Rinaldo Rinaldini (TV series)

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Television series
German title Rinaldo Rinaldini , alternatively Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber chief
Original title La kermesse des brigands
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany / France
original language German / French
year 1968
length 26 minutes
Episodes 13 in 1 season
genre Adventure , children and youth series
production hr for the ARD
music Carlos Diernhammer , Frank Forell
camera Gerhard Krüger, Ivan Marincek
First broadcast November 9, 1968 (FRG)

Rinaldo Rinaldini ( French : La kermesse of brigands = The carnival of brigands , German Alternative title Rinaldo Rinaldini - the robber captain ) is a 13-part German-French TV series of 1968, which in the Yugoslav part republic ( Slovenia ) was filmed. It is based on the novel Rinaldo Rinaldini by Christian August Vulpius , published in 1799 .

Further technical data

Screenplay: Ernst von Salomon , Franz Geiger , István Békeffy .

Director: František Čáp .

Actors and roles:

action

As the leader of a band of robbers in southern Italy, Rinaldo Rinaldini fights wealthy villains and protects the poor. The reason for this is the murder of his father by the Marchese Cavalcanti, who also cheated Rinaldo of his inheritance .

Cavalcanti therefore sees Rinaldo as a constant threat to his property and tries to confront him by all means. Rinaldo and his gang members get the support of Fra Donato, who tries to dissuade him from his robber life, as well as the gypsy girl Rosalia, who succeeds several times by cunning to protect the robbers from soldiers of the authorities. In episode 3, The Trojan Horse , Rinaldo and his men help the maidens of Corvieto in the resistance against the governor D'Alerto, who makes it impossible for them to get married with the introduction of a virgin tax.

Rinaldo falls in love with the Marchesa Olympia, who wants to win him over for the liberation of an island not named (based on the literature model Corsica ). As a camouflage, he often assumes the identity of a Count Ticino . In episode 7, The Castle of the Fathers , Rinaldo is arrested and imprisoned by the Cavalcanti who is pursuing him, but is freed by Fra Donato. In the next episode, The Old Man of Fronteja , Rinaldo rejects an offer by Fra Donato to free the island, because Rinaldo is not interested in politics, but only wants to take revenge on Cavalcanti. Cavalcanti is eventually killed during a duel with Rinaldo because the officer Serpentino, who believes Rinaldo will lose the duel, shoots down a candlestick, which kills Cavalcanti.

Finally, Rinaldo is caught by an intrigue . He has the guerrillas Fra Donatos connected to rid the island. A relative of Fra Donato, Giulietta Arletti, allies with Olympia, Rinaldo's former lover, who is now jealous of Rinaldo's current bride, Rosalia. Giulietta reveals the irregulars' attack plan to the authorities. Olympia tries one last time to win Rinaldo over, but he remains loyal to Rosalia, whereupon Olympia is ready to commit the final betrayal and gives a sign to the pursuing soldiers. Rinaldo was arrested by Serpentino and on a slave- barrow to Naples transported. His gang members tried to free him there, but did not get through the soldiers' chain of posts. Rinaldo is stabbed to death by Fra Donato in front of the soldiers because he wants to spare him an execution. Rosalia and the robbers bury Rinaldo and decide to continue the fight against the oppressors on his behalf.

Production history, literary source

Rinaldo Rinaldini was one of the first West German color television series ; the production costs amounted to 1.35 million DM . Their production was in the context of West German and French television producers to counterbalance Anglo-American western and crime television series with European material .

However, the scriptwriters only roughly adhered to the literary model of the novel Rinaldo Rinaldini by Christian August Vulpius, a brother-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1799 . The novel, which was extremely popular in the 19th century, has seen various reprints up to the present; In 1927 it was first filmed by Max Obal with Luciano Albertini in the lead role.

Vulpius had his figure in the Italian robber or social rebel Angelo Duca (* 1734 San Gregorio Magno, † April 26, 1784 by execution), who was driven into illegality by a border dispute with the Duke of Martina . Duca acted similarly to Robin Hood , but was eventually arrested through the betrayal of a member of his gang and executed without trial due to his popularity. In contrast to the real model, however, Vulpius transformed his fictional character into a romantic robber who corresponded to the cliché of contemporary knight and robber novels .

After Heinz, the scriptwriters made a further trivialization of the historical person Duca, which mainly concerned the role of women:

With the exception of Olympia, the many emancipated female characters in the novel were converted into "mere females" in the TV version, who were only drawn according to the traditional female role and "destiny" of women ... Olympia, the cool, calculating way of thinking and acting in the novel in every situation retained, is robbed of its intellectual traits towards the end of the plot of the television series. In contrast to the novel, she now appears as a madly jealous, uncontrollably passionate woman.

Reception and transmission

The series was a huge hit with audiences. According to a TNS Infratest survey , it was viewed as extremely positive, especially by the group of 14 to 29 year old viewers. When it was broadcast in the broadcasting area of ​​the Hessischer Rundfunk , it reached an average of 1.73 million viewers, a viewing participation of 63%. Despite its subject matter, the series was not particularly violent, obviously due to its broadcast time before 8:00 p.m. and taking into account child and adolescent viewers.

In 2008 a DVD version was released that contains all 13 episodes. After 40 years, the series was broadcast on German television for the first time from October 18, 2015.

literature

  • Curt Elwenspoek : Rinaldo Rinaldini the romantic robber prince. The true face of the mysterious robber "Don Juan", revealed through first source research , Stuttgart 1927.
  • Marion Beaujean: The trivial novel in the second half of the 18th century , Bonn 1964.
  • Marianne Heinz: Content and structure of a television series of the advertising framework program presented using the example of "Rinaldo Rinaldini" , Phil. Diss. Philipps University of Marburg / Lahn, Marburg / Lahn 1973.
  • Holger Dainat: Abaellino, Rinaldini and the like. On the history of robber novels in Germany (studies and texts on the social history of literature. 55), Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz 1973. pp. 229f.