Who loves home
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Who loves home |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Solm |
| script |
Günther Schwab Norbert Kunze Alfred Solm |
| production |
Ernst Steinlechner Richard German |
| music | Harald Boehmelt |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Eleonore Kunze |
| occupation | |
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Who Loves Home (alternative title: Das Heilige Erbe ) is an Austrian fiction film by director Alfred Solm from 1956. The main roles were played by Hermann Erhardt , Christl Erber and Olga von Togni . Günther Schwab , Norbert Kunze and the director wrote the script . It is based on an idea by Franz Mayr-Melnhof . In Austria the film was first released on March 8, 1957, in the Federal Republic of Germany on April 19, 1957 in the same year.
action
Willi, the son of the influential large farmer Hochegger, cannot afford the installment due for the purchase of his motorcycle and therefore plans to poach in the hunting grounds of the lawyer Bruckner and sell the booty. The next day, Bruckner's hunter Jakob Sonnleitner discovers a deer in a wire loop. Sonnleitner ambushes the poacher. When he wants to pick up his catch, the hunter meets him. The young Hochegger evades him and falls to his death in the process.
Old Hochegger denies that his son poached and turns the village against the hunter. Because he has been in a dispute with him for a long time, he portrays Willi's accident as Sonnleitner's act of revenge. The fact that the young professional hunter Prandtner , who comes from the village, has just returned to his homeland, comes in handy for him . Hochegger successfully appeals to the local patriotism of the villagers. So it happens that Sonnleitner is moved to a new area on Lake Neusiedl and Prandtner can take his place. However, Sonnleitner's family stays in the traditional hunter's house. The old hunter's fear that life in the lowlands would be difficult for him as a mountain man does not come true.
Bruckner's new employee, Prandtner, feels drawn to his predecessor's daughter. But she lets him off because she blames him for her father's transfer. It doesn't take long before Prandtner Hochegger's mean game sees through. Now he is doing everything in his power to prove his innocence to Evi.
The motorcycle dealer reminds old Hochegger of his still unpaid claim. Because he cannot raise the amount, he makes the offer to the dealer that he can hunt a big stag in “his” territory in order to meet the purchase price. Prandtner learns of the plot and plays along with it. He asks Evi to come to the hunting ground. She thinks it's just a new turn-on and refuses. But when she hears gunfire from the high forest, she hurries upstairs. She sees Lenz, the younger son of the large farmer, breaking open the stag that was killed by the motorcycle dealer and hiding the antlers.
Prandtner drives into town and reports to Dr. Bruckner the incident. He only tolerated poaching in order to convict Hochegger and thus prove Jakob Sonnleitner's innocence. The hunter has his old hunter replaced in Burgenland. He returns to the mountain village relieved.
Production notes
The outdoor shots were taken in the tailstock of the Eisenerzer Alps and in the nature reserve Neusiedler See . In Styria , the film team received technical advice from the game master Hanns Andress and in Burgenland from the natural scientist Lothar Machura . The buildings were designed by the production designer Wolf Witzemann . Leo Bei created the costumes.
For main actor Hermann Erhardt this should be the last film appearance.
The holy inheritance was the Austrian contribution to the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 1957 .
criticism
“Conceived as a nature and animal protection film out of concern about the thoughtless destruction of flora and fauna and provided with excellent seasonal shots from the Reiting area north of Leoben and from Lake Neusiedl. Unfortunately packaged in an all too simple Heimatfilm cliché story. "
“The film von der Heimatliebe [...] shows roe deer, deer, wild geese, herons, black grouse, woods and meadows and offers a lot of educational information: rustic wooden dialogues in which the depravity of the city dwellers and the devilish machines are railed against. In this film, anyone who comes from the city is a forest rogue, arsonist, or at best a car sex; he can do nothing against the film wisdom: 'Real life is when you deal with living things, with the soil, with the animal.' "
source
Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , published by FILM-BÜHNE GmbH, Munich, No. 2973
Web links
- Who loves home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A few pictures of the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Gesek (ed.): Small Lexicon of Austrian Films. Born in 1957, No. 250. Vienna 1959
- ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 3174 (1988), p. 4265
- ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Who loves home (Austria). In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1957 ( online - June 5, 1957 ).