Uli the tenant (film)

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Movie
German title ... And home calls forever
Original title Uli the tenant
Country of production Switzerland
original language Bern German
Publishing year 1955
length 115 minutes
Rod
Director Franz Schnyder
script Richard Schweizer
Werner Düggelin
Franz Schnyder
production Oscar Düby
music Robert Blum
camera Emil Berna
cut Hans-Heinrich Egger
Hermann Haller
occupation

Uli der Pächter is a Swiss homeland film by Franz Schnyder from 1955. It is a film adaptation of the 1849 novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf and the continuation of Uli der Knecht from 1954, also made by Schnyder .

action

Uli has lived happily as a tenant on the Glunggehof for two years with his wife Vreneli, who grew up without parents, and his little daughter. Your guardian angel is the wife of the owner Joggeli, who have retired to the Stöckli (retirement home). In the third year that changes: A bad harvest year and the son and son-in-law of Joggeli, the aged owner who takes the rent from the Glunggebauer, troubles him. In order to be able to pay the rent, Uli has to sell the wheat far below value. Now, in order to save money, he is dismissing his servants and hiring cheaper but unreliable workers. When his son was born, Hagelhannes, a loner, was chosen to be his godfather. Then Uli lets himself be tempted to sell a sick cow to a poor man, who then takes him to court. The poor man loses the trial and, being betrayed, is ridiculed.

The farm continues to decline, a hail destroys the harvest and Uli becomes seriously ill. The owner's son-in-law, a Basel cotton merchant, cheats Joggeli of his fortune on his deathbed and fled to America. Now the farm has to be forcibly auctioned: it is finally bought by Hagelhannes, who now identifies himself as Vreneli's father, and gives it to the repentant Uli.

background

The continuation of the successful Gloria film Uli der Knecht was produced by the Zürcher Praesens-Film under Oscar Düby . It was shot from July 4th to September 3rd, 1955 on a farm in Brechershäusern , in the Rosenhof film studio and in the Wolfbach journeyman's house in Zurich, as well as in Sumiswald , Münsingen , Allmendingen, Freiburg and Bern . The child baptism was filmed in the Würzbrunnen church north of Röthenbach in the Emmental . The first performance was on December 23, 1955 in Zurich.

Richard Schweizer wrote the screenplay for the film with the assistance of Werner Düggelin , the camera was directed by Emil Berna , and the film music was composed by Robert Blum . Hannes Schmidhauser and Liselotte Pulver appeared again as Uli and Vreneli , as did Emil Hegetschweiler and Hedda Koppé as a farmer couple on the Glungge. Alfred Rasser , Erwin Kohlund , Stephanie Glaser , Marianne Matti , Leopold Biberti and Peter Arens also played in other roles . As in the first part, the dialogue is in Bern German , with most of the actors speaking a different dialect privately. The high German dubbing was spoken by the actors themselves.

The film was a hit in cinema and television. A version restored by MemoriAV and Cinémathèque Suisse was released on DVD in 2004.

criticism

"Continuation of the epic, broad homeland story based on the novel by Jeremias Gotthelf, which once again impresses with the remarkable capture of the atmosphere and the acting."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uli the tenant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used