Hubertus Castle (1954)
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| Original title | Hubertus Castle |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmut Weiss |
| script | Peter Ostermayr |
| production | Peter Ostermayr Film GmbH, Munich |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Franz Koch |
| cut | Adolf Schlyssleder |
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Schloss Hubertus is a German film adaptation by Helmut Weiss from 1954. It is the second film adaptation of the novel Schloss Hubertus by Ludwig Ganghofer since 1934 .
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Count Egge rarely stays at his Hubertus Castle in the Bavarian Alps . Instead, he hunts for weeks in his territory and spends the nights in a hunting lodge in the mountains. He rarely sees his children Willy, Tassilo and Kitty, especially since the two young men no longer live at home. Willy has a heart condition and has therefore been receiving medical treatment for a long time. Tassilo has just become engaged to the actress Anna and comes to the castle with his brother to bring the news. At the same time, the trained lawyer should bid for an adjacent hunting area for his father. He's late for the appointment because of a car accident, so that the father's worst competitor, who happens to be Anna's father, can acquire the hunting ground. When Tassilo confesses to his father that he has lost the hunting ground and that he is engaged to Anna, he breaks up with him.
Willy also has problems with his father, who does not take him seriously because of his illness. He therefore hides a romance with a farmer's daughter. Kitty also falls in love improperly: she meets the painter Hans Forbeck, to whom she is sitting. Her aunt, Baroness Kleesberg, initially prevents the connection and sends Hans to Munich , where he is supposed to complete the portrait of Kitty without her presence.
Willy knows that his brother is getting married the next day and tells Kitty. Both secretly want to go to see him in Munich the next day and be back at the castle in the afternoon. The evening before, Willy gets drunk and wants to climb over a trellis to his girlfriend on the first floor when the trellis gives way and Willy falls into the depths. He dies on the spot. Kitty, who doesn't know where her brother is, goes alone to Munich for Tassilo's wedding. Count Egge learns of his son's death and returns to Hubertus Castle. A short time later, he decided to travel to Sweden to hunt moose . He allows Kitty, who remains with Gundi Kleesberg, to go on a vacation trip to Italy with her aunt because of her supposedly poor health . Here Kitty meets Hans Forbeck and they both become a couple for good.
In Italy, Kitty and Gundi Kleesberg received a telegram with the message that Count Egge, who had returned from Sweden, wanted to gouge an eagle's nest at a height of 50 meters. Both should return to stop him. When gutting the eyrie, the harrow gets caught in a cloud of dust from bird droppings. As a result, he goes blind. He now thinks about his family, forgives his son Tassilo, takes Anna as his daughter-in-law and also allows Kitty to marry the painter Hans.
production
The film was shot using the Garutso Plastorama method . Filming began on April 26, 1954 and took place in Upper Bavaria ( Kehlstein , Kreuzeck ), Northern Italy ( Dolomites ) and Switzerland. The interior shots were made in the Bavaria Film studio in Munich- Geiselgasteig . Carl L. Kirmse and Wolf Englert created the buildings, Ottmar Ostermayr acted as production manager.
Hubertus Palace had its premiere on August 24, 1954 in the Hamburger Barke .
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films described Hubertus Castle as a “cozy, colorful remake of the Ganghofer novel at an average home film level”.
Web links
- Schloss Hubertus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hubertus Castle at filmportal.de