The Cold Heart (2014)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title The cold heart
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Marc-Andreas Bochert
script Marc-Andreas Bochert
production Provobis , Moviepool
music Stefan Maria Schneider
camera Hermann Dunzendorfer
cut Antonia Fenn
occupation

The cold heart is a German fairy tale film by Marc-Andreas Bochert from 2014. Reiner Schöne acts as the narrator. Rafael Gareisen , Laura Louisa Garde and Marie Gruber play the leading roles.

The film is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Wilhelm Hauff and was produced for the ZDF series Märchenperlen . It is the remake of the DEFA classic The Cold Heart from 1950 with Lutz Moik and Hanna Rucker in the leading roles.

action

Peter Munk is black from his work with coal. When one day he takes a liking to Lisbeth, he decides to give up his life as "coal Peter" - as he is only called by the people - and goes to the glass man, who is said to fulfill the wishes of Sunday children. After he had difficulty in bringing together the verse through which the little man shows himself, he thought he had reached his goal. But instead of wishing for understanding, all of his striving is only for money and reputation, which in the end almost drives him to ruin because he is too naive and there are enough people who quickly take away all his belongings. Since he still has one wish at the “Schatzhauser”, he asks for money a third time, but the little man refuses to do that.

In his distress, Peter goes to the realm of the Dutchman Michel. He explains to him that he has to ascribe all his worries to his heart only, without a heart it would be much easier to live. He knows that Peter only came because he needs money, and so he offers him as many guilders as he wants if he gives him his heart for it. He shows him his collection of human hearts, which he has already created, and explains to him that all owners are now much better off than with this "thing" that only causes pain. Peter agrees and so the Dutchman Michel puts a stone in his chest instead of his heart.

Back in the village, Peter pays his debts and asks Lisbeth's father for her hand. He presents himself as a wealthy man and so his future father-in-law finally agrees and Peter marries Lisbeth. Only the young man has changed very much to his disadvantage. He hard-heartedly dismissed some of the workers who did not seem productive enough to him. Lisbeth and his own mother also suffer from his moods. He takes it so far that his mother moves out and returns to the little hut on the edge of the village where she used to live with her son. However, Peter feels himself that he has changed and that he can no longer feel any real joy. So he goes to the Holländer-Michel again and asks him if he could soften his stone heart a little. But this refuses strictly. Only after his death would he get his real heart back - so it was agreed between them.

One day Peter comes back from a business trip and catches Lisbeth feeding a beggar. In an argument he beats his wife with his walking stick and she sinks dead to the ground. Suddenly the beggar shows his true identity and the Schatzhauser stands in front of him and tells him to his conscience: The responsibility for his deed would rest entirely with him, even if an earthly court would acquit him, he would have sold his soul to evil. That gives him pause, and when he learns that his father-in-law and a few others in the village have also sold their hearts to the Dutchman, he becomes frightened. In the middle of the night he goes to the treasure house and asks to grant him his third wish and to exchange his stone heart for his real one. But the little man explains to him that he had made this deal with the Dutchman Michel and only he could give him back his heart. So Peter sets out and wants to outsmart the Dutchman Michel. He tells him that he thinks he can still feel a heartbeat in his chest, which suggests that the Dutch Michel must have cheated on him. Nobody could just exchange a heart like that. This offends Michel in his vanity and to prove to Peter that his heart is made of stone, he uses his real heart again to prove it. Peter is happy and when Michel wants to take the heart back, he just keeps it and runs back to the village. Happy to feel real joy again, but now he also notices the sadness of all his evil deeds. When he now seems to want the right thing, the Schatzhauser fulfills his third wish and gives Lisbeth her life back. Overjoyed, Peter also brings his poor mother back to his home and tries to redress all the injustices he has caused. He leads the glassworks sensibly and takes exemplary care of his workers. So he remains a respected and now satisfied person throughout his life.

background

The shooting took place from October 8, 2013 to November 5, 2013 in the Black Forest , in the Haseler Erdmannshöhle and in the Écomusée in Alsace ; the first broadcast took place on December 20, 2014 on ZDFneo .

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv judged the film: “More than 60 years after the Defa, ZDF is also filming the story of the good Köhler who sells his feelings. The criticism of capitalism is as blatant as in the GDR film, the message just as unmistakable: money spoils character. 'The Cold Heart' is also conventional in its implementation. The cast of the supporting roles in this Christmas fairy tale is well-known; The main actor of all people is a bit boring though. [...] The pace is rather leisurely, digital effects are used extremely sparingly (Michel's stick turns into a snake), and the scenes in the glass-blowing and charcoal-burning workshops that are visibly striving for authenticity look like educational television. After all, cameraman Hermann Dunzendorfer managed to take great forest pictures. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fairy Tales: Cave Magic - ZDFtivi Mediathek. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tivi.de
  2. ↑ Tobias Lupfer: Kinzigtal Wolfach Glashütte in the world of film. Offenburger Tageblatt, October 29, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The cold heart at crew united . Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Marc-Andreas Bochert, Prückner, Thieme. Old-fashioned & with a clear message Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 6, 2015.