White gold (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | White gold / Angela |
| Original title | White gold / white gold |
| Country of production | Austria , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eduard von Borsody |
| script | Eduard von Borsody Alexander Lix |
| production | Max Stöhr |
| music | Alois Melichar |
| camera | Walter Riml |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
| occupation | |
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Weißes Gold , shown in Switzerland under the title Weisses Gold , in Northern Germany under Angela , later also as Bergwasser and (from 1955) under the new title Schatten über dem Vergeiner Hof , is an Austrian-Swiss homeland film from 1948 by Eduard von Borsody with Heinrich Gretler , Alma Seidler , Robert Freitag and Angela Salloker (as the eponymous Angela) in the leading roles.
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The gnarled, old farmer Vergeiner runs his Tyrolean farm, which has been in the family for around 300 years, with the greatest conviction and does not believe in the arrival of modernity. His younger son Konrad also lends a hand on the farm. When one day his eldest son Andreas returns to the farm, he has no good news in his luggage. The young man has made a career as an engineer in a hydropower plant and now announces to his father that he has to give up the Vergeinerhof because a huge dam is to be built nearby. To do this, the course of the water must be changed, which had previously fed the father's farm. Promptly there is a violent dispute between the stubborn old man, who strictly rejects change, and Andreas Vergeiner, who has a job to do. Finally, the old Vergeiner expelled the young one from the court. In the end there were legal disputes, but the court patriarch was not able to change anything through legal channels.
The dispute between old and young, between yesterday and modernity, leads to the old farmer falling seriously ill. When she is dying, her husband has to swear that one day he will forgive Andreas. The construction work on the power plant is progressing well, and a new conflict arises: Konrad can't stand the role his older brother plays in the whole affair, and he's jealous that pretty Angela has kept an eye on Andreas . Konrad then steals dynamite from the construction crew in order to blow up the dam of the power plant. At the last moment, Andreas can prevent him. Finally, Angela almost drowns in the reservoir, but Konrad rescues her. There is reconciliation between the two brothers and between Andrew and the old man. Andreas finds a new love in the young draftsman Maggie and can also come up with a structural solution with which the building project can be completed on the one hand and the existing Vergeinerhof can be preserved on the other.
Production notes
White gold , Switzerland White Gold wrote, was a Swiss financial participation despite almost exclusively Austrian production, from May to July 1948 Tyrolean shooting locations (film studio Thiersee, Kufstein, Thiersee City and around the Grossglockner originated). The premiere took place on March 11, 1949 in the Zurich Capitol cinema. The film premiered in Austria on April 22, 1949, in Germany on September 8, 1950 in Munich.
Kurt Hartmann took over the production management, Julius von Borsody designed the film structures. Arthur Beul wrote the songs. Karl Heinz Leiter was an assistant director.
Reviews
The history of Swiss film called Weißes Gold a "Tyrolean homeland film of mediocre design"
The Lexicon of International Films found: "A rather clumsy Heimatfilm."
Individual evidence
- ^ Hervé Dumont : The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 414
- ↑ White gold. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- White Gold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- White gold at filmportal.de