folk piece of the same name by Ludwig Anzengruber . The main roles are cast with Claus Holm , Ulla Jacobsson , Kurt Heintel and Hansi Knoteck . In the German-speaking world, the film was shown for the first time on July 21, 1955 in Stuttgart.

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Vinzenz Heller, the pastor of Kirchfeld, is highly valued by his community. The war widow Stricker lives with the railroad worker Franz Wagner in cohabitation . Heller condemns this sin, but Stricker's ten-year-old boy is still allowed to serve the pastor as an altar boy . However, it is inevitable that Karli Stricker suffers from a serious conflict of conscience that even the pastor cannot resolve. The only reason why the railroad worker does not want to marry the knitter is that she would otherwise lose her pension.

The Concordat provides, under certain circumstances before a secret marriage without a civil marriage must precede. For this reason Heller speaks to the ordinariate . However, his request is refused because no social emergency can be identified.

The refugee girl Anna Birkmaier has been living in the rectory for some time. This is supported by the old parsonage, Brigitte. But the longer Anna stays in the rectory, the more she feels drawn to the pastor. He too begins to desire the girl, but knows how to curb his lust. Brigitte is watching this development with great concern because she knows the gossips in the village. There is also someone in town who is not well-disposed towards the pastor: the wealthy innkeeper Josef Riedl. He can't get over the fact that the pastor once condemned the alcohol from the pulpit, which led to fewer guests visiting his restaurant.

Anna is being courted more and more by the village blacksmith Michl Ambacher. However, the girl rejects him. She never wants to get married, she always wants to stay in the rectory. One day she reveals to her boss that she is the mother of a little boy. He is in care in a neighboring town. Her father could not marry her because he died before all the documents were together. She only applied for a job in Kirchfeld in order to be close to her little boy.

One day Karli Stricker disappeared. He left his mother the message that he would never return. When he is found a few days later, the pastor has a bad conscience. Now he defies the ban of the church authorities and secretly trusts the boy's mother with the railroad worker. Somebody in the village got wind of this and is making sure that the news spreads at lightning speed. To make matters worse for the pastor, he was with Anna with her son and then went to a concert with her in town. The two missed the last train and had to spend the night in the waiting room. When they return to Kirchfeld together the next morning, they are watched by the innkeeper Riedl, whereupon he spreads the rumor that the pastor has a relationship with his employee. Little by little, more and more villagers are turning away from the clergyman. When Anna realizes what is at stake for the pastor, she agrees to marry the village blacksmith, although she feels no love for him. The girl counters the attempt of the pastor to talk her out of this plan by demanding that he give up his priesthood in order to be able to enter into marriage with her. But Pastor Heller cannot make up his mind to do so. His last official act in Kirchfeld is Anna's marriage to Michl Ambacher. Then he is transferred to another parish.

Production notes

Anzengruber's Volksstück was first filmed in 1937 by Jakob and Luise Fleck . Alfred Lehner's film Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof with the same content was released almost at the same time as Deppe's remake .

The film was produced in the CCC studio in Berlin-Spandau. The outdoor photos were taken in Sachrang and Rosenheim . The buildings were created by the film architects Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann . The costumes come from Trude Ulrich .

Awards

With the III. At the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Ulla Jacobsson was awarded the Critics' Prize for Best Actress.

source

Program for the film: “The New Film Program”, published by the publishing house of the same name, H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films came to the following conclusion: In the new edition of 1955, Anzengruber's folk piece has adapted to post-war conditions. […] All of this is staged as superficially as possible for beautiful landscape shots. Der Spiegel assesses the film as follows: A colorful home-made film with original Anzengruber dialogues: the housemaid [...], whom the loving pastor [...] does without after painful mental cramps - in close-up - is not only pious and shy, but also "squeaky clean "And" cross-brave ". Hans Deppe, the director, at least forced some natural village scenes from the artificial simplicity.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 547
  2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2934
  3. ↑ NEW IN GERMANY . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1955 ( online ).