Waldrausch (1962)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Forest rush |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Paul May |
| script | Kurt Heuser |
| production | Sascha movie |
| music | Johannes Fehring |
| camera | Elio Carniel |
| cut | Herma Sedivy-Sandtner |
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Waldrausch is an Austrian homeland film by Paul May from 1962. It was the second adaptation of the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer after Waldrausch from 1939 . In 1977 the novel was also filmed for a third and so far last time under the title Waldrausch .
action
Years later, Ambros Lutz returns to his home village of Maria Schnee. He is an engineer and will build a dam in Maria Schnee. In doing so, he initially makes enemies in the village that has to be relocated. Above all, Crispin Sagenbacher opposes the sale of his land, finally demands exorbitant prices and only gives in when Ambros offers him the right to run the construction site canteen. There, in turn, Crispin draws the annoyance of the construction workers because he charges too high prices for drinks and food.
Ambros, on the other hand, is increasingly standing between two women who are courting him. Beda is Crispin's girlfriend, but feels repulsed by his aggressive behavior and jealousy and falls in love with Ambros. Only Crispin's little son Toni really likes her, but he is also increasingly stabbing her because he fears a relationship between Beda and Ambros. Ambros, on the other hand, likes Beda, but feels drawn to his childhood friend Annette von Larenburg, who has since become a princess after their marriage. Her husband is a racing driver and always on the move, so the unstable Annette seeks refuge at Ambros. She wants to leave her husband.
The construction work on the dam gives Ambros additional headaches in addition to his private problems. The forest is in bloom for the first time in decades and the pollen blowing around is driving construction workers crazy. Many report sick, start fights or are too tired to come to the construction site. Ambros has the construction work suspended for a few days, but time is of the essence as the stream that actually flows through the village is only temporarily dammed and diverted during the construction work. Any major rain carries the risk of breaking the walls and flooding the village.
When Crispin sees Beda and Ambros talking again, he starts a fight with his opponent out of jealousy and knocks Ambros down with an iron bar, so that the engineer suffers a concussion and passes out. Then Crispin gets the construction workers to leave the construction site and stop at his restaurant in the village, where he wants to buy everyone one.
Ambros has not yet awakened from his deep impotence when a great thunderstorm is forecasting over the valley. The power lines are badly damaged and the water threatens to destroy the temporary storage gates and thus endanger the village - due to silted up drains and failed mechanisms, the walls cannot be opened to allow the water to drain off in a controlled manner. Only Beda, who was on guard by Ambros' bed on the construction site, manages to alert the construction workers in the village. At night they try to open the clogged drains and repair the lifting mechanism of the gates. Ambros has also been taken to the construction site, but cannot intervene himself. Crispin manages to punch a hole in one of the dam gates so that the water can drain away and the village is saved. He himself pays for his commitment with his life.
Some time later the dam is completed. Annette has returned to her husband, who had a serious accident on the night of the thunderstorm. Ambros and Beda get married and take Toni in with them. Ambros is already planning a new dam project in Africa. At the dam in Maria Schnee a memorial plaque commemorates the crashed Crispin.
production
Waldrausch was the first Austrian Ganghofer film adaptation after the end of World War II . The director was Paul May , who had directed the first Waldrausch filming in 1939 and also filmed Ganghofer's Edelweißkönig .
The shooting location for the scenes of the major construction site was the Danube dam, which is currently under construction, near Aschach an der Donau .
As a concession to the German market, all references to Austrian locations were omitted in the production (except for the title sequence ). The dominance of a political and economic sphere of influence was represented by Munich vehicle registration numbers and, for information on values and costs, in German marks .
The film premiered for the first time on August 17, 1962 in several German cities.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described Waldrausch as a “colorful remake of Ganghofer's film novel in costumes from the 1960s. As realistic as the backdrop of the modern construction site is, the characters involved appear clichéd: Neither the novel nor the times are hit. ”The film-dienst believes that the film is“ sentimental and lying despite the realistic details ”.
literature
- Ludwig Ganghofer : Forest rush. Novel . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1986, 479 pages, ISBN 3-426-19169-5
Web links
- Waldrausch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waldrausch at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Forest rush . On: Heimatkanal , Mainstream Media AG, November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 9. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 4180.
- ^ Forest rush. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .