Up on the mountain

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Movie
Original title Up on the mountain
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Géza from Bolváry
script Franz Marischka
production Kurt Ulrich
for Berolina-Film
music Werner Müller
camera Willi Sohm
cut Ingrid Wacker
occupation

High up on the mountain is a German homeland film by Géza von Bolváry from 1957. In addition to Gerhard Riedmann and Gardy Granass , Gunther Philipp and Margot Hielscher are cast in the leading roles. The movie poster had the headline at the time: “The pleasure of the month! The comedy sensation ... has never been screamed like this! "

action

The star of a television advertising show, Sonja Martens, wants to get out of the show and part with her manager Egon, who is in love with her and constantly makes requests. She wants to fly from Berlin to Nice - the flight goes differently than planned, because in the end she has Egon on board and has to make an emergency landing on an alpine pasture in the Tyrolean mountains. Sonja and Egon are woken up by sheep the next morning and found by lumberjack Toni, who shows them the way to the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Höhe mountain station. Here they are welcomed as rare guests. Young Zenzi in particular is enthusiastic because she believes she is a great actress. She wants to be discovered by Egon for television.

Only one is not enthusiastic: Toni's fiancée Maria has it difficult enough to defend her love for the simple lumberjack to her aunt. She would rather see Maria make a good match and Maria doesn't want to disappoint her aunt who raised her. Now she notices how Toni is being wooed by Sonja and how flattering is accepted. Maria, in turn, was wooed by Loisl in vain for a long time. When Egon announces at the mountain station's 75th anniversary that Toni has signed a television contract with him and will perform with Sonja in town, Maria in desperation accepts Loisl's marriage proposal. A little later, she flees the village to Berlin and earns her living as a waitress .

Toni and Sonja spend days in love in Berlin, but Toni is unhappy far from home and gets drunk more and more often. When it comes to his first big appearance in front of an audience, he is drunk and rigid with stage fright . Sonja has now recognized that Toni is unhappy and went to see Maria. She appears with a large group of traditional costumes, just as Toni threatens to fail on stage. In the midst of the people he knows, Toni manages to master his appearance. In the meantime, Loisl and Zenzi are watching his appearance in front of the television in his home village.

A little later, Loisl and Zenzi's wedding takes place. Maria has also returned to her village. Shortly before the wedding ceremony begins, a plane lands not far from where Sonja and Toni get out. Sonja hands Toni over to Maria and wishes them both good luck. A little later Loisl and Zenzi are a married couple and Sonja and Egon fly away in their plane - Egon in traditional costume, he continues to hope for Sonja.

Production, publication

The chapel in Arzl, a location for the film

The film title goes back to the song of the same name, which was sung in 1941 by the Schuricke trio. The text is by Rudi Schuricke , the melody by Franz Grothe .

Producer Kurt Ulrich asked screenwriter Franz Marischka to come up with a story that would go with the song. Marischka suggested a car break down on a high mountain, which, at Ulrich's suggestion, he made an emergency landing with an airplane. Although Ulrich didn't like the finished script as much as the idea, the film was produced.

The film was made in villages along Achenseestrasse in Tyrol and in the Inn Valley around Innsbruck . The wedding scene at the end of the film was filmed at the chapel in Arzl near Innsbruck on the Kalvarienberg.

Paul Hörbiger film, which is mainly about the economic problems of the "owner of a mountain railway" ( Achenseebahn ). With steam locomotive 2 of the Achenseebahn (easy to see several times).

Alongside Margot Hielscher, Paul Hörbiger ( Die Zahnradbahn ) and Gerhard Riedmann, Gerhard Wendland ( Oh Maria ), the Tyrolean national group Toni Praxmair and Die Peters Sisters will sing . The Berolina-Film-Ballet is dancing. The performance is musically supported by Werner Müller and the RIAS dance orchestra .

The premiere of the film took place on July 31, 1957 in Essen's Lichtburg . Up on the mountain there was only moderate success, whereupon Kurt Ulrich ended his collaboration with Franz Marischka.

criticism

The lexicon of international film published in 1991 by the film-dienst referred to Hoch up auf dem Berg as “Heimatfilmschnulze with synthetic folklore and synthetic feelings.” In the new edition of the lexicon in 2001 it said: “A hard-to-bear 'Heimatfilm', in which Tyrolean costume dances are and replace revue scenes without the poor plot benefiting from it. "

Cinema found: "The story is so sweet that it pisses off the viewer." Conclusion: "The remote control itches when yodelling." [...] "This film is really the peak."

For Falk Schwarz it was clear that this film was like the homeland film Ja, ja, die Liebe in Tirol “like one egg to another”. He explained: “There are two years in between, which is why such a savings shoot was not possible, but the same author (comedy juggler Gustav Kampendonk) has shamelessly recycled the sketch from back then. Again the same landscape, again Gunther Philipp has rust-red hair, again Gerhard Riedmann plays the lover, again Carla Hagen is the maid who suddenly emancipates herself, again Franz Muxeneder, this time as a gas station attendant, again Werner Müller has written a shrill brass music, leads again the Praxmaiers open their traditional costume capers, again a Geza from Bolvary occupies the director's chair and again Kurt Ulrich has overall responsibility. ”Margot Hielscher says that the love story contained in it lets Margot Hielscher“ roll off with an embarrassed smile ”- she sees“ gorgeous in her white and that long red dress - but it doesn't go to Tyrol, even less to Holzhacker-Toni ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Up on the mountain, see the film poster in the IMDb.
  2. ^ Franz Zwetschi Marischka: Always smile , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 162
  3. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1632.
  4. Up on the mountain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 6, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. Up on the mountain see page cinema.de (including ill. New film program and photo series). Retrieved February 12, 2020. (The more recent assessment of the film contains the quoted text in a modified form.)
  6. Up on the mountain. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on February 12, 2020 .