Kleine Scheidegg (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kleine Scheidegg |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Schweizer |
| script |
Richard Schweizer Kurt Velden |
| production | Richard Schweizer |
| music | Robert Blum |
| camera |
Richard Angst Emil Berna |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
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Kleine Scheidegg is a Swiss mountain film melodrama from 1937 by the well-known screenwriter Richard Schweizer , who also appeared here as a director and producer.
action
Ulla Matthei and her husband stayed at a lofty height (2061 meters) in the Hotel Bellevue on the Kleine Scheidegg , the top of the pass between the Eiger and Lauberhorn . The couple have serious marital problems and have therefore booked separate rooms. Far away from the big city bustle and Ulla's lover, a Milanese, Dr. Matthei to be able to save the marriage with his wife. But his wife seems to care less and sends her lover a telegram, contrary to the agreement made with her husband. He then answers immediately by phone, but at the other end of the line, it is not his lover, but rather his angry husband who gets hold of him. Angry, he leaves the hotel and tries to vent on the ski slope and get other thoughts. Little does Ulla suspect that her husband and her lover have spoken out over the phone and is very angry about it. She of all people, the adulteress, makes a solid scene for her husband and decides to leave him for good the following morning.
Ulla is packing her bags when she is told that Dr. Matthei had set out alone to mount the monk . The weather changes and the situation for mountaineers becomes so threatening that the mountain guide Toni sets out, Dr. To catch up with Matthei and bring him back to the top of the pass. Meanwhile, Ulla, worried about her husband, watches what is happening with the telescope. With the last of their strength, Matthei and the mountain guide can make their way to the Jungfraujoch. At that moment the Italian lover is forgotten and Ulla comes to meet her husband on the little train. When Dr. When Matthei learns about this, he continues his hike over the Aletsch Glacier until he reaches a hut, when the two spouses embrace.
Production notes
The shooting of Kleine Scheidegg dragged on from January to July 1937. The interior recordings were made in the sound film studio in Münchenstein near Basel , the exterior recordings were made in the mountains around Kleine Scheidegg, Mönch, Jungfraujoch, in the hut of the “Concordia” Club and on the Aletsch Glacier. The premiere took place on September 24, 1937 in the Bubenberg cinema in Bern. One day later the film also ran in Zurich. While Kleine Scheidegg was not shown in Germany, the film could be seen in Austria shortly before the Anschluss in March 1938 under the title Im Banne der Jungfrau .
The film was the tentative attempt by Schweizer to follow in the oversized footsteps of Arnold Fanck and to stage a mountain film drama. To do this, he secured the collaboration of Fanck's accomplished cameraman Richard Angst , like a Swiss being a Swiss. Shortly before that, the originally appointed cameraman Emil Berna had broken a leg after just a few days of shooting and had to be replaced. Despite this concentrated image competence, the strip was hardly noticed beyond the Swiss national borders.
Reviews
“Most of the Praesens workforce from the war years has already found each other here: Berna, Blum, Haller, Biberti, Hegetschweiler and Richard Schweizer's brother Armin, a remarkable character actor with a good name in Berlin's theater and film circles. In spite of all this - nothing new in the subject, new director Swiss ruminates on the platitudes of the reconciling power of the mountain world, whose shining battlements heal the (city) soul and transform the being. (...) In the pictures, the film adheres strongly to the German tradition according to Arnold Fanck with its tasteful handling of light. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Scheidegg. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
- ↑ 1937, Tages Anzeiger. Newspaper review of the film - Kleine Scheidegg. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
Web links
- Kleine Scheidegg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kleine Scheidegg at filmportal.de