The Girl from the Moorhof (1958)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The girl from the Moorhof |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script | Adolf Schütz |
| production |
Real-Film , Hamburg ( Walter Koppel ) |
| music | Siegfried Franz |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Alice Ludwig |
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Das Mädchen vom Moorhof is a German homeland film by Gustav Ucicky from 1958. It is based on the novel of the same name by Selma Lagerlöf . The world premiere took place on September 12, 1958 in the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg .
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Helga Nilsson from Moorhof starts work as a maid for Per Eric Martinsson. His wife is bedridden because of an illness, and Martinsson makes the naive Helga, whom he has only just protected from the intrusive Jan Lindgren, his lover, promises her help and support and dismisses her when he becomes pregnant. Helga goes into town and works in a factory until her son is born. Only then does she return to her poor parents on the moor farm.
Her father wants to enforce the law for her as a poor family too: Martinsson is supposed to pay alimony for his illegitimate son. He therefore lets Helga take him to court, although she is uncomfortable with the public spread of the case. At the court day, Martinsson testifies that he never had a relationship with Helga. When he tries to swear this to the Bible , Helga snatches it from him. Although Martinsson is the father of her child, she does not want to answer that he sinned before God with a false oath. You are therefore withdrawing the action. The judge extends his hand with respect and Helga leaves the trial as the moral winner. Martinsson will henceforth be avoided as a perjurer . Helga's situation has not changed, however, and so she wants to drown herself at the weir, but can be saved at the last second by rich Gudmund Erlandsson, among others. Helga has always been well-disposed and so his parents hire her as a maid.
Gudmund is supposed to marry Hildur, daughter of the bailiff Lindgren. Both are engaged, but Hildur increasingly turns out to be a spoiled and demanding woman. Her brother Jan loves Helga, but has psychotic impulses that deter her and his brutal manner. Since Hildur is jealous of Helga, she gets Helga released.
Two days before the wedding, Gudmund gets drunk with his friends, including Jan; When they refuse to drink with Martinsson, Martinsson provokes the group by asking who of those present fathered Helga's child. There is a fight. The next day, Gudmund wakes up hungover and receives the news that Martinsson was stabbed to death at night - the blade was still in his skull. Gudmund's knife blade, on the other hand, has broken off, so that, although he has no memory of the previous evening, he sees himself as the perpetrator. On the day of the wedding, he told the Hildurs family, who then canceled the wedding. The police are notified.
When Helga found out about Gudmund's alleged culprit, which was only proven by the broken blade, she knew he was innocent: she herself had received his knife for cutting chips and broke the blade in the process. Helga convinces Hildur to return to Gudmund and stand by him, since he is innocent. Although she loves Gudmund herself, she thinks he loves Hildur and wants to see him happy. Hildur, in turn, follows Helga's advice. Meanwhile, Gudmund has renounced Hildur because she does not love him, but only his wealth. Instead he chose Helga; even Hildur's apology does not allow him to return to her.
Meanwhile, Jan had intercepted Helga. He confesses his love to her and wants to go to America with her. When she tells him that she loves Gudmund, he finally confesses to his parents that he killed Martinsson because he treated Helga so badly. His culprit soon becomes known and Gudmund now drives to the Moorhof to propose to Helga. When he arrives, they both hug and kiss.
Others
In terms of content, the film version differs greatly from the original. The character of Jan Lindgren does not exist in the novella at all; it was probably added for dramaturgical reasons, as was the wife of Per Martinsson, who is played by Inge Meysel. While in the film Per Martinsson, the father of Helga's child, is stabbed to death after a fight, in the book it is an unspecified man who is killed by a knife after an argument between drunk farmers and workers. Some of the characters in the film have different names than in the novella (Per Matinsson instead of Per Martensson, Hildur Lindgren instead of Hildur Eriksdotter).
The shooting took place at Gut Nütschau in Schleswig-Holstein , which was portrayed as a courthouse in the film. Already in 1935 had Detlef Sierck adapted the novel for the German cinema. The buildings were created by Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt , the costumes by Erna Sander and Anneliese Ludwig . Werner Ludwig was production manager, Gyula Trebitsch production manager.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the "literally adapted Selma-Lagerlöf novella" as "staged in an upscale entertainment style; convincing performance ”.
Cinema found: "Well played and without Heimatfilm fuss."
Web links
- The girl from Moorhof in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The girl from the Moorhof at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2395.
- ↑ See cinema.de