The hunter from Roteck

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Movie
Original title The hunter from Roteck
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Hermann Kugelstadt
script Fritz Böttger based on the novel of the same name by
André Mairock
production Helmut Meyer
music Conny Schumann
camera Karl Schröder
cut Caspar van den Berg
occupation

Der Jäger vom Roteck is a German fiction film in black and white from 1955 by Hermann Kugelstadt . Fritz Böttger wrote the script . It is based on the novel of the same name by André Mairock . The leading roles are cast with Michael Cramer , Doris Kirchner and Oskar Sima . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first came to the cinema on February 10, 1956.

action

Mayor Attenberger would like nothing more than that his daughter Johanna would marry the sawmill owner Georg Rust, as he is the richest citizen in the village. To his regret, Johanna cannot show him any sympathy because she suspects that he has acquired his wealth in a dubious way. One day Johanna meets the new hunter Bert Steiner in the Rotecker Forst. The two young people like each other straight away, so that they meet more and more often in the forest and finally fall in love.

The dairymaid Christl is pregnant by Rust. When she reveals this to him and reminds him of his marriage promise, he rejects her. The girl then tries to drown herself in the nearby reservoir. This is noticed by the carver Matthias Feldner, a friend of the new forester. At the last minute, Feldner manages to save the dairymaid.

At the parish festival, Rust and Steiner clash violently. The mayor only succeeds with difficulty in separating the brawlers. By chance, Steiner witnessed a conversation a couple of farmers had with the drunken Jadriga. He is in the service of the sawmill owner and is loyal to him. The conversation is about the fire at the Holdinger Hof 20 years ago, in which Rust is said to have played an inglorious role.

At the request of his master, Jadriga topples the Madonna statue from its pedestal up on the torrent. Steiner and Johanna are the first to notice the sacrilege. When Steiner wants to prevent the statue from being torn down by the torrent into the valley, Rüst suddenly appears. When he tries to plunge Steiner into the stream, Rust only lets go of his plan when Johanna points the gun at him. In the end, justice prevailed. Johanna and the hunter from Roteck decide to go the further way in life together.

criticism

The lexicon of international film draws the following conclusion: "Heimatfilm, which offers flat entertainment with synthetic folklore and pseudonaiver piety."

source

Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1855