The bell founder of Tyrol

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Movie
Original title The bell founder of Tyrol
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard Häussler
script Karl Heinz Busse ,
Joachim Bartsch
production Wilhelm Gernhardt
for HD film
music Karl Bette
camera Werner M. Lenz
cut Johanna Meisel
occupation

The Bell Founder of Tyrol is a German homeland film by Richard Häussler from 1956.

action

Georg Gruber starts as a journeyman at Glockengießer Schwaiger. He falls in love with Schwaiger's daughter Monika. Since Schwaiger got into debt while casting two bells with old Ampflinger and who also wants to lend him the money to cast a third bell, both men had agreed that Ampflinger's son Paul would be allowed to marry Monika one day. She doesn't know anything about it, had fallen in love with Paul anyway, but is now getting together with Georg.

The actress Lia Serrana appears with her film crew in the village to make a home film here. She takes a liking to Georg, but he refuses a role in the film. Because Ampflinger suddenly wants to have paid the money for the third bell casting immediately, and otherwise Monika demands for his son, Georg and Monika secretly sell an old Christophorus figure that is supposed to bring good luck when the bell is cast and replace it with a copy. The buyer in turn pays the bronze for the bell, so that Ampflinger's threat is averted for the time being. Paul, however, discovers the secret of the fake and wants to reveal Georg to Schwaiger, who is pouring the bell. It comes to a duel, at the end of which Georg Paul stumbles into the glowing bells. Paul dies.

Georg is now avoided in the village. Monika also turns away from him, so that Georg now follows the actress Lia Serrana. Two years later they are both a couple and Georg appears in supporting roles in the film. His vocation leaves him neither in Munich nor in Hamburg . He climbs bell towers and unsuccessfully applies to bell foundries. One day he saw Christophorus, who had been sold at the time, in a second-hand bookshop , whom he bought and sent to Monika. She sets it up in the abandoned bell workshop and old Schwaiger soon finds his way back to his old courage to live. The third bell is poured. Georg, who meanwhile wanted to emigrate to Canada , returns to the village. Here he meets Monika, who meanwhile has a two-year-old boy. He realizes that it is his child and gets back together with Monika.

production

The shooting took place from April 20 to May 1956 in the vicinity of Innsbruck , Munich and Hamburg . The interior photos were taken in the Ufa studio in Berlin-Tempelhof .

The film had its premiere on August 17, 1956 in the Gloria-Palast in Stuttgart .

Karl Hoppe wrote the song Glocken von Tirol . On the DECCA record label , the title Drei Lilien am Silbersee appeared in 1956 , sung by the Fröhlich Quartet with Béla Sanders and his orchestra; the plate contains the reference to the film (label).

criticism

The catholic film service criticized the bell founders of Tyrol :

“Only bottomlessly stupid contemporaries will believe the script this plot, which is used by the director with maudlin tears, enthusiasm for nature and scenes from children for a new product of full-blown home kitsch. The fact that, in addition to the world of the Alps and lakes, a religious sculpture, constant ringing of bells and a Catholic priest form the pious backdrop as an introduction, makes the measure of the unpleasant full. "

- film service 1956

Cinema called the film “a heartbreaking piece of mind”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WW: The bell founder of Tyrol . In: film-dienst , No. 37, 1956.
  2. ↑ See cinema.de