The Kreuzlschreiber

This article covers the movie. For the peasant comedy by Ludwig Anzengruber, which premiered in 1872, see Die Kreuzelschreiber .

Movie
Original title	The Kreuzlschreiber
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1950
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Eduard von Borsody
script	Otto Bielen , Eduard von Borsody
production	Tobis Tonbild Syndicate DEFA (completion)
music	Werner Bochmann
camera	Friedl Behn-Grund
cut	Eva Kroll
occupation
Emil Hess : The large farmer from Grundldorf Charlotte Schellhorn : Lenerl, his daughter Willy Danek : Martin, a farm boy, an admirer of Lenerl Fritz Kampers : Steinklopferhans Wolf Kaiser : Anton Huber, farmer Olga von Togni : Josefa, his wife Lucie English : Liesl, waitress Rudolf Carl : Michl, farm boy from Zwentdorf Georg Vogelsang : Brenninger farmer from Zwentdorf, a Kreuzlschreiber Frida Richard : Annamirl, the woman from Brenninger Hans Adalbert von Schlettow : Altlechner, Mayor of Zwentdorf Gert Fröbe : Funny farm boy with the zither Karl Ehmann : Lawyer from Vienna Louis Ralph : Farmer Maria Hofen : Altlechnerin Klaus Pohl : Fuhrwerkknecht

Die Kreuzlschreiber is a Tobis film and was directed by Eduard von Borsody based on motifs from the folk piece Die Kreuzelschreiber by Ludwig Anzengruber from 1872.

action

The major farmer from Grundldorf wants to ensure that the planned new railway line is built through his village and not through the nearby Zwentdorf. So he comes to Zwentdorf and persuades the illiterate farmers to put their “Kreuzl” under the prepared petition with which they strictly reject any structural changes in the area.

When the wives of the Zwentdorf farmers learn that their husbands have been tricked by the Grundldorfer, they go on a marriage strike. This only ends when the railway line through Zwentdorf is still being built.

Others

The film, which was shot in Carinthia in 1944, is a so-called defector . That is, it was no longer finished at the end of the war and the Third Reich. At the end of the war the film was in music synchronization. The completion took place after the war by DEFA in East Berlin . Its release for public screening by the Soviet film control took place in February 1950. The premiere was on April 7, 1950 in East Berlin (FRG 1951).

Apart from the motif of the marriage strike, Die Kreuzlschreiber has little to do with Anzengruber's play. At Anzengruber, the village pastor calls on the women to go on a marriage strike because their husbands want to sign a resolution in favor of a theologian who is critical of the Pope. As is typical for deserters, the film completely ignores the situation of the last years of the war.

Reviews

"Slow comedy based on the folk play of the same name."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The Kreuzlschreiber in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Kreuzlschreiber. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 9, 2017 .