When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script |
Johanna Sibelius Eberhard Keindorff |
| production | Heinz Angermeyer |
| music | James Last |
| camera | Franz Xaver Lederle |
| cut | Annemarie Rokoss |
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When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills is a German feature film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1969. The novel of the same name by the British author Eric Malpass served as a template . He continues the first film adaptation of the novel The world is still in order by Kurt Hoffmann about the life of the Pentecost family. Five other works from the same series of novels remained unfilmed.
action
The Pentecost family's anticipation of the upcoming summer vacation is clouded when they receive news that May Pentecost's brother is in hospital in Bombay . Together with her husband and writer Jocelyn, May decides to temporarily take in her brother's three underage children, David, Jenny and Emma. Shortly after arriving at the country house, the newcomers cause a stir. While 14-year-old Jenny and her uncle are flirting, David's aloof behavior is a mystery. In addition, Pentecost's spirited son Gaylord is constantly annoyed by younger, scratchy Emma.
Bert Foggerty, who at the time attacked Gaylord with a knife and seriously injured him, has since been released from prison. Despite pretending to have improved, the Pentecosts remain suspicious. They forbid their son to interact with Bert and his brother Willy, who was left behind. One night a small hay barn belonging to the Pentecosts burns on the access road to the property, but is extinguished by the fire brigade . Shortly afterwards, David, who claims to have discovered the fire, returns from his late evening walk in scorched clothes. In the meantime, sticks of dynamite are being stolen from a nearby quarry. Willy happens to find some of the stolen goods and unsuspectingly hands over the "magic sticks" to Gaylord, who disregards his parents' ban on contact. When David learns about this, he takes the explosives.
While Peter and his pregnant wife Becky visit to look after Gaylord's newborn sister Amanda and to keep the grandfather at home company, the rest of the family goes on a beach vacation. This comes to an abrupt end after a phone call. Concerned for the well-being of her little daughter, May drives home with David. Since Emma cannot be found at first, Jocelyn, Jenny and Gaylord remain waiting. Jocelyn finally decides to stay in a hotel to catch the train the next morning. After Gaylord and Emma went to bed, Jocelyn initially refused Jenny's request for an evening together in a beach chair, but in turn offered to drink a glass of wine together. Afterwards, the short good night saying in the hotel hallway develops into an intense kiss, which is ended when Emma suddenly appears.
The following night another fire breaks out in the immediate vicinity of the country house. David is caught again on his return from one of his trips and is then confronted by May. In front of the fully assembled relatives, he later claims to have removed the dynamite sticks from Gaylord for safety reasons. At the same time, the family is faced with another endurance test: One of Emma's numerous indiscretions and Jenny's confrontation with May about her love for Jocelyn endanger the marital peace. May brings the unhappy teenager back down to earth and asks her confessed husband about the kissing scene at the hotel. A day trip together to the city should contribute to reconciliation with her husband.
Willy, wanted by the police, has been missing for some time. David finds out that Gaylord is hiding him out of pity. Under pressure, Willy reports a planned revenge attack on Jocelyn and May, which Bert wants to carry out on a bridge with the help of the remaining dynamite. David manages to arrive at the crime scene on time and engage Bert in a fight. When the notified police arrive, they run away. The Pentecosts vehicle crosses the bridge without being damaged. Celebrated as a savior, David and his two sisters leave the next day.
background
The shooting lasted from June 24th to August 1st, 1969. The exterior shots were made on the Gräfrath market square in Solingen and in Burg on Fehmarn and the surrounding area. The under monument protection standing building mill from the early 18th century in the northwest of Solingen served as exterior set for the residence of the Pentecost family. The setting for the arrival and departure of the children in a rail bus was the station in Tente , which was closed in 1983 . In addition, the name of the Wermelskirchen district was on the license plate of the family car. The interior shots were shot in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau .
Some actors from the previous film The World Is Alright at Seven have been replaced or removed from the script. Instead of Gerlinde Locker and Peter Arens , Luitgard Im and Werner Bruhns acted as the parents of Gaylord Pentecost. The crew members were also partially replaced. While the producer and the two scriptwriters stayed the same, the director and cameraman changed. Irina von Bentheim made her film debut as a child actress at the age of seven.
As in the first film adaptation, James Last composed and produced the film music. The costume designer Ingrid Zore , the Filmbauten Werner Schlichting .
Independent Film was responsible as the production company. The film was released by Constantin Film and premiered on October 2, 1969 in the Ufa-Palast in Cologne .
Reviews
"An emphatically family-friendly, relaxing conversation with an eye for exhilarating comedy , but without any claim to depth."
“More successful than its predecessor in terms of direction and acting, as well as in terms of content, the harmless film portrays little problems that arise from a vacation visit without the family idyll being obtrusive. Good entertainment for all ages. "
Publications
- DVD: At seven in the morning the world is still in order / When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills , STUDIOCANAL, June 2009, approx. 176 minutes, picture format 1.66: 1 (16: 9), sound format German (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- LP: James Last: When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills , Polydor, 1969
literature
- Eric Malpass: When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-11794-0 (English: At the Height of the Moon . Translated by Margret Schmitz).
Web links
- If sweet the moonlight on the hills sleeping in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills in the online film database
- When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills at filmportal.de
- When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations for When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills. IMDb.com, accessed June 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Birgit Eckes: Murder on the way to the old abbey. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kölnische Rundschau , April 11, 2011
- ↑ When the moonlight sleeps sweetly on the hills. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Review No. 457 . In: Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria (Hrsg.): Evangelischer Filmbeobachter . Munich 1969, p. 451 .
