Where the old forests rustle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Where the old forests rustle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfons Stummer |
| script | Alfons Stummer Werner P. Zibaso |
| production |
Eberhard Meichsner Walter Traut |
| music |
Marc Roland Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| camera |
Herbert Thallmayer Ernst von Theumer (animal photos ) |
| cut | Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
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Where the old forests rustle is a German homeland film by Alfons Stummer from 1956.
action
The widowed civil engineer Harald Rehm goes on vacation to the mountains with his little son Nils and his tutor Margret Bruhn. As soon as he arrived at the Hotel Schattenhorn, Rehm was already in the middle of work, writing letters and making phone calls. His company is currently building a power plant on the Riederstein above the resort. Nils, who was looking forward to the vacation with his father, is disappointed. His jealousy of Margret also leads to the fact that he becomes more and more hostile towards her, which worries the father, who loves Margret. On her hikes through the woods, she met the photographer Klaus Baumgartner, who turned out to be the site manager of Harald's Riederstein project. He bears the burden of being responsible for the death of three people, as there was a serious incident on the previous construction site which the workers attributed to Klaus' incorrect calculations.
Nils befriends Loisl, the farmer's boy who, as an orphan, was housed by the community with farmer Pichlmoser. Loisl beats Loisl for every little thing. When Harald threatens his son to go to boarding school if he can't get along with Margret, Nils decides to flee with Loisl across the border to Switzerland . One of Nils' uncle lives here, who would certainly take them in. Harald has to leave the site for a few days on business - in the incident on the construction site, in which three people were killed, building botch was carried out, for which Klaus could not do anything and which, much to Harald's displeasure, threatens to be made public. Because Klaus reproaches himself a little later about the dead in front of Margret and even plans to stop his work on the Riederstein construction site, Margret tells him the real reasons for the accident. Baumgartner is outraged that Harald has kept the truth from him. Margret stays with him overnight, because she has fallen in love with him.
Nils and Loisl run away together that night. The escape to Switzerland is marked by numerous incidents that make their plans fail, so they soon run out of food and Nils' backpack is lost after falling into a raging mountain stream. Finally he gets into mountain difficulties, from which he can no longer free himself. Meanwhile, Margret has noticed Nils' absence, but cannot get the police to act. She brings Harald back to the village, who finally asks Baumgartner to help him. Although he cannot forgive him, he gathers his mountain rescuers around him. He finds Nils and saves him from the mountains, so that the children's escape ends well.
production
The film was directed by the production company KG Divina GmbH & Co. produced. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The studio recordings were made in the Divina-Studio Baldham , the outdoor recordings in Lienz . The costumes created Claudia Herberg , the Filmbauten submitted by Gabriel Pellon . The film music was recorded by the Kurt Graunke Symphony Orchestra .
The film premiered on September 14, 1956 in the Hanover Palace .
criticism
For the film service , Wo die alten Wälder rauschen was a “kitschy staged home film with some beautiful landscape and animal shots, which leaves neither tension nor sympathy.” “It rustles in the forest, it leaves us cold,” rhymed Cinema . "[S] such ancient plots from ZDF-Lerchenberg [would] have long since deserved a proper forest death," said Der Spiegel on the occasion of a television screening of the film in 1989.
Web links
- Where the ancient forests rushing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Where the old forests rustle at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where the old forests rustle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Der Spiegel , No. 4, 1989, p. 214.