Krambambuli (1940)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Krambambuli |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Kostlin |
| script |
Friedrich Perkonig Rudo Ritter |
| production |
Karl Künzel Erich von Neusser |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera |
Karl Löb Josef Ketterer |
| cut | Klaus Stapenhorst |
| occupation | |
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Krambambuli (subtitle: "The story of a dog") is a German fiction film by the director Karl Köstlin from 1940 in black and white. The main roles were occupied with Viktoria von Ballasko , Rudolf Prack and Sepp Rist . The script was written by Friedrich Perkonig and Rudo Ritter . It is based on the novel of the same name by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach . In German-speaking countries, the film was shown for the first time on May 10, 1940.
action
The young tramp Thomas Werndl meets an abandoned dog. He gives it the name "Krambambuli" and takes it with him on the hike. Some time later, Werndl found work on a farm that was run by the widow Crescentia Sonnleitner. She lives there with her daughter Anna and her brother Adam Holzapfel, a retired postman. Little by little, Werndl and his employer's daughter fall in love, although Anna Sonnleitner has been promised to the hunter Barthel Raunegger. When Anna found her lover drunk one Sunday after going to church and there was almost a fight between him and the hunter, she stood in front of the hunter. Thomas leaves the yard. Shortly afterwards, a fight breaks out between him and a farm boy in the inn. Thomas seriously injured the boy, and the gendarme who was summoned took him into custody.
With a heavy heart, Thomas has to part with his companion Krambambuli. He gives him care to Adam. When Anna finally marries the hunter, she takes Krambambuli to the hunter's house. At first Barthel is bothered by the animal because it reminds him of his former rival, but after a while he trains him to be a capable hunting dog.
Thomas manages to escape from prison. His first path leads him to Adam Holzapfel to ask him for some money and to pick up Krambambuli. After learning what happened to the animal, he rushes away furiously. The waitress Kathrein admires his accuracy at a shooting gallery on the fairground. She takes him to her apartment and the next day she persuades him to poach.
Thomas gets a job at the alcoholic gunsmith Zirbel, who can use a steady hand to aim his rifles. One day Thomas meets his former lover again in Zirbel's shop. She suspects that Thomas is the poacher who has been wanted by her husband for a long time. Therefore she implores him to leave the area, which Thomas promises her. Kathrein puts him under pressure so that he does not keep his promise and goes poaching again.
Thomas and the hunter collide in the high forest. The dog recognizes its former master. When he is called by both, he does not know whom to obey. Ultimately, Krambambuli decides for Thomas and storms towards him. The hunter takes advantage of this moment; he shoots the poacher. He rejects Krambambuli because he considers him unfaithful.
The dog initially stays with the corpse and walks with the corpse bearers to the cemetery gate. After a while he goes to the hunter's house, whines in front of the door, but is not picked up. In the weeks that followed, the dog wandered around in the forest and kept in front of the cemetery gate. Barthel changed his mind and looked for the dog without success. Because Krambambuli no longer receives any care, he is noticeably falling down. When it snows, he goes back to the hunter's house and lies down on the doorstep - after a while he lies there dead in the snow.
criticism
The lexicon of international films succinctly states that it is a very emotional film adaptation of Ebner-Eschenbach's novella.
See also
source
Program for the film: Today's program , published by the publishing house of the same name in Berlin, No. 560
Web links
- Krambambuli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Krambambuli at filmportal.de