The girls from Immenhof

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Movie
Original title The girls from Immenhof
The girls from Immenhof Logo 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Wolfgang Schleif
script Erich Ebermayer ,
Peer Baedeker
edited by Hansi Kessler and Wolfgang Schleif
production Gero alarm clock
music Norbert Schultze
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Hermann Ludwig
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Wedding at Immenhof

The girls from Immenhof is the first in a trilogy of films about the Immenhof and its residents that came to the cinema in the 1950s. Directed by Wolfgang Schleif , Angelika Meissner-Voelkner can be seen as Dick, Heidi Brühl as Dalli and Christiane König as Angela, granddaughters of grandma Jantzen, played by Margarete Haagen . The film plot is based on the youth novel Dick and Dalli and the Ponies written by Ursula Bruns .

action

The Immenhof pony stud is the purpose in life of Henriette Jantzen and her granddaughters Angela, Barbara, who is only called Dick, and Brigitte, who is known everywhere as Dalli. While the 26-year-old Angela keeps the books of the stud farm and is involved in the administration, her sisters Dick, 16 years old, and Dalli, 12 years old, devote themselves exclusively to the care of the over one hundred ponies. Although Grandma Jantzen is famous for her breeding methods, the old lady has money worries. The sale of ponies is sluggish and no longer as profitable as it used to be and hardly covers the costs that have to be spent on breeding them. For this reason, the “Forsthaus Dodau” belonging to the estate was leased to the riding instructor Jochen von Roth, who runs the “Equestrian Paradise” there and intends to devote himself only to breeding horses in the near future.

The big holidays are just around the corner and a visit is expected, Ethelbert, a distant relative from the city from a wealthy family. But Dick and Dalli are very quickly disappointed with their guest. He turns out to be an arrogant, arrogant snob . The photograph of an alleged friend of Ethelbert and the affection that one of von Roth's riding students showed for him, as well as his attempts to get closer to Angela, shake the hitherto peaceful life on the farm. Although Dick in particular tries to approach Ethelbert several times, his boastful manner destroys any attempt to get to know him better. His complacency makes him an outsider and soon Dick and Dalli, as well as Mans, the blacksmith's son and other friends of the two, want nothing more to do with him and exclude him from having anything in common. When he wants to help them with the hay harvest, they just leave him standing in the meadow. Only when Jochen von Roth speaks to Ethelbert's conscience and relentlessly makes it clear to him that he has to change himself instead of waiting for someone to approach him, does he reconsider his behavior.

Shortly afterwards he meets Dick, who is standing in a stream in rubber boots and is clearing a small dam of mud and branches with a spade. She rejects his offer of help again and says that it is no job for him anyway. Ethelbert then jumps into the stream and deliberately smeared himself with mud. He shouts that he is not afraid of dirt, that he can lend a hand and, above all, that he no longer wants to be alone.

In a thunderstorm night, Ethelbert also proves that he has taken Roth's words to heart. He saves the life of an injured foal, watches over the whole night with Dick in the barn and with this action wins their appreciation and friendship.

But the money worries still hover over the Immenhof like a sword of Damocles . When some ponies fell ill, which Dr. Pudlich, a friend of the house and great admirer of Grandma Jantzen, devotedly cares, Henriette Jantzen plays with a heavy heart with the idea of ​​selling the Immenhof, which would be particularly serious as it would take her granddaughters home. By chance, Dick overhears her grandmother's conversation about this topic and has no other advice than to take Jochen von Roth into her trust. He just sold one of his valuable breeding horses and wanted to use the proceeds to build up his horse breeding. But now he decides to buy the Dodau forester's house, which has only been leased so far. With the proceeds from the sale, Grandma Jantzen is initially able to save the Immenhof. That also means that Angela finally talks to her grandmother about her love for von Roth and the old lady agrees to an engagement.

At the end of the vacation, Ethelbert finds it very difficult to part with Immenhof and especially Dick. He found something there that he hadn't known before and is already counting the days until he can return to the girls from Immenhof .

production

Production notes, publication

It is an Arca film on Eastmancolor distributed by Neue Filmverleih GmbH (Munich). The filming locations were Plön , Eutin ( Gut Rothensande near Eutin), Malente (Forsthaus Dodau near Malente) and Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein . Karl Weber and Hans Auffenberg were responsible for the buildings and Alfred Hanke for the tone. The production management lay with Helmuth Volmer, the recording management with Karl Gillmore and Kurt Rendel.

The premiere of the film took place on August 11, 1955 in the Aegi in Hanover . Christiane König, the actress who played Angela, later said in an interview that she was not allowed to go on stage at the premiere in Hanover, which was a great success for the actors present. The background was that she had rejected a clear offer from producer Gero Wecker, which then led to the fact that she no longer appeared in the two following Immenhof films and Karin Andersen became the woman at Paul Klinger's side. Paul Klinger wanted his wife for this role from the start.

The film premiered in Austria in November 1955. It was published in July 1956 under the title Ferie på hesteryg in Denmark and under the title Jeunes Amours in September 1957 in France. On June 19, 1960 the girls from Immenhof premiered in the ARD program .

