Björndal's legacy (film)

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Movie
Original title Björndal's legacy
Björndal's legacy 1960.jpg
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gustav Ucicky
script By swinging
production Wiener Mundus-Film, Vienna
( Alfred Stöger )
music Rolf Alexander Wilhelm
camera Elio Carniel
cut Renate Jelinek
occupation

The Legacy of Björndal is an Austrian homeland film by Gustav Ucicky from 1960. The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Trygve Gulbranssen is the continuation of the literary film And Eternal Sing the Forests , which was released in 1959. In addition to Joachim Hansen , Maj-Britt Nilsson , Brigitte Horney and Hans Nielsen in the leading roles, Ellen Schwiers , Carl Lange , Hans Christian Blech , Gertraud Jesserer and Michael Hinz play leading roles.

content

Old Dag Björndal is buried in his grave. Although his son Dag doesn't want to shake hands with Gall's long-standing enemy at the grave, he soon thinks of a better thing: He helps von Gall rebuild the family's destroyed estate and organizes a good housekeeper for him in the resolute Eleonore. Eleonore is the sister of Major a. D. Barre, who moves in with the Björndals. To the sorrow of his daughter Adelheid, he is fond of alcohol.

One day, while collecting the rent, Dag meets the young homeless Gunvor, whom he takes to his estate as an assistant. Gunvor was innocently jailed for murdering a pharmacist by her husband Aslak. She helps with the hay harvest on the estate, but Adelheid soon suspects an affair between Dag and Gunvor. In reality, however, it is Barre who secretly sneaks into Gunvor's room at night. The relationship between Adelheid and Dag continues to deteriorate. When Dag meets the escaped Aslak in a forest hut and he tells him that Gunvor is only after the men's money, Dag wants to expel them from his farm. Gunvor reveals that Barre is pregnant. After paying a large amount of money, Dag takes her back to town. Before that, she breaks the pane of the room in which Tore, the son of Dag and Adelheid, lies in his crib. The child dies of hypothermia .

The relationship between Dag and Adelheid threatens to break up. Adelheid still suspects Dag of cheating. The latter in turn does not want to betray his father-in-law to his wife and spends days in one of his distant forest huts. Aunt Eleonore finally intervenes and asks Barre to speak to Dag. When Dag accuses him of his offense against Gunvor, Barre takes his own life. A farewell letter explains Adelheid about Dag's innocence, and reconciliation ensues. In the next year Adelheid will have a son whom they will name Dag after his father.

Eleven years later , Eleanor adopts the girl Barbara, who lost her parents in a sea accident. Due to the arrogance of the mentally retarded son Galls, Lorenz, the girl gets into danger a short time later on a river and is rescued by Dag, who is killed in the process. While Barbara and Dag jun. getting closer over the years, Adelheid cannot forgive the girl that her rescue was responsible for the death of her husband. Only Eleanor's words make it clear to her that her husband would have died in vain if she could not accept Barbara. On the day of coming of age, Dag Juniors, Adelheid officially accepts Barbara in the family by putting on the often inherited family jewelry - a necklace - that she had once received from her father-in-law.

production

Filming

The musical accompaniment of Das Erbe von Björndal comes from the Wiener Symphoniker . The exterior shots of the film were shot in Norway . The interior shots were taken in the Wien-Film studio, Rosenhügel studio . The buildings were created by Leo Metzenbauer and Gerhard Praunegger , and the costumes were designed by Margarete Volters . The production management was in the hands of Heinz Pollak , the production management was taken over by Rudolf Stering .

background

For director Gustav Ucicky this was his last film. He died a good six months after the film premiered. The literary template on which the script is based comes from the Norwegian poet, factory director and landowner Trygve Gulbranssen (1894–1962). His cycle of novels about the Björndals was published in the mid-1930s. Even the adaptation of the first part, And forever singing forests by Paul May in 1959, was one of the biggest box office hits of the year.

publication

The world premiere took place on September 15, 1960 in Nuremberg . The film opened in Austria on October 28, 1960, in Denmark in January 1961, in Sweden in January 1962, in Mexico in June 1962, in Portugal in November 1964 and in France in December 1964. It was also released in the Netherlands. The English film title is Heritage of Bjorndal .

The film appeared several times on DVD. Kinowelt / Studiocanal released a DVD on February 17, 2011 as part of the “A piece of home to collect” series. A tin plate of the movie poster at the time is attached to each DVD. On January 26, 2018, Alive released the film as part of the "Jewels of Film History" series on DVD.

criticism

Der Spiegel described Björndal's legacy as a “forest and fjord ballad”, a “farmer's saga for television” and a “film for loan book customers”. The lexicon of international films rated the film as a "home film on a relatively respectable level". The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: "Gulbransson's second well-known novel about the Norwegian peasant family of the Björndals in a film adaptation with the well-known clichés of German Heimatfilm."

Kino.de found: “The Heimatfilm, compressed based on the novels by Trygve Gulbranssen (1933), was one of the great successes of the audience in the 1950s and shaped the image of Norway. Less dramatic than the first part, it focuses on the differentiated marital crisis and securing family goods. Eye-catchers are the original natural landscapes and Ellen Schwiers as the seductive maid Ganvor with offensive sexuality. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The legacy of Björndal sS wunschliste.de
  2. ↑ "The Legacy of Björndal" "And the forests sing forever" 2nd part Fig. DVD case "A piece of home to collect"
  3. ↑ Björndal's legacy Fig. DVD case “Filmjuwelen” (in the picture: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Joachim Hansen)
  4. ↑ Success of the season: Longing for Thule . In: Der Spiegel , No. 40, September 28, 1960, pp. 95-97.
  5. ↑ Klaus Brühne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 2. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 885.
  6. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 644/1960
  7. ↑ The Legacy of Björndal sS kino.de (including trailer). Retrieved November 24, 2018.