The Geierwally (2005)

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Movie
Original title The Geierwally
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Sower
script Felix Huby
freely based on motifs from the novel by Wilhelmine von Hillern
production Regina Ziegler for Degeto Film
music Peter Janda
Klaus Peter Sattler
camera Gero Lasnig
cut Christian Bolik
occupation

The Geierwally is a German film adaptation of Peter sower from 2005. It is the fifth film adaptation of the novel The Geierwally of Wilhelmine of Hillern . Christine Neubauer plays the main role of Wally Flender, Siegfried Rauch and Martin Feifel can be seen in leading roles.

action

When Wally Flender tries to save an abandoned eagle cub, she is attacked by a large eagle . It is only thanks to Joseph Gruber's presence of mind that nothing worse happens. Her father Franz Flender does not agree that Wally wants to raise the young animal that is called Hansi. Everything belongs in its place, he explains to little Hanni Gruber, Joseph Gruber's daughter. Gruber's wife Liesel died early. Franz Flender still hopes that his daughter and Joseph, who were once together, will become a couple. Wally left Gruber at the time to study in town. Flender tells Joseph that he had to take out a mortgage on his farm. The Wally didn't know about it. If he and Wally got together again, everyone would be helped. Joseph doesn't think Wally will give up her opposition to him. When Flender said she had to obey him, Joseph replied that those days were long gone.

At the local rifle festival there is a scandal when Wally, asked to dance by Joseph, resists. As she runs away, Joseph yells after her with general laughter: "Then live with your vulture, Geierwally!" Wally leans against a wall and weeps bitterly, she still has not got over the fact that Joseph turned to another woman at the time. Back on the farm, Wally is taken to the prayer again by her father, who wants to force her to marry the big farmer and goes so far as to beat his daughter. Wally then packs her bags and retreats to a small alpine hut high in the mountains. Her young eagle follows her. Before that, she lets Joseph know that he would like to have the home court, but he would never get it. When Joseph explains to her that he is not interested in the court, it is heavily in debt and that her father has asked him for help, she accuses him of lying.

Joseph, who knows from his little daughter where Wally is, finds her near her hut, where she collapsed in the meadow because a wound on her foot became badly infected. Wally again harshly refuses his offer of help. In the following years she treats herself with collected herbs, which also works. Franz Flender has now realized, something Joseph is not innocent of, that he has gone too far with his daughter. The maid Veronika, who works on his farm, offers to bring Wally his apology. But she doesn't even think about it and plays the wrong game. She tells the farmer that Wally said he died and buried for her, and she tells similar lies to Joseph, whom she would love to be a husband himself.

Shortly afterwards, on a particularly stormy night, Franz Flender's heart, which had been sick for a long time, no longer goes along with it, he is dying. Wally, who sensed something was wrong, rushed to see her father. Veronica's intrigue emerges on his deathbed and is expelled from the court. Father and daughter can still speak before the old farmer closes his eyes forever. And finally Joseph and Wally find each other too.

Production notes and background

The shooting took place in Hinterstoder , Vorderstoder , Windischgarsten and Pyhrn Priel . The film was produced by Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin + Cologne) in co-production with Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH (Vienna) on behalf of ARD Degeto Film (Frankfurt am Main).

The Geierwally premiered on January 7, 2005 at prime time on First .

Christine Neubauer, whose idea was to film it again, described the personification of Geierwally as her dream role. When asked about the film, the actress said: "We wanted to make a home film with great seriousness and authenticity, without fuss." Neubauer was also not doubled when it comes to both the work in the stable and the scenes in the steep wall, as well as the work with the birds of prey. When asked that the film was not about a vulture, but an eagle, the actress explained: “There was never a vulture, that's simply the Tyrolean usage that summarizes birds of prey as“ vultures ”.” Also in the original version the title character from an eagle's nest.

DVD

On January 7, 2005, the film was released on DVD by EuroVideo Medien GmbH.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the worst rating (thumbs down) and found: "The Neubauer plays well, but Rauch dies like in the comedy aristocracy."

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said that the Degeto trusts in the “elemental force of the original and the full-woman qualities of her main actress. Christine Neubauer [has] not only the right proportions, she [is] also the right mime cast. "Tittelbach found that jeans were used instead of dirndls, but that there were" few other modern accessories ".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Geierwally filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Start dates for Die Geierwally . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved November 29, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film " Die Geierwally " Christine Neubauer and Martin Feifel. Edgy characters and gritty clichés . In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ “The Heimatfilm experiences a renaissance” 1875: The novel “Die Geierwally” appears in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 7, 2005. Accessed on July 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ Die Geierwally ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DVD @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.video.de
  6. ↑ Die Geierwally See tvspielfilm.de