Where the torrent rushes

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Movie
Original title Where the torrent rushes
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Heinz Paul
script Alois Johannes Lippl
production Christoph von Mitschke-Collande
for HP Filmproduktion
music Winfried Zillig
camera Franz Weihmayr
cut Karl Aulitzky
occupation

Where the torrent rushes is a German homeland film by Heinz Paul from 1956.

action

The rich farmer Muralt dances with the maid Maria at the Mittendorfer village festival . He believes she is the right woman for him, and sent his foreman Wolf the next day courtship to her. Maria, however, loves the mayor's son Lorenz and rejects Muralt's advertisement. Although the mayor has chosen a different bride for Lorenz, the wedding between Lorenz and Maria is decided. The wedding host , who moves from house to house and personally pronounces the invitations to the wedding, also comes to Muralt. Lorenz wanted to mock him like that and has already bet that Muralt would decline an invitation to the wedding of his great love, but he accepts. After the wedding, he appears drunk at the wedding party and wants to demand his dance with the bride. Lorenz refuses him and mocks him for having only invited him in order to be able to refuse him the traditional dance with the bride in front of everyone. The Mittendorfer throw Muralt out. Muralt seeks consolation from his housewife Agnes and avoids Lorenz and Maria.

On the way to his forest area on the Pescherkogel he always has to walk over a narrow footbridge over the torrent . Here he meets Lorenz, who blocks his way in the middle of the stream. A scuffle ensues in which Lorenz loses his balance and falls to his death in the depths. Maria is hit particularly hard by the death of her husband, as she is pregnant by him. Muralt is arrested for murder. All Mittendorfer testify against him, only Maria does not believe that Muralt is a murderer. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Agnes, whose testimony led to Muralt's arrest, leaves the village. Wolf throws her a chain that she had left in her room.

The years go by, Maria's son grows up and the foreman and landlord Wolf gives money to the whole village, so that in the end almost everyone in the village owes Muralt. He plans to take revenge on the Mittendorfern in prison and ultimately even wants to have the trees cut down on the Pescherkogel so that the torrent sweeps the earth with it and destroys the houses in Mittendorf. However, when he was released from prison after 20 years, he became milder. He gives up his plans for revenge.

He goes to Maria to thank her for what she said after his arrest, and she is kind to him. Her son Lenz, who never got to know his father and is now 20 years old, reacts with hatred. Lenz loves the young Regina, who has recently been working as a waitress in the village tavern. She treats Muralt impartially and he hires her as a housewife. Lenz is horrified and confronts her, whereupon Regina turns away from him. The displeasure of the Mittendorfer grows and so they write a letter of shame, which they distribute in the village and which addresses the relationship between Muralt and Regina. Muralt now wants revenge and plans to cut down the trees on the Pescherkogel. The Mittendorfer then storm his yard, let go of the horses and break the windows. There is a duel between Lenz and Muralt. Regina packs her things that night and escapes. Wolf finds the chain in her room that he once threw after Agnes and realizes that Regina is Agnes' daughter. Since she slept with Muralt, Regina is also Muralt's illegitimate child. Wolf follows Regina and brings her back.

In Mittendorf, Muralt goes to the forest on the Pescherkogel to cut the first tree by hand. Lenz leads the men in Mittendorf who want to prevent Muralt from crossing the torrent. Maria and the village jester Gäbri want to prevent a confrontation, but they come too late: the duel between Muralt and Lenz begins in the middle of the footbridge. Muralt, who remembers the fatal quarrel with Lorenz, loses his balance and falls like Lorenz once into the depths. He survives and is pulled ashore by Maria and Gäbri.

Minds have calmed down as a result of the incident, especially since Regina's identity is now revealed. By allowing Lenz and Regina to marry, Muralt ends the strife between the two families.

production

The shooting took place in Geiselgasteig in Bavaria . The film had its world premiere on August 16, 1956 in the Stuttgart Universum .

The title song of the film was the folk song Where the torrent rushes by Carl Bette and Jupp Schmitz with a text by Jupp Schlösser.

The 1974 premiere of the sex clothes Where the torrent rushes through the panties refers in its title to the Heimatfilm or the folk song.

criticism

On the occasion of a TV screening of the film on ZDF in 1974 , Der Spiegel wrote : "After Heimat-Schnulze (1956) unexpectedly became a box-office hit when it was released two years ago, ZDF is now presenting this 'great color film event of human passions'."

The lexicon of the international film summarized: "Fateful drama in an alpine Heimatfilm: Defiant farmers, illegitimate child, manslaughter - and reconciliation in the next generation."

Cinema said: “Nothing new in the West: The West German cinema of the 50s was mainly characterized by monotony. Conclusion: Here only the sound track rustles. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel , No. 48, 1974, p. 183.
  2. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 9. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 4343.
  3. See cinema.de