Minna von Barnhelm or The Soldier's Luck

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Movie
Original title Minna von Barnhelm or The Soldier's Luck
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Martin Hellberg
script Martin Hellberg
production DEFA , KAG "Solidarity"
music Wilhelm Neef
camera Karl Plintzner
cut Brigitte Krex
occupation

Minna von Barnhelm or The Soldiers' Luck is a German film adaptation of DEFA by Martin Hellberg from 1962. It is based on the play Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . The film premiered on November 1, 1962 in the Berlin cosmos .

action

Shortly after the end of the Seven Years' War in Berlin: Servant Just is outraged when his master, the well-deserved Major Tellheim, is moved from his room by the landlord and relocated to a worse room. The reason: Major Tellheim can no longer pay and a wealthy woman with a maid now moves into his room . The wealthy woman is Tellheim's fiancée Minna von Barnhelm, who is looking for Tellheim. He has meanwhile paid off his landlord's debts by selling his engagement ring and has moved into a shabbier house. He lost his money because he advanced money to the estates during the war. However, his bill is now not honored by the king and Tellheim is left with his high expenses. Since he is also criticized and suspected for his actually noble behavior in the war, he feels additionally offended in his honor. When he learns that Minna von Barnhelm is in town - she bought his relocated ring and in turn found out about his stay in Berlin and sent for him - he withdraws from her out of shame. He also doesn't allow his best friend, Sergeant Werner, to help out with money.

Minna von Barnhelm and her maid Franziska, who has taken a liking to Werner, want to repay Tellheim for his pride with a trick. Minna announces to her fiancé that she is not worthy of him and therefore could never marry him: his bill of exchange can be redeemed at any time and his honor restored, but her honor is gone because her uncle has refused to marry her with a man chosen for her have violated. She gives him back the engagement ring, which is actually his own. In their common misery, Tellheim is now ready to marry Minna, but Minna accuses him of all the words with which he previously refused to get back together with her. Even when Tellheim is rehabilitated by the king, she still rejects him until it is almost too late to dissolve. When Minna's uncle announced himself, Tellheim promptly wanted to confront him, but Minna now resolved the game of hide and seek. She shows him that the returned ring is in fact Tellheim's own and he can laugh at the "theater play". Minna's uncle welcomes him into the Barnhelm family. Franziska, in turn, finds a future husband in the faithful sergeant Werner.

criticism

Contemporary critics praised the fact that director Hellberg “stuck to Lessing's text in his script with almost no deletions. […] All in all, fortunately, the word of the poet dominates. ”Also emphasized was“ the brilliant cast that reproduces the characterization of each figure by the poet ”.

For the lexicon of international film , Minna von Barnhelm or The Soldier 's Gluck was “a museum film that at best relies on faithfulness to the work, which makes comedy [...] an effort through its academic, film-unfriendly style of directing. Regarding the equipment, Hellberg's production leaves nothing to be desired. ” Cinema called the film a“ disappointing literary adaptation ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ils in: Thüringische Landeszeitung , December 8, 1962.
  2. ↑ Minna von Barnhelm or the luck of the soldiers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Minna von Barnhelm or the luck of the soldiers. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 2, 2018.