Midsummer Night (1967)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Midsummer night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul May |
| script |
Rolf Olsen Kurt Nachmann Kurt Wilhelm |
| production |
Karl Spiehs for Lisa Film , Munich |
| music | Claudius Alzner |
| camera | Hanns Matula |
| cut | Arndt Heyne |
| occupation | |
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Midsummer Night is a German film drama set in Norway from 1967. Robert Fuller stars in the lead role, directed by Paul May .
action
The Norwegian farmer Arne Arndahl is a gnarled, domineering patriarch and with his sawmill the most important employer in the region. He lives on the remote Svytelma farm together with his two grown daughters Astrid and Christine and the housekeeper Karen. One day he goes hunting. The rough, clumsy and unattractive foreman Erik wants to take advantage of this opportunity. He approaches Astrid in a very demanding way and, when she proves unwilling, tries to rape her. At the last moment he can be deterred from his brutal intent and all three women chase him from the yard. Back from the hunt, large farmer Arne is beside himself when he learns of Erik's deed. He hitched up the wagon and drove into the next town to the inn, where he suspected Erik. There he wants to tackle the villains. A fierce fight ensues in which Arne almost kills Erik with a piece of hardwood.
It is Tore, a stranger who has just arrived in the area, who prevents this bloody act at the last moment. This handsome, well-built and mysterious young man soon turned the heads of the Arndahl women in turn. Even Karen wants to use him for her own purposes. But Tore soon falls in love with the youngest of the Arndahl daughters, Christine, who reciprocates his feelings. Disappointed with his rejection, Karen seeks revenge on Tore and sniffs around in his past. In order to discredit him, she unceremoniously spreads a rumor: Tore fled into the wilderness here because he was accused of murder. But in the end Tore can track down and unmask the real culprit and get his Christine.
Meanwhile, the large farmers are plagued by completely different worries: one night the stables with the cattle receive uninvited visitors from roaming wolves. They have already killed a calf. Therefore, the next morning Arne decides to kill the animals and follows their trail armed. When a snow storm surprises him en route in the wilderness, the old man is trapped: the wolves have surrounded him. Arne tries to escape the gray robbers, slips on the run and loses his rifle. He quickly threatens to lose the upper hand when the wolves pounce on him.
production
The film was shot in the mountains around Bad Aussee in northern Styria and premiered on October 19, 1967. With the American serial actor Robert Fuller, an actor had been hired who up until then had not caused a sensation as a movie actor, but thanks to his participation in the western series Am Fuß der Blaue Berge, "an unusually large fan base" in the Federal Republic of Germany since the mid-1960s owned.
For director May this was his last feature film. Sepp Rothauer designed the buildings and Josef Wanke designed the costumes. The production line had Heinz Pollak .
Reviews
"Mentally and formally completely outdated Heimatfilm with naturalistically played scenes of murder and rape."
"A homeland film of German origin set in the Nordic milieu, which, apart from the beautiful color shots, is rather primitive and clumsy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 140.
- ↑ Midsummer Night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 467/1967
Web links
- Midsummer Night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Midsummer Night at filmportal.de