Rübezahl's treasure

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Movie
Original title Rübezahl's treasure
Country of production Germany , Czech Republic
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Stefan Bühling
script Bettina Janis ,
Angelika Schwarzhuber
production Jens Christian Susa ,
Martin Choroba
music Stefan Maria Schneider ,
Michael Beckmann
camera Ngo The Chau
cut Clare Dowling
occupation

Rübezahl's Schatz is a German fairy tale film by Stefan Bühling from 2017 with Sabin Tambrea in the title role. It is based on the legends of Rübezahl , the mountain spirit of the Giant Mountains , and was produced for the ZDF series Märchenperlen . The film premiered on December 24, 2017 at 3 p.m.

action

The mountain spirit Rübezahl falls in love with the young maid Rosa who is waiting for her fiancé Erik. The journeyman cobbler has gambled away his money and that of his master, has to pay off his debts and lets Rosa wait. In the shape of the hunter Montanus, the mountain spirit and Rosa come closer.

The Baroness von Harrant wants to clear the forest and build a sawmill in the Giant Mountains. In the shape of a wolf and the hunter, Rübezahl confronts the greedy baroness. She learns that a magical springwort, the root of the Solomon's seal , is required to access Rübezahl's treasure chamber .

When the baroness threatens to have Rosa's sick mother thrown into dungeon, Rosa reveals the secret to her mistress in order to get to the magical plant. She instructs the maid to give Montanus a sleeping potion, but actually wants to poison him in order to finally defeat him.

Rübezahl seems to be more and more distracted by romantic things and neglects his job as guardian of the country and its people. The baroness arrives at the magical plant and gains access to Rübezahl's mountain treasure. When the mountain spirit rushes up, it is too late: the baroness carries sacks of gold from his mountain while he remains poisoned and locked up.

Rosa succeeds in stealing the springwort and freeing Rübezahl from his mountain. The two realize that they have no future together and go their own way. Rübezahl then pays Erik's gambling debts. He renounces gambling, returns to Rosa and wants to set up a shoemaker's workshop with her.

Rübezahl examines the baroness in the form of a beggar. When she is hard-hearted, he punishes her with ugliness. He turns your stolen gold treasures into horse droppings.

Production notes

“A great feature of the Rübezahl adaptation was that there are numerous but always short legends about the mountain spirit. 'But we didn't want to make an episode film,' says ZDF editor Irene Wellershoff , 'we have combined several legends into a new overall arc that essentially tells a love story.' “The result is an all-age fairy tale film adaptation about the figure of the shapeshifter Rübezahl.

The shooting took place in the Czech Republic from April 20, 2017 to May 19, 2017 . The film was shot in Bohemian Switzerland around Hřensko , in the area of ​​the Tyssa walls , in the Giant Mountains and in the vicinity of Prague .

Was funded Giant's treasure from the Czech State Fund of Cinematography.

criticism

Peter M. Gaschler writes in a book on Fantastic Film: "Powerful images in Czech landscapes / locations such as the Giant Mountains, as eternal as the themes here, weakness, greed, love and respect for nature. CGI [recordings] go in brilliantly unobtrusively their natural environment, culminating in the liberating ride of Rosas and Rübezahl on the back of Rübezahl's white mare Isabel over rugged mountain ranges, wide skies, forests and gorges, one of the most poetic moments in the history of German film. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Märchenperlen: Broadcasting dates ZDF. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  2. Film & TV cameraman: All-Age-Märchen - “Rübezahls Schatz”, accessed on December 22, 2017
  3. Press kit: ZDF Christmas for Children and Youth 2017. In: zdf.de. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  4. Peter M. Gaschler: The fantasy film 2018. First German Fantasy Club eV; Edition: Secondary literary series Volume 82 (2018), Page 308, ISBN 978-3939914143