The Sonnhof farmer

Movie
Original title	The Sonnhof farmer
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1948
length	88, 85, 93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Karl Kurzmayer ; Wilfried Fraß
script	Wilfried Fraß ; Herma Costa-Pruscha
production	Karl F. Sommer
music	Hans Hagen
camera	Karl Kurzmayer
cut	Leopoldine Pokorny
occupation
	Wolfgang Hebenstreith : Stefan; Elisabeth Höbarth : Mena, his wife; Peter Czejke : Peterl, both son; Willy Danek : Martin; Karl Pammer : Old Lois, servant; Helly Lichten : Kordula, maid; Gustav Dieffenbacher : Matthias; Rita Gallos : Zenzi, his wife; Anton Lehmann : Farmer Lehner; Isolde Kaspar-Czejke : first gossip; Lola Penninger : second gossip;

The Sonnhofbäuerin is an Austrian homeland film from 1948 by Karl Kurzmayer and Wilfried Fraß .

action

Stefan Sonnhof runs his own farm with his wife Mena. One day he is drafted and has to go to war. He stayed away for a long time, most recently in captivity. Since Mena could not possibly run the farm on her own, she asked her childhood friend Martin to help her with it. Over time, the two got closer than the Sonnhof farmer should have liked. When Stefan returns home one day, he finds a situation that he had not expected: his wife succumbed to Martin's attempts to advertise.

Because of this breach of loyalty, the two spouses have a violent argument. Stefan finds it extremely difficult to forgive his wife for her misstep, and so Mena temporarily leaves the court. Peterl, their young son, misses his mother very much and starts looking for her. He finds the Sennhof farmer and convinces her to return home with him. The love for both children finally reconciles the couple who decide to try again.

Production notes

The Sonnhofbäuerin was created in autumn 1948 in Sölden (Tyrol) , there were no studio photos . The premiere took place on December 14, 1948 in Vienna, the German premiere was on October 20, 1949 in Munich.

Reviews

“DIE SONNHOFBÄUERIN is… a small, marginal production that amazes both formally and in terms of content. The story of a large peasant woman who is waiting for her husband to return home from the war captivates in the first half with its bizarre, sometimes ex-, sometimes impressionistic atmosphere, which repeatedly glides into the fantastic, during the incomparably sparse, realistic second part convinced by his wisdom. The servant formulates the moral of the story when he advises his master that he should blame the cursed war. Carl Kurzmayer and Wilfried Fraß ... delight the cinephile mind with the primitive, almost Fuller 's furor of their art, and also with its economy. "

The lexicon of the international film found: "The homeland film- like plot revolves around the question of whether marriages can remain stable if the peasant woman who was left alone under war conditions and dependent on male help has become" guilty "."

Individual evidence

Web links

The Sonnhofbäuerin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The Sonnhof farmer at filmportal.de

[1] Criticism on filmarchiv.at

[2] The Sonnhof farmer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .