Call of the wild geese

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Movie
Original title Call of the wild geese
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hans Heinrich
script By swinging
production Alf Teichs (overall management)
Alfred Stöger (production management)
for Wiener Mundus
music Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera Walter cloth
cut Renate Jelinek
occupation

Call of the Wild Geese , or alternatively The Call of the Wild Geese , is an Austrian homeland film by Hans Heinrich from 1961 . In addition to Ewald Balser and Heidemarie Hatheyer , Brigitte Horney , Horst Janson , Marisa Mell and Gertraud Jesserer are cast in leading roles.

action

Summer 1886 in Manitoba, Canada : The young Amelia Jaspers escapes with her lover, who shoots a man while trying to escape and dies himself. Amelia is sentenced to two years in prison for accessory to manslaughter. In prison, she gives birth to her son, who is named Mark Jordan after his father. He is given away and raised by missionaries. Amelia is expelled from Manitoba after being detained. On her wrong track through Canada, she is taken in by Farmer Caleb Gare.

The year 1910: Amelia has been married to Puritan Caleb for 20 years . Both have two daughters: the adult Judith and the younger Ellen. Caleb is a despot who every year reminds his wife of her past in prison and that their illegitimate son lives with missionaries and knows nothing about his mother. Caleb treats his children with unrelenting severity. Both are never allowed to leave the area and know neither music nor the progress of the world. Caleb is also unpopular in the nearby village of Yellow-Post: He often lends money, which he demands back with usurious interest. If the farmers in the area cannot pay, he takes their land from them or demands the cattle from the men. Not only does Caleb influence the fate of the men in the village - a debtor whom Caleb forgives against the transfer of ownership of the lake from which the man fishes and sells fish, later kills himself. Caleb also wants to direct the lives of the daughters. Judith has fallen in love with the drover Sven Sandbo, who has to drive a herd of horses to Middlesquare and is therefore away from the farm for some time. Caleb intercepts Sven's letters to Judith and hopes that she will forget him this way. When his younger daughter Ellen falls in love with Caleb's farm worker Malcolm, Caleb drives the young man away, who goes back to the Indians in Chickentown, not far from Middlesquare.

On the way to Middlesquare, Sven meets the surveyor Mark Jordan, who is on his way to Yellow-Post. Sven invites him to stay with his mother there. Mrs. Sandbo is taken with Mark, who sends her regards from her son. Mark has traveled around the world, brings music to Yellow-Post with a gramophone and gives Mrs. Sandbo and Judith, who has come to visit, fragrant soap. Mark's arrival diabolically amuses Caleb. He torments his wife with the news that their son is in town. He invites him to his farm and plays with Amelia's bewilderment, so he uses his knowledge of Mark's origins as a means of pressure against her. Even when Mark and Judith get closer, he sees no reason to worry, as he knows that Mark will only be in the Yellow Post for a few weeks. However, when Mark asks Amelia to marry Judith, she secretly confesses his origins to him. In the meantime, Malcolm has called for Sven from Chickentown. He'd heard Mark's arrival at Yellow Post and his relationship with Judith before he left the farm. Now he warns Sven that he could lose Judith. Sven immediately rides back to Yellow Post. Judith wants to escape her father's oppression and go on with Sven, but he still has no land with which he could feed both of them. He puts her off. When Caleb confronts her about her meeting with Sven, she throws an ax at him, but misses him. He ties her up and leaves her prisoner in the farm's barn. Amelia and Ellen are also not allowed to help her. Sven and Mark are now planning to save Judith at the upcoming summer festival: Since there was talk in the village about a prison on Caleb's farm, he has to appear at the festival with both daughters to prove the opposite. During the village dance, Judith secretly disappears and flees with Sven. Caleb is beside himself and confronts Amelia. He wants to enforce her obedience by threatening to tell Mark everything about his origins, but she reveals to him that he has already learned everything. She will leave him with Ellen and go away with Mark. At that moment the fire bell is rung. There is a fire near the Yellow Post and the flames have already reached Caleb's farm. Caleb rushes to the farm and tries to get his hoarded money from the farmhouse. He is killed by the collapsing building. Amelia finds support with Mark. Meanwhile, Judith and Sven ride side by side across the prairie.

production

Call of the Wild Geese is based on the novel of the same name by Martha Ostenso , which was also her most successful. After Wild Geese from 1927, this is the second of three film adaptations of the book. A third film adaptation was released in 2001 under the title After the Harvest for television. The film was shot in May 1961 in the Rosenhügel studio in Vienna and in Canada. Margarethe Volters created the costumes and Leo Metzenbauer created the film . For Alfred Norkus was call of the wild geese last work as a sound engineer. Heinz Pollak and Rudolf Stering were in charge of production. The young Amelia is played in the film by Regine Feldhütter, the daughter of Amelia actress Heidemarie Hatheyer.

reception

publication

The film had its premiere on September 22, 1961 in Nuremberg and was shown on October 20, 1961 in Vienna, Austria. The television premiere of Call of the Wild Geese took place on August 11, 1973 on ZDF . The English title is The Cry of the Wild Geese .

On May 3, 2013, the film was released on DVD by Alive Distribution and Marketing as part of the “Jewels of Film History” series.

criticism

The film dienst classified the wild geese's reputation as a Heimatfilm and called it a "credibly played drama that uses the attractive Canadian landscape to develop the usual entanglements and moods of the German-language Heimatfilm of those years."

“Well-played drama in front of a fantastic backdrop,” said Cinema , while Der Spiegel called the film a “family riot”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call of the Wild Geese Fig. Cover DVD film jewels
  2. ↑ Call of the Wild Geese. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Call of the Wild Geese See cinema.de
  4. ↑ On TV This Week: Call of the Wild Geese . In: Der Spiegel , 4, 1985.