The Farmer as a Millionaire (1961)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The farmer as a millionaire |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director |
Rudolf Steinböck (stage production) Alfred Stöger (picture direction) |
| production | Alfred Stöger |
| music | Paul Angerer |
| camera | Sepp Ketterer |
| cut | Renate Jelinek |
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The Farmer als Millionär is an Austrian feature film by Rudolf Steinböck from 1961 based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund with Josef Meinrad in the title role and Käthe Gold , Christiane Hörbiger , Hans Moser and Paula Wessely in other leading roles. The film, which is based on Raimund's romantic magical fairy tale Das Mädchen aus der Feenwelt or Der Bauer als Millionär (1826), is a recording of a production at the Salzburg Festival in 1961. The film version of the Salzburg Festival performance closely follows the literary model .
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The fairy Lacrimosa wants to marry her daughter Lottchen with the son of the fairy queen out of arrogance. This is why Lacrimosa deprives Lacrimosa of her fairy power, banishes Lottchen to earth and only wants to lift the curse when the girl rejects all wealth and becomes the wife of a poor man. This has to take place before her 18th birthday. Lacrimosa hands her daughter over to the poor forest farmer Fortunatus Wurzel with the task of simply bringing her up and marrying her to a good man. But envy had once cast an eye on Lacrimosa, but it turned him off. In revenge, he ensures that Wurzel finds a great treasure. The farmer builds a palace for himself in the city, wants nothing more to do with Lottchen's connection with the fisherman Karl Schilf and finds a rich son-in-law. A few days before Lottchen's 18th birthday, Lacrimosa invited ghosts and magicians friends to her fairy palace and pleaded for help.
All spirits, but especially Ajaxerle and Bustorius promise this immediately and Ajaxerle is commissioned to travel to earth. Lottchen complains about the harshness of Wurzels, who forbade poor Karl to deal with her. But through Ajaxerle's mediation, the two lovers meet and the magician plays the courtship at root. The latter rejects him and swears that he will only allow the connection if he looks so rotten and gray that he belongs on the ash market. Then he throws Lottchen out angrily, but she finds refuge in satisfaction.
While Wurzel celebrates with his drinking companions, the visit of a strange young gentleman is reported. It is the youth who have appeared to terminate the friendship root. As soon as she has left, night falls and a second guest arrives, old age. Root is made sneering that everything is different now and that he will be beaten with all the ailments of old age. Root curses envy and his wealth, wishes to go back to his forest home and he is already standing in front of his half-ruined hut.
Now envy asks hatred to take over the further execution of the vengeance. Hatred lures Karl into a magic bowling alley, where the one who hits all nine receives a rich diamond ring, but the missing one is certain to die. Karl, who believes that wealth will pave the way for him to Lottchen's hand, dares the cone push and wins the ring. He had a magnificent palace built and then went looking for Lottchen. The young woman comes together with satisfaction to persuade Karl to throw away the ominous ring. Wurzel also appears in the form of an ash man and starts talking about the satisfaction he thinks is the cook. He has become someone else and has seen his arrogance as a rich man.
Karl meets Lottchen in the palace, whom he wants to marry and shower with riches, but under a spell of satisfaction, Lottchen passes out immediately when she sees diamonds. Karl, who was still hesitating, throws the ring away for her sake: this breaks the power of hate, the fisherman is a poor man again and the condition of the fairy is fulfilled. Lacrimosa, once again in possession of their ghost power, presents the bride and groom with a fisherman's estate and Wurzel turns from the ash man back into a satisfied forest farmer.
Production notes, publication
The farmer as a millionaire was produced as a production of Thalia-Film during the Salzburg Festival in 1961, where the performance was the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg.
Heinz Pollak was in charge of production. For picture director Alfred Stöger this was the last cinematic work, he died in January 1962. Hans Moser sings the farewell song , music: Joseph Drechsler , text: Ferdinand Raimund.
Christiane Hörbiger (as Lottchen) and Paula Wessely (as the satisfaction) are mother and daughter.
The film had its world premiere on November 24, 1961. In Austria, the mass start was on May 25, 1962. On February 17, 2017, Edel Germany GmbH released Der Bauer als Millionär on DVD.
Reviews
“Ferdinand Raimund's romantic magical fairy tale: The fairy godmother satisfaction in the fight against the farmer possessed by the demon of wealth. The Austrian folk piece in a formally wooden, but well-cast film recording from the Salzburg Festival. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Except for the more open-minded visual design (passable color photography) true to the factory and left in the stage frame ..., but thanks to the merits of the ensemble and the original music, the atmosphere of the poetry is preserved."
Web links
- The farmer a millionaire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The farmer as a millionaire at filmportal.de
- The farmer as a millionaire Fig. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne Nr. 5941 (in the picture: Josef Meinrad)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferdinand Raimund. The farmer as a millionaire sS salzburgerfestspiele.at
- ↑ The farmer as a millionaire Fig. DVD case, recording of a production at the Salzburg Festival in 1961
- ^ The farmer as a millionaire in the lexicon of international films
- ↑ The farmer as a millionaire in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
