Radetzky March (1965)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Radetzky March |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 210 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Kehlmann |
| script | Michael Kehlmann |
| production |
Bavarian Broadcasting Austrian Broadcasting |
| music | Rolf Wilhelm |
| camera | Elio Carniel |
| cut | Leontine Klicka |
| occupation | |
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Radetzkymarsch is a two-part German-Austrian television film by director Michael Kehlmann based on the novel Radetzkymarsch by Joseph Roth . It was first broadcast on April 18, 1965. A theatrical version of the two-part TV series was assembled, which was shown in the Soviet Union and other countries.
action
The action only begins with the second generation of scooters. About the “Hero of Solferino”, the father of the district captain and grandfather of the young lieutenant Trotta, who was ennobled because of the rescue of Emperor Franz Joseph in the battle of Solferino ( Lombardy ), is only occasionally told in retrospect.
Baron Franz Freiherr von Trotta und Sipolje is district captain in a small Moravian town, in front of whose official building the Radetzky March is played every Sunday . His son, Lieutenant Carl Joseph Trotta von Sipolje, gets involved with the married Kathi, and when she becomes pregnant and dies, he is full of remorse.
When he met the wife of his friend, medical officer Dr. Demant, escorted home and passing the officers' mess, has terrible consequences: the officers assume he is having a relationship with the woman, and when Captain Count Tattenbach insults the woman's husband, he has no choice but to challenge Tattenbach to a duel . In the duel, Dr. Demant fatally wounded, and the young Trotta sees himself again as the real culprit.
He arrives with a detachment of soldiers on a factory site where workers are rebelling, and against his will he has to order the soldiers to shoot at the workers. In a Galician provincial nest, where the officers are having fun in the casino, Trotta takes on the guarantee for a comrade who is indebted to the casino operator Kapturak. Soon afterwards Trotta stands there with his debts, and only an intervention by his father with Emperor Franz Joseph saves him from ruin.
In the First World War, he finally found no one among his soldiers on a dangerous section of the front who wanted to fetch water from an exposed well. So he walks himself and is fatally hit in the process. When the lonely father receives news of his son's death, he loses the composure that he had previously struggled to maintain. Two years later, the district captain heard the rumor that the old man was dying . He immediately travels to Vienna, where Franz Joseph is dying. Baron Trotta will only survive him by a few days.
Specialty
The figure of Emperor Franz Joseph is the only one whose thoughts can be heard in the form of self-talk. These are sketching an old age and therefore a bit senile, rather simple-minded personality.
Reviews
"A young man, grandson of the" hero of Solferino ", who once saved the life of the emperor, is slowly collapsing under the overpowering soldier-patriarchal traditions that permeate his family."
In contemporary criticism, Austrian conservatives criticized the fact that Emperor Franz Joseph was briefly seen in the film in a nightgown. This was considered undignified by some at the time.
Another film adaptation
Radetzkymarsch was filmed again in the 1990s under the direction of Axel Corti (and Gernot Roll ), see Radetzkymarsch (1995) .
Web links
- Radetzky March in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radetzky March. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 20, 2017 .