The song of Kaprun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The song of Kaprun |
| Original title | The song of Kaprun The song of the Hohe Tauern |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anton Kutter |
| script | Anton Kutter based on a film novella by Kurt Maix |
| production | South German film production (Munich), Bergland-Film (Linz) |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera |
Gustav Weiß Sepp Kirzeder |
| cut | Hildegard Giese |
| occupation | |
and Leopold Esterle , Klaus Pohl , Anton Benedikt , Hans Brand , Gerhard Hofer , Harry Kupetz | |
The Lied von Kaprun is a German - Austrian homeland film drama from 1954 by Anton Kutter , whose last cinema production this was, with Albert Lieven , Waltraut Haas and Joachim Fuchsberger in the leading roles.
action
Austria 1954. Peter Dahle, the safety engineer responsible for the large construction site of the Kaprun hydropower plant in the mountains of the Hohe Tauern , has to contend with numerous difficulties in this huge project. Again and again, nature with its mighty mountains proves to be an extremely strong opponent, and the construction demands more and more human sacrifices. Dahle definitely needs a profound expert on the mountain world, and there is no one better than the old mountain guide Hans Tribusser, a gnarled, white-haired local who ascribes supernatural powers to the mountains. However, Tribusser generally does not believe in the work here on the mountain, as he sees this building as a sacrilege against nature. He therefore refuses to cooperate with Dahle.
But this is not the only problem that concerns the ambitious and purposeful factory engineer. Out of an old love for Dahle, the wealthy Barbara Fuller, a hotel heiress, who was once abandoned by Dahle, intervenes. She obviously has an influence on Tribusser and wants to change the mind of the stubborn old man. Barbara's appearance in this manly world of power plant construction, determined by machinations, brings new problems to light. Guys like Bertl, a worker who loves to drink and flog, and his tough, self-absorbed colleague, whom everyone just calls the “beautiful Eugene”, allow themselves to be distracted by Barbara's presence so that further unrest ensues in the company.
When there is an accident in which the lives of a number of workers are endangered, the old tribusser finds his death during the rescue operations thanks to his courageous efforts. Peter Dahle finds out that Barbara had persuaded the experienced mountain guide to cooperate less thanks to her art of persuasion and much more with disgraceful money. Dahle is appalled by her kind of interference and unequivocally asks Barbara to leave Kaprun immediately. But then another misfortune happens, which this time hits the hotel heiress herself and is supposed to finally reunite her and her childhood sweetheart Dahle ...
Production notes
Filmed around the Kaprun dam in the second half of 1954, Das Lied von Kaprun opened on February 3, 1955 in Germany (Stuttgart). Before that, the world premiere took place on January 27, 1955 in Zell am See (Austria), the next largest town near Kaprun. On February 1, 1959, the strip ran for the first time on German television (on ARD ).
Heinz Pollak , Adam Napoleon Schneider and Kurt Hammer were in charge of production. Sepp Rothauer designed the film structures.
Joachim Fuchsberger can be seen here with a rare negative role in one of his early films; he plays a power plant worker who assaults Waltraud Haas.
useful information
Around ten years after this film, the power plant was again in the media focus when the early evening television series Clouds over Kaprun was filmed with Horst Naumann in the lead role of a civil engineer. The series left in Germany in the mid-1960s on ZDF .
Reviews
On film.at it says: “The melodrama with documentary recordings represents the problematic, but nevertheless worth seeing, attempt to reconcile the civilization-critical genre Heimatfilm by integrating new elements (industrial film, catastrophe thriller) with the technical modernity. And Thales [sic!] Unheroic motto: "The whole thing depends on the individual, and each individual has a life to lose," is not least a plea for the democratization of Kaprun, a place of memory that was so important for the Second Republic. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “The gripping documentation of technical and scientific details in front of the imposing mountain backdrop was more effective than the plain, conventional game plot. Even if there is a lot of talk about safety concerns, the film does not take a thoughtful attitude towards the building or its possible ecological consequences. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism on film.at
- ↑ The song of Kaprun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Song of Kaprun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The song from Kaprun at filmportal.de