Jaider - the lonely hunter
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Jaider - the lonely hunter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Volker Vogeler |
| script |
Ulf Miehe Volker Vogeler |
| production | Bavaria studio for WDR |
| music | Eugene Illinois |
| camera | Gérard Vandenberg |
| cut | Henry Sokal |
| occupation | |
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Jaider - the lonely hunter is a German feature film made in 1970 by Volker Vogeler . Gottfried John plays the title role of the alpine rebel against the authorities .
action
Franco-German War 1870/71. The hunter Jaider returns from the field to his Bavarian homeland. Like so many men of his generation, he cannot find work there and is therefore born of necessity and becomes a poacher to ensure his own survival. His strictly forbidden activity is so successful that he soon leads his own gang of five, which is ruthlessly persecuted by Bavarian soldiers and state-sanctioned hunters. The hunt for Jaider and his people soon took on fanatical traits. The hunter Baptist Meyer in particular developed into his personal nemesis. He tries several times to set traps for Jaider. When his partner Agnes and his brother lose their lives in these actions, Jaider fights back mercilessly. With his (then very) modern repeating rifle , a gift from his colleagues, he goes to the village where Meyer and his men are already waiting for the rebel and poacher. In a showdown, which is, however, less melodramatic than that in corresponding Westerns with American or Italian influences, Jaider can finally defeat his opponent Meyer.
Production notes and trivia
Jaider - the lonely hunter was filmed in northern Yugoslavia (today's Slovenia ) and marked the breakthrough of leading actor Gottfried John, who then made a career in Fassbinder's productions. The film was first presented to an audience on June 28, 1971 during the Berlin International Film Festival. The mass start was on July 9, 1971. In November of the following year, the film ran for the first time on German television.
"Jaider" is the old Bavarian expression for "hunter". The story is based on the life of the legendary poacher Georg Jennerwein , who hunted illegally in the forests around the Schliersee in the 1870s .
The film can not deny its borrowings from the spaghetti westerns of the late 1960s; For example, Jaider's long coat, whose wearer, like some of his Italian role models (e.g. “Django”), portrays himself as a taciturn “lone guy”, as a “lone avenger”, or his repeating rifle, a Winchester, recall corresponding characters in Genre productions by Sergio Corbucci or Sergio Leones .
Reviews
“ Jaider is a brilliant piece of cinema thanks to Vogeler's sparse, concentrated and unattractive directing, that is, he does not point beyond himself. He does not destroy myths, but adapts the topology of the Spaghetti Western for Bavarian conditions. It is significant that Vogeler does not, unlike Schlöndorff and Hauff, use the dialectical possibility of language as dialect and official German, but lets his actors speak in High German. Here, the new German Heimatfilm has emancipated itself away from the political parable, away from the criticism of this genre and its worldview, to an enjoyable new version and further development. Vogeler didn't turn Heimatfilm upside down, as he says, but really got it going. "
“The first movie by the 40-year-old television director Volker Vogeler has a Bavarian Django with a long coat and the Winchester at the ready to fight social injustice. As with Corbucci, he is the lonely Westerner who puts himself in the wrong by his act. Vogeler's Western is not a copy of the American myth, but an attempt to reinterpret the genre to our circumstances. Jaider is effective cinema. "
“The story of a Bavarian poacher around 1875 who rebels against the feudal authorities and undertakes a brutal campaign of revenge after the violent death of his wife and brother. First long feature film by Volker Vogeler and part of a series of critical homeland films in German cinema of those years ("The sudden wealth ..." by Schlöndorff, "Mathias Kneißl" by Hauff, "I love you, I kill you" by Brandner) - here, however, as an adventurous Alpine westerly. The effective, but all too spectacular staging pushes the socially critical moments into the background. "
Web links
- Jaider - the lone hunter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jaider - the lonely hunter at filmportal.de