The Wild Duck (1976)
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| Original title | The wild duck |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| script | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| production | Bernd Eichinger for Solaris Film (Munich), Sascha-Film (Vienna), WDR (Cologne) |
| music | Niels Janette Walen |
| camera | Robby Muller |
| cut | Jutta Brandstaedter |
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Die Wildente is a German-Austrian feature film from 1976 based on the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen . Directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer played Bruno Ganz starred.
action
Gregers, son of the consul Werle, returns to his parents' house after a long absence. At a company his father gives, he learns that his father generously supports the Ekdal family. Gregers, who brought his childhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal with him, also knows why: his father had drawn old Ekdal into an affair and thus ruined him; he also had a relationship with his wife. Therefore Gregers does not rule out that the adorable little Hedvig Ekdal is not Hjalmar's daughter, but in fact that of his father and thus his half-sister.
Disgusted by his father's behavior, Gregers moves to the Ekdals to open their eyes. He wants to clear up Hjalmar about his suspicions and break with the father. The Ekdals, however, want nothing to do with his statements; they persist in their unusual approach to life. On closer inspection, Hjalmar turns out to be more and more feeble and incapable of life; the family is supported almost exclusively by his hardworking wife, Gina Ekdal. Hjalmar delves into his daydreams, his keeping of animals, including a tame wild duck, and "inventions" that take on increasingly bizarre and bizarre forms.
When Consul Werle stopped by one day to persuade his son to come home, Gregers finally broke up with him. He now wants to finally tell Hjalmar Ekdal the whole truth, but is supported by understandable arguments from Gina and the doctor Dr. Relling prevented it. More and more, Hjalmar's lie in life seems to be of vital importance to him. Finally there is a drama with a fatal outcome.
production
The shooting took place at the beginning of 1976. The wild duck was premiered on September 10, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main and released for young people aged 12 and over. Probably because of the participation of Jean Seberg, the film ran in the USA the following year under the title The Wild Duck .
Heinz and Anne Bennent are father and daughter.
For the GDR actor Martin Flörchinger it was the first film since he moved to West Germany in 1976. For the US film star Jean Seberg , who lives and works in Europe , the part of Gina Ekdal was the last completed film role.
Lambert Hofer contributed the costumes . Martin Schäfer assisted cameraman Robby Müller .
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Skilled Ibsen film adaptation by H. W. Geissendörfer, atmospherically dense and theatrically worth seeing, but in parts noticeably smooth and sterile."
Hellmuth Karasek from Spiegel evaluated the film from the perspective of the 1976 Bundestag election year. In his review of September 20, 1976, it says on page 215: “If Ibsen's dramas of the realistic period are fanfare (for women's emancipation, against the rotten pillars of society, against the political and private life lie), the later 'wild duck' looks at best like a stuffed trumpet, a plea for the dull muddling on, against the new idealizing. So Geissendörfer has apparently filmed the latest mood in the West with the 'Wild Duck' - nostalgia, a reason not only to choose the CDU, but this Ibsen of all people? [...] But Geissendörfer's beautiful, calm and precise actor-film avoids such parallel short-circuits by making - unlike the theater - a really twelve-year-old (Anne Bennent, who is free from any children's kitsch), the actual 'heroine', i.e. also the can make real 'victims' of his film. And this girl is just as beaten with her mendacious, shabby-idyllic parents' house as with the zealous love of the do-gooder Werle, in whom Ibsen does not criticize the zeal for reform, but the fact that this zeal for reform is moral rather than economic. Bruno Ganz therefore not only plays the idiot who drowns out his own weakness and uptightness with puritanical demands on his victims - he also plays (and this makes his tragedy) the only one who loves little Ekdal: fervently like a better future. "
Web links
- The Wild Duck at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wild duck at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Films , Volume 9, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, p. 4315
- ↑ A blind future? In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1976 ( online ).