Stella (1982, Thomas Langhoff)
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| Original title | Stella |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 102 minutes |
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| Director | Thomas Langhoff |
| script | Thomas Langhoff, Jürgen Gosch |
| production | Television of the GDR |
| music | Georg Katzer |
| camera | Jürgen Heimlich |
| cut | Edith Kaluza |
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Stella is a 1982 film for East German television by Thomas Langhoff based on a tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the first version from 1775.
action
Since the plot largely follows the model of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although additional characters were invented for this film, the sequence can be read almost completely in Stella .
This story now takes place in 1806. Times are uncertain. The Napoleonic troops are no longer far away, the Saxon troops have just left the place. Here the German writer Ferdinand von Rauch (with Goethe Fernando), who enthusiastically joined the French revolutionary troops years ago, is supposed to explore the terrain of the small Thuringian village. Here he left his lover Stella von Schindler behind a long time ago, who is now supposed to spy for the Saxons. With her, whom Ferdinand still loves, Cäcilie Sommer and her sixteen-year-old daughter have taken up a position as a partner. For Ferdinand, his assignment brings not only the re-encounter with Stella, but also unexpectedly with his wife, because she is the lady who found work at Stella and whose daughter is Ferdinand.
In the end Ferdinand flees as someone from war, from life, from love that has been sacked over fields and meadows towards Weimar . In one large pan, the camera fixes today's new buildings in Jena , thereby reinforcing the intention of addressing the viewer, on which the film adaptation is based, to think the story further.
production
The first broadcast of the film created on ORWO-Color took place on August 29, 1982 in the first program of the television of the GDR .
criticism
“In a very unconventional way, the Kammerspiel turned into an extremely dense television film, pictorial metaphors were interwoven with real events, stylized recordings kept the viewer at a distance from the action, creating space for their own associations. This assembly technique seems inextricably linked with the lyrical mood of Georg Katzer's music , which almost permanently suggests threats, thus at the same time creating arcs of tension and thus essentially supporting the scenic process. "
"This film is not a feature film, and yet its script is captivating, this film does not tell a love story, and yet it speaks inventive in the symbolic arrangements, concise in the psychology, nuanced in tone and gesture, from which the Sturm-Drang pathos was driven out, Without taking away their passion, atmospherically dense, imaginative in the subtext, Langhoff's stylistically confident directing can probably reduce the inconsistencies in the work of the Goethe / Gosch / Langhoff team. She cannot forget them. "
Web links
- Stella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stella in the online lexicon of television in the GDR
- Stella at filmportal.de