The boulder (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The boulder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Moorse |
| script | George Moorse |
| production | Bavarian radio |
| music | Wilfried Schröpfer |
| camera | Gérard Vandenberg |
| cut | Christa Wernicke |
| occupation | |
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The Findling is a German black and white TV film by the US director George Moorse from 1966 with Rudolf Fernau , Julie Felix and Titus Gerhardt in the leading roles. The director wrote the script himself. It is based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist . The strip had its premiere on June 10, 1967 in the study program of Bavarian Radio. It was first released on February 28, 1969.
action
The film deals with the fate of the Roman merchant Piacchi, who lost his eleven-year-old son in the plague and is now taking a foundling of the same age with him, raising him and leaving all his belongings to the young man. Nicolo, as the adopted son is called, uses his power to deceive and destroy Piacchi and his young wife. In a short-circuit reaction, Piacchi kills his foundling, but refuses to regret what he did. He will eventually be executed without repentance.
criticism
"A successful translation of Kleist's novella: through the sensible change to the original and the stylistically closed translation into the imagery, the story of the unheard-of crime in the house of the Roman merchant Piacchi is retold and made accessible for the present."
“An independent adaptation of a literary material for the film, pleasing in the form, important topics of the novella are modernized, but do not reveal the novella. For an open-minded audience that is ready to discuss, the film [...] should provide enough opportunities to deal with it, especially since it is a good example of a new, younger German film. "
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Web links
- The boulder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 258/1967, p. 347.
- ↑ a b Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 5.