Three birches on the heather

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Movie
Original title Three birches on the heather
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ulrich Erfurth
script Erich Engels
Wolf Neumeister
production Walter Koppel
music Siegfried Franz
camera Willy Winterstein
cut Ilse Voigt
occupation

Drei Birken auf der Heide , alternative title Young Blood , is a German feature film by the director Ulrich Erfurth from 1956 with Margit Saad , Sonja Sutter and Helmuth Schneider in the leading roles. The script was written by Erich Engels and Wolf Neumeister . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first hit cinemas on November 30, 1956.

action

Forester Hans Freese returns to Undeloh in the Lüneburg Heath for surveying work . He spent his childhood in this village and found his first love in Rose Heidkämper. It doesn't take long before the two meet again and fall in love all over again. Jan Wedekind, a publisher from Hamburg who owns a hunting lodge here, regards this love affair with suspicion, as he himself has his eyes on the pretty rose. For the girl, Wedekind is the epitome of the big wide world, which is why she is flattered by his advances. Now she is unsure which of the two men she is more attracted to.

A group of gypsies has set up camp at the gates of the heath village . The young Mirko fell head over heels in love with Susanna. But she doesn't want to know anything about him. Rather, her plan is to leave the camp and move into the distance. She chose the gypsy primate Ernö as a tool. When he's not spending his vacation here, he conducts his own band in Paris. Mirko recognizes Susanna's intentions. If she doesn't want to stay in the camp, he would at least like to go to Paris with her to be near her. During a debate, however, Susanna rejects him. Then Mirko - furious with jealousy - pulls a knife and pounces on the girl. Help is coming at the last second from Hans Freese. He was busy with his surveying tasks nearby and became aware of the dispute. He knocks the knife out of the hand of the angry man and thus saves Susanna.

A few days later, Wedekind is found dejected that morning. Because there are traces of Hans Freese, he is arrested. Then Rose realizes that her heart beats only for him. She told the police that the arrested man had spent the night in question with her and could therefore not be the perpetrator. Back in freedom, Hans succeeds in convicting the real perpetrator - Mirko. When he broke into Wedekind's hunting lodge, he had taken away a valuable violin and had been surprised by the host.

At the end of the film, two happy couples have found each other: Rose and Hans and Susanna and Ernö. And Ada Wedekind suggests that her husband Jan, who has recovered, spend the next hunting holiday together in the Lüneburg Heath.

Production notes

The exterior shots were made in the Lüneburg Heath , the interior shots in the Real-Film studio in Hamburg. Dieter Bartels and Jochen Maeder designed the buildings. The choreography comes from H. Schmiedel . Maria Litto and the ballet of the Hamburg State Opera danced . The Budapest Gypsy Orchestra played.

criticism

"Blurred feelings of home and a beautifully photographed heather landscape in a naive love drama."

- Lexicon of international film

“The little-known actors do their best to play against the naivety of the story. Ulrich Erfurth fails to portray the characters' feelings in a comprehensible manner and does not get beyond the vague concepts of home and wanderlust. The landscape photography, on the other hand, is impressive, capturing great images of the Lüneburg Heath, so that it is not able to set a counterpoint to the kitsch of the plot, but rather underlines it. "

- Kino.de

source

Program for the film from the publishing house Das Neue Film-Programm , Mannheim, without number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 3174 (1988), p. 723
  2. ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/drei-birken-auf-der-heide-junges-blut/9822