No hush
No Hüsung is a German film adaptation of DEFA by Artur Pohl from 1954. It is based on the verse story of the same name by Fritz Reuter .
action
The year 1847 in Mecklenburg: Johann the baron had already served as a day laborer for many years. He loves Mariken, who is expecting a child from him, but cannot marry her because he has no husbands, so the baron has no right of residence on his land. Despite his services, the baron refuses to give him a kiss when he learns that Mariken is to become Johann's wife. Mariken confesses to Johann that she once refused to accept the baron and that he has hated her ever since. When Mariken in turn asks the baroness for Hüsung, she reacts indignantly to Mariken's premarital pregnancy and chases her away. Mariken has suicidal thoughts, but Johann can drive them away. He'd rather go away with her.
When Mariken's father, Brand, fell seriously ill, the baron refused to allow a doctor to be called. When one of his horses falls ill, a cattle doctor is immediately sent for. When Father Brand dies, the baron forbids the farmers to attend his funeral because they are supposed to harvest the beets in his fields. When Johann mucked out the baron's stable a little later, he angrily talks to himself in which he complains about the injustice of the world in general and that of the baron in particular. When the baron steps in unnoticed, a confrontation ensues. After the baron hit Johann with a whip, Johann stabs the baron with his pitchfork. The caretaker Oll Daniel helps Johann to escape and provides him with money and food a short time later. Johann flees the country and the other farmers do not betray him.
Mariken gives birth to the child at Christmas. Supported by the farmers, she lives in her parents' house. When she is told that she will soon be working on a neighboring farm, she agrees. She only refuses when she hears that she should give her child away. The baroness, to whom Mariken rushes with her son on a cold winter night, refuses to help her or her “child murderer”. On the way back from the estate, Mariken collapses with her baby in her arms on the side of the road. The next morning, Oll Daniel finds the dead Mariken. Your child survived.
Ten years later, Johann returns to the village. He has been on the move for the last few years, witnessed the revolution of 1848 and made the peasants revolt. He picks up his son, with whom he wants to move on. The aging Oll Daniel, who raised the boy, is supposed to come with the two of them, but decides to claim his care - in heaven at Mariken.
production
In 1952, Hans-Georg Rudolph had already started filming Kein Hüsung . The script was also by Ehm Welk, the main characters were Robert Zimmerling (Johann) and Liane Croon (Mariken).
The remake was made in the Babelsberg studio with exterior shots from Güstrow , Waren , Stavenhagen and Rostock . The film constructions come from Oskar Pietsch . Adelheid Krüger and Harry Studt were production managers .
The film emphasized the revolutionary element and deviated from the underlying narrative - in the end there should be a peasant uprising in which Johann kills the baron. After the first shot of scenes, however, work on the film was stopped in December 1952 because the film was too epic and camera work and actors were not convincing. The scenes from DEFA's first attempt at filming are considered to have been destroyed.
In the following year Arthur Pohl - who, according to Ralf Schenk, "with its penchant for dignified literature adaptation ... was considered a 'safe bank'" at DEFA - took up the subject again. The main characters were now embodied by the later actor couple Eva Kotthaus (Mariken) and Rudolf Krieg (Johann). The film, which adheres more closely to the original literature, was shot from 1953 to 1954 and had its premiere on April 29, 1954 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin and in the DEFA film theater Kastanienallee. The following day it was shown in the GDR cinemas and ran for the first time on May 14, 1954 in the official test program of the Berlin TV Center . In July 1954 he was seen at the Locarno International Film Festival and at the Karlsbad International Film Festival .
criticism
The Weltbühne criticized the standardized and template-like drawing of the characters in the film, whose actions were also template-like. Der Spiegel wrote: “Ehm Welk proved convincingly that love is still the bread of the poor and then offered the Low German ballad 'Kein Hüsung' by Fritz Reuter as a popular erotic film subject. Together with his wife Agathe, née Lindner, who is also a writer, Ehm Welk made the Reuter poetry a juicy Defa hit. "
The film-dienst called Kein Hüsung “artistically significant and convincing despite occasional exaggeration.” Cinema wrote about the film: “Conclusion: Critical view of inhumane conditions”.
The Interministerial Committee for East-West Film Issues forbade the showing in the Federal Republic of Germany.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 318-319 .
Web links
- No Hüsung in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No hush at filmportal.de
- The DEFA Foundation is not a good idea
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 434 f.
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 737 .
- ^ Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 139.
- ^ Carl Andrießen in: Weltbühne , No. 17, 1954, p. 537ff.
- ↑ Bread of the Poor . In: Der Spiegel , No. 21, 1953, p. 31.
- ↑ No hush. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Stefan Buchloh Pervers, endangering young people, subversive. Censorship in the Adenauer era as a mirror of the social climate . Frankfurt 2002, pp. 224-226