The regiment daughter (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The regiment daughter |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Georg C. Klaren , Günther Haenel |
| script |
Margarethe Göbel , Georg C. Klaren |
| production |
JA Vesely for Nova Film |
| music | Karl Pauspertl |
| camera | Willi Sohm |
| cut | Josef Juvancic |
| occupation | |
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The Regiment Daughter is an Austrian homeland film by Georg C. Klaren from 1953 . It was based on motifs from the opera La fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti .
action
Tyrol in 1811: 19 years ago the soldiers of the Tyrolean Rifle Regiment found a baby named Marie during a fight, which they took in because the parents could not be found. Only one letter in Italian was found with the child. After 19 years she has grown into a beautiful, if boyish woman, to whom all 1500 men in the regiment are her fathers, even if she swore that one day she would take one of them as husband.
Although there seems to be peace in Tyrol, it is seething underground. The Tyroleans have surrendered to Napoléon Bonaparte's men who were previously enemies. On Napoléon's orders, the Tyrolean freedom fighters are now to be fought instead. The young Toni, who belongs to the freedom fighters, smuggles himself into the Tyrolean rifle regiment as a soldier in order to win the men of the regiment for the freedom fight. He falls in love with Marie.
The leader of the Sulpiz regiment stops a carriage that wants to pass the area. The marquise, who turns out to be Marie's aunt, sits in the carriage. Her brother, Marie's father, died, but had given her the guardianship of his daughter. The marquise forces Marie to come to the castle with her and to be trained here to become a noble lady.
Marie has a hard time at the castle, as she can neither speak High German nor express herself in a chosen manner and shed the habits that she acquired over 19 years as the daughter of the regiment. Sulpiz comes to the castle because he did not follow the regiment that was moving away. He should stay on site to maintain the connection between the regiment and freedom fighters. The months go by and in 1813 Napoléon is on the retreat. The Marquise has finally organized a befitting marriage for Marie: She is to marry the Duchess' son. Then the marquise wants to go to Italy with her family and employees, where they are safe from the Tyroleans. Before this can be put into practice, however, the men of the Tyrolean Rifle Regiment storm the castle. Marie returns to the regiment and can finally be with her great love Toni.
production
The opera The Regiment Daughter was filmed by Georg C. Klaren in the style of a home film. He emphasized the love story and integrated landscape shots of Tyrol into the plot, even if inserted singing parts from the opera do not allow us to forget the basis of the film. Typically for a Heimatfilm, the “more natural” relationship - here between Marie and the farmer Toni - wins over the noble marriage with the Duke's son in The Regiment 's Daughter. The two main actors Lindner and Schmid had already stood in front of the camera as lovers in Der Seelenbräu in 1950 .
The regiment daughter was made in the Rosenhügel film studios of Wien-Film, the exterior shots come from Rax . The world premiere took place on September 25, 1953 in Innsbruck . In the GDR the film was shown for the first time on December 31, 1953 (East Berlin) and thus earlier than in the FRG, where the film was first shown on March 18, 1954 in Munich .
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , The Regiment's Daughter was a “mediocre Austrian film based on themes from the Donizetti opera”.
Web links
- The Daughter of the Regiment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The regiment daughter at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1987, pp. 132-133.
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 362f.
- ↑ The daughter of the regiment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2016 .