The eagle from the Velsatal
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The eagle from the Velsatal |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Häussler |
| script |
Werner Eplinius , Janne Furch |
| production |
Johannes J. Frank for HD Film, Berlin |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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Der Adler vom Velsatal is a German homeland film by Richard Häußler from 1957 . It also ran under the alternative title Der Poacher vom Velsatal .
action
Toni Erlbacher, the future heir to the Adlerhof in the Austrian Alps, loves the Italian Gina. Gina is the daughter of the border tavern owner Coletta, who is notorious in the village because of her seedy past. She is also suspected of being involved in smuggling activities. Toni, who was previously engaged to the forester's daughter Andrea, wants to marry Gina, but his father would only consent if Gina disowned her mother. Gina refuses, and when Toni still wants to marry her, his father threatens to be disinherited. Toni now wants to dig an eagle's nest. According to the estate book, this is a condition that ensures that the heir can take over the farm.
Toni's opponent in the village is Matteo. He was once with Gina, who left him because of Toni. Matteo is always in Toni's shadow and even when Andrea almost dies while crossing a ravine, Toni is ultimately her savior, although Matteo played a large part in the rescue. Toni and Matteo used to be best friends and went poaching together with a third when they were young. Toni was caught and took all the blame on himself, so that Andreas father, the forester, always approaches Toni with suspicion. Now there is another poacher on the way and forester Strobl suspects Toni. In reality, Matteo, who is also involved in smuggling operations for Coletta, is poaching. Toni wants to reconcile with Gina at the annual rifle festival, but Matteo has invited her and does not release her for any dance. Only the king of riflemen is allowed to override the ban, and so there is a bitter duel between Toni and Matteo, which Toni wins in the end. He becomes the new shooter king. In the crowd he loses his distinctive hat, which Matteo takes.
Matteo will soon be poaching again. The forester catches him putting Toni's hat next to a chamois that has been shot, and therefore thinks Matteo is Toni. An exchange of fire ensues in which Matteo fatally hits the forester. With dwindling senses, Strobl writes in his notebook that Toni is the murderer. Toni is meanwhile in the mountains to dig the eagle's nest. He meets Coletta at the Grenzschänke when shots are fired in the distance. He spends the rest of the day digging the eagle's nest. Meanwhile, the forester's body is found and Andrea is told that her father is dead. Everyone is waiting for Toni's return, especially since Matteo has hidden the murder rifle that is found there in a hut next to the Adlerhof. It is a rifle that Toni used to poach in his youth, but later thrown away in front of his father. Toni is arrested on his return. In court, Coletta swears under oath that she did not see Toni at the time of the shooting, whereupon Toni is sentenced to six years in prison.
Andrea wants to leave the village. Shortly before, she receives a visit from her uncle Felix, a criminalist. He quickly realizes that Toni must be innocent and also finds the rifle case in Matteo's hut. Suddenly it becomes public that Toni has escaped from custody. The police get an order to shoot and start looking for Toni at the border. On his escape, he discovers subterranean cave systems that lead from Coletta's bar to Italian. He also hears Coletta and Matteo in the cave and now knows that they are doing something together. Coletta wants to bring Matteo and Gina together, although Gina knows nothing about the murder of the forester and Matteo's guilt, since she was in Italy at the time of the crime. Through Felix's initiative, Matteo is now being searched for as the forester's murderer, especially since there are also references to his smuggling activities in his hut. When Matteo and Coletta learn that Toni has escaped from custody, they want to flee through the cave system to Italy. Matteo wants to get his things from his hut, but finds only torn open cupboards and an Andrea looking for her uncle Felix. He takes the young woman hostage and forces her into the cave, where Toni is already waiting for him and has prevented Gina and Coletta from escaping. In the end, the police arrive too. In a panic reaction, Matteo fires a shot and kills Gina. Matteo is overwhelmed and Coletta arrested. Toni and Andrea fall into each other's arms, shocked by the death of the innocent Gina.
production
The eagle from Velsatal is based on the novel The Three Clues by Ernst Martinus and Walter F. Fichelscher . In the film, there are three pieces of evidence that speak for Toni as the perpetrator, the hat at the scene of the crime, the gun believed to be lost and Matteo's alleged alibi to have been drunk at the time of the crime. Felix Poettinger can, however, refute all three indications.
The film was shot in the Großglockner area and in the CCC studios Berlin-Spandau. The buildings were created by Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann . The costumes come from Ursula Stutz . The film had its premiere on January 8, 1957 in the Atlantik-Palast in Nuremberg.
criticism
Der Spiegel called the film in 1985 "Entertainment for the undemanding" and in 1987 a "German bird (mourning) game".
For the film-dienst , Der Adler vom Velsatal was “a series of tried and tested motifs from Heimatfilm, moderately played and staged.” “Genre veteran Häussler delivers mediocrity with all the usual ingredients. Conclusion: poor folklore in the flat tone of the 50s, ”said Cinema .
Web links
- The eagle from Velsatal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The eagle from Velsatal at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ This week on TV: Der Adler vom Velsatal . In: Der Spiegel , No. 11, 1985, p. 242.
- ↑ This week on TV: Der Adler vom Velsatal . In: Der Spiegel , No. 47, 1987, p. 286.
- ↑ The eagle from the Velsatal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de