Devil roast
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| Original title | Devil roast |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 85 minutes each |
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| Director | Hermione Huntgeburth |
| script | Volker Einrauch |
| production | Günter Rohrbach |
| music |
Beaver Gullatz Andreas Schäfer |
| camera | Sebastian Edschmid |
| cut | Eva Schnare |
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Teufelsbraten is a two-part television film by Hermine Huntgeburth from 2007, a Colonia Media production on behalf of WDR and ARTE . The action takes place over a period of eleven years (1951–1962). The protagonist Hildegard Palm is five at the beginning of the film and sixteen at the end.
The novel The Hidden Word by Ulla Hahn served as a template for the television film , which Huntgeburth's work, apart from two factual errors (the atypically neglected workers' settlement and the often drunk father), considered a very successful interpretation of her novel. The film also owes the title Teufelsbraten to the original book, in which Hilla's grandmother repeatedly referred to her rebellious granddaughter, half reproachfully, half with a wink as "Düvelsbrode".
The one-part television film Aufbruch was shown on ARD on December 7, 2016 . Filmed ten years after Teufelsbraten , it looks like the immediate sequel to the two-parter.
action
Little Hildegard, daughter of a worker and a cleaning lady , is scolded by her family, in which the grandparents and an aunt also live, "Teufelsbraten" ( Düvelsbrode ) because, with her serious and inquisitive manner, she is determined to read and write to learn to be perceived by their proletarian, strictly Rhenish Catholic, dialect-speaking family as a foreign body that does not belong to their world. Only her sick grandfather, who often reads to her, introduces her to the world of language and thus lays the foundation for her thirst for education, understands her.
At the age of 10 Hildegard is admitted to middle school. There she learns High German, deals with literature and makes friends from the middle class. The parents are increasingly overwhelmed with their development; Her language, table manners and leisure interests trigger aggression from the disadvantaged , especially in her father . He tries to curb his daughter through physical and verbal violence and persuade her that she could not become "better" despite school and that she will always be what she is - a working class child . Hildegard feels torn between the two worlds; despite her development into a future academic, she loves her family of origin. The father also loves her in his own way; When he wins the lottery, he fulfills all of her wishes, takes her to the big city to buy clothes, and buys her the braces she wants.
At the age of 16 Hildegard was offered the opportunity to attend the advanced high school to complete the Abitur. The parents refuse and force her to start an office apprenticeship in the same factory where her father works. At the side of a typical secretarial "kite" of the early 1960s, she is supposed to learn filing, shorthand and typewriting. When Hildegard defends herself against the harassment by her trainer with small acts of sabotage and subtle pranks, she receives a warning, whereupon the desperate father beats her. However, the HR manager, to whom Hildegard is quoted, realizes the moment she recognizes a painting in his office as being by Marc Chagall , that she has an above-average education and lets the matter go. Unhappy about her future prospects and on top of that abandoned by her first boyfriend, Hildegard seeks consolation in herbal liqueur and threatens to add to alcohol . She lies completely drunk on the banks of the Rhine.
At a reunion party, Hildegard noticed her tendency to alcoholism and was confronted by her former German teacher. He recognizes the danger in which the talented but under-challenged girl finds herself and finally, together with the pastor and elementary school teacher, he manages to convince Hildegard's parents that their daughter belongs in high school. When the community agrees to pay for the school fees , father and mother actually allow themselves to be persuaded so that Hildegard can attend the advanced level leading to the Abitur from next year on.
interpretation
The film is a characteristic study of the social milieu of the time of the economic miracle ( 1950s and early 1960s ) and brings life to the formula: Catholic rural workers' daughter. In contrast to the naturalistic drama, however, the milieu is not understood to be determinative; It is shown how difficult it is to emancipate the individual from the milieu despite personal initiative, if there is no external support. In this respect, the film shows parallels to the literary genre of the development novel .
Based on relatively authentically reconstructed living rooms, hospital rooms, offices, factory halls, school classes, faded-in music and TV scenes, the film is both a cultural and contemporary study.
Since test screenings in spring 2007 showed that the language of this film, which was produced in the purest Kölsch , was not understood in large parts of the country, the film had to be dubbed in a softened “Rhenish” version.
Trivia
The bridge shown as the central location in the film is the Rhine bridge in Krefeld - Uerdingen, which was rebuilt in 1950 . The Krefeld Rhine port with its slewing cranes and the container terminal can be seen in many scenes from the Mündelheimer Ufer. The scenes in the Rhine meadows were filmed there on the Duisburg side of the Rhine.
All the outdoor shots around Hildegard's parents' house were produced in Velbert - Langenberg - on a street called "Sambeck".
The interior of the Palm family's house was built in a studio in Cologne - Godorf .
The license plate “OP” in the film refers to the no longer existing Rhein-Wupper-Kreis with its seat in Opladen (today part of Leverkusen).
The long-time director of the Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch , Volker Gröbe , was hired as a language teacher especially for the film , in order to be able to reproduce the Ripuarian (Rhenish) dialect as authentically as possible.
Awards
- Producer Günter Rohrbach received the VFF TV Movie Award at the Munich Film Festival in 2007 for the film “Teufelsbraten”.
- In March 2009 “Teufelsbraten” was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in the fiction category.
Web links
- Hellion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Teufelsbraten at filmportal.de
- Graus and Rhein , review on Spiegel Online from March 7, 2008
- Text at arte