Hot harvest
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hot harvest |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Heinz König |
| script |
Carl Winston , Johannes Kai |
| production | Richard King |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Gertrud Hinz |
| occupation | |
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Hot Harvest is a German feature film by Hans Heinz König from 1956. The film, shot in Agfacolor , was made in August 1956 and premiered on November 23, 1956 in Ravensburg in the Theater am Frauentor. The later award title was: The Squire and the Maiden .
action
In August the hop harvest begins near Tettnang , in which numerous seasonal workers from abroad are involved. This is where the fields of the befriended large farmers Scharfenberg and Stammer lie. For the parents it is certain that Konrad, the son of the Stammers, will later marry Sybille Scharfenberg. The attractive Auschra, a refugee girl, hired herself out on the Stammers' farm. She and her family had to leave their estate in East Prussia towards the end of the war. The parents were killed while trying to escape. Now she meets Konrad, the heir to the court, who was quartered with her family during the war.
When Auschra is injured, Konrad takes care of her personally. A relationship is quickly ascribed to the two. Ultimately, Konrad and Auschra actually fall in love and the Stammers give their consent to the marriage , albeit reluctantly . One day a certain Stanislaus turns up in the area, who used to work as a foreman for Auschra's family. He allegedly asserts older rights to her and demands her as a bride. He chases the couple and even threatens Konrad with a knife. Sybille tries to save her relationship with Konrad by giving Stanislaus a large sum of money: he is supposed to pin a theft on Auschra and leave the area with her. But the project fails. When Auschra Stanislaus again refuses, he lures her into a barn on a false pretext. Hateful he pushes her down through an open hatch. As if by a miracle, Auschra survives badly injured. Stanislaus is arrested by the police.
background
The source of inspiration for the formal design of Hot Harvest was apparently the film Bitter Rice from 1949 , which can be assigned to Italian neorealism . In this respect, the work clearly stands out from other Heimatfilm productions of that time. Otherwise, however, he largely adheres to the conventions of the genre.
In the original version of the film, Auschra dies in Konrad's arms after falling from the attic. However , the distributor did not agree to this end, which is also described in the Illustrierte Film-Bühne (No. 3540). He considered the death of the heroine as unreasonable for the audience and therefore a new ending should be shot. During this period (March 1957) Edith Mill had an accident with her car and split her lip. Heavily made up, she had to shoot the new final scene. König solved the forced end by suggesting the heroine's survival as "only possible". The film later came back to the cinemas under the distribution title The Manor and the Girl .
The early hop growing area around Tettnang ( Lake Constance district , historically Upper Swabia ) not far from Lake Constance served as the shooting location .
Voices and reviews of the film
- "A socially critical passion drama that copies neorealism ( bitter rice ) in content and style ." ( Lexicon of International Films , 1990 edition, page 1548)
- " Sentimental, psychologically implausible, only moderately exciting at the end. " (Lexikon des Internationale Films, Edition 2002, page 1295)
- " A homeland film that really deals with the homeland, with local ownership and work at home " ( Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus : Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms 1930–1960. Munich 1980, page 213)
- "It's only the external features that are reminiscent of the Italian model, the hops-pickers who flocked to each other, the dances after work, the flashing knife, the speculative exploitation of the milieu. The people in this colorful setting do not act psychologically logically, but according to the strange instructions of the Tension only arises at the moment of the fatal duel. Since certain milieu-related situations in the representation touch the boundaries of what is appropriate, reservations are necessary. " Film-Dienst 49 of December 6, 1956, page 416
literature
- Hot harvest. Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 3540. Verlag Film-Bühne, Munich
References and comments
- ↑ See: Edith Mill - Actress. In: In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film . 49th delivery, July 2010