When the bells ring brightly

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Movie
Original title When the bells ring brightly
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Eduard von Borsody
script Kurt E. Walter ,
Eduard von Borsody
production Eduard Hoesch
for Danube Film
music Willy Mattes
camera Hans Heinz Theyer
cut Hermine Diethelm
as Herma Diethelm
occupation

When the bells are ringing brightly is an Austrian homeland film by Eduard von Borsody from 1959. In addition to Willy Birgel , the main roles include Ellen Schwiers , Michael Ande , Teddy Reno , Annie Rosar , Loni von Friedl and Senta Wengraf .

On the ARD side you can read about the broadcast of the film: “The veteran director Eduard von Borsody shot an atmospheric and musical home film against the charming backdrop of the East Tyrolean Alps. Ufa film star Willy Birgel (1891–1973) can be seen in the role of the aristocratic landowner. "

content

The beautiful Susanne Weiden appears on a visit to the estate of Count von Warthenberg and his daughter Hanna. What the count wanted to cover up from his daughter, she quickly saw through: Her father and Susanne are in love and are about to get engaged. Hanna is also in love, but only sees the Vienna-based singer Mario every summer. He is the educator of the Vienna Boys' Choir , who go to summer camp in the mountains. This year, however, there is a special feature: Among the boys is Michael, the son of Warthenberg's abandoned daughter Maria. She had fallen in love with the Warthenberg chauffeur and married him against her father's will. Warthenberg renounced her and so she has lived in Vienna for 13 years.

Hanna learns Michael’s identity from Mario, whom everyone just calls Meckie. Despite careful attempts, she fails to bring grandfather and grandson together. Chance helps: Michael has taken a stray into his heart, but it runs away from him in the forest. Before the count can shoot the dog for poaching , Michael throws himself protectively in front of the animal and impresses Count von Warthenberg with his courage. He gets to know Michael as "Meckie" and immediately takes the boy into his heart. Both ride out together, go fishing and stalking . When there are complications with the birth of a foal, Michael brings the count out of a celebration that his lover Susanne has organized with her friends. Susanne realizes that Count Michael has taken into his heart and that he could endanger their relationship and persuades the Count to go to Salzburg with her . Michael rides after the wagon and falls from his horse in the process - his ankle is bruised, so he has to go to bed in the Count's manor. He overlooks a quarrel between the count and Susanne. She gives her lover a choice: either the boy or her. When Michael secretly tries to sneak out of the building, his absence is quickly noticed and a medallion with the Count's coat of arms is found among his belongings . Susanne uses the opportunity to discredit Michael as a thief at the count's. In reality, Michal got the medallion from his mother and now, deeply hurt, flees into the woods with his dog.

Meanwhile, Hanna and Mario have informed Michael's mother Maria about the accident of their son and picked them up from the train station. While they are still driving her to the estate, housemaid Alma is so appalled by Susanne's derogatory remarks about Michael that she discovers Michael's true origin. The count, who had just wished Michael was his son, now welcomes his abandoned daughter Maria with open arms. The search for Michael begins, in which the Vienna Boys' Choir, Hanna, Maria, the Count and Mario take part. In the end, however, it is Susanne - she has left the Count and is driving back home - who sees Michael on a train and unceremoniously parks her car on the rails. Even before Michael gets off, everyone else has reached the train and it comes to a happy ending: Michael learns that the Count is his grandfather, Maria is forgiven and Hanna and Mario are also allowed to become a couple because the Count made his wrong decision he did not want to repeat with Maria.

Production, publication

The film contains, among other things, the songs when the bells are ringing bright (music: Jean Villard , text: Günther Schwenn , Michael Freytag ) and with music through life (music: Georg Gruber , text: Rudolph Bertram ). Some of the songs in the film are sung by Italian record star Teddy Reno , who played Mario in the film. When the bells ring brightly , it was also published as a serial novel in Funk Uhr magazine after the premiere .

The film premiered on October 29, 1959 at the Bavaria-Lichtspiele in Würzburg .

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote about When the bells are ringing brightly , it was a “Heimatfilm with the Vienna Boys' Choir. One of the boys, the son of an outcast, is taken to the noble grandfather Willy Birgel. In addition, there is incessant singing: over the mill in the cool bottom to the chorale. "

Other critics saw the film as a "story that can hardly be surpassed in sentimentality".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. If the bells are ringing brightly, see page ard.de
  2. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 9. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 4249.
  3. Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 199.