Peer Gynt (2006)
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| Original title | Peer Gynt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script | Uwe Janson |
| production | Siegfried E. Kamml |
| music | Edvard Grieg |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Florian Drechsler |
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Peer Gynt is a TV movie by Uwe Janson from the year 2006 . It is based on the poem of the same name by Henrik Ibsen .
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The young Peer Gynt returns home after an unsuccessful job search. His mother is already walking towards him and he describes his alleged adventures to her. In his fantasy he sees himself as a king and with his stories he escapes reality. His mother would have liked to see that he would have married Ingrid, whose dowry they would be well provided for, but Ingrid has been promised to Mads and will marry him the next day.
While Peer escapes into his thoughts again lying on the grass, he is laughed at by the others in the village. They warn him to come to Ingrid's wedding party, at which the whole village celebrates. But he doesn't care and meets Solvejg there, whom he likes a lot, but she turns away from him at first. He kidnaps the bride Ingrid and incurs the wrath of the groom and the rest of the village youth. He spends the night with Ingrid and then sends her back to Mads, who is already looking for her with Aslak. So Peer escapes with a boat and is proud of his deed, while the whole village is angry with him and he does not dare to go back for the time being.
Solvejg meets Peer's mother, who raves about her son in the highest tones. However, Peer goes back to his dream world and meets the button founder, a figure from the dreams of his childhood, who now tries as a messenger of evil to seduce him and his soul. The button maker drives Peer into the arms of three love-hungry young girls, but he escapes temptation by jumping into the sea. A young woman (the green one) fishes him out and pulls him into her boat. While he is making plans for the future with her, her father (The Captain) appears and concludes a contract with Peer: If he wants to adopt her way of life, he can be king. The whole crew of the ship celebrated, but now he is supposed to marry the king's daughter too. The fact that he desires her would oblige him to do so. But Peer refuses and is cast out by the king and the team. The button founder helps him in this emergency. Solvejg appears too, and Peer is happy that she wants to stay with him. But suddenly the king's daughter reappears and presents him with her son, whose father he is. Plagued by remorse, Peer Solvejg explains that he has to go. She lets him go, but wants to wait for him. Peer chases aimlessly through the country and comes across the next woman in his fantasy, Anitra. She also has a boat, but it is completely dry. She thinks he is her prophet, and Peer gives himself to her. He wants to go to paradise with her, but she confesses to him that she has no soul. So she goes her way too, and Peer is alone again. He returns to his mother, who welcomes him with joy, but then tells him that she only has a short time to live. Peer doesn't want to know anything about it, he takes his mother on a journey into his dream world. His mother is happy for a short time, then she dies in his arms and he buries her in the sea. Again he meets the button founder, who advises him to leave the world as well; after all, he was never himself anyway. But Peer denies this and takes the way back through his dream world to prove to the button founder that he has always been himself. He meets the captain, who is just dying and can no longer give him a certificate. The button-maker appears immediately to challenge Peer's soul. He remembers Solvejg, who is still waiting for him. Both approach each other and are happy to have found each other again.
Production notes
Peer Gynt was shot near Peenemünde in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The film premiered on December 13, 2006 in Germany and France .
criticism
“Version of a two-part television film based on a theater play based on a Norwegian folk tale, condensed to cinema length. In spite of well-known actors and unmistakable staging ambitions, the film disappoints because it sacrifices the depth of the play to the charm of decay and claims the emotional abyss more than makes it understandable. "
“With the Ibsen classic based on Brecht's 'Baal' and Wedekind's 'Lulu', director and screenwriter Uwe Janson is once again presenting the film adaptation of a play. This time, however, he did not shoot on stage, but mainly outdoors, here on the island of Usedom. With strong actors - above all Robert Stadlober as 'Faust des Nordens' - and a shortened content (the play lasts about four hours), Janson limits himself to the big themes of 'meaning of life', 'love' and 'death' and breaks them down Tragedy often with humorous scenes. "
Web links
- Peer Gynt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peer Gynt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start dates for Peer Gynt . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved October 16, 2012 .
- ↑ Peer Gynt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Peer Gynt , prisma.de