Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom

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Movie
Original title Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Franz Antel
script Kurt Nachmann ,
Rolf Olsen
production Hope movie
music Hans Lang
camera Hans Heinz Theyer ,
Hanns Matula
cut Arnfried Heyne
occupation

Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom is an Austrian film by Franz Antel from 1957.

action

When the choirboys of St. Quirin Abbey are on their way home from a concert, they see a young woman jumping into the Danube from a bridge not far from St. Quirin . The director of the choir, Father Benedikt, rescues the tired woman from the river and brings her to the monastery. Here she is mute and neither the abbot nor the housekeeper Theres can coax a word from her.

The abbot searched the wallet the woman was carrying. Her real name is Renate Burg and she was employed by the Schürmann works in Vienna . There is also a photo of a man in the wallet, so the abbot goes to the Schürmann works. Here he learns that the man is chief engineer Robert Wegner. Renate, on the other hand, was employed as a telephone operator and had started an affair with Robert, who - according to the employees of the abbot - was supposed to marry the daughter of the factory owner Schürmann. When the abbot wanted to find out more about Renate's family relationships, he met Chef Schürmann personally. He invites the choirboys to a company party, at which their performance will even be broadcast on the radio, and the abbot agrees.

Mute Renate first started to sing and then began to speak when she heard the choir boys intoning the Ave Maria . Father Benedict convinces her to make confession with him. Renate reports how everything happened: She herself is an orphan and originally comes from Tilsit in East Prussia. She lived alone in Vienna, had hardly any friends and at times suffered from depression . In the Schürmann works she hoped to be able to do her work in peace among the many employees, but quickly realized that she was overwhelmed. On a company outing to Dürnstein , a village across from St. Quirin, she stayed aside and took refuge in nature, where she met Robert Wegner. Both became a secret couple and met regularly in Dürnstein. When Robert once canceled her, but did not work as prescribed in the evening, but gave company at home, Renate became depressed again and her doctor put on sick leave. She went to Dürnstein, where Robert wanted to follow. Before he arrived, however, Mr. Schürmann came and confronted her about her relationship with Robert, who would eventually marry his daughter. When Robert canceled her vacation shortly afterwards because he had so much to work, she lost all courage to face life and jumped from the bridge into the Danube.

Renate flourishes among the children. When they drive to Vienna to do the sound recordings, however, and they learn that they will be singing in the Schürmann factory, Renate flees the monastery. In Vienna, Father Benedikt confronts Robert, who, however, knows nothing about the entanglements of the last few days and the suicide attempt, and is also new to the fact that he is supposed to marry Schürmann's daughter. He quits Schürmann and goes to Dürnstein, where he looks for Renate. The choir boys, on the other hand, after their song they have sung, send haunting words over the radio to Renate, who hears them on the radio in a hotel. She hurries to the street, where a short time later the choir boys stop in their coach and greet them effusively. Robert also appears shortly afterwards and he and Renate embrace.

production

The shooting took place in Krems an der Donau and Dürnstein , among others . The bridge from which Renate plunges into the river in the film is not far from Dürnstein near Mautern on the Danube . In order to show the actress Sabine Bethmann the jump from the specially prepared frame, director Franz Antel himself jumped into the Danube, was driven away and could only be fished up after about 500 meters by the previously requested gendarmerie .

The St. Quirin Boys 'Choir was represented by the Mozart Boys' Choir . You sing numerous religious folk songs in the film. Title song of the film, which repeatedly plays a role in the plot was homesick by Freddy Quinn .

The German premiere took place on October 31, 1957 in the Filmpalast in Augsburg .

Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom is a conventional Heimatfilm. In the end, the natural and nature-loving Renate wins the heart of her lover, where she also wins over the capricious city dweller and factory owner's daughter.

criticism

The lexicon of international films called homesickness ... where the flowers bloom as an “unrealistic homeland touching piece with attached religiosity and pop kitsch”. The film-dienst saw in it a "Heimatfilm full of sentimentality and obtrusive, spurious religiosity."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 124
  2. Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 199.
  3. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1539.
  4. Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used