Green is the heather (1951)

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Movie
Original title The heather is green
The heather is green 1951 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1951
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (today 6)
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Bobby E. Lüthge based on motifs by Hermann Löns
production Berolina Filmproduktion,
Berlin ( Kurt Ulrich )
music Alfred Strasser
camera Kurt Schulz
cut Hermann Ludwig
occupation

Grün ist die Heide by director Hans Deppe from 1951 is the epitome of Heimatfilm . The main roles are cast with Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack as well as Maria Holst and Willy Fritsch . It is a time-related adaptation of the film of the same name from 1932, directed by Hans Behrendt . The outdoor shots were taken in the Lüneburg Heath and in the town of Bleckede near Lüneburg, which was exemplary for all places in the Federal Republic where displaced persons, refugees and locals had to learn to get along with each other. The premiere of the film took place on November 14, 1951 in Hanover.

action

The viewer experiences the former manor owner Lüder Lüdersen as a poacher at an early stage . After fleeing the East due to the war, Lüdersen ended up with his daughter Helga in the Lüneburg Heath, where he now lives with his cousin as an administrator.

The new forester Walter Rainer is determined to track down the dangerous poacher. On his forays out into the field, he met Helga Lüdersen and fell in love with her. When a shot is fired during one of his inspections and a man escapes, Helga prevents Rainer from shooting the suspected poacher.

The young woman has already recognized her father as a poacher. It was the loss of his beloved homeland that made Lüdersen, who used to own a huge forest area, bitter and made him go this way. Out of consideration for his daughter, he wants to refrain from poaching and adapt to the new circumstances. When a gendarme is shot, suspicion falls on him. Helga then asks him urgently to move out into town with her. With a heavy heart he agrees.

While a folk festival is being celebrated in the village and the police roam the heath, a decision is made. On his last walk through the heath, Lüdersen encounters a poacher and trapper and is wounded in the fight with him. The forester and the police, however, can save him and arrest his opponent, the wanted murderer of the gendarme. So nothing stands in the way of Helga's happiness with the forester. A second couple also get together. The magistrate can finally convince the circus rider Nora, who actually wanted to emigrate to America, that she is better off at his side.

Songs

Background information

The plot of the film from 1932 was adapted to the current political and social situation in the still young Federal Republic. In addition to the romantic plot, social realities and conflicts that were topical for the audience at the time were also addressed. However, these were only deepened to the extent that a solution to these problems was possible in the film. In addition, they were adapted to the current tastes of the audience.

The UFA film studio in Berlin-Tempelhof served as the studio . The outdoor shots were made except in the Lüneburg Heath a. a. on the Schützenplatz and in front of the castle in Bleckede .

With around 16 million cinema viewers, Grün ist die Heide became one of the most successful German films and, following the pure operetta film Schwarzwaldmädel (1950) made the year before, it is the first home film thanks to the funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior. After the war, the sobering debris films and the flood of American productions, he met the longing for harmony and private happiness that was widespread in the population.

Ilse Kubaschewski tried to get the distribution rights for "Grün ist die Heide" for Gloria Filmverleih. After suffering a defeat in the award of rights for the extremely successful film Schwarzwaldmädel (1950), she submitted the highest offer to producer Kurt Ulrich , whom she knew from her time at the distribution company Siegel Monopolfilm, and thus secured the distribution rights. The distribution of the Heimatfilm was to be the most important milestone in the career of Kuba, because it exceeded the success of Schwarzwaldmädel and became the prototype of the German Heimatfilm. The same recipe for success was used in production as with Schwarzwaldmädel . So here again Hans Deppe was the director and the script was again written by Bobby E. Lüthge. Most of the actors in the first Heimatfilm also appeared again.

After this success, Ilse Kubaschewski took on many homeland films again in the following distribution series and thus managed to make a name for herself in the film industry.

In the first filming of 1932, the landowner lost his estate and his hunting grounds for financial reasons. Screenwriter Lüthge turned him into a displaced East Prussia , which contributed significantly to the great success of this film, reinforced by the performance of Riesengebirgler's Heimatlied . In a very special way, of course, the film spoke from the soul of many people who had lost their homes through the Second World War and displacement . Also appealing, especially for the townspeople, who are still surrounded by bomb ruins, was the color representation of the unclouded natural idyll of the Lüneburg Heath , in which the action takes place. The film thus follows motifs from the “heath poet” Hermann Löns (1866–1914).

DVD

The film was released on November 8, 2013 as part of the “Filmjuwelen” series by Alive AG on DVD.

Reviews

"Even with the umpteenth repetition on the TV screen, the homeland gossip about a refugee girl and a forester always brings fantastic ratings."

- Heyne Film Lexicon, 1996

“One of the first and most commercially successful German 'Heimatfilme' of the post-war period. Contents: foresters and distinguished poachers, the fate of the refugees, traditional costume festival and three silly tramps for amusement. Artificial and remote from life. "

- 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958

“The film ends in the convivial group of a Silesian expellee association, who, full of fervor and wistful longing for the good old days, sings 'Riesengebirglers Heimatlied' instead of thinking about why, as a gathering party, you don't go to Schneekoppe, but rather dreary mourning hanging around the flat heather. "

- The big TV feature film film dictionary

"A kitschy Heide postcard album, which uses cheesy songs by Hermann Löns and the Riesengebirgsliedes to create the mood ."

- Film service

“A classic of the German Heimatfilm, which combines the longing for the ideal world with the issue of expellees, lets a young couple find happiness and expresses a love of nature in songs with texts by the 'heathen poet' Herman Löns. Director Hans Deppe and screenwriter Bobby E. Lüthge updated a film of the same name from 1932 and were able to attract more than 16 million viewers to German cinemas. They wanted to see how the dream couple from Deppe's 'Black Forest Girl', Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack, find each other again. "

- Kino.de

Awards

  • 1952: Special award from the specialist magazine Filmblätter as the most-made feature film in 1952
  • 1953: Bambi as the most commercially successful German film in 1952

literature

  • Gerhard Bliersbach: The heather was so green. The German post-war film in a new perspective. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1985. ISBN 3-407-85055-7
  • Michael Kamp: Splendor and glory. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 102 .
  2. ^ Film excerpt: Green is the Heath - sung by Kurt Reimann
  3. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 191
  4. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 100; 101 .
  5. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001 . August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , pp. 104 .
  6. ↑ Green is the Heath DVD
  7. ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 172.
  8. ^ The large TV feature film, film lexicon, digital library special volume (CD-ROM edition). Directmedia, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-036-1 , p. 5234.
  9. ↑ Green is the heather at kino.de