Mr. Arnes Schatz (1954)

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Movie
German title Mr. Arne's treasure
Original title Mr. Arnes penningar
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1954
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gustaf Molander
script Jan Fridegård
Gustaf Molander
production Allan Ekelund
music Lars-Erik Larsson
Oscar Rundqvist
camera Åke Dahlqvist
cut Oscar Rosander
occupation

Mr Arnes Schatz (original title: Mr Arnes penningar , German alternative title: "Lost Love") is a Swedish feature film from 1954 by Gustaf Molander . Jan Fridegård wrote the script together with the director. It is based on the novel of the same name by Selma Lagerlöf . The work was filmed in 1919 under the title “ Mr. Arnes Schatz ”. The main roles are cast with Ulla Jacobsson , Ulf Palme and Anders Henrikson . The film premiered on December 16, 1954 in Sweden. In the Federal Republic of Germany the work was first seen on the screen on February 25, 1955.

action

1574 at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden : Much indicates that some of the life guards of King Johann III. are involved in a conspiracy against the ruler. After the guess has become a certainty, the guilty parties are imprisoned. They also include the Scottish officers Sir Archi, Sir Reginald and Sir Philipp, who have previously served the King of Sweden as mercenaries. Soon, however, the three manage to escape to the (then) Danish port town of Marstrand , from where they want to travel to their Scottish homeland. But you have to wait until the sea is free of ice. They hear that the local pastor is keeping a box full of gold. You decide to usurp the treasure. When the residents have gone to sleep, the bulkheads penetrate. The pastor wakes up and wants to stop the men from doing their thing. The intruders furiously massacre the whole pastor's family and servants . After that, they set the house on fire. Neighbors see the fire and rush to the rectory. While extinguishing the fire, they discover Elsalill, the friend of their granddaughter Berghild, who survived the attack on her own. After the helpers have seen what happened, they trace the murderers. This leads to the sea and the ice.

Elsalill has been taken in by Torarin and his wife in their fisherman's house. One day the three murderers appear in Marstrand, who are still prevented from driving home by the ice. In contrast to the past, they have now dressed as noble nobles. They soon meet Elsalill and start a conversation with her. They hear about their own bloody act and learn that Elsalill wants to avenge the massacre .

The captain of the galley stuck in the ice , which is supposed to bring the Scots back home, is plagued by bad premonitions because the ice will not leave his ship alone. He remembers the story of many seafarers that this fate always occurs when a ship has wrongly loaded cargo.

Elsalill and Sir Archi fall in love. One day the shadowy ghost of Berghild appears to the girl and describes Archi as her murderer. Horrified, Elsalill seeks consolation in the church. Archi will soon find her there. After much persuasion, the girl promises to go to Scotland with her. But it doesn't take long before Elsalill is haunted again by Berghild's ghost, which now forces her to report the crime to the city governor and name the murderers. No sooner has she done this than she goes to the tavern where the criminals are and revokes her promise to Sir Archi. At the same time, however, she warns him about the city governor. Then the news arrives that the Scots should go to the galley; the ice is on the soft. The city governor's guards are already approaching to arrest the three strangers. While Reginald and Philipp manage to escape to the ship, Archi grabs Elsalill and takes her in his arms. A spear hits the girl and fatally injures her. Archie manages to reach the ship with the corpse. He vows to bury her in Scotland for his eternal atonement.

The captain of the galley has the three criminals arrested by his crew and hands them over to the state authorities. At nightfall a crowd of women dressed in black approaches the ship. They bring the dead Elsalill back ashore in a solemn procession. Suddenly the ice shatters under the ship and clears the way.

criticism

The lexicon of international films compares the film with the silent film of the same name from 1919. It draws the following conclusion: “Re-filming of the novel […] by Selma Lagerlöf […] - worked in the style of a medieval chronicle. Gustaf Molander, who co-wrote the screenplay for the beautiful and famous silent film by Mauritz Stiller in 1919, this time brings about a scary sentimental morality. "

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Verlag FILM-BÜHNE GmbH, Munich, number 2681

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4081