When the heather blooms

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Movie
Original title When the heather blooms
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Gustav Kampendonk
production Kurt Ulrich
for the Kurt Ulrich film
music Raimund Rosenberger
camera Willi Sohm
cut Wolfgang Wehrum
occupation

When the heather blooms is a German crime and homeland film by Hans Deppe from 1960 based on motifs by the poet Hermann Löns . The leading roles are cast by Joachim Hansen , Veronika Bayer , Walter Richter , Gardy Granass and Peter Carsten .

action

The Lüneburg Heath in 1950: Landowner Jochen Petersen has two sons: Klaus from his first marriage and his second son Rolf, who loves to compose . The half-brothers are fundamentally different. While Klaus is preparing to take over his father's estate, Rolf is not interested in agriculture, but devotes himself to composing - his father does not see this as work. There is another argument; After visiting an inn, Rolf packs his things and leaves for good. A short time later, Klaus is found shot dead. There is no trace of the perpetrator, but Rolf makes himself suspicious because of his sudden disappearance.

Ten years later, Rolf worked as a dishwasher in New York City during the day and played the piano in bars in the evening . Just as he was receiving his first major engagement, he received a telegram - manager Dirk asked him to come home because his father was doing very badly. Back in his home village, Rolf learns of his brother's death ten years ago and also that he had been suspected of being a perpetrator for a long time. While the case has long been officially closed, many of the villagers are still convinced of Rolf's guilt. Only a few, such as Forester Harkort, his daughter Anne and veterinarian Dr. Erdman, stand on his side. Rolf now meets Anne more often, which is a thorn in the side of his rival Harms Brockdorf. After Harms directly accuses him of murdering Klaus, Rolf begins to investigate. At first he suspects old Uhl because he has a watch from Klaus.

Rolf's research makes the investigation active again, and when digging, the police finally find the murder weapon - a pistol that belonged to Rolf. When Rolf learns that he is now urgently suspected of murder, he flees to Hamburg to see his befriended singer Vera. The police appear only to inform him that the real culprit has turned himself in: Forester Harkort. In court, he describes the circumstances of Klaus' death: The heather resident Uhl had laid nooses for rabbits, as so often, but that night a deer got caught in one of the nooses. The drunken Klaus went straight out of the inn into the heath, where he found the deer and released it from his suffering with a coup de grace. Forester Harkort, on the other hand, who had just been released from captivity and had not yet returned to the state service as a forester, surprised Klaus with the animal and suspected it of poaching . He wanted to arrest Klaus, in the scramble for the pistol a shot went off and killed Klaus. At that time, Harkort did not have a license and was not actually allowed to use the rifle he had with him that day. His act would have cost him the imminent takeover in the civil service. He therefore kept silent about the incident, since the suspected but missing Rolf was not threatened with imminent arrest either. Now that this had changed, he turned himself in to the police. The court acquitted him because it cannot be refuted that he did not act in self-defense .

Symbolically and also as a sign of reconciliation, Anne is elected the new heather queen . She and Rolf eventually become a couple after Anne's suspicion that Rolf was with Vera has been refuted by Rolf.

Production, publication

Recurring and eponymous image of the film: Flowering heather with heather sheep

When the heather blooms was shot from August to September 1960. The outdoor shots took place in the Lüneburg Heath , Lüneburg , Wilsede , Schneverdingen , Bispingen and Amelinghausen . The ship recordings during Rolf's crossing from America to Hamburg were shot on the SS Arkadia of the Greek Line. The interior shots were taken in Studio Bendestorf . Almost ten years after his homeland film classic Grün ist die Heide (1951) Horst Deppe returned to the landscape of his great success. Joachim Hansen's role as a composer made it easier to incorporate songs and hits into the film. Willy Fritsch, Hans Richter and Josef Sieber were already on the cast list for the Heimatfilm Grün ist die Heide in 1951 .

The film had its world premiere on October 21, 1960 in the Hildesheim Capitol . In Denmark the film was released on November 23, 1962 under the title Sønnen fra Birkegården . It first ran on television on September 27, 1980 on ARD. On March 27, 1988 he was seen for the first time in the DFF 2 program .

Kinowelt released Wenn die Heide blooms on September 8, 2006 on DVD.

Bobby Worth wrote the song I Cry in My Beer , which can be heard in the film . More hits were Every heart needs love once , When the heather is in bloom , Rosemarie , I always find some ship and the folksong 's is Feierobnd .

criticism

The lexicon of international films described Wenn die Heide blooms as a “better home film against the background of a conventional crime story”.

The film service saw in Wenn die Heide blooms a "[a] nspruchslose [n] Heimatfilm with some hits and folk songs, a lot of heathland, a maudlin refugee birthday, a heather queen and many heather sheep ."

For Cinema the film was a “home drama with a touch of crime thriller and funny songs like 'I cry in my beer'”. Conclusion: "Heidschnuckelige Weltfluchtfantasy".

The critic Falk Schwarz said that the cast already suggests that “water had been tipped into the soup of yore”. In the garden of the manor, over coffee and butter cake, people sing 'it's end of the day', which moves the old Sudeten Germans to tears (in 1951 it was the Silesians who were technically assisted), as usual there is a “parade with folklore costumes and heather's own Traditional costumes, a brass band ”, the straw is loaded onto the wagon by pretty boys and girls -“ an idyll where dear people live, soothing, harmonizing, lulling - and grotesquely naive ”. That was "too much at the wrong time". The film brought in "barely half the production costs". Such “simple noises” were “out”. The same goes for "old Casanovas like Willy Fritsch", who stands around, "without a role, without dialogue" and disappears with a singer who is half his age.

The criticism in the mirror was also worded rather smugly: “With the help of Schnuck and Schnulzen it is already directed in the 1960's Heimatfilm. The director was Hans Deppe, who qualified for the job with the stripe Grün ist die Heide . "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the heather is in bloom, see page kino.de (including 8 film images and film trailer).
  2. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1980, pp. 288 ( online - 22 September 1980 ).
  3. ↑ When the heather is in bloom Fig. DVD cover Kinowelt
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 9. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 4250.
  5. ↑ When the heather blooms. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 20, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ When the heather is in bloom See cinema.de (including 8 film images). Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ When the heather is in bloom - the heather sand trickles softly, see page filmportal.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ When the heather is in bloom In: Der Spiegel 2/1996, January 8, 1996. Retrieved September 20, 2019.