Rock crystal (1949)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rock crystal |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script | Harald Reinl, Hubert Schonger , Rose Schonger |
| production |
Josef Plesner , Hubert Schonger |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| camera | Josef Plesner |
| cut | Harald Reinl |
| occupation | |
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Bergkristall is a German-Austrian homeland film by Harald Reinl from 1949 . It is based on the story of the same name by Adalbert Stifter from 1845 and 1853. In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was later shown under the title Der Wildschütz von Tirol .
action
The Tyrolean mountain farmer's son Franz loves Sanna, the daughter of a dyer on the other side of the mountain ridge. His rival, a hunter, catches him poaching, shoots him and leaves him wounded. The hunter then had a fatal accident in a crevasse, but the villagers believe that Franz, who was returning home seriously injured, was the murderer of the missing hunter. Acquitted for lack of evidence, he is nevertheless ostracized by all. Only Sanna stands by him, marries him and is therefore rejected by her father.
Again and again, Franz is confronted with the murder allegation, from which his whole life suffers. Years later, his two children want to look for the Christ child at Christmas time, as the embittered father does not tolerate a Christmas tree in his house. You get lost in the glacier region and find shelter in an ice cave where the hunter's unharmed corpse is located. In a joint rescue operation not only the children are rescued, but Franz is finally rehabilitated and finds his faith in God and people again.
production
After Reinl made his directorial debut with the short film ten years later for the producers Josef Plesner and Hubert Schonger, the same producers gave him the chance to make his first feature film. The shooting took place in the winter of 1948/49. Walter Traut took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff was responsible for the buildings , the studio was in Kufstein . The outdoor shots were taken in Kitzbühel , in the Kaiser Mountains , on the Tuxer Joch , on the Upper Court and on the Spannagel Glacier . In addition to the actors mentioned by name, farmers, hunters and shepherds from Tyrol also play in the film. The premiere took place in Vienna on October 23, 1949, the German premiere on December 22, 1949 in Munich.
Reviews
In his essay on Harald Reinl in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Rüdiger Koschnitzki praised the "mountain world captured in clear black and white images" and described the interplay between man and nature as a model for the upcoming Heimatfilms. In Reclam's Lexikon des Deutschen Films (1995), Peter Spiegel highlighted the “simple, unaffected narrative style” and the “atmospheric natural backdrop”, which corresponded to the intentions of Adalbert Stifter's original.
Awards
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the film the title artistically valuable .
Web links
- Bergkristall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bergkristall at filmportal.de
- Plesner Film atBFI(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film : Harald Reinl