Up where the Alps glow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Up where the Alps glow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Otto Meyer |
| script | Theodor Ottawa |
| production |
Ernest Müller , August Rieger for Rex-Film |
| music | Hans Hagen |
| camera | Walter Partsch |
| cut | Heinz Haber |
| occupation | |
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Up there, where the Alps glow, is a German Heimatfilm by Otto Meyer from 1956.
action
Bertl Bruneder and Jakob Brandtmayer were both in love with the wealthy farmer Anna Edelhofer. They decided that Anna would be the friend who would be the first to conquer a dangerous mountain face. Bertl won, so that the wall in the village has only been called the Bruneder wall since then. Since then, there has been an icy silence between Bertl and Jakob, who has since become the innkeeper of the village. The self-confident Anna, who, to her displeasure, had brought a young eagle from the wall to Bertl , which he is now keeping in a cage, repeatedly reproaches Bertl for only having mountaineering and doll-carving on his mind. Only Jakob's young sister, Linda, is really in love with Bertl and practices Goethe's Faust as a puppet show with him .
One day, the tourists Andrea Bauiss and her uncle come to the village. Andrea is a well-known mountaineer who absolutely wants to climb the Bruneder Wall and wants Bertl as a mountain guide. Although he rejects women as mountaineers, in the end he agrees because he has an experienced and famous climber in front of him. Both climb the Bruneder wall, but are surprised by a storm and have to spend the night in a cave on the mountain. The next day they successfully climb the wall and return to the village. Anna is upset that Bertl went mountaineering without saying goodbye to her, and Andrea has developed an enthusiastic love for Bertl in view of the danger they had overcome together. At the village dance in the evening she dances the first dance with Bertl, until Anna, furious with jealousy, intervenes. The next day Andrea leaves with her uncle.
Jakob knows how to use Anna's jealousy for himself: he tells her that Andrea and Bertl had an affair on the mountain. Legend has it that the “ Edelweiss of Faithfulness” blooms on the hardly conquerable mountain called “God's finger”, not far from the village , which, however, has not yet been picked or even seen. One of Bertl's ancestors even died trying to conquer the mountain. Anna tells Bertl of her suspicion that he had cheated on him and asks him to fetch the edelweiss of loyalty from the finger of God for her, as this is the only way he can prove his loyalty to her. While Bertl is on the mountain, she meets with Jakob and is unfaithful to Bertl. He, in turn, finds the edelweiss on God's finger, but falls off shortly after being picked. The guardian boy Thomas sees the accident through his binoculars and alerts the villagers. The mountain rescue team rushes to the scene of the accident and Linda, Anna and Jakob also join the group. They find Bertl who is injured and taken to the hospital . Thomas later goes looking for Bertl's hat again, to which he had attached the picked Edelweiss of Loyalty, and brings it to his uncle Muckengruber.
Bertl only comes back to the village from the hospital after a long time. He only wrote to old Muckengruber and always greeted Linda in his letters. Bertl returns to his hut, where Anna reveals to him that she has chosen Jakob. She was also not sure of his loyalty, since she had never seen the edelweiss that was supposedly picked - she was also not loyal to him herself. After Anna has left him, Linda appears. She has the edelweiss with her that she hadn't given Anna because she didn't deserve it. Bertl now knows that only Linda really loves him. They both hug and kiss. Linda goes to the door with him and releases the now grown eagle. Bertl recognizes: "Often a cage has to be opened first that you notice: You were trapped and entangled."
production
Up there, where the Alps glow , the film was shot in Kals am Großglockner , in the Lienz Dolomites , in the Tennengebirge and in the Eisriesenwelt near Werfen .
The first performance took place on December 25, 1956 in the Gloria-Palast Bensheim .
criticism
The film was marketed under the headline “A passionate love story from the majestic world of the high mountains”.
The lexicon of international films described Up there, where the Alps glow, as a "jealous drama in the (decoratively photographed) high mountains according to the contemporary Heimatfilm cliché."
Cinema found: "Trivial, but impressive images from the heights."
Web links
- Up there, where the Alps glow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Up there, where the Alps glow at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heimatfilme . In: Der Spiegel , No. 28, 1956, p. 41.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 2. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 711. See also Up there, where the Alps glow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 6, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de