Waldrausch (1977)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forest rush |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Horst Hächler |
| script | Horst Hächler |
| production | Horst Hächler for CTV 72, Munich, Terra-Filmkunst, Berlin |
| music | Ernst Brandner |
| camera |
Ernst W. Kalinke , Fritz Baader |
| cut |
Inge Taschner , Inge Moritz |
| occupation | |
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Waldrausch is a German literary film adaptation by Horst Hächler from 1977. After 1939 and 1962 it is the last film adaptation of the novel Waldrausch by Ludwig Ganghofer .
action
The farmers of the Wildach Valley in the Bavarian Alps are regularly hit by the Wildach floods . Cattle perish and even human lives are in danger again and again, so Toni rescues his girlfriend Beda from the flood and gets into an argument with his brother Krispin, who has also had an eye on Bede, so much that, as a younger brother, he does Has to leave the village and find shelter with the widow Barbara.
The young architect Ambros Lutz designed a dam for his home village that is supposed to protect the inhabitants from flooding in the future. The construction work is entrusted to him and after a long time he returns to his village. There is a dispute with the farmers who do not want to sell their forest property. The leader is the aggressive Krispin, who also incites the villagers when Ambros brings over 150 Italian guest workers to the construction site, as he cannot finish the dam as planned by the end of the year with barely 50 workers from the village. The forest rush, storms combined with heavy fog, also make work increasingly difficult. The Italians are greeted by the villagers' hatred and things come to a head when the young orphan Annemel falls in love with the worker Nino.
Krispin not only intrigues against the Italians, but also wants to relax Toni, who has returned to the village and appointed as foreman by Ambros, his girlfriend Beda. So he writes a love letter to the widow, in which he confesses his love for her and turns it so that she believes that the letter is from Toni. In it he invites Barbara to the village and the widow also appears when Toni is working on the dam. The result is that there is an argument between Barbara and Bede. Krispin even goes so far as to sneak into the widow's bedroom at night and spend the night with her, making her believe that he is Toni.
Ambros has meanwhile fallen in love with the princess with whom he plays Chopin's music in the castle . After all, they both spend a night of love together. Especially on this night, heavy downpours let the Wildach swell. Flotsam clogs the locks of the dam under construction and threatens to destroy it. In the end, it is only through the cooperation of the Germans and Italians that the debris can be solved and a catastrophe prevented. In the morning the fronts are cleared - the forest rush has also subsided. The princess receives a visit from her much older husband, who, in view of his good reputation, forces her to end her relationship with Ambros. Meanwhile, Toni succeeds in calming his jealous friend Beda, as he can be shown to have spent the night clearing the locks. The resolute widow, in turn, decides that she will now marry Krispin, who has finally also spent the night with her, and the latter accepts his fate.
production
The shooting took place from May 16 to July 9, 1977 in Berchtesgadener Land and Salzburg Land . The world premiere of Waldrausch was on September 7, 1977 in the Kur-Lichtspiele in Berchtesgaden .
The music comes from Ernst Brandner . In the film also are Frédéric Chopin 3 A flat major op. 69 no. 2 in B minor and op. 64 no. To hear.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described Waldrausch as "a routinely staged home piece with modest elements of the disaster film", while the film service Waldrausch called a "Heimatschnulze".
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
- ↑ 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 .