The Cold Heart (2016)

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Movie
Original title The cold heart
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Johannes Naber
script Christian Zipperle
Johannes Naber
Steffen Reuter
Andreas Marschall
production Steffen Reuter ,
Christoph Fisser ,
Henning Molfenter ,
Charlie Woebcken
music Oliver Biehler
camera Pascal Schmit
cut Ben von Grafenstein
occupation

The Cold Heart is a German fairy tale film from 2016 . The plot of the film is based on the story Das kalte Herz by Wilhelm Hauff . Directed by Johannes Naber . The main roles are Frederick Lau , Henriette Confurius , Moritz Bleibtreu and Milan Peschel .

The first screening of the film in German cinemas was on October 20, 2016.

action

The prologue of the film tells of the Dutchman Michel. Out of greed, he cuts his own heart out of his chest. The villagers are afraid of him and one night push him off the cliff of Tannenbühl. But without a heart he cannot die, and so he himself seeks people after their hearts.

The good-natured Köhler Peter Munk lives a hard life full of privation. His profession is not respected by the villagers. He is at the bottom of the social pecking order. Peter Munk is in love with the daughter of the glassmaker Löbl, Lisbeth. But it has already been promised to the timber merchant's son Bastian. In order to win Lisbeth's heart and the reputation of the village population, Peter believes he must get rich. As a Sunday child, he goes to the glass man and expresses three foolish wishes. They do come true, but since Peter did not consider their effects, he is soon poor again. He goes to Tannenbühl again, this time to Holländer-Michel, and exchanges his heart for money for a heart made of stone. After a trip he returns to the village as a rich timber merchant and wants to marry Lisbeth, but she turns away from the now unscrupulous Peter. Only through a tragic accident in which Lisbeth dies does Peter realize that he does not want to live with a cold heart.

After the attempt to persuade the Dutchman Michel to surrender it fails, Peter finally takes his heart back by force by taking Michel's own heart and using it again in the fight himself. Since this then dies, his magic is broken and all hearts are back in their owners' chests. Because Peter sincerely regrets his crimes, Lisbeth gets her life back so that the two can begin a new existence.

background

The cold heart is a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff. It appeared in Hauff's “ Märchenalmanach auf das Jahr 1828 ” in 1827 , in two parts as an internal narrative embedded in the narrative Das Wirtshaus im Spessart .

Wilhelm Hauff was a German romantic writer. Hauff's fairy tales fall into the late romantic literary phase after the strict censorship provisions of the Karlovy Vary resolutions in 1819. The first volume around the framework story The Caravan contains well-known fairy tales such as Kalif Storch and The Story of Little Muck . The second volume about The Sheik of Allessandria and his slaves leaves the purely oriental sphere of action; Dwarf Nose and two fairy tales adopted by Wilhelm Grimm, Snow White and Rose Red and The Festival of the Underground , are part of the European fairy tale tradition. His third volume, Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , deals with legends rather than fairy tales; the Black Forest legend The cold heart is the best known of these legends.

The film was shot in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , near Dresden , in the Black Forest and in the co-producing Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam , where the popular DEFA film The Cold Heart from 1950 with Erwin Geschonneck was made. A medieval town was specially built for the 2015 filming in the Babelsberg studio: The “Dorf Gutach” as the central exterior motif was created on the “New Film Grounds” on Ahornstrasse. Around 40 craftsmen from the studio's own craft businesses were busy building the sets for two months.

The special effects were made by Chimney Germany.

The multiple award-winning film music by composer Oliver Biehler was recorded by the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra .

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews from the critics.

The film magazine Cinema writes:

“This film is a small miracle and, above all, a visual pleasure ... The film indulges in sublime, dreamlike, beautiful images, whose visionary creative power is linked to the myths and traditions of indigenous peoples and bypasses every Black Forest kitsch. "

Epd Film notes:

“Johannes Naber does without any other realism as well as the typical clichés of German romanticism. His Black Forest is a realm of fantasy in which the forest spirits around the little glass man, embodied by Milan Peschel, remind of indigenous peoples and the women have face tattoos. But only in the wonderfully delirious horror moments in the cave of the Holländer-Michel does his concept of re-imagining the famous fairy tale really work. In them he dares to go aesthetically precisely beyond the limits that he otherwise respects far too much. "

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for The Cold Heart . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 161497 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Cold Heart . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Information on IMDb.com. IMDb, accessed on July 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ MAZ: Märchendreh in Studio Babelsberg - "The cold heart" for the cinema Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung from October 9, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Information on Studiobabelsberg.com. Studio Babelsberg, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Scoring Stage, credits on filmorchester.de. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, accessed on May 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.cinema.de/film/das-kalte-herz,8524795.html cinema.de accessed April 12, 2020
  8. ↑ https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/das-kalte-herz epd-film.de accessed April 12, 2020
  9. ↑ German Film Music Prize. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .