The Wallner boy

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Movie
German title The Wallner boy
Original title The year of the lord
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alfred Stöger
script Karl Heinrich Waggerl ,
Ulrich Bettac
production Alfred Stöger
for Wiener Mundus-Film
music Franz Salmhofer
camera Sepp Ketterer
occupation

The Wallnerbub (orig. The Year of the Lord ) is an Austrian homeland film from 1950. It is the only film adaptation of a novel by the Austrian writer Karl Heinrich Waggerl to date . Der Wallnerbub was also published under the title Die Kraft der Liebe in northern Germany .

content

Twelve year old David lives in a small village in Austria. He is a half-orphan because his mother Monika had to leave the village after his illegitimate birth and moved to the city. David himself grows up in the poor house and is raised, among other things, by the village pastor. One day Monika returns to the village with the Viennese worker Karl, her new husband, to be a good mother to David. However, he turns away from her and runs away. Karl is also soon critical of Monika, believing that she has betrayed him. Only through the intervention of various people, including the bishop , do Monika, Karl and David find each other again and can finally live as a family.

production

Ever since his early successes in the novel Bread and Mothers , there had been repeated plans for large-scale film adaptations of Waggerl's works, especially during the Nazi era . The film adaptation of the novel The Year of the Lord , which was published in 1934 and is assigned to the blood-and-soil literature , was based on a script written by Waggerl and edited with Ulrich Bettac. Waggerl himself took on a small role as elementary school teacher in Der Wallnerbub , the film's German title. To this day, The Wallnerbub is the only literary film adaptation based on a work by Waggerl.

The shooting of Der Wallnerbub took place in Wagrain in Salzburg , where Waggerl lived. The opening scenes were filmed on Waggerl's own farm in Wagrain. The film premiered on December 21, 1950 in the Künstlerhaus cinema in Vienna in the presence of Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl , Vice Chancellor Adolf Schärf and Cardinal Theodor Innitzer . The film was also shown at the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 .

criticism

The lexicon of international film described the Wallner boy as "an unusual film of its kind, which of course requires understanding and love for Austria's baroque attitude towards life, [but] thanks to the lively village milieu and youth psychological subtleties [pleases]."

Other critics found that Waggerl “with the filming apparently quite consciously adapted to the prevailing zeitgeist, which tended to idyllize every genre, especially rural film; a maudlin child's fate was the perfect addition. The disguise of the original blood and soil tendency met with broad approval in Austria. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1987, pp. 100-101.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 8. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, pp. 4182-4183.
  4. ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 100.