Earth (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Defiant hearts |
| Original title | earth |
| Country of production | Austria , Switzerland |
| original language | German ( Tyrolean ) |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leopold Hainisch |
| script | Eduard Koeck |
| production |
Luis Trenker Franz Reichenbach Leopold Hainisch |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Obal Munni |
| occupation | |
and Franz Ludwig-Mörth , Ludwig Auer , Ernst Auer , Leonhard Auer , Hans Kratzer , Mimi Gstöttner-Auer , Anna Zötsch , August Burger , Josef Hauser | |
Earth or Defiant Hearts (German distribution title) is an Austrian-Swiss homeland film in the guise of a folk play based on the play of the same name (1908) by Karl Schönherr . Eduard Köck plays the main role of the gnarled farmer Grutz, directed by Leopold Hainisch .
action
The old, spindly farmer Grutz is considered to be a stubborn and not very sociable contemporary due to his repellent nature. Old Mena, who runs the house for Grutz while he works in the field, helps him. She wants nothing more than to marry her son Hans to Christine Grutz, the old man's proud daughter. But Christine's arrogance breaks out in the form of mockery of the applicant for her hand, when the dreamy Hans is publicly laughed at by her at a church fair because of his advances and his poor origins. Christine undoubtedly thinks she is something better. A little later she realizes that her behavior was inappropriate, but by then it is too late; From now on, Hans avoids Christine.
Farmer Grutz, however, has completely different worries. In the middle of the harvest, his horse kicked hard and seriously injured him. Believing himself close to death, he chooses his gravestone and orders a coffin. Finally, Grutz takes a pathetic farewell to his “earth”, which he had cultivated for years and which he will soon have to part with, as he believes. Faithful Hans doesn't let the old man down, takes care of his work and watches by his side when Grutz is sleeping (next to his coffin). But time goes by, and the sinewy old peasant proves to be extremely tough and does not want to die. Autumn goes, winter goes, and in spring Grutz seems to literally bloom again. In an outburst of anger, he finally smashes the (for the time being) superfluous coffin and reconciles himself with Mother Earth in his field. The broken relationship between Hans and Christine can also be repaired in the end.
Production notes
The shooting took place from March to July 1946 in Sölden and the Ötztal (Tyrol). The premiere was on March 21, 1947 in Zurich, the Austrian premiere on October 17, 1947 in Innsbruck. The German premiere, entitled Defiant Hearts, took place on December 23, 1949.
useful information
Earth was the first attempt by Swiss films to re-establish contacts in neighboring German-speaking countries after years of isolation due to the war. The Tiroler Exl stage , which provided the entire cast of this film, was ideal for this. Ex-star and main actor Eduard Köck also wrote the script at the same time. Although an original Austrian material was filmed, around 60 percent of the capital made available for Erde came from the Zurich-based Omnia-Film by Swiss producer Franz Reichenbach.
The legendary Swiss cameraman Richard Angst , who has already photographed several mountain films by Arnold Fanck and had not left the Greater German Reich of Adolf Hitler until 1945, was behind the camera with his first post-war work. After his Berlin apartment had been bombed out, he fled to the Alpine region in 1944 and was already photographing Hainisch's production of Ulli and Marei , also with the members of the Exl stage.
Reviews
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “A true-to-style film adaptation of the peasant comedy" Earth "by the Tyrolean Karl Schönherr, which premiered in 1908 (...) Unlike the stage play, the film treats the proud daughter to a happy ending with a servant. Unique in the main role: Eduard Köck, who leads the ensemble of the popular Exl stage. "
"Hainisch's best and most primeval production for the cinema."
Individual evidence
- ^ Hervé Dumont : The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 395
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ Earth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 17, 2019 .
Web links
- Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Earth at filmportal.de