Sergeant Zumbühl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The policeman |
| Original title | Sergeant Zumbühl |
| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | Nidwalden dialect , German |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 12 years |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urs Odermatt |
| script | Urs Odermatt |
| production | Rudolf Santschi , Urs Odermatt, Lutz Kleinselbeck , Alfred Nathan |
| music | Norbert J. Schneider , based on motifs by Johannes Brahms |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut | Ingrid Broszat |
| occupation | |
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Wachtmeister Zumbühl (German The Policeman , French Le Pandore , Eng.Constable Zumbühl , formerly Sergeant Zumbühl) is a Swiss feature film from 1994 . With his third film, Urs Odermatt paints a very personal picture of his homeland in Nidwalden . Odermatt found the fictional film village Napfmoos in the 1960s in Schwanden and Näfels in the canton of Glarus , where the film was shot from November 1st to December 10th, 1993.
The mood and atmosphere surrounding the characters in Wachtmeister Zumbühl remind you of the worlds of Georges Simenon or Friedrich Glauser : the extreme enlargement of the microcosm of a village in the mountains. Sergeant Zumbühl is the story of an incorrigible know-it-all , a person who uncompromisingly adheres to the text of the paragraph in his struggle for the good , a person who in his struggle for rights confuses righteousness with righteousness .
Emergence
"The world in a drop of water" is how Krzysztof Kieślowski , the dramaturgical advisor of the script , called Urs Odermatt's way of telling his stories.
The title role is played by the Federal Film Prize winner Michael Gwisdek as Constable Zumbühl, Jürgen Vogel as his son Albin, Anica Dobra as the abused Maria. Rudolf Santschi (Justice , Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer ) produced the feature film, the atmospheric soundtrack comes from the Munich composer Norbert J. Schneider ( Herbstmilch and Stalingrad , Director: Joseph Vilsmaier ).
While researching Sergeant Zumbühl , Odermatt discovered the photo archive of his father, the police officer Arnold Odermatt . Today this photographic diary from the daily work of the village police has become a classic in photography.
Wachtmeister Zumbühl was premiered on August 25, 1994 in the Leuzinger cinema in Altdorf , Canton Uri , and then ran in cinemas in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland.
action
Napfmoos, a fictional Swiss provincial municipality in the mid-1960s: Sergeant Zumbühl, a righteous and honest village policeman, finds a brutally violated girl one morning. Soon he has the certainty that the only possible perpetrator is his own son Albin. The conflict between occupation and blood ties is resolved as dramatically as it is unusual.
Sergeant Zumbühl is a ridiculed but also feared official. He is terribly righteous, an incorrigible know-it-all, and incorruptibly correct to everyone, even to local notables. His wife left him sixteen years ago regardless of his slightly disabled son and joined a sect. Albin stayed with his father. When Zumbühl is threatened by an intrigue, he voluntarily resigns and takes a job with the railroad.
One morning Zumbühl was able to save the beloved Maria at the last moment from suicide on the train tracks. The girl was brutally raped. It arouses surprising Samaritan instincts in the apparently dry man. Maria's accusation that Zumbühl's son Albin was the perpetrator forces the father's strict legality to the test. Will he report his son's crime? Or does he follow the voice of the blood?
While on the one hand he meticulously secures all evidence, on the other hand Zumbühl tries with great skill to avert the expected disgrace from himself and his son. He forges a plan for how evil can be redeemed without punishment or retribution. Albin, comical in his helplessness, finally plays along. But it is precisely because of Maria's resistance that Zumbühl's attempts fail. Little does she suspect that she is forcing Zumbühl to finally forget about paternal consideration. The consequences for Albin are dire.
Urs Odermatt about his film
“ Sergeant Zumbühl is not a Swiss film. I tell a story from Nidwalden, a German-speaking story, a story from the Central European province. A village in the Ardennes , in the Odenwald , in the Carpathian Mountains or on the Masurian Lake District has more to do with the village of Sergeant Zumbühl than cities like Zurich or Basel . This opinionated outsider, who is usually actually right, pays a high price: He is lonely. "
“The sixties are visually much more exciting than the present. They are also more interesting dramatically. The question of right and wrong, of morality and immorality caused the discussions to boil much more than in our boring, libertarian laissez-faire society. "
Film music
In addition to the original film music based on motifs by Johannes Brahms, Wachtmeister Zumbühl and on the CD with the original soundtrack can hear the two songs Let the Sunshine In and The Waves Come Closer , sung by the Salvation Army in Wädenswil , as well as the folk dance Der Schäfli- Scottish , performed by the Edy Wallimann - Clemens Gerig chapel .
Web links
- Wachtmeister Zumbühl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sergeant Zumbühl: Homepage
- Film portal: Sergeant Zumbühl
- Sergeant Zumbühl in the Lexicon of International Films
- Film music for Wachtmeister Zumbühl - Norbert J. Schneider
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Odermatt: Press dossier “Wachtmeister Zumbühl” ; Triluna Film AG, Zurich.