Tragedy on the Hunt (film)

Movie
Original title	Tragedy on the hunt
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1968
length	95 minutes
Rod
Director	Gerhard Klingenberg
script	Leo Lehmann
production	West German Broadcasting Cologne
music	Peter Fischer
camera	Walter H. Schmitt
occupation
Erich Schellow : Kamyshov, examining magistrate Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard : Countess Karnejew Heinrich Schweiger : Count Karnejew Walter Kohut : Zawadzki Hermann Schomberg : Urbenin Rudolf Wessely : Dr. Vosnessensky Karl-Heinz Peters : General Objeschow Andrea Jonasson : Nadenka Kalinin Änne Bruck : Mrs. Kalinin Heinz Frölich : Kalinin Ernst Stankovski : Polugradow Hans Pössenbacher : Ossipow Josef Hauser : Karpov Ernst Ronnecker : Kusma Karin Baal : Olenka Nurith Yaron : Tina Otto Tausig : Polycarp Kurt Conradi : Leonid Walter Bach : Ilja Lotte Brackebusch : Rubaschowa

Tragedy on the Hunt is a German television film from 1968 by Gerhard Klingenberg . The script was written by Leo Lehmann . It is based on the (only) novel A Drama on the Hunt ( Russian Драма на охоте ) by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , published in 1884 .

The main roles are occupied by Erich Schellow , Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard , Heinrich Schweiger and Walter Kohut . The film premiered on May 28, 1968 in the ARD program .

action

During a visit to his childhood friend, Count Karnejew, the cynical examining magistrate Kamyshev met the beautiful Olenka, a girl from the people who looked after the children of the widowed land manager Urbenin. The girl marries the old Urbenin without being able to love him. Kamyshov, on the other hand, desires the beautiful woman and enters into a love affair with her. When he found out that Olenka is also giving her favor to the count, the haughty man, who cares so little about the sense of honor of others, is deeply offended in his pride. He kills Olenka during a hunting event with the knife that the Count gave her. However, the suspicion falls on the jealous Urbenin, who is also arrested, convicted and imprisoned. Kamyshov, on the other hand, uses his freedom to write a novel about the story of his life.

criticism

The Evangelische Film-Beobachter sums up his opinion as follows: “Dramatization of the novel of the same name by Anton Chekhov, in which, using the example of a criminal case, the decay of large bourgeois society at the end of the 19th century is depicted in an unpathetic but pointed and precise manner. The careful staging and excellent actors do justice to the intentions of the original. Recommended for adults. "

Web links

• Tragedy on the hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 549/1969, p. 543