Heidi and Peter

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Movie
Original title Heidi and Peter
Country of production Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Franz Schnyder
script Richard Schweizer ,
Max Haufler ,
Paul Luffy ,
David Wechsler
production Praesens-Film AG, Zurich
( Peter Riethof , Lazar Wechsler )
music Robert Blum
camera Emil Berna
cut Hermann Haller
occupation

Heidi and Peter by director Franz Schnyder is a Swiss film from 1955. Elsbeth Sigmund plays the title role , Heinrich Gretler plays Heidi's grandfather, Alp-Oehi, and Thomas Klameth can again be seen as Goat Peter. Also Isa Günther , Willy Birgel , Anita Mey , Theo Lingen and Carl Wery are back on the field again.

The film is based freely on the novel Heidi Can Use What It Learned (1881) by Johanna Spyri . It was the first Swiss color film. The color shots were intended to "bring out the Swiss mountains even better".

action

Two years have passed since Heidi and Klara separated. Klara's plan to visit Heidi failed again and again. Since Heidi's departure, Klara's recovery has made no further progress, but rather setbacks. At times she has to rely on the wheelchair again.

Heidi is really busy at school, Peter prefers to spend his time sledding. Alp-Oehi devises a ruse: disguised as Nikolaus, he scares Peter so much on December 6th that the boy wants to concentrate more on school. But learning to read doesn't really work out. Only when Heidi helps him does what the teacher could not do occurs; Peter is learning to read fluently.

After it looks like it won't work again, Klara can still travel to Switzerland thanks to her grandmother. Peter lost the letter stating the time of her arrival, so that Heidi only found out at the last moment that Klara was coming. From now on, Heidi has to take care of her guest. Since Klara cannot walk well, Heidi can no longer accompany Peter to the alp, which annoys the boy because he built a shelter especially for her.

On the alp, Peter meets geometers who measure the mountains. After a conversation with the surveyors, Peter also wants to become a surveyor because then you can stay in the mountains. The training costs a lot of money that Peter's mother cannot afford.

The Alp-Oehi, who observes very closely, talks to Klara's grandmother about the girl who, in his opinion, grows up to be protected and controlled by others, which means she was only able to develop little self-confidence. But she needs this in order to be able to stand firmly in life. He got the impression that Miss Rottenmeyer would like to see Klara continue to sit in a wheelchair.

Peter, who has become increasingly taciturn towards Heidi and Klara, discovers Klara's wheelchair that has been moved to one side and, furious, lets him roll down the mountain, so that it crashes. He hopes that Klara will have to leave when she no longer has her wheelchair. During the night Peter had nightmares about what he did. Alp-Oehi quickly finds out who pushed the wheelchair away, but keeps his knowledge to himself because Klara is now being encouraged to stand on her own two feet again. Above all, he believes that Fraulein Rottenmeyer's excessive care is a hindrance to Klara's recovery and development and manages to scare the governess away from the alp. He then confronts Peter and frees him from his agony of conscience by making it clear to him that he actually did exactly the right thing by destroying the wheelchair. Meanwhile, Peter and Klara get along again through Heidi's mediation and the three children go to the mountains from now on.

On a stormy night, Klara is very afraid of a thunderstorm. When Alp-Oehi has to go to the village because the stream threatens to flood the small town, she follows him into the night in panic, before Heidi can stop her. Finally Heidi and her grandfather find Klara shivering in the forest on the edge of a bridge. Shortly afterwards the mountain stream floods the village. Fortunately, there are no fatalities to complain about, but major property damage has occurred. Having lost her head in a storm proves to be a healing shock for Klara, she is now transformed. As a matter of course, she helps with the clean-up work and, to the delight of Heidi, even develops her own initiative. When Consul Sesemann arrives in the village, he is amazed at his daughter, who approaches him healthy and self-confident.

The creek should be overturned so that such flooding can no longer happen in the future . A folk festival is held to raise the money they need. In order to encourage spa guests from Bad Ragaz to donate, Heidi and Peter perform a song and yodel in the local Kursaal. Klara, now with stronger self-confidence, decides, to the delight of her father, to accompany her friends at the piano in front of a large audience.

The children's lecture and the folk festival were a complete success. Sebastian tells the children that Fraulein Rottenmeyer is getting married and will leave Sesemann's house. Before leaving for Frankfurt, Consul Sesemann assures Heidi and Peter that he will always be there for them. For Peter, he also has the good news that he will pay for the desired training as a geometer.

After the tipsy servant Sebastian says goodbye like the others, Peter leads Heidi to his self-made shelter on the mountain pasture. Heidi's hand is on Peter's shoulder.

Production, publication, background

Latsch in Graubünden, one of the locations for the film

The production company was Praesens-Film AG in Zurich. Filming began in September and ended in December 1954. The interior shots were made in the Rosenhof film studio in Zurich and in the Bavaria Filmatelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The exterior shots were taken in Latsch ( Bergün / Bravuogn , Alp Falein near Filisur ), Fuorcla Surlej , Alp Languard near Pontresina , Morteratsch Glacier , Maienfeld , Bad Ragaz , in the Sihl valley and in the area between Pontresina and the Bernina Pass .

Max Röthlisberger was responsible for the film construction. Production management was in the hands of Lazar Wechsler , Uors von Planta and Ettore Cella .

In Switzerland, Heidi and Peter was shown for the first time on March 9, 1955 in the Rex cinema in Zurich. On December 12, 1955, he ran at Little Carnegie in New York. In the Federal Republic of Germany it ran for the first time on March 10, 1955. It was also published in Uruguay in February 1955 and in Finland in December of the same year. It was published in Sweden and Denmark in 1956, and in Portugal in January 1981. It also ran in Brazil, France and Italy.

Heidi und Peter is the continuation of Heidi from 1952. The film was released on October 23, 2006 in Swiss German as well as in Standard German by Universum Film GmbH on DVD.

Theo Lingen , who plays the role of the servant in the Sesemann household, was often cast in the role of a servant in other films at the time.

Awards

The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .

Reviews

On the Swiss radio and television site , it was said that the cinematic success of the first part called for a sequel "for purely economic reasons". The screenwriter has therefore written “based on Johanna Spyri with a lot of her own imagination, a second story that is 'suitable for foreign traffic' in the most beautiful areas of the canton of Graubünden”. Franz Schnyder, who was entrusted with directing the film, “demonstrated his talent for rural and rural subjects with his two extraordinarily successful Gotthelf films, 'Uli the Servant' and 'Uli the Tenant” ”and cameraman Emil Berna wrote the story in“ spectacular Images ”. It also said: “Because there was significantly more money available this time, a storm sequence, which characterizes the second half of the film as a dramatic climax, was shot in the studios of Bavaria Film in Munich. A huge water tank was specially built for this purpose, in order to be able to show the flooding of the village as realistically as possible. "

“A children's and homeland film that is frighteningly undemanding, especially when measured against the director's potency. What makes him likeable are above all the fresh and natural scenes from children. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Contentwise and technically unsatisfactory and of frightening intellectual poverty."

- Protestant film observer (review No. 331/1955)

literature

  • Johanna Spyri : Heidi can use what she has learned . With pictures by Hans G. Schellenberger. (Unabridged version of the original text from 1881.) Arena, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-401-05601-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heidi and Peter (1955) adS srf.ch/kultur/film. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 514 f.
  3. ↑ Heidi and Peter DVD adS heididorf.ch.de
  4. ↑ Heidi and Peter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used