Witches (1949)
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| Original title | Witches |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 71 minutes |
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| Director | Hans Schott-Schöbinger |
| script | Hans Schott-Schöbinger |
| production | Alpen-Film-Austria (AFA), Graz |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Willi Sohm , Walter Riml |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
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Hexen is an Austrian film drama produced in 1948 by Hanns Schott-Schöbinger with Edith Mill , Margrit Aust and Curd Jürgens in the leading roles.
action
The deceased owner of a medieval castle stipulated the following decree in his will: The heir to his mighty estate should be the older of the two stepsisters Katharina and Margrit von Kronberg, i.e. Margrit, if she marries Heinz Wagner, who has just returned from captivity, a cousin . When Margrit observes Katharina and Heinz on a rendezvous at a nearby lake, Margrit demands from her future husband that Katharina should leave the castle immediately, before she, the older sister, and Heinz are married to each other.
Beside herself with anger, Katharina plans to poison Margrit. Only when Katharina dreams that the village youth will avenge Margrit's violent death according to old tradition and that she, Katharina, will burn witches on a stake like the witches once did in the Middle Ages, does she abandon her bloody plan after she woke up from this nightmare . Your change of will is rewarded: Heinz has decided to marry Katharina and not Margrit.
Production notes
Witches was made between September and December 1948 at Styrian filming locations (Bad Gleichberg, Stadt-Felbach, Riegersburg Castle (Styria), Thalerhof near Graz, AFA-Alpenfilm studio). The world premiere took place on April 8, 1949 in Graz. There was no German premiere.
Walter Tjaden took over the production management, Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures. Local film star of the 1950s Rudolf Lenz made his (tiny) debut in front of the camera here. There is no evidence that the famous German silent film star Rudolf Klein-Rogge played a part in reading .
criticism
"While we stubbornly fight the yawn, we feel a lot of pity - for the scriptwriter ... All in all, a film that we would rather not call Styrian, a mindless, boring celluloid strip."
Web links
- Witches in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Witches at filmportal.de