Heather melody

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Movie
Original title Heather melody
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ulrich Erfurth
script Gerhard Biller
production Gerhard Biller
for Concordia-Film
music Conny Schumann
camera Hans Schneeberger
cut Lieselotte Cochius
occupation

Heidemelodie is a German homeland film by Ulrich Erfurth from 1956. The main roles are cast with Antje Weisgerber , Martin Benrath and Heinz Engelmann .

The film was mass-launched in German cinemas on October 5, 1956.

action

Hanne Brink starts as a new village school teacher in the Lüneburg Heath . She was soon accepted by the villagers. The doctor Dr. Martin Newiger about her presence, since he and Hanne were a secret couple even before Hannes applied for the teaching position. Martin hopes to be able to marry Hanne soon.

Hanne learns that a poor farmer owes the horse breeder Ulrich Haagen money. The latter, in turn, wants to take over his property in the event of non-payment in order to expand his horse pastures. Hanne secretly lends the farmer money when Haagen refuses to postpone the deadline for the loan payment. Haagen pretends to Hanne that she is now on the verge of ruin, which makes Hanne feel guilty because she only wanted to help a poor person with her interference. A little later, however, Haagen confesses to her that he lied to her. He has no money problems and the ones he had had long since been paid for by the father of his fiancée Manuela.

After some time has passed, Hanne learns that Haagen is planning to sell his horses. He wants to do it out of love for her, since he would always regard his horses as a loan from his future father-in-law, which would oblige him to marry his daughter. However, he wants to marry Hanne. This in turn cannot decide between him and Martin. She tells both men that she loves another. It was only when Haagen's fiancée Manuela renounced him and told Hanne about the renunciation that Haagen and Hanne found each other at the village festival. At the end, the song composed by the former village teacher, which Hanne had previously rehearsed with her students, can be heard.

production

The film was produced by Concordia-Film GmbH (Berlin). Walter Haag was responsible for the film construction .

criticism

The lexicon of international films described Heidemelodie as "a homeland and love film from the Lüneburg Heath, reveling in bright colors and seething feelings".

The film-dienst saw in Heidemelodie a "[h] eimatliches series product from the 50s against the background of the Lüneburg Heath, which combines mendacious romanticism, sweet songs and unpleasant presentations."

The critic Falk Schwarz couldn't get anything out of the film and said: “Only - the heather doesn't bloom here at all. A flat, level landscape that does not invite anything. Like the movie. Because even if Ulrich Erfurth, one of the rising starts on the stage, chose the young actor Martin Benrath and the Gründgens actress Antje Weisgerber (GG's Gretchen) - a story has to be included. But there are none. ”The critic also complained that the film was“ amateurishly cut ”and“ even the experienced alpine cameraman Hans Schneeberger didn't think of it ”as“ a single clever backlit setting with the sun setting ”. On the other hand, Hartl's red is love "a super film". It takes something to "make heather look so gray, barren and empty".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1530.
  2. ↑ Heather Melody. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Falk Schwarz: Nothing to Sing Along With: filmportal, August 12, 2014. Accessed June 7, 2019.