The monastery hunter (1935)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The monastery hunter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Obal |
| script | Peter Francke |
| production |
Peter Ostermayr for Tonlicht-Film GmbH on behalf of UFA |
| music | Marc Roland |
| camera | Karl Attenberger |
| cut | Helene Bursek |
| occupation | |
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Der Klosterjäger is a German film adaptation by Max Obal from 1935. It was the second adaptation of the novel Der Klosterjäger by Ludwig Ganghofer after 1920 .
action
Knight Dietwald von Falkenau returns from his trip to the Pope to the monastery run by the sovereign over Berchtesgaden - Provost Heinrich von Inzing . His mission was unsuccessful as he was unable to lift the papal ban on the emperor. The young Walti, who works in the monastery, mocks the monastery cook Severin about Dietwald's cold look, which scared him. Severin rebukes him: Dietwald has a heavy burden to bear. Once he had his own castle. This was destroyed in an attack and his wife was killed. He never saw his little daughter again.
There are now two cases of illness in the village belonging to the monastery. The little daughter of the feudal farmer Wolfrat, who lives in a shared hut with his wife and sister Gittli, is dying and Wolfrat cannot pay his rent. Gittli goes to the Vogt to ask him to waive the rent, but he refuses. The monastery hunter Haymo, who met Gittli on the mountain pasture and fell in love with her, convinced the Vogt, without Gittli's knowledge, to forego the interest.
The wife of the rich Eggebauer is also seriously ill. A barber and charlatan convinces the dumb farmer that only the heart cross of a ibex can defeat the disease, but the bailiff is not willing to sell one to the Eggebauer. When the farmer hears of Wolfrat's financial hardship, he offers him the necessary interest money. For the money he is supposed to nail a recently restored figure of Jesus to a cross on the mountain - he is also supposed to secretly kill an ibex from the bailiff to bring his heart. In extreme need, Wolfrat agrees, not knowing that the Vogt wants to waive his interest.
Wolfrat goes up the mountain at night, pegs the figure, blackens his face and shoots the buck. While the animal is being eviscerated, he is caught by monastery hunter Haymo, who takes him prisoner. Wolfrat stabs Haymo and leaves the bleeding man on the cross. When he got home, his little daughter has already died. When he brought the money to the bailiff, he did not accept the coins, as he had promised Haymo and the provost Heinrich that they would waive the interest. Wolfrat now knows that his act was in vain and Gittli, suspecting that Wolfrat did something to the monastery hunter, goes in search of Haymo. She finds him badly injured and nurses him back to health. In the process, she becomes jealous of the daughter of the Eggebauer Zenza, who is in love with Haymo herself and suspects that Gittli has bewitched Haymo.
Heinrich and the Vogt learn of Haymo's condition; the latter in turn learns from Gittli that Wolfrat stabbed him. For her sake, he indicates in a comparison that Wolfrat is not the culprit. A short time later, Wolfrat, in the face of the figure of Christ nailed to the cross by himself, reveals to Provost Heinrich that he had injured Haymo. Heinrich leaves it to Wolfrat to report himself to the Vogt, who decides in favor of the truth. On the way from the mountain to the Vogt, the entire group around Heinrich, Dietwald, Haymo and Gittli is attacked by a bear and Wolfrat saves Haymo's life, but is so badly injured by the bear that he dies on the mountain. Shortly before his death, he reveals to Heinrich and Dietwald that Gittli is not his daughter, but a child he found and taken in during a war during an attack on a castle. Dietwald now knows that Gittli is his long-missing daughter.
Since Gittli is officially an orphan and “master's child”, she is separated from her promised Haymo against her will and placed in a monastery. There she should receive an education and only then find out who her father is. She is miserable in the monastery. Haymo, in turn, only reminds the entire area of her and so he wants to leave the village. He quits his position as a monastery hunter and also rejects Zenza, who loves him. Zenza gives him up. She secretly fetches Gittli from the monastery and brings her to Haymo. Dietwald and Heinrich, who learned of Gittli's escape from the monastery, also go to Haymo, where they suspect Gittli. Both find out that if Gittli has already fled to Haymo, he should also take care of her. Since he resigned as a monastery hunter, Haymo cannot return to the monastery as such. Instead, he should become a gamekeeper - as the prerequisite for marrying, Haymo and Gittli now finally find each other.
production
The monastery hunter was shot in the vicinity of Berchtesgaden on behalf of the UFA. The film had its world premiere on November 18, 1935. The film had its TV premiere on June 29, 2008 at the mdr.
criticism
The film-dienst described the film as "a homeland and love film based on Ludwig Ganghofer, based in the medieval Berchtesgadener Land".
For Cinema , the film was "an ordinary, sedate folk piece about simple people, superstition and natural medicine."
See also
Web links
- The Klosterjäger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The monastery hunter at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The monastery hunter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 28, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de