Grete Minde (film)

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Movie
Original title Grete Minde
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Heidi Genée
script Heidi Genée based
on the novel of the same name by Theodor Fontane
production Peter Genée and Bernd Eichinger for Solaris Film (Munich), ZDF (Mainz) and Sascha-Film (Vienna)
music Niels Janette Walen
camera Jürgen Juerges
cut Heidi Genée
occupation

Grete Minde , also led by Grete Minde - The Forest is Full of Wolves , is a German-Austrian film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Theodor Fontane . Directing debutante Heidi Genée made it possible for 18-year-old Katerina Jacob to play the main or title role in her first movie.

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Germany in the early 17th century. The minor Grete Minde went through a lot at a young age. Her mother comes from Spain, her father died shortly after her confirmation. Grete's significantly older half-brother is Gerdt, whose wife Trud clearly rejects Grete. Only the neighbor boy Valtin, who adored and loved her as a child, is a good friend and confidante. Trud Minde sees the relationship between the two with envy and jealousy and tries to thwart the young happiness. She even claims that there is “evil” in Grete. When Trud drives her dislike of Grete to extremes, the half-orphan Grete decides to run away with Valtin in the middle of the night.

For three years, the young couple spends a happy time with three traveling puppeteers who go through the country with their performances. One day Grete becomes pregnant through Valtin and gives birth to a child. Valtin soon fell seriously ill. Foreseeing his untimely death, he asks the mother-to-be to make her peace with her people at home and to return home with the child. Valtin dies and Grete follows his wish for reconciliation. But her half-brother Gerdt is not ready to welcome the young mother with her child into the family's lap and to take them in. He also rejects her wish to at least secure the post of maid for the sake of the child. Even when Grete asks him to pay off the inheritance that is due to her, he refuses. She goes to court and loses the trial. Because Gerdt committed perjury when he claimed that Grete's mother contributed nothing to the Minde property and that Grete therefore had no right to an inheritance.

Beside herself with anger of having been cheated out of their happiness and their rights by everyone, Grete now sets fire to the native city of Tangermünde . When the fire is blazing everywhere, Grete climbs the already burning church tower, with her own child and that of Gerdt and Trud. Once at the top, she looks down on the church square. The population looks up to her, her Gerdt is also among the people. Grete wants him to see her to show him where the injustice he has committed has driven her. Then the church tower collapses and the city burns to the ground. Grete and the two children also die the cruel death in flames.

Production notes

Grete Minde was filmed on 54 days from September 4 to November 3, 1976 in Hornburg and Lüneburg . The world premiere took place on June 28, 1977 as part of the Berlinale . The mass start in German cinemas began on August 18, 1977 in Mainz. The United Artists took over the world sales .

The buildings were designed by Oscar winner Hans-Jürgen Kiebach , the costumes were designed by Ingrid Zoré . Karl Baumgartner took care of the pyrotechnic effects . Hans Weth was production manager.

After 61 years, the acting veteran Käthe Haack ended her film career with Grete Minde .

Awards

  • The film received the rating "particularly valuable"
  • The film received the film ribbon in silver as part of the Federal Film Prize , combined with a bonus of 300,000 DM.
  • Katerina Jacob was awarded the Bambi in 1978 for her performance .
  • Heidi Genée was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlinale.

Reviews

“Heidi Genée, known as one of the best editors of German film, was very careful with her literary source when she made her first feature film. Too gentle. (...) In her staging, which is unusually routine for a debut film, Heidi Genie skilfully exploits the possibilities of identifying her story, but her lack of courage, her fear of madness and frenzy never raise the film above the level of a painstakingly clean, sometimes aseptic adaptation. "

- Der Spiegel , 28/1977 BC 4th July 1977

“A film adaptation of a novella by Theodor Fontane, set shortly before the outbreak of the Thirty Years War: A girl who lives in a strictly Protestant-Puritan environment perishes because of the intolerance and harshness of people. Directing debut of the renowned editor Heidi Genée, told in beautiful pictures and calm rhythm, but in places very conservative in terms of the actors' management and dramaturgy. "

Individual evidence

  1. Grete Minde. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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