The fisherman from Heiligensee

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Movie
Original title The fisherman from Heiligensee
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hans H. King
script Johannes Kai
production Richard Koenig
for Koenig film
music Werner Bochmann
camera Günther Rittau ,
Erich Küchler
cut Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
occupation

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee is a German homeland film by Hans H. König from 1955.

action

Stefan Staudacher, the son of Fischer-Bartl vom Heiligensee, is returning to Velden after years of training at the agricultural school . Here, in accordance with the last wish of the late Baron von Velden, he is employed as estate inspector . The previous manager Wolfgang von Döring, a nephew of the baroness, does not like it at all, since he drove the estate to the verge of ruin unnoticed. He's always diverted money, he's being blackmailed by the seedy Gilchert. He used to run a casino with him , which was eventually discovered and put Gilchert in prison for 14 months, while Wolfgang was able to go into hiding with the money. Now Gilchert demands his share and otherwise threatens to make Wolfgang's past public.

Stefan soon notices that Wolfgang is hiding something. The baroness does not take his concerns seriously and the baroness also refuses to allow him to inspect the books on principle. Only the Baroness Sabine sticks to him, Stefan and she were best friends when we were children. In the meantime they both love each other, but have to hide the improper relationship from the baroness and Wolfgang. Wolfgang was unable to meet the deadline set by Gilchert to pay his debts and issues Gilchert a bill of exchange for 3,000 DM - with a forged signature of the baroness. Gilchert notices the dizziness a short time later. Wolfgang is also caught by Stefan trying to smuggle funds for Gilchert past the baroness and confronts him. Wolfgang, who has observed Stefan and Sabine on a secret rendezvous, reveals the romance to the baroness, who Stefan immediately dismisses.

Constant rainfall has made the dam permeable. If it breaks, the entire village of Velden would be flooded. This is why the baroness hired a construction company to repair the dam a long time ago, but they did not carry out any work. The Fischer-Bartl is responsible for the stability of the dam and therefore visits the baroness and quickly realizes that Wolfgang embezzled the 3,000 DM necessary for the repair of the dam. The baroness wrote another check for the same amount, but Wolfgang used it to pay Gilchert's debts. Bartl instructs his son Stefan to go to the construction company and describe the situation in Velden there.

Stefan learns that money has never been paid for repairs. On the way back to Velden he meets Wolfgang and tells him that he knows about his machinations. He gives Wolfgang 24 hours to confess his missteps to the baroness. Wolfgang returns to the estate and writes a farewell letter. At that moment the news rushed through the village that the dam had broken.

At the dam, the men around Stefan and Bartl try to repair the numerous leaks and reinforce the dam wall with tree trunks. Wolfgang also rushed to the dam. When transporting a tree trunk on the dam crest, it falls and falls down the dam. He can only be recovered dead.

Thanks to the combined efforts of the Veldens men, the dam can be repaired. Major damage was averted from the village. The baroness now agrees to her daughter marrying Stefan, especially since she only became a baroness through marriage.

production

The film was shot in a makeshift studio in a gym in Dachau, at the Gosauseen , the Wolfgangsee and the Hallstätter See in the Salzkammergut as well as at Gut Bernried on the Starnberger See in Bavaria .

The world premiere took place on September 16, 1955 in Stuttgart's Bali .

criticism

The lexicon of international films described the film as a "romantic love story [...] Stylistically located between the Backfischroman and Heimatfilm, the film, staged with medium routine, offers light entertainment."

Cinema found: “A lot of lard, but flavored with a subtlety reminiscent of melo master Douglas Sirk ( What Heaven Permits ). Conclusion: Chic kitsch box with a double bottom ”.

Der Spiegel gave a similar verdict: "The melodrama [...] is [...] more than a home film: Hans H. König, the misunderstood genius among German directors, staged lively, precise and as sensual as otherwise only Americans can."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 2. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1017.
  2. ↑ See cinema.de
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel , No. 23/1991, p. 280.