A festival on Haderslevhuus
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A festival on Haderslevhuus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1921 |
| length | 61 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | August Weigert |
| script | Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan |
| production | Edel-Film GmbH, Munich |
| camera | Ewald Daub |
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A festival on Haderslevhuus is a German film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Theodor Storm from 1921.
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Wulfhild suffers greatly from the lack of marital steadfastness of her husband, the knight Hans Pogwisch of Dorning Castle, and therefore kills him without further ado with rat poison in order to be free for a younger, more potent successor. This is the knight Rolf Lembeck. He marries Wulfhild, albeit with little enthusiasm, and soon afterwards begins an affair with a young noblewoman from the neighboring farm, 16-year-old Dagmar, who he likes much better. However, he does not tell her that he is already married. The plague had recently ravaged this neighboring farm, Haderslevhuus Castle; only the girl and her father, the castle captain, survived this epidemic. Meanwhile, Wulfhild learns from her obsequious confidante, the clerk Gaspard, that her newly wedded husband is cheating.
When knight Rolf seduces the tender, still underage girl, Dagmar, she gives herself up to him without hesitation. Dagmar's father, informed by Wulfhild of Rolf's shameful double game, one day clarifies the truth to his daughter, whereupon she dies, deeply shocked, of a broken heart. Nevertheless, invitations to a bizarre wedding ceremony are sent and Dagmar's death is kept a secret to keep up appearances. Even the married future spouse, Rolf, knows nothing of the death of his lover. When he sees his future wife laid out dead during the morbid marriage, he goes mad. He takes Dagmar's dead body and drags it up to the castle's own bell tower, from where he plunges down with the dead man.
Production notes
A festival on Haderslevhuus was filmed at the Hohensalzburg Fortress and premiered on October 25, 1921 in the Munich City Hall Lichtspiele. There was probably no mass start. The censorship did not take on the film until June 21, 1922 or July 28 of the same year. The previously imposed youth ban was withdrawn after meeting minor editing requirements and corrections to the subtitles and the film was also approved for young people. Nevertheless, the gross alienation of Storm's original allegedly made in the film was sharply criticized.
The strip had four files, spread over 1,417 meters. After its premiere, presumably a press screening, the film fell into oblivion for nine quarters of a century. It was only performed again on September 12, 1996 in Husum.
Willy Reiber designed the film structures. The costumes were provided by the Munich costume rental company F. and A. Diringer.
Elise Aulinger made her film debut here.
useful information
"Haderslev" is the Danish name of the city of Hadersleben , which was German until 1920 and is located in what is now North Schleswig (southern Denmark). "Huus" is Low German for "house".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Censorship decision on filmportal.de
- ↑ In the declaration it is said: “It cannot serve to promote the public good if the works of our great novelists are offered to the people in a coarse, ambiguous way and without the context of psychological art.” Finally, a festival on Haderslevhuus was called “trash film”.