The Monastery Hunter (1953)
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| Original title | The monastery hunter |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script | Peter Ostermayr |
| production | Peter Ostermayr film |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Franz Koch |
| cut | Adolf Schlyssleder |
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Der Klosterjäger is a German homeland film by Harald Reinl from 1953. The main roles are cast with Erich Auer and Marianne Koch , leading roles with Paul Hartmann , Kurt Heintel , Willy Rösner , Joe Stöckel , Karl Skraup and Paul Richter . After the silent film of the same name from 1920 and the film Der Klosterjäger from 1935, it is the third and so far last film adaptation of the novel Der Klosterjäger by Ludwig Ganghofer .
action
The action takes place in Berchtesgaden when it was still a prince provosty . Monastery hunter Haymo rescues the young Gittli from the mountain, who climbed up while picking alpine roses . She brings the flowers to the Vogt , her brother Wolfrat can't pay the rent and already has enough worries, as his little daughter Vronerl is dying. However, Gittli cannot convince the Vogt to forego the money - Haymo offers to ask the Vogt for her family. Together with Provost Heinrich, he convinces the Vogt to forego the rent. Vogt Gittli himself should bring the good news.
Wolfrat returns home from work and learns that, according to the bather , Vronerl can only recover through the sweat of an ibex . He is called by the rich Eggebauer to whom he still owes money. However, he does not want to have the debt paid by him, but asks him for a service: He is to nail a Jesus figure to a cross of the Eggebauer on a high alpine pasture - and secretly shoot one of the ibexes in the monastery. For the recovery of his wife, the Eggebauer needs the heart cross of an ibex on the advice of the barber. However, the Vogt previously refused to sell one to the farmer. Since Wolfrat wants to see his daughter healthy, he agrees.
He hits the figure of Jesus on the cross and shoots an ibex from which he takes the heart. He is caught and arrested by the monastery hunter Haymo. When they both pass the cross, Wolfrat pretends to pray and stabs Haymo. He flees home, where he finds his daughter dead. In front of his wife and Gittli, he says that his daughter is downstairs, but someone else is upstairs. Gittli suspects that it is Haymo and hurries up the mountain, where she finds him half dead and tends him in his hunting lodge.
Wolfrat, in turn, receives the money from the Eggebauer and wants to pay the interest to the Vogt. He rejects him because he has waived his interest. Wolfrat now knows that his act was completely in vain. Count Dietwald is also waiting for him at home, who is a friend of Provost Heinrich who is hunting in the monastery and who suspects his daughter to be in Gittli because she looks very much like his wife. Gittli disappeared years ago in an attack on Dietwald's castle, but is said not to have perished. Wolfrat rejects him because Gittli is his sister.
Haymo's condition deteriorates so much that Gittli finally stops Provost Heinrich, who passes the mountain hut with his entourage on the way to the hunt. The provost's medic can help Haymo, who can get up the next day but has to carry his injured arm in a sling, unable to move. Gittli confesses to Haymo that her brother stabbed him and Haymo finally lies for her when Wolfrat is presented to him as a possible perpetrator. Only in a conversation with Provost Heinrich in the face of the crucifix on the mountain does Wolfrat admit that he was the culprit. He wants to volunteer for the Vogt, but learns from Haymo that Gittli has asked him for him. On their return from the mountain, Haymo and Wolfrat fall behind the hunting party. Both are attacked by a brown bear and Wolfrat saves the life of the incapacitated Haymo, but is seriously injured in the process. He confesses to provost Heinrich and Count Dietwald, who rushed up, that Gittli is not his sister, but that he found her during an attack on a castle and took her to him.
Dietwald now knows that Gittli is his long-sought daughter. The simple hunter Haymo had to renounce a “master's daughter” on Dietwald's orders. Gittli is brought against her will to a monastery in Salzburg , where she is to be educated according to her status. Provost Heinrich doubts that Dietwald's kind of "fatherly love" is really what Gittli needs. He is not surprised when a letter from the monastery superior informs him that Gittli has fled the monastery. Together with Dietwald, he goes to Haymo, where Gittli has also arrived. Both do not want to part and prefer to go away together. Dietwald now agrees to the relationship between Haymo and Gittli. The film ends with the words "... and across time and space, the romantic love story between Haymo and Gittli remains the bright and happy symbol of eternally victorious love."
Production, publication
The monastery hunter was produced from April 27 to July 25, 1953 in the Bavaria Film studios in Geiselgasteig . The outdoor shots were taken at Königssee , Hochkalter , Cortina d'Ampezzo , the Dolomites , Merano , Rome and Dalmatia .
The film had its world premiere on August 28, 1953 in Munich's Karlstor . It first ran on television on September 24, 1967 on ZDF . The international title of the film is: The Monastery's Hunter .
Two actors from the film adaptation of The Monastery Hunter from 1935 also appeared in this version: Willy Rösner plays the Eggebauer in both versions, while Paul Richter , who had played the monastery hunter Haymo in 1935, now took on the role of Count Dietwald.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as "historical Heimatfilm kitsch".
Web links
- The Klosterjäger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The monastery hunter at filmportal.de
- The monastery hunter on filmposter-archiv.de
- The monastery hunter Fig. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 2010 (in the picture: Marianne Koch, Erich Auer)
- The monastery hunter film photos at cinema.de
