The Geierwally (1956)

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Movie
Original title The Geierwally
The Geierwally 1956 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Franz Cap
script Peter Ostermayr ,
Wolf Neumeister
production Peter Ostermayr
music Bernhard Eichhorn
camera Franz Koch
cut Claus from Boro
occupation

Geierwally is a German literary film adaptation by Franz Cap from 1956. After the silent film of the same name from 1921 and the version from 1940 , it was the third adaptation of the novel by Wilhelmine von Hillern . Barbara Rütting is cast in the title role, Carl Möhner , Heinrich Hauser and Til Kiwe in leading roles.

At the time, the film advertised with the words: “Timeless, poignant drama about love and jealousy. A woman's struggle for love and happiness. "

content

Wally, the daughter of the rich high farmer, is supposed to marry the farmer Vinzenz. However, she loves the hunter Josef, who since a successful fight with a bear everyone only calls Bear Joseph. When she refuses to enter into the marriage with Vincent, which her father has secretly decided to do, the latter offends her on the Jochalm, which belongs to the property. Josef, who she meets on the ascent, does not tell her the real reason for her stay there. While Wally rescues an abandoned vulture cub from the nest and raises it in the alpine hut, the servants of the highest farmer are harassed: he has - convinced that Wally will return ruefully to the farm - Vinzenz has already handed over the management of the farm and he is treating the employees bad. When Wally, who has already been nicknamed "Geierwally" because of her loyal vulture, hears about it, she returns to the farm. While trying to protect old Lorenz from the beatings of Vincent, she knocks down Vincent. Before the highest farmer's servants can lock her in the cellar as ordered by her father, Wally manages to escape. In doing so, she sets the barn on fire.

Wally is now notorious. Talking to a priest leads her to offer herself to be a maid in the surrounding villages , but she is rejected everywhere because of the vulture who follows her. At the threshold of the house of the farmers Leander and Benedikt she collapses and is taken in by them. Later she hires out with them as a maid. Although both men are in love with her and marriage might protect Wally from her father's wrath, she rejects her because of her love for Josef. She is allowed to herd the two sheep on the high alpine pasture . One day Josef and the young Afra, whom Wally immediately suspects to be a rival, come to the Alm by chance. In fact, Afra is Josef's niece and is supposed to take a job as a maid in the village. Wally is appalled that her sacrifices were now in vain for Josef. In the midst of her disappointment comes the news that her father has passed away and she is now the new highest farmer.

Wally returns to his parents' house and now takes care of the farm and servants. She rejects Vincent, but again notices Afra's familiarity with Josef at a shooting festival . In front of the village, she insults Afra as someone who throws herself at the men’s necks, with the result that a few days later Josef exposes her while dancing in front of the entire company without Afra’s knowledge. In her hatred, Wally promises Vincent to marry the one who kills Joseph. When Josef goes to Wally at Afra's request to apologize, Vincent shoots him several times, whereupon Josef falls into a deep ravine . Wally, whose anger is now gone, descends to Josef and hides him. When it becomes clear that he will survive, she consciously goes back to her guilt on the Hochalm, where she lives with her vulture. The recovered Josef brings her back from there, forgives her and makes her a marriage proposal . When Wally announces to her vulture that the three of them have to live from now on, the animal flies away.

production

Production notes

Filming for Die Geierwally began on April 10, 1956 and took place in Upper Bavaria (including at the parish church in Ramsau ), Austria and the Berlebeck Eagle Observatory .

For Franz Pfaudler , who played the hard-hearted father of Geierwally played by Barbara Rütting , this was his last film work. He died immediately after completing his recordings and while filming was still in progress.

publication

The Geierwally premiered on August 30, 1956 in the Düsseldorf Apollo . The film opened in Austria in September 1956.

The film was released on DVD by Studiocanal / Kinowelt on January 13, 2004, as well as on February 17, 2011 as part of the series “A piece of home to collect” including a metal sign for the film poster. Alive released the film on February 9, 2018 as part of the "Jewels of Film History" series on DVD and Blu-ray.

criticism

After its premiere in 1956, Horst Axt rated the film for the film echo and said that one can never argue about Peter Ostermayr films, not even when it comes to their criticism, and that “neither in artistic nor in business terms”. "Theater owners, audience and reviewers, if they did not lump the film together", would know in Ostermayr films "from the outset that they would be presented with a tangible topic" and "whose cinematic realization was neatly, skillfully, polished down to the last" be. Axt referred to the film adaptation of Geierwally from 1940 with Heidemarie Hatheyer in the title role, which was "great", "especially in terms of acting". Remakes are "always dangerous and mostly worse than their role models", here that, that is "emphatically stated, is not the case". It is "not a copy, not in the direction, not in terms of the presentation, not even in the overall conception of the highly dramatic topic". Axt attested Franz Caps a "clever, firm direction", Barbara Rütting a "brilliant performance" and Bernd Eichhorn a "dramatically increasing music". Finally Axt wrote: "Where 'Die Geierwally' is performed and the audience is spared the reference to the Heimatfilm, which it is not, we are by no means worried about its success in all parts of the country."

On the page film.at it was said, less differentiating, that "every film adaptation of the Bavarian legend of the 'Geierwally' , depending on the period in which it was made, had different accents". In this film adaptation the "typical elements of the Heimatfilm would dominate", in case of disaster it would storm, and in case of joy the green meadows would shine against the blue sky.

The Lexicon of International Films described Die Geierwally as "weaker than the two earlier versions, but tart, tastier and more carefully crafted than most Heimat films of the fifties."

A scathing critique held the film Pumpkin appropriate that gave the film just 1.5 out of 10 pumpkins and ended his review with the words: "Who wants to do to the rubbish, can read on Wikipedia what it is. And if you actually look at it, you can no longer help anyway. God bless it. "

Cinema wrote that Rütting himself said that the film was "a fairy tale for adults". The general film critics rate the classic version from 1940 “higher”, but consider Franz Cap's film version to be “more austere, tastier and more carefully crafted than most Heimat films of the 1950s”, which is “right”. The conclusion of the editorial criticism is: "If home kitsch, then this."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Geierwally Fig. DVD case from Kinowelt
  2. ↑ Die Geierwally Fig. DVD case A piece of home to collect the cinema world
  3. ↑ Die Geierwally Fig. DVD case film jewels
  4. ↑ The Geierwally see page filmportal.de. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Die Geierwally (1956) see page film.at. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  6. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1263.
  7. ^ Die Geierwally (1956) see page filmkuerbis.wordpress.com (including film trailer). Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  8. ↑ The Geierwally see page cinema.de. Retrieved May 5, 2019.