Hölleisengretl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hölleisengretl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jo Baier |
| script | Jo Baier |
| production |
Helmut Rasp , Jochen Ludwig , Elan-Film Gierke |
| music |
Hubert von Goisern , Stefan Melbinger |
| camera |
Horst Zeidler , Jürgen Martin |
| occupation | |
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Hölleisengretl is a German television film produced in 1994 and shown for the first time on April 16, 1995, based on the story " The story of the humpbacked Hölleisengretl " by Oskar Maria Graf from 1929. However, the plot of the film differs considerably from that of Graf's story .
Jo Baier wrote the script and also directed . For this he received the directing award of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 1995 . The leading actress Martina Gedeck was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for her role .
content
Post-war years in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps: the misshapen farmer Gretl is the heiress of a high-yielding farm that she has to manage alone with two long-time servants. Once her dying father, who made no secret of his contempt for his daughter, reluctantly gave her the court because her two brothers had died in the war. It is probably because of her hunched back and her picky manner towards men that she is still single in her early 30s. When she got involved with a farm laborer on a stormy night during the harvest and became pregnant, the doctor advised her to have an abortion; childbirth could potentially kill her and the child. Gretl decides to follow this advice.
When attending church on Sundays, the outsider only experiences suspicious looks and ambiguous remarks, but Gretl is a strong woman. She falls in love with the late returnee and good-looking farm boy Matthias, who, however, only flatters her because of her property and from whom she even lets herself be married in the end.
Too late, Gretl realizes the tyrannical nature of her husband, who beats her, wastes her money in the tavern and is hardly at home after the wedding. When Matthias simply takes the motorcycle away from the old servant and insults him in an ugly way and even wants to fire him, he decides to act. Since Matthias often drives home through the forest from the inn, drunk and without lights, the old servant sets a deadly trap for him. During the investigation by the local gendarme, all the court residents stick together, so that the tragedy is filed as an accident. From now on Gretl remains alone.
Reviews
- Prisma thinks that the film is an atmospherically dense home story and that a perfect staging and a brilliant leading actress make this work a real treat .
References
- Hölleisengretl in the Internet Movie Database (English)