Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous simplicity

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Movie
Original title Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous simplicity
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1975
length 360 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Fritz Umgelter
script Leopold Ahlsen based on a novel by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
music Rolf Unkel
camera Kurt Junek
occupation

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous simplicity is a ZDF television film in four parts from 1975, retold by Leopold Ahlsen with Matthias Habich and Christian Quadflieg in the leading roles. The film is based on the picaresque novel The adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen .

action

Part 1: (ZDF: November 19, 1975) The Hanau calf

The Thirty Years War breaks into the simple, rural world of the boy Simplizissimus - later called Simplex - and robs him of foster parents and a home. A hermit takes care of him and teaches him to read and write.

Later he comes under the rough soldiers of the fortress Hanau . The governor has the boy sewn into a calf skin and considers him a "fool". But here Simplex is also lucky: he wins the scribe Ulrich as a friend.

Part 2: (ZDF: November 23, 1975) Der Jäger von Soest

Simplex has had enough of the Croatian riders. He escapes from the camp wearing stolen clothes - unfortunately he has caught women's clothes. This involuntary transformation makes him desirable as a maid. It is difficult for him to evade male attempts at conquest. When the Imperialists discover his secret, they think he is a spy. But now he has money himself and manages to become a soldier.

A naive musketeer, mocked by his comrades, turns into a rude soldier who diligently preyed on and achieved great fame as the “hunter of Soest ”.

Part 3: (ZDF: November 26, 1975) The treasure

Simplex is spared the gallows. As a price he has to bail out a general, which he - once again - manages with a trick. Envious people promptly get up who set a death trap for Simplex. But he is lucky again, instead even catching a pot of gold. Having become rich, he says goodbye to military service and becomes a good citizen. On the other hand, he is unlucky: He goes to a pastor's daughter in the cleverly knotted marriage network. His wife has children. But he soon realizes that the greedy relatives are only after his money. He does not hesitate long and flees in the direction of Paris.

Part 4: (ZDF: November 30, 1975) Adieu world

In the pleasure-seeking city of Paris, many doors are open to Simplicissimus, even those to the Queen's temple of love. Then the insidious "French disease " ( syphilis ) caught him .

As soon as he has recovered, he ties up his satchel and resumes his unsteady wandering. Bitter poverty torments him. The path leads him from the finest Parisian circles down into the company of common muggers. Then finally the insight awakens in him.

He says goodbye to the desolate world and from now on lives as a pious hermit - just like the man who sent him out into the eventful life at the beginning of his story, who - as he learned shortly before - was his birth father.

Others

This ZDF four-part series can be counted among the four-part adventure series , but is not listed in the relevant literature.

  • Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen (approx. 1622 to 1676), the most important German author of the Baroque era, is a talented storyteller with crude clarity. His main work "The adventurous Simplicissimus" is considered the first character and development novel. The novel is a cultural and historical document that incorporates a lot of personal experience.
  • The closing music is based on the song "Ave Maria, gratia plena" by an anonymous composer (Paderborn 1617).
  • The film has been available on DVD since May 2008.

criticism

  • “ An array of excellent actors, a careful, sometimes indulgent equipment and a loving staging. "(Gong, 5 points)
  • “ On the one hand it has become a very free retelling, on the other hand the author always keeps the tone of Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. " (Frankfurter Rundschau)

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