Background, follow-up films

The family story was unusually successful at the box office and a year later the wedding at Immenhof followed (1956), this time directed by Volker von Collande and with music by Hans-Martin Majewski . After that, it also only took a year for the third part to hit the cinemas: Ferien auf Immenhof (1957), again with a new director, Hermann Leitner , but again with the harmonious music by Hans-Martin Majewski. After this film, it was quiet around the Immenhof until 1973 , when the first director, Wolfgang Schleif, came up with the idea of reviving the topic with the film The Twins from Immenhof . However, only Heidi Brühl was there again as a grown-up Dalli or Brigitte Voss in her former role. Her male partner was Horst Janson , who had become popular mainly through his role as Bastian in the series of the same name. The film was a moderate success, but the other film Spring on Immenhof (1974) was made under Schleif's direction , but it no longer had any particularly innovative content to offer. At no point could the successor films build on the successes of the trilogy or even achieve their cult status.

In the film it is mentioned once that Angela with her little sisters Dick and Dalli, probably in 1945 from East Prussia , fled “a thousand kilometers on foot” to her grandmother's farm. On the other hand, in the 1973 film Die Zwillinge vom Immenhof , which claims to be linked to the trilogy, protagonist Alexander Arkens alias Horst Janson once remarks that Dalli, whose name is now only given as Brigitte Voss, was born “here”. Nor is it discussed how things went on with Dick, Grandma Jantzen and the von Roths, for example, or what happened after the films from the 1950s ended. Therefore, one can only speak of the Immenhof trilogy and two films with the Immenhof title, since the two films from the 70s, apart from the participation of Heidi Brühl, no longer have any reference to the original trilogy.

In 1994 an early evening series was produced and broadcast under the title Immenhof , but otherwise had no relation to the Immenhof films. The Immenhof films were all digitally revised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Die Mädels vom Immenhof and were broadcast in these versions for the first time on television in 2005.

Differences between a novel and a film adaptation

The novel differs from the film in a number of important ways. The action of the novel takes place in winter on the edge of the heather. Dr. Pudlich is not a veterinarian, but the chief building officer Malchus Pudlich. Hein Daddel means "Kaludrigkeit" (East Prussian). Instead of their older sister Angela, Dick and Dalli have an aunt Tilde (Mathilde) who runs the household.

Reviews

"A cheerful homeland film with idyllic landscapes and animals." - " Lexicon of International Films "

“Three girls, a farm with ponies, the kind-hearted grandma with whom there are no problems or generation conflicts. The boy comes from town, people ride, swim, laugh and sing, and the harmonica plays along. To be continued. ”(Rating: average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ”

The film service said in 1955: “To the song 'Dideldumdidelda, mit der Harmonica', Grandma Jantzen's granddaughters Dick and Dalli drive their Shetland pony team to the train station, where they pick up the holiday guest Ethelbert. Pony breeding, children's holidays and grandmother's money worries on a Holstein estate. Fresh color film with idyllic landscapes and animals. "The film service spoke of" graceful holiday games "and continued:" Graceful because his director romps the young actors freely through Holstein Switzerland and the adults just a little - man hardly notices it - lets you nibble on traditional home-film confectionery. Most of it doesn’t get beyond the cinema, but the advice to the big city kid, as well as the waking youthful love, remain in an area of ​​shyness and unobtrusiveness. It's good to see something like this in a German production. Also welcome for children without restriction. "

Kino.de conceded to the film that it was "a great success with the public in the fifties" and that it had boosted tourism. “Pony riding” has become a “popular leisure activity”. Margarete Haagen, who played the role of grandma Jantzen, was "the most popular grandmother in the cinema during the economic boom" and appeared in other homeland films. Heidi Brühl started her career as a singer and actress as a “lively Dalli” with “Trippel, trappel, Pony”.

literature

media

Soundtrack: Forever Immenhof, Bear-Family BCD 16644 AS, ISBN 3-89916-015-0 , with the soundtrack from the first three films

The film has been released both individually (provider Madison Home Video, release date September 1, 1999) and in a complete package on DVD; The provider of the overall package is WME Home Entertainment on the one hand, publication date June 30, 2014, and on the other hand, in a digitally restored version, Universum Film GmbH, publication date June 24, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The girls from Immenhof filming locations according to IMDb
  2. ↑ Interview Christiane König tells, among other things, about the film Die Mädels vom Immenhof
  3. ↑ Nils Müller: Gründgens gave the direction. In: mallorcamagazin, May 1, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Jörn Barke: Immenhof Films In: Göttinger Tageblatt , August 14, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Immenhof Films adS cinemusic.de
  6. ^ The girls from Immenhof (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  7. ↑ The girls from Immenhof. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 17, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ^ The girls from Immenhof In: Lexicon Films on TV (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 529
  9. ↑ The girls from Immenhof adS filmportal.de
  10. ^ The girls from Immenhof (1955) adS kino.de
  11. ↑ Immenhof films DVDs adS filmportal.de