The beautiful miller (1954)
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| Original title | the beautiful Miller |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script | Ilse Lotz-Dupont |
| production | Algefa |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Bruno Timm |
| cut | Hermann Leitner |
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The beautiful miller is a German homeland film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1954.
action
Müller journeyman Fritz Mertens loves the innkeeper’s daughter Inge Kunze. Their father Walter, however, is strictly against the connection, as Fritz always resigned himself from his previous employers after a few months and moved on. He fears that Fritz will not settle in the village of Erlenbach either. Walter sees the right husband in Forester Anton Vogt, but Inge rejects him. She has made another secret meeting with Fritz when Kat Dramberger joins them. She was abroad for a long time and has now returned to the village. The half-Spanish woman should, among other things, prepare the prizes for the upcoming shooting competition at the 400-year festival of the village. Fritz is fascinated by the dark-haired beauty and Inge reacts jealously.
At the village festival there is a duel between Fritz and Anton during the shooting competition. Fritz only shoots a 9 in the jump-off, but Kat blinds Anton in the decisive shot so that he only shoots a 3. Fritz wins and, as previously agreed, has to let Kat do the first dance. Kat Fritz secretly removes the shot badge she has won. Inge, on the other hand, is now demonstratively dancing with Anton, but flees from the party when she cuts a bad figure in a modern dance. Anton runs after her and presses her and the alarmed Fritz saves Inge. There is a duel between Fritz and Anton, who pulls a knife but is knocked out by Fritz. Fritz and Inge make up and go into the hay together. Kat finds the bleeding Anton at the barn and wipes the blood off his face with a cloth. In the process, she loses the stolen award unnoticed. Anton throws away a burning cigarette and a short time later the barn is on fire. It will be completely destroyed. In the ashes there is Fritz's badge, which is now initially considered suspicious. Inge says that she went for a walk with Fritz and the Kat who joined them pretends that Fritz gave her the badge as a gift of love. Since a denial would only mean that Fritz was the perpetrator at the barn and set it on fire as revenge on Walter, Fritz does not contradict and Inge lets him fall disappointed. Fritz packs his things and leaves.
A few days ago, the seedy Dr. Wiebold approached to poach him from his employer, the owner of the Erlenbachmühle Albert Krügler. He was to become the new administrator of the Hohenstein town mill. Fritz had refused at the time. He had received an offer from Albert to take over the mill as a partner and wanted to accept this for his marriage to Inge. Now he is going to Hohenstein as the new administrator. Dr. Wiebold, in turn, plans to merge various mills in the area into a large association that will bring him money. However, the fraudster has no money for this merger, so he wants to sell the association to the wealthy owner of the Hohensteiner Mühle, Hilde Rüdiger, and finance it with her money. However, she wanted to sell her mill herself, as it had been unprofitable since the death of her husband, so a new manager had to be hired. With Fritz's decision, Dr. Wiebold got closer to his deception.
A love affair slowly develops between Fritz and Hilde, to which Kat also contributes. She tells Fritz that Inge will marry Anton, the forester, but confesses to Inge that she did not receive the badge from Fritz but stole it from him. At the same time she explains to her that Fritz is with Hilde and Inge now agrees to Anton's marriage proposal. Inge and Anton meet Fritz and Hilde at a dog show . Inge then realizes that she still loves Fritz and breaks off the engagement. Kat, in turn, has recognized her mistake and confesses to Hilde that Inge still loves Fritz and is very unhappy. Hilde releases Fritz and drives him to the Erlenbachmühle, where Fritz and Inge reconcile. It comes to a happy ending: Inge's father not only agrees to the relationship. Dr. Wiebold does not get away with his deception because his disappointed lover betrays his machinations to Hilde and these can be ended.
production
The beautiful miller is based on an idea by Fred Miller . The color film in Gevacolor was shot in Berlin, Effeltrich , Gößweinstein and Pottenstein , produced in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio and had its premiere on September 23, 1954 in Lu-Li in Nuremberg.
The buildings are by Willi A. Herrmann , Heinrich Weidemann and Peter Schlewski . Walter Kraatz created the costumes . Production manager was Erich Holder . The line producer took Friedrich Wilhelm Gaik . It was the last film by Harald Paulsen , who died before the premiere in August 1954.
Two songs can be heard in the film: Today I toast myself , sung by Paul Hörbiger , and A woman doesn't want to be alone in spring , sung by Gisela Griffel . Willy Mattes' music is based, among other things, on the song I am so good for you . Egon Kaiser plays with his soloists.
The production was overshadowed by the death of the cameraman Alfred Birx, who committed suicide upon completion of the shooting.
criticism
On the occasion of the premiere, Der Spiegel wrote that Wolfgang Liebeneiner “showed the film the care that has often been praised for it. In particular, he arranged a Franconian costume and rifle festival that is more natural than one is used to. It is regrettable that all the effort, which also visibly benefited some actors, was directed towards such a dead love intrigue. "
For the film service , Die Schöne Müllerin consisted of “love stories of a miller's boy with endless misunderstandings. Heimatfilm with applied folklore. "
Web links
- The Beautiful Miller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The beautiful miller at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niederbayerische Zeitung No. 123 of August 7, 1954, p. 3 ( online )
- ↑ New in Germany: The beautiful miller's wife . In: Der Spiegel , No. 43, 1954, p. 37.
- ↑ The beautiful miller's wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .