Manure and Levkojen (film)
Jauche und Levkojen is a multi-part TV series from 1978 that was produced by Bavaria Atelier GmbH . It is based on the novel of the same name by Christine Brückner . The first broadcast took place on August 14, 1978 in the first .
action
The multi-part series describes the first three decades of life of Maximiliane Irene von Quindt, who was conceived in the Hotel Adlon in the final phase of the First World War in 1917 , and who was born in August of the last year of the war at Gut Poenichen in Pomerania owned by her grandfather (location in the film is Gut Sierhagen ). She never gets to know her father because he was killed on the western front. Her mother Vera, who comes from Berlin and has nothing to do with the child, soon leaves the toddler behind on the grandparents' estate in order to plunge back into city life. She married a Jewish psychoanalyst who had come to Berlin from Vienna. When this became dangerous during the time of National Socialism, her father-in-law traveled to her in Berlin and went into deep debt to enable her to escape from Germany. Maximiliane, however, grew up with the old Quindts in Poenichen - as ancestor of the noble family.
Large and small social changes of the time are also reflected in Poenichen. At the age of almost 18 - the National Socialists are now in power - Maximiliane married her distant relative Viktor Quint. Viktor is a staunch National Socialist, NSDAP member and employee of the Reichssippenamt . Marriage is not a love marriage. Viktor uses it to " give children to the Führer " - which is what happens - while Maximiliane hopes in vain to be able to protect the estate and her grandfather, a staunch opponent of Hitler , from the National Socialists.
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War , Viktor Quint fell. Maximiliane, meanwhile multiple mother, is forced to flee westwards from the advancing Red Army together with many people who live on the family estate . The film ends when the trek begins to escape. Two shots are fired in the background. The grandparents who did not want to leave their homeland chose suicide.
The sequel appeared two years later under the title Nirgendwo ist Poenichen .
DVD
The series has been available on DVD since 2008.
literature
Poenichen trilogy consisting of:
- Christine Brückner : Manure and Levkojen. Novel 1975. Unabridged, 29th edition. Ullstein, Berlin 2005, 313 pages, ISBN 978-3-548-20077-4 or ISBN 3-548-20077-X
- Christine Brückner : Nowhere is Poenichen. Novel 1977
- Christine Brückner : The quints. Novel 1985