Rock fracture

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Movie
German title God's mills
Original title Rock fracture
Country of production Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 1942
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Sigfrit Steiner
script Sigfrit Steiner,
Horst Budjuhn ,
Albert J. Welti
production Günther Stapenhorst , Gloriafilm
music Alexander Krannhals
camera Harry Ringger
cut Walter Kägi
occupation

Steibruch ( Steinbruch ) is a Swiss fictional film by director Sigfrit Steiner from 1942 . The film premiered in Zurich on October 9, 1942. It was published in Austria under the name Late Atonement and in Germany under the name Gottesmühlen or Voice of the Blood .

action

Arnold Murer returns to his home village Langnach in Switzerland after a long stay abroad in the USA . Everyone there knows that he spent 14 years in prison in America for attempted murder, even though he always claimed to be innocent. Murer settles in a run-down accommodation near the quarry away from the village and begins to live like a hermit there. The people in the village ostracize him and hope to get rid of him soon. Only the mentally handicapped Näppi and the thirteen-year-old girl Meiti approach the man and carefully begin to develop a relationship with him.

From mayor Hotz, the foster father of Meiti learns Murer, that he is the father of his foster daughter. However, he does not tell the girl because he is concerned about her reputation. When the teacher Kiburz tries to put Meiti in a reformatory, Murer has to promise the mayor not to see Meiti again.

The girl shows up with him anyway and the two are provided by the mayor and the teacher. Meiti learns that it is Murer's daughter and Näppi's half-sister, whom she can't stand. She runs off into the night. Later that evening, Murer tries to shoot his son. He recognizes the danger and runs away in a panic.

While the search for her continues, teacher Kiburz finds a letter that proves Murer's innocence. He reads it and immediately runs to the quarry to apologize to Murer. The community man, the teacher and Murer go together to find Meiti. You finally find her on the river bank, where she made friends with Näppi. The film ends with Murer and Meiti pulling Näppi, who is sleeping in a wagon, to his accommodation in the quarry and leaves an optimistic note about their future together.

Emergence

The basis of the film is the play Spiil i feuf Akt by Albert Jakob Welti . Sigfrit Steiner staged the play in 1939 with Heinrich Gretler an der Landi in the competition for the best dialect play, which also won the Landi Prize. Heinrich Gretler played the same role in 1940 at the Stadttheater Basel and at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . The film was not made until 1942, when the actors, with the exception of Gretler, waived two thirds of the fee for a share of the income. In 2006, the only remaining copy was restored by SF DRS , Memoriav and Cinémathèque suisse.

background

Steibruch was Maria Schell's film debut , who was still called Gritli at the time. By chance, director Sigfrit Steiner found out about Margarethe Schell's daughter, who was doing an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk at the time. The second discovery of the film was Max Haufler , who in one of his first larger roles impressively played the lagging drift.

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