Vogelöd Castle (1936)

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Movie
Original title Vogelöd Castle
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1936
length 79 minutes
Rod
Director Max Obal
script Peter Francke
Rudolph Stratz
production Peter Ostermayr
music Friedrich W. Rust
camera Karl Attenberger
cut Friedel Buckow
occupation

Vogelöd Castle is a German film drama from 1936 directed by Max Obal . The main roles are occupied by Walter Steinbeck , Carola Höhn , Hans Stüwe and Käthe Haack . The script is based on the mystical crime novel of the same name by Rudolph Stratz from 1921.

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau filmed the novel under the same title in 1921.

action

Baroness Maly von Siebeneich has decided to celebrate her birthday with her relatives at Vogelöd Castle in order to bring some life into the old walls. In her opinion, Marianne von Vogelöd is becoming more and more gloomy, which probably has to do with her relationship with her husband, who is usually very inconsiderate towards Marianne. The old medical adviser, Maly's cousin Christoff Brauenberg with his wife and a few neighbors have been invited as guests. As a surprise for the birthday child, teacher Salvermoser has the children of his class recite a few verses.

When Count Leopold greeted his guests later that evening in an unclean loden suit, you can see from his wife Marianne how embarrassing she is. What is even worse, however, is that Leopold does not shy away from turning to young Wally, daughter of his gamekeeper Matthias, on this evening, which gives new nourishment to the already flourishing gossip. Marianne then goes to her room, deeply offended and disturbed. Maly followed her to comfort her. The conversation between the two women is abruptly interrupted when Baron von Safferstätt reports to the women that Count Andreas von Vogelöd has just arrived. Marianne is alarmed because she was once engaged to Andreas. Why did he just return from his trip around the world today? Maly encourages the countess to keep her composure. So the ladies go back to the guests.

It turns out that Leopold has already informed his brother that Marianne is now his wife. You can tell from the great looking man that this news hit him hard. He suggests that he wants to return to South America the next day as soon as he has withdrawn his inheritance. Maly leads to a discussion between Marianne and Andreas, whereby it turns out that Andreas only ever loved Marianne. The letter that Leopold Marianne read at the time and in which Andreas is said to have written that he had fallen in love with and married another woman was forged. Only then did Marianne agree to marry Leopold. When Andreas learns the truth, his anger is limitless. Marianne demands an account of his actions from her husband, who has meanwhile entered the room. Bad words are spoken between the brothers, there is talk of paying home. Everyone runs angrily in a different direction. Leopold, who has already strongly recommended alcohol, takes his rifle to go into the forest. Andreas, in turn, wants Marianne to come with him. However, the young woman is in a predicament because not only she, but also her mother is financially dependent on Count Leopold.

Leopold does not come home for the next few hours and then the news comes that he had an accident and died while hunting at the moor lake. His body is under the ice. The news quickly circulated that it was not an accident, as a shot was heard at night. Andreas, who in the meantime was with von Safferstätt at the bank, has to discover that his brother has taken all of his fortune, his share of the fortune has been used up. Since there are several witnesses for the threats that Andreas made against Leopold, he is arrested on suspicion of murder. Marianne collapses at this news. Von Safferstätt, a hypocritical and slick man who is employed as an asset manager at Vogelöd Castle, takes the opportunity to ensnare Marianne.

After a while, Andreas is released again; he finds shelter with Salvermoser. The suspicion that rests on him weighs heavily on him. But then a turn occurs; During their further investigations, the police got on the trail of the forest warden Matthias, who admits during his interrogation that he fired the shot to avenge his daughter's honor. For more than thirty years he served the count faithfully and then he brought shame on his daughter, Matthias bursts out. Andreas is glad that the suspicion of fratricide has been removed from him.

The case then takes another completely surprising turn: after Leopold's body was recovered, the real murderer's wristwatch was found in his clenched fist and it was also discovered that he had been killed by a blow to the head. In the fog Matthias had shot blindly at a shadow that he took to be the Count, but which was von Safferstätt. He is the Count's true murderer, and it was he who embezzled Andreas' share of the property.

production

Production notes

Vogelöd Castle was shot from mid-December 1935 to mid-January 1936 in the vicinity of Munich , Hinterbrühl in the Isar Valley and around Berlin . It is a production by Tonlicht-Film GmbH , Peter Ostermayr (Berlin) for UFA . Ostermayr also acted as a producer and was in charge of the artistic direction. The production management was the responsibility of Ernst Krüger and Hans-Herbert Ulrich (production group Krüger-Ulrich), the production management Günther Grau. The film structures designed by Hanns H. Kuhnert were implemented by Hermann Asmus .

For director Obal, this was the last full-length feature film.

publication

After the film had passed the film censorship on March 13, 1936 and received a youth ban, it was premiered in Germany on March 19, 1936. In the USA, Vogelöd Castle was shown for the first time on May 8, 1936. On October 9, 1937 it was published in Slovenia under the title V zaščiti teme and on December 17, 1937 in Croatia under the title Pod zaštitom tmine .

criticism

The lexicon of international films spoke of a weak remake of the silent film of the same name by Murnau and judged: “Endless talk in paper German about booklet novels; also played wooden. "

“The novel was a success - unfortunately the film was not to this extent,” wrote Karlheinz Wendtland.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 7th year 1936. P. 182, (111.36). Berlin 1996
  2. ↑ Vogelöd Castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1935 and 1936, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first and second edition 1987, third completely revised and expanded edition 1989, pp. 161, 162, film 29/1936. ISBN 3-926945-08-7