Anne Bäbi Jowäger (1978)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anne Bäbi Jowäger |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Bern German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Schnyder |
| script |
Richard Schweizer Franz Schnyder |
| production | Franz Schnyder |
| music | Robert Blum |
| camera | Constantine Cheet |
| cut |
Hermann Haller Franziska Schuh |
| occupation | |
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Anne Bäbi Jowäger is a Swiss Heimatfilm by Franz Schnyder from 1978.
action
In the first part, Schnyder exposes the miracle healers and cartelists to ridicule without turning the quackery into a scandal. It is the prelude to the dark drama of the second part:
The able and resolute farmer Anne Bäbi Jowäger finally had the doctor fetched for her son Jakobli, who had suffered from Wild Blattern , after all of the miracle cures had not brought the maid Madi any improvement. Because healing is delayed and Jakobli goes blind in one eye and his face is covered with scars, Anne Bäbi consults the fortune teller Schnupfseckli. This makes use of the invisible spirit of the ancestors, who recommends that Jakobli must “wybe” (look for a woman) in order to get well: “Söllisch amene Ort sueche, where he is great, Chilche het ue Totegripp, where is sloppy”.
The Jowägers set out to look for a bride and go to Solothurn by horse and carriage "z Märit". On the stairs of St. Ursus Cathedral , Jakobli meets the weeping Meyeli, who sells onions. Jakobli tries to address it slowly and shyly and the two get closer - in the middle of the onion baskets.
The intrigue of the greedy farmers of Zyberlihog, who want to pair their Lisi with Jakobli because they hope for the inheritance of the sick Jakobli, does not catch on with Jakobli. So he leads Meyeli - although coming from a poor background - to the altar.
In the second part, the grievances around the quarrel are exposed. It is true that the doctor and the pastor lose the trial against the quack Vehhansli because he is covered by Vetterliwirtschaft . Vehhansli is also powerless against diphtheria . When his child falls ill, he comes to the doctor and begs him to give him medicine.
The drama begins when the newborn Köbeli, Meyeli and Jakobli's child, dies of rampant diphtheria. Anne Bäbi, who adores her grandson, had again waited too long before she called the doctor. The overzealous vicar tells her that the death of the child is God's punishment. Anne Bäbi tries unsuccessfully to kill herself and then withdraws as a broken woman into the “Stöckli” (old-age part).
With Schnyder - in contrast to the tragic end with Gotthelf - the end is confident. Anne Bäbi returns to the farm to help Jakobli and Meyeli. In the final shot she advises Jakobli to drive to the cemetery, where the doctor who died of diphtheria is buried: "Take the Wägeli u gang üses Meyeli ga rich!"
background
The film adaptation of the two-part novel Anne Bäbi Jowäger by Jeremias Gotthelf did not let producer and director Franz Schnyder go, even after the first complete version was published in 1962 . The shooting had already been completed for 18 years when he made further cuts and added additional shots, which were previously in the more comedic first part Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part I: How Jakobli comes to a woman and in the more dramatic second part Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part II : Jakobli and Meyeli were not taken into account.
This Director's Cut was premiered on October 24, 1978 in the Gotthard Cinema in Bern. Swiss television first broadcast the restored theatrical version on March 7, 2010 in the original widescreen format.
Reviews
“Film adaptation of a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf (1843) denouncing faith healers, quacks and superstitions. The film was made in 1960/61 as an epic two-parter, the present version was made in 1978. She arranges and assembles the script and inserts shots that have not been taken into account; instead of a mere reduction, this creates a dramatically sound concentration of the rambling material. "
literature
- Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film. Feature films 1896–1965. Swiss Film Archive / Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne 1987, ISBN 2-88267-001-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne Bäbi Jowäger. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .