Weather lights on the Dachstein

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Movie
Original title Weather lights on the Dachstein
Country of production Germany
Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Anton Kutter
script Anton Kutter
production Kurt Hammer
Adam Napoleon Tailor
Josef Lebzelter
music Herbert Jarczyk
camera Sepp Kirzeder
Gustav White
cut Anton Kutter
occupation

Weather lights on the Dachstein (alternative title: Die Herrin vom Salzerhof ) is a German-Austrian fictional film in black and white from 1952 by Anton Kutter . He also wrote the script. It is based on the play "The Little Passion" by Elvira Koref . The main roles are cast with Gisela Fackeldey , Marianne Koch , Jutta Bornemann and Pero Alexander . The work was first shown in the cinema on January 23, 1953.

action

Out of love for Jutta, the beautiful young mistress of the Salzerhof, Hannes Kähls von Kählsberg hired herself out on her estate as a foreman. Jutta has - since she was widowed - developed into a proud, domineering person who does not show Hannes the unacknowledged feelings she has for him. She fights doggedly for the bottom of the salt mountain, which the state saltworks authority wants to dispute. Hannes urges them to give up because he considers large parts of the underground tunnel to be in danger of collapsing. But Jutta doesn't listen to him.

One day, in a storm, the water falling from the mountains triggers a landslide. This buried the hut that belongs to the Salzerhof and is inhabited by a miner with his wife and daughter. Hannes can only save four-year-old Peter. Under the impression of the catastrophe, the public administration urges the farmer to finally cede the endangered areas to the state. But Jutta holds firmly to her ancestral rights. Because Hannes is not on their line, the two get into a heated argument. This culminates in Hannes being expelled from court.

High in the mountains on the See-Alm, Hannes Christl meets the youngest maid of the Salzerhof and falls in love with the girl, who is so different from her domineering boss. She now realizes that she has done her foreman, whom she still loves deeply, injustice. She renounces the tunnel and believes that this would be enough for Hannes to return to her. But after she noticed that he no longer feels anything for her, her hatred of Christl grows. During a terrible thunderstorm that turns into a snow storm, Jutta climbs up to the Alm, where she meets Christl alone and chases the girl outside.

On his way to the alpine pasture, the old shepherd finds an item of clothing that Christl lost during her "escape". When he shows this to the farmer's wife, a change takes place in her. At the risk of her own life, Jutta goes to the edge of the avalanche gorge, where she finally discovers the unconscious Christl. After the spirit of life has returned to the maid, Jutta Christl leads Hannes.

additions

The exterior shots were taken in 1952 at the original locations of the action on the Dachstein and in the Salzkammergut , the interior shots in the makeshift studio "Hotel Wasnerin" in Bad Aussee . The buildings were designed by the film architect Karlheinz Simonsberger . Herbert Jarczyk composed the music. In the film you can also hear the song “Alpenzauber” based on a text by Anton Kutter. The Bavaria Symphony Orchestra provided the musical accompaniment. The zither solo was played by Alfons Bauer .

criticism

The lexicon of the international film notes succinctly: “Melodrama in the beautiful Salzkammergut” and continues after the brief description of the plot that the main character's change of heart is “sketchy”. The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden awarded the work the rating “valuable”.

source

Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4280