The sudden wealth of the poor people of Kombach

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Movie
Original title The sudden wealth of the poor people of Kombach
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Volker Schlöndorff
script Margarethe von Trotta ,
Volker Schlöndorff
production Volker Schlöndorff,
Eberhard Junkersdorf
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Franz Rath
cut Claus from Boro
occupation

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People in Kombach is an author's film from 1971, directed by Volker Schlöndorff . He also wrote the script - together with Margarethe von Trotta , his future wife. The film is based on a true story that happened in the Hessian hinterland in the 19th century .

action

After several unsuccessful attempts, eight poor farmers and day laborers from the Hessian hinterland succeeded on May 19, 1822 in attacking and robbing a money transport that travels from Gladenbach to Gießen every month . The robbery went down in criminal history as the mail robbery in the Subach .

background

For the Wiesbaden- born director, the film is important for his later work: “With this film, I actually only started to develop. The opportunity to remember my childhood in Hesse was also good for me ”. The film contains references to Hessian authors: Schlöndorff incorporated quotes from Büchner's Woyzeck and Grimm's fairy tales into the film. "When I was working on the film, I saw myself as Brother Grimm when I was collecting material about the time," Schlöndorff remembers how the film was made.

“We have to try to learn and understand our history critically. It is therefore more important and more informative to leave such an episode from our past in its time, to present it strictly historically, than to actualize it, to make a simile, a parable or something similar out of it. ... It is enough to read the text of the 'record-based report' to understand how a certain structure of society makes it impossible for the disadvantaged to see through their situation and to change it. "

- Volker Schlöndorff

Backdrop

With regard to the actual character of the Central Hessian landscape at the time of the action in the first half of the 19th century, some inconsistencies stand out: The scenes in the forest take place largely in pure tall spruce forests , which did not exist in this form at the time Has. The scenes in the open landscape also show heavily land- cleared parcel structures , as they were mostly only created in Hesse after the Second World War . Another inconsistency is the sight of power lines in a landscape shot at the beginning of the film.

Location

Indoor and outdoor recordings were shot in and around Schäftlarn Abbey .

Awards

Reviews

“[...] German history in the guise of a critical home film, very ambitious. (Rating 2½ stars: above average) "

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV"

“Socially critical film that depicts impoverishment and oppression in the style of a melancholy folk ballad based on the model of an early community. Although the economic, political and intellectual background is not sufficiently illuminated, the film encourages discussion, especially since it occupies a remarkable position in German post-war film due to its formal design. "

literature

The post robbery in the Subach :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kassel Grimm Professorship with Volker Schlöndorff ( memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.nh24.de
  2. Back of: Carl Franz: The post robbery in the Subach committed by eight road robbers, five of whom were brought from life to death on October 7th, 1824 in Giessen by the sword. Files extracted and edited by Carl Franz, Criminal Secretary Gießen 1825 . Illustrated with ten illustrations after linocuts by Johannes Nawrath. Ed .: Elmar Altwasser, Dieter Mayer-Gürr, Claudia Gabriele Philipp. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1978, DNB  790143143 .
  3. ^ Küster, Hansjörg (2008): The history of the forest. From prehistoric times to the present. Munich. 266 pp.
  4. ^ Born, Martin (1987): The development of the German agricultural landscape. Darmstadt. 185 pp.
  5. Working script. (PDF) In: schloendorff.deutsches-filminstitut.de. 1970, accessed May 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 648
  7. The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used