Novalis - The blue flower

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title Novalis - The blue flower
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Herwig Kipping
script Herwig Kipping
production DEFA Studio for Feature Films Potsdam-Babelsberg ,
Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft mbH (Potsdam)
music Herwig Kipping (compilation)
camera Matthias Tschiedel
cut Bettina Boehler
occupation

Novalis - The Blue Flower is a German movie from 1993 about the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known as Novalis , was directed by the Federal Film Prize winner Herwig Kipping as a co-production of the DEFA studio with the young Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft in Babelsberg and is considered the last DEFA production . It was released in theaters in Germany on August 24, 1995.

action

Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) relived his work and life in a kind of dying dream. Suppressed by his father, he is called to order and admonished of his responsibility to preserve the sex. At first he desperately tries to turn to the so-called worldly things, takes over a public office, while his uncle (Grand Cross) tries to convey a new poetry of war to him. In the end, Friedrich refuses to accept both. Questions about love, closeness, the German nature, the difficulty of life torment him. Triggered by the encounter with the twelve-year-old Sophie von Kühn, who becomes his muse, his development as a liberated poet and thinker suddenly begins, euphoria and exploration of the metaphysical follow until she dies. A marriage only takes place in a dream. For him as a romantic, the blue flower as a symbol of eternal love for one another symbolizes the union of the ideal even beyond death.

background

The metaphor-rich, essayistic feature film about the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg takes up the central symbol of Romanticism : the blue flower . It stands for longing, love and the metaphysical striving for the infinite.

The film was shot on original locations in the state of Brandenburg , on the island of Rügen and in the Olympiastadion Berlin , as well as in large sets in the Babelsberg studio in Potsdam . Günther Petzold was responsible for the furnishings , construction was carried out by Hans Clausing and Klaus Wrede, and the painter was Frank Zschiesche (glass painting). Numerous optical special effects were used. The cameraman Tony Loeser developed a trick concept together with the production designer Günter Petzold, which is based on the traditional and conventional film tricks that can be produced in front of the camera. For a picture quotation from Arnold Böcklin's painting Die Toteninsel the attachment model technique was used, in which a model island was attached to two poles three meters in front of the camera, but a lake from Potsdam was in the background. This gave the camera a view of the water and death could go to the island in a boat.

In addition to the singing of Eva-Maria Hagen (“And when I'm dead”), Herwig Kipping put together famous melodies for the poet's portrait:

Awards

Novalis - The blue flower received the rating valuable from the film evaluation body .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iMDb: "Novalis - The Blue Flower" www.filmportal.de, accessed on February 3, 2018
  2. ↑ MAZ: "» Alles nur Kulisse ?! «in the Filmmuseum Potsdam" www.maz-online.de from December 2, 2015, accessed on February 3, 2018
  3. ↑ Annette Dorgerloh, Marcus Becker (ed.): »Everything just a backdrop ?! Film rooms from the Babelsberg dream factory. « VDG Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-89739-845-0 , page 138f, Uwe Fleischer: " The Art of Perspective Association "
  4. ↑ Filmbewertungsstelle: "Novalis - The Blue Flower" www.filmbassy.com, accessed on February 3, 2018