Nice Days (1981)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Lovely days |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 150 minutes |
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| Director | Fritz Lehner |
| script | Fritz Lehner |
| production | ORF |
| music |
Bert Brait , Michael Etz |
| camera | Toni Peschke |
| cut |
Juno Sylva Englander , Claudia Fischer |
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Schöne Tage is an Austrian tragedy film from 1981 . It was made into a film based on the novel of the same name by Franz Innerhofer . All film roles were played exclusively by amateur actors . A narrator documents the plot in the background.
The film was awarded No. 5 in the series “ The Austrian Film ”.
In 1983 Fritz Lehner received the Adolf Grimme Gold Prize for this .
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The film depicts the viciousness of the Pinzgau farmers and the great hardship and inferiority of their servants and maids . The story, however, was moved to a Carinthian farm. The situation of the servants who had secret love affairs and whose children were again made into laborers by the peasants is also brought up.
Synopsis: Little Huber Franzi lives with his mother Olga in a small apartment behind a train station. He is in a very sad mood because he already knows that he will be sent away. He first attempts to injure his lips on a frozen railing. On the day of his departure, his mother consoles him that he will have it on his real father's farm. He is accompanied by his stepfather. When he arrives at the farm, the real father turns out to be a vicious, violent farmer and he delivers the contemptuous remark about Franzi “ des is oiso mei youthfulness / so that's my youthful sin ”.
In the presence of the stepfather, the farmhands and maids first laugh under the pretext that things are so cheerful in the country. Franzi doesn't feel any appetite, but his father forces him to eat. The farmer and farmer do not respond to Franzi's homesickness and say that his new home is now on the farm.
When mowing in the meadows, the servants are driven to exhaustion by the head servant, whereupon Franzi flees into the empty house next to the yard. Then Franzi is tied to the horse, which transports the cut grass with the cart. Franzi becomes a bed-wetter under the bad conditions at the court.
When Franzi started primary school, he behaved very shyly and his father caught him doing homework and sent him to work. Soon afterwards Maria (a little girl) is brought to the court by the welfare organization , who also turns out to be the peasant's youthful sin .
The servant Höller refuses to work on Sundays. Because Franzi was not present at Sunday mass, he had to ask his father to blow his cane in the evening. The screams of pain can be heard all over the courtyard. Then Franzi has to thank you for the blows.
Franzi finally finds refuge with Moritz, an overworked and dumb servant. He lets Franzi watch the repair of a pocket watch and then shows him his room with a watch collection, which annoys the farmer (Franzi's father) very much.
In summer the farmer and Franzi drive the cows out into the pasture, while the farmer beats Franzi in the meadow for disobedience. Now everything is over for Franzi. He ravages his room, burns his exercise books and takes the train to see Olga (his mother), with whom he lived until a year ago. Franzi wants to stay with his mother, but she refuses to take him in and brings him back to the terrible court. When Franzi returns from the doctor's examination, the servant Moritz has an accident with the horse-drawn cart that he has loaded with milk cans and lets the milk flow into the stream.
When Franz reaches puberty , the horror experiences increase. Like the other servants, he has to work hard. He's still a bed wetter. After the ascent to the alpine hut, Franz finds a dead stag, which he admires very much, and records this experience in a school essay. Furthermore, the rumor spreads around the court that Maria von Knecht Höller became pregnant, whereupon he presumably reports her. Maria then flees by bike and fights her way through the passing Corpus Christi procession . The procession finds the hanged Höller at the altar at their court. When no bells sounded at Holler's funeral, Franz sets the bells in action with the rope, which causes trouble with his teacher. Franz also has to present his strange essay (with the dead stag) to the class, whereupon his classmates laugh at him.
When school is over, his school friend Leo hides a vacant apprenticeship as a mechanic, which he takes away from him. Meanwhile, a midwife is employed at Franz's court, who tells the farmers the truth about the social grievances at the court. Franz feels a certain love for the midwife and asks her in writing to stay at court forever. In this regard, however, she lets him down. Franz is now desperate and already has suicidal thoughts. But he changes his mind.
Next summer a tractor will be demonstrated to the farmers, with Franz at the wheel. Everyone is now attached to the tractor's rope, where the pulling force pulls everyone away. In the clothes shop, the farmer's wife refuses Franz the suit he wants, but he ignores it. Soon afterwards, Franz asked a mechanic's workshop about an apprenticeship where his friend Leo was already studying. The master has already spoken to his father about Franz's alleged laziness and refuses his request. Soon afterwards, Franz received a letter in which he was offered an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. He goes there by bike, throwing his suitcase and its contents into the stream on the way. He feels at home in the forge like never before. In the meantime, Knecht Moritz has died and the stepsister opens and reads Franz's last letter to Moritz to the farmer's wife. The farmer does not react very happy and asks Franz to stay at the farm. The film ends with an open ending.
Web links
- Beautiful day in the Internet Movie Database (English)