Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (film)

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Movie
Original title Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Harald Reinl (Action Director)
script Wolfgang Liebeneiner
production Theo Maria Werner
music Ernst Brandner
camera Ernst W. Kalinke
cut Annemarie Rokoss
occupation

Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand is a German feature film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1979 with Raimund Harmstorf in the title role.

action

At the time of the Peasant Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen got into a violent feud with the Bishop of Bamberg because he was holding one of his servants prisoner and having him tortured. Thereupon Götz takes Adelbert von Weislingen prisoner, a childhood friend in the episcopal service. At Jagsthausen Castle , Götz tries to convince him to take his side. To seal the new loyalty alliance, Adelbert becomes engaged to Maria, Berlichingen's sister. The bishop then sends his secretary Liebetraut to convince Weislingen to return to Bamberg. Weislingen returns "on a trial basis" to the bishop's residence and falls in love with the young noblewoman Adelheid von Walldorf. Finally he returns to the episcopal service and marries Adelheid.

The situation then escalates. Götz von Berlichingen now promises his sister to the influential knight Franz von Sickingen and attacks rich merchants as reprisal for the capture of one of his riders. Influenced by Weislingen, occupied Emperor Maximilian Ritter Götz with the imperial ban and leaves following this by a specially prepared army. Götz holed up with his followers in his castle and was besieged. Ultimately, he surrenders to superior strength, but first negotiates a free withdrawal that the opponent does not adhere to. In the hands of his enemies, Götz is brought to justice in Heilbronn town hall . He protests his innocence. His future brother-in-law, Sickingen, frees him in a coup when he appears with his men in the town hall and takes the councilors prisoner.

The country soon fell into serious turmoil. Insurgent farmers want to make Götz von Berlichingen their captain after the serious riots that followed. He allows himself to be persuaded to do so, but insists that from now on he will no longer use violence. But his men do not adhere to it. When the town of Miltenberg was attacked and burned down a little later , Berlichingen fell into the hands of Adelbert von Weislingen's riders. Meanwhile, his wife wants to break away from him in order to approach the designated emperor Philip . Weislingen's squire Franz has become Adelheid's lover and is a slave to her. At her request, he poisoned Weislingen. Desperate about his actions, the squire then takes his own life. Adelheid is sentenced to death by a vein court for adultery and murder. Seriously injured during the arrest and broken by the injustice he experienced, Götz is now awaiting his fate in the dungeon tower in Heilbronn. On the night of the poisoning, Marie was still able to get Weislingen to overturn the death sentence against her brother. So Götz dies, surrounded by his wife and sister, despite his injuries, but in the end he is reconciled with the world.

Production notes

The film was based on the play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

While director Liebeneiner took care of the actors' leadership, he left the direction of the action sequences to his colleague Harald Reinl .

The shooting took place from July 17 to September 7, 1978. It was shot on a total of 38 days. The locations were Lungau in Austria and near Zagreb in Yugoslavia . The film was completed on December 21, 1978 and passed the FSK on January 4 and January 12, 1979. The world premiere took place on January 19, 1979 in Hamburg (three cinemas), Münster and Pforzheim . The film, produced by three Munich companies and Bayerischer Rundfunk , was created in cooperation with the Yugoslav Jadran-Film.

The film structures were designed by Nino Borghi , the costumes by Heidi Wujek . Fritz Baader assisted his long-time teacher, the cameraman Ernst W. Kalinke . As the director of the second team, Reinl used over 200 extras for the fight scenes.

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote "The staid, conventional film Liebeneiners is of course less interested in a political and social image of the Middle Ages than in lavish action scenes."

The large personal lexicon of the film called the film a "film adaptation of Goethe's medieval drama aimed solely at external viewing values"

Cinema described Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand as a "largely verbatim film adaptation of the Goethe model".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 3, p. 1388. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  2. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 540.
  3. ↑ Cinema, Issue No. 9, February 1979, p. 42