Krambambuli (1998)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Krambambuli |
| Country of production |
Germany Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| script | Felix Mitterer |
| production | Michael von Wolkenstein |
| music | Anna Lauvergnac |
| camera | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| cut | Daniela Padalewski |
| occupation | |
Also: Heinz-Josef Braun , Arthur Klemt , Ulrich Gebauer , Christoph Wettstein , Robert Spitz , Gerd Lohmeyer , Winfried Hübner | |
Krambambuli is a multi-award-winning German Heimatfilm from 1998. It was directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger , who also acted as cameraman. The story of the same name by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach served as the script . The leading roles are cast with Tobias Moretti , Gabriel Barylli and Christine Neubauer .
action
In three acts, the film depicts a duel between the new chief hunter Georg Walch and a poacher who is only called "the yellow one" because of his clothes. In civil life, the yellow is the seedy womanizer and drunkard Wolf Pachler.
In the first act is about Pachler wirehaired hound named Krambambuli which the newly arrived chief huntsman Walch at a tavern catch the drunkard treats Pachler against twelve bottles cherry brandy and a large sum of money. Here the head hunter learns that Pachler has named his dog after the schnapps he is drinking from a bottle. The animal is loyal to its master and refuses to go with the new master after trading. Walch finally succeeds in dragging the dog out of the bar and loading it in a sack onto his car. When he arrived at the hunting lodge, to the displeasure of his wife Johanna, he spent weeks trying to teach the chained dog that he was its new master. The dog bites him several times and refuses to eat and initially also to drink. With a lot of perseverance, Walch finally succeeds in getting Krambambuli to accept him as the new master.
In the second act, Walch's wife, herself an inn daughter, visits the gloomy "Schwarzer Eber" village inn without a male companion. The "black boar" is the hangout of the local poachers. Pachler asks an acquaintance to molest the woman so that he can then put himself in the limelight. But the tavern daughter sees through this appointment. When the head hunter Walch learns about it from his maid, Walch himself goes to the bar the next evening, where there is a fight with Pachler. Shortly afterwards, a gamekeeper was stabbed to death by a poacher caught in the act, so the hunters were looking for Pachler, because the head hunter had learned the yellow man's name from an arrested poacher with a shotgun attached. The wanted person does not spend that night in the village, where they are being searched for, but in the forester's house, in the hay with Walch's wife.
The third act describes the encounter between the head hunter and Pachler in the forest. The poacher shoots his pursuer. Both call for the dog, who is torn this way and that, but finally decides on his old master. The head hunter shoots the poacher. He also wants to kill Krambambuli, but cannot bring himself to do it. When the hunter comes home later, his wife has already packed the suitcases to leave her husband.
Krambambuli remains seated by the corpse of his old master, but later tries to get close to his new master, who finally finds him starving and frozen to death in front of his door.
Production and Background
It is a production of the Satel TV and film production company. mbH (Vienna), Almaro Film und TV Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH (Munich-Geiselgasteig) on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and the South German Broadcasting Corporation . Michael von Wolkenstein acted as producer. The editing was done by Claudia Gladziejewski and Alexander Vedernjak from ORF .
The film was shot in 1997, among other places, on the - then abandoned - "Waldhaus" in the Steinwald Nature Park in Upper Palatinate ( Lage ). In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in November 1998, on television it was shown for the first time on December 21, 1998 in the ARD program.
The story Krambambuli by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) was first published in 1883.
Further films
The novella was first filmed in 1940 under the same title by Karl Köstlin with Rudolf Prack , Sepp Rist , Elise Aulinger and Viktoria von Ballasko . Franz Antel took up the subject in 1955 under the title Heimatland . In addition to Rudolf Prack, Adrian Hoven , Marianne Hold and Hannelore Bollmann played the main roles. Another film adaptation of Antel from 1965 bears the title Ruf der Wälder and features Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , Mario Girotti , Gerhard Riedmann and Johanna Matz . In 1972 Antel filmed the novella again, this time under the title They called him Krambambuli with the cast of Michael Schanze , Fritz Wepper , Christian Wolff and Sylvia Lukan .
All five films were made in the German-speaking area.
This version of Krambambuli was released on DVD by Eurovideo on April 15, 2004.
reception
Reviews
The lexicon of international film judged: "A script developed clearly and without unnecessary frills as well as precise and atmospherically dense photography contribute to this remarkable literary adaptation, whose archaic traits, far from sentimentality or false melodrama, invite discussion."
The Austrian daily Kurier, on the other hand, was of a completely different opinion: “Here you can watch an or an Austrian movie going to the dogs. [...] Some of the conflicts seem to have been picked out of cobwebs, the motor skills taken from dusty booklet shelves. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote: “It is considered compulsory reading in Austrian schools and the most famous dog story in the German-speaking area: the story 'Krambambuli' [...] is also a classic in local literature. The previous four films, however, could not write film history. That could change with Xaver Schwarzenberger's Austrian-German co-production in the cinema look, for which the writer and screenwriter Felix Mitterer […] laid hands on the sentimental story about a dog between two gentlemen. Tobias Moretti as the main actor promises more than Rudolf Prack, Michael Schanze or Mario Girotti alias Terence Hill. ”For Tittelbach, the fifth film was“ the best… ”.
Visitor numbers
14,000 visitors in Austria.
Awards
- 1998: Awarded the Golden Romy in the “Best Director” category.
- The film was awarded the 1999 Grimme Prize in the “Best Film” category. Tobias Moretti was honored for his portrayal of the poacher Pachler, as was Christine Neubauer and Gabriel Barylli for their embodiment of the Walch couple, who were each honored with this award in the category “Best Actors in Leading and Supporting Roles” (female / male).
Web links
- Krambambuli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Krambambuli at filmportal.de
- Krambambuli at dieterwunderlich.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Krambambuli (1988) filming locations in the IMDb
- ↑ The Krambambuli story ( memento of the original from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at krambambulli.de
- ^ Krambambuli EuroVideo
- ↑ Krambambuli. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Krambambuli In: Kurier, September 3, 1998, p. 30 / December 31, 1983, p. 26
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : TV film Krambambuli - A classic: Moretti, Neubauer, Barylli, Schwarzenberger. Addicted to the hunt at tittelbach.tv
