Hubertus Castle (1973)
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| Original title | Hubertus Castle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script | Werner P. Zibaso |
| production |
Horst Hächler for CTV 72 |
| music | Ernst Brandner |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Ingeborg Taschner |
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Schloss Hubertus is a German Heimatfilm by Harald Reinl from 1973. After 1934 and 1954 it was the third film adaptation of the novel Schloss Hubertus by Ludwig Ganghofer . Carl Lange plays the role of the head of the family, Count Egge Sennefeld, Robert Hoffmann plays the Count's hunter, Karlheinz Böhm is there as Tassilo Sennefeld, the count's eldest son, Klaus Löwitsch as the hunter Schipper, Evelyn Opela as the opera singer Anna Herwegh, Ute Kittelberger and Folker Bohnet as Count's children Kitty and Robert, Gerhard Riedmann as Lenz Bruckner, Gerlinde Döberl as his daughter Mali and Sascha Hehn as the youngest son of the Count, Willy.
action
After a year at the convent school , Count's daughter Kitty has returned to her father Count Egge in Hubertus Castle - but he is still on the hunt as usual, so that Kitty is only the company of Aunt Gundula, who eagerly pays attention to her niece's virtues. Even when both want to meet the Count, are surprised by a thunderstorm and are rescued by the Count's hunter Franz and the painter Hans, Gundula only has the escape back to the castle in mind. Kitty, who has taken a liking to the painter, lets him portray her the next day.
The next day again - Count Egge is still on the trail of a big buck and returns to the mountain despite the resolution to go to the castle - the Kittys brothers also appear: Willy is an ensign and is secretly with a girl from the village together, Robert is a Uhlan lieutenant , full of arrogance , has constant gambling debts and sees his father only as an abundant source of money, and Tassilo is a lawyer and plans to marry the opera singer Anna Herwegh. All three life plans are alien to the father who lives only to hunt.
Since the father does not come from the mountain even after several days, the brothers go to him to hunt with him for a day. Count Egge assigns them hunting grounds where hardly any game changes. When Tassilo kills a red deer , it turns out that the deadly bullet did not come from Tassilo's rifle, but from that of his auxiliary hunter Franz. Egge dismisses Franz and thus acts in the spirit of the count's hunter Schipper. He used to be a poacher and went hunting with the villager Lenz. At that time both were surprised by Jäger Hornegger, Franz's father. Both shot him and Hornegger died. Neither of them know who fired the fatal shot. While Lenz tries to numb his conscience with alcohol - this is all the more difficult because his sister Mali is with Franz - Schipper has sneaked into the Count's services to ruin Hornegger's son Franz and thus bring him out of sight.
Harrow is increasingly plagued by health problems, including knee pain. Family problems are also bothering him. When he hears that his son Tassilo wants to marry a singer, he rejects him. Because Robert excludes him and the debts to be settled are getting higher and higher, he also renounces Robert. Willy, who he regards as the only "advised" son, dies when he falls while looking at the window . The sons and Kitty meet again for Willy's funeral.
The Count began to rethink and brought Franz back into his service. During the first hunt, they discover an eagle's nest that Egge wants to dig up. Since it is very high, he has wooden ladders made in the village, over which he wants to climb the approximately 60-meter-high cliff. Although Franz advises against him, Egge begins the ascent alone. He is attacked by an adult eagle trying to defend the eyrie and is injured. However, he does not stop the ascent. When he arrives at the eyrie, he gets caught in a cloud of eagle dung - the corrosive dust makes him blind.
In the meantime, Tassilo was visited in Munich by a regimental comrade of his brother Robert. Robert got into big gambling debt. Tassilo promises to pay his brother's debts. When he rushes to Robert to tell him, Robert has just committed suicide. Only Kitty experiences a brief period of happiness: with Gundula's permission, she visits the painter Hans, who has just received a grant for a trip to Rome and has thus at least become a respectable party. Only when she returns to Hubertus Castle does Kitty find out that her father is seriously injured. Tassilo also comes to his father's sickbed. He forgives him and agrees with Kitty's lover - and dies.
Lenz has become a poacher again because his little niece is seriously ill. He believes he still has his former ally in Schipper and tells him where he will poach. Schipper, in turn, rushes to Franz and pretends to have overheard two poachers, one of whom claimed to be the murderer of Franz's father. Franz rushes to the mountain and surprises Lenz. When he tries to lead him away, Schipper appears and shoots Lenz, but at the same time is fatally hit by Lenz's bullet. In the last moments before his death, Schipper reveals to Franz that he was his father's murderer. The bodies of Lenz and Schipper are carried from the mountain. Lenz's sister Mali is appalled by the death of her brother - Franz takes her in his arms and comforts her: better days will come for him and her too.
Production, publication
Hubertus Castle was filmed from August 21 to October 7, 1973 at Anif Castle , in Berchtesgaden and in the Bavarian Wimbachtal .
The film premiered on December 19, 1973 in the Kur-Theater Berchtesgaden. It first ran on television on June 21, 1980 on ZDF . Alive released the film on March 13, 2015 together with the film adaptations from 1934 and 1954 within the film adaptations based on Ludwig Ganghofer in the "Film Jewels" series.
criticism
The lexicon of international films said that the film version “relies on the possibilities of the scope format ”. Filmecho was of the opinion that the "remake offers everything you could ask of it".
Cinema found: “Winnetou and Wallace director Harald Reinl staged his version as a conservative, colorful alpine greeting. Conclusion: Despite the high mountains, it's pretty flat. "
Web links
- Schloss Hubertus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hubertus Castle at filmportal.de
- Schloss Hubertus (1973) on filmposter-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schloss Hubertus Fig. DVD case film jewels collection box with all three film versions
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↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 7. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3285.
See also Hubertus Castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 19, 2018 . - ↑ Schloss Hubertus on Fernsehserien.de
- ↑ Schloss Hubertus See cinema.de (including 17 film images). Retrieved September 8, 2019.
