The geese from Bützow (film)

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Movie
Original title The geese from Bützow
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Frank Vogel
script Frank Vogel
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Peter Rabenalt
camera Werner Bergmann
Peter Badel
cut Ilona Thiel
occupation

Die Gänse von Bützow is a German DEFA film comedy directed by Frank Vogel from 1985. The film adaptation is based on the story of the same name by Wilhelm Raabe .

action

The village of Bützow in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1794: The rich and old maid Luise Hornborstel is the most successful goose breeder in town. However, the free-roaming birds are a thorn in the side of the city council, as, among other things, they eat the straw used for sealing in public places and pollute the streets. Luise Hornborstel, on the other hand, has been trying for seven years to meet the mayor Dr. To get Hane into bed and then in front of the altar. At another dinner with foie gras and wine, Luise becomes intrusive and Dr. Hane, who doesn't even think about giving up his bachelorhood, flees. When the goose problem comes up again at the next council meeting, he supports the issuing of the so-called “goose edict”. It stipulates that geese will no longer be allowed to roam freely in the village in the future. They must always be led by a goosefender and may only be driven to the water once a day. Otherwise they have to live in stables. Free-range poultry may be caught and locked up.

Resistance is growing among the villagers. Luise knows how to use the displeasure for herself, as one of the rebels, Magister August Albus, has adored her for a long time. She instructs Albus to look for like-minded people for a village uprising like the French Revolution . Albus finds it especially in the residents, from whom free-roaming geese have already been locked away. Soon more than ten rebels have found each other and the village meeting storms, headed by Albus, who was inspired by the French Revolution. He gives a speech adapted to the geese and the village, which he has adopted from the French, and soon the farmers storm the barn where the geese are kept. The poultry are liberated, but the farmers now think the revolution is over, while Albus also wants to have the mayor removed. The politicians in the village believe that their lives are in danger, as the farmers also talked about a guillotine - in reality a small wooden model built by a carpenter, with which, for example, cigars can be shortened. The militia, which arrives a few hours later, under the direction of Schlappupp, is called on Hanes instructions. Schlappupp is quartered with Luise, who immediately begins to woo the soldier. The peasants are arrested as supposed Jacobins , while Albus manages to escape. The peasants are driven as prisoners to the Duke, to whom Hane also goes. The duke deposed Hane as mayor and appointed him one of his prison commanders. The goose edict is lifted and the prisoners are released. The new mayor of Bützow is Schlappupp, whom Luise immediately marries. Albus, on the other hand, flees across the border to Prussia, where Luise's servant Regina, who is in love with him, also follows him.

production

Die Gänse von Bützow was filmed from 1984 and had its premiere on December 12, 1985 in the Berlin Kino International . The film was released in the GDR cinemas the following day and was shown for the first time on January 28, 1988 on DFF 1 on GDR television.

After The Black Galley, it was DEFA's second film adaptation of Raabe and the first film by director Frank Vogel since A Handful of Hope from 1976. Lilo Sbrzesny created the costumes, Marlene Willmann created the film .

criticism

Contemporary criticism found the film to be unsafe in the genre; he “constantly oscillates between comedy, comedy and grotesque” but also between the comic, the unsuccessful and the boring. "This mish-mash is annoying", even if the good acting performances make it partly forgotten. Other critics wrote that Vogel was “caught in the pitfalls of Raabe's prose” and simply failed because of literary satire.

The film-dienst called Die Gänse von Bützow a “completely unsuccessful comedy that missed the literary original and had considerable theatrical achievements, which, however, seem out of place in this context. The intended parable of the urgent need for revolutionary changes is hardly recognizable. "

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Agde: Partly funny . In: Filmspiegel , No. 2, 1986, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Horst Knietzsch: Caught in the pitfalls of Raabe's prose . In: Neues Deutschland , December 13, 1965.
  3. ↑ Renate Reschke: Failed on literary satire . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 5, 1986, pp. 7–8.
  4. ^ The geese from Bützow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used