Before the Storm (Miniseries)

Television series
Original title	Before the storm
Country of production	Germany , Austria
original language	German
year	1984
length	390 minutes
Episodes	6 in 1 season
Director	Franz Peter Wirth
script	Herbert Asmodi
music	Friedrich Scholz
camera	František Vlček
cut	Inge P. Drestler , Angelika Sengbusch
First broadcast	May 2, 1984 on ARD
occupation
Rolf Becker : Bernd von Vitzewitz Daniel Lüönd : Lewin von Vitzewitz Constanze Engelbrecht : Renate von Vitzewitz Anne Canovas : Kathinka von Ladalinski Christoph Moosbrugger : Tubal from Ladalinski Karl-Heinz Vosgerau : from Ladalinski Susanne Uhlen : Marie Udo Thomer : Schulze Kniehase Siegfried Wischnewski : General Bamme Johanna Karl-Lory : Hoppenmarieken Ernst Fritz Fürbringer : Prince Ferdinand Pierre Franckh : Hansen-Grell Ljuba Skořepová : Aunt Schorlemmer Lutz Weidlich : Vice-Principal Othegraven Stephan Orlac : Turgany Heinz Schimmelpfennig : Pastor Seidentopf Michael Boettge : Major von Hirschfeldt Maxence Mailfort : Count Bninski Corinne Marchand : Amelie Lothar Blumhagen : Hardenberg

Before the Storm is a six-part miniseries from 1984, which was made in a joint production by Norddeutschem Rundfunk (NDR, for ARD ) and Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). It is based on Theodor Fontane 's novel of the same name . The first broadcast took place on May 2, 1984 on German TV ARD.

action

The action takes place in the winter of 1812/1813 in the Oderbruch . Bernd von Vitzewitz wants to set up a country storm with the help of like-minded people in order to finally end the French rule over Prussia by means of an armed popular uprising against the weakened Napoleonic troops who are moving through the country after the lost Russian campaign .

Differences from the novel

While Fontane initially shows Marie in a brotherly relationship with Lewin, she is portrayed in the series as being unhappy in love with Lewin. At Fontane, she waves to Konrektor Othegraven at the Pfänderspiel ("She waved to the Frankfurt Vice-President and offered him her mouth in full impartiality."), While in the film she is disappointed that Othegraven, not Lewin, comes to her.

DVD

• Theodor Fontane: Before the storm - The Stechlin - walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Studio Hamburg / ARD Video, September 24, 2008.

Web links

• Before the storm in the online film database
• Before the storm at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Before the storm. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ DVD: Studio Hamburg / ARD Video [Theodor Fontane Box] (Germany), Before the Storm [TV mini-series] (1984). In: OFDb.de . September 27, 2014, accessed May 6, 2020 .