Henry the Sawyer

Movie
Original title	Henry the Sawyer
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2001
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Klaus Gietinger
production	Rolf Schneider
music	Klaus Roggors
occupation
Rolf Becker : Kurt Grantke Meret Becker : Teresa Grantke Alexander Beyer : Heiko Graf, postman Heinz Werner Kraehkamp : Commissioner Stahl Karina Krawczyk Assistant Braun Uwe Steimle : Pastor Wolfgang Winkler : Block, Head of KB Ost Heribert Weber : Dr. Maegerle Eckart von der Trenck : Fred Holger Fuchs : Gregor Albrecht Hillemann : Head of Commercial Railway Klaus Gietinger : Driver

Heinrich the Säger - The Ultimate Railroad Movie is a crime comedy by Klaus Gietinger distributed by Arsenal Filmverleih from 2001 and deals with the closure of railway lines due to greed for profit with the help of unscrupulous politicians.

action

When the railway lines are shut down and employees are laid off, Kurt Grantke takes the initiative and tries, armed with acts of sabotage with a power cutter, to dissuade the commercial railway from achieving its goals. No injuries - no traces. But it doesn't help and after a while the line to the Storchenroda station is also closed. Even if the citizens protest and the head of the Kommerzbahn Ost gets a black eye, with the help of politics and the pastor, who always informed the police, the goal can be achieved. Commissioner Stahl can arrest Kurt Grantke in the act. At a ceremony by the commercial railway, he can be freed from his friends. And so Kurt and his new wife Braun, Teresa with the postman Heiko and the two railroad service employees Fred and Gregor emigrate to South America - where there is still real rail traffic.

criticism

Klaus Gietinger creates his staging "a bit" weird "- without exaggerating. Meret Becker seems a little unnaturally intimidated or Karina Krawczyk seems a little too "shrill" for a police assistant. The main character, however, is extremely conservative with Rolf Becker - and that somehow does the film good and gives it its special charm. After all, it's "only" about an old-fashioned railway line in East Germany "

- Movie Master

"Kommerzbahn - everything is already clear: political humor is often spread with the club in Klaus Gietinger's film."

- Schnitt.de

Locations

Bahnhof Leimbach-Kaiseroda (2009), in the film as Storchenroda

Large parts of the film were shot on the Bad Salzungen – Vacha railway line , which actually lost passenger traffic the next year and was shut down in 2003. The station Leimbach-Kaiseroda in Leimbach near Bad Salzungen in the Thuringian Wartburg district acted as station Storchenroda . Other locations were the Göltzschtalbrücke , the Dorndorf – Kaltennordheim railway line (which has since been closed and dismantled) and the Zella-Mehlis – Wernshausen railway line . Some of the scenes were shot on the Wutachtalbahn (Blumberg-Weizen) at Epfenhofen station.

Web links

• Henry the saw in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Henry the Sawyer at Arsenal
• Heinrich the saw at schnitt.de
• Background information

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More future than a cinema appearance. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, June 21, 2012, accessed on April 29, 2015 .