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Echo of the mountains (in Germany The forester from the silver forest ) is an Austrian classic of the home film from 1954 and one of the most successful German -language films ever. For the actors Anita Gutwell and Rudolf Lenz occupied in the leading roles, the film meant their career breakthrough and the beginning of a further successful cooperation as a film couple.

The color film was under the original title on November 25, 1954 Echo of the mountains premiered in Vienna. In Germany he started under the title The forester from the silver forest on February 8, 1955 in Munich in the rental of Union-Filmverleih GmbH, Berlin.

Hubert Gerold, the new forester from the silver forest, successfully fights the forest with the help of court councilor Leonhard. He reaches the municipal council that the building grounds of the village are sold instead of the forest.

In a hunterball, Hubert meets the granddaughter of the court council, Liesl Leonhard. She is a sculptor in Vienna and accepted her grandfather’s invitation to the Styrian mountains. Hubert takes her on his stalks and shows her the beauties of the silver forest. Then your colleague and admirer Max Freiberg from Vienna appears. When he realizes that Liesl has now fallen in love with the hunter and that he also does not get hunting permits from Hubert, he wildered the most splendid deer in the area. He is discovered by Hubert, but because he suspects that Liesl had given him the rifle, he does not reveal him for the sake. This results in Hubert’s dismissal.

After a crush with Hubert, Liesl travels to Vienna. Only months later she happened to find out the truth at a studio festival in Freiberg. She goes back to her grandfather and meets Hubert at a festival who has now been rehabilitated. So the two can finally be happy with each other.

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The film was originally from the Styrian entrepreneur and Austrian Federal Master Franz von Mayr-Melnhof [first] As a documentary about the activity of the huntership, planned and financed. An action was only subsequently inserted into the handling of nature. The filming locations were next to the studio in Sievering: Salzburg, Trofaiach, Frohnleiten, Tyrol and the Karawanken.

Echo of the mountains belongs next to Black Forest girl and Green is the heath On the classics of the home film of the 1950s and with an estimated 28 million cinema seekers may be the most successful German -language film to date. Until then, both the members of the film staff and the main actors were hardly known. Characteristic of the work is the extraordinary dominance of impressive natural shots compared to the usual home films, which makes the action completely in the background. The film helped Rudolf Lenz and Anita Gutwell to a breakthrough. Later they were seen again several times as a couple. Mit author Günther Schwab published his novel in 1956 The forester from the silver forest . On German television, the unusually successful film was first on September 26, 1980 [2] As part of a home film retrospective designed by the ARD. [3]

Rudolf Lenz had the choice between a fee and a profit sharing in this range of roles. Lenz chose the fee, but later proved that the profit sharing would have earned him significantly more money in the enormous financial success of the film.

publication [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In addition to Austria and Germany, the film was also under the title on April 2, 1956 in Denmark under the title The hunter from the silver forest and on August 27, 1956 in Sweden under the title Silverskogen Published and under the title The Silver Forest Hunter in Italy.

The film was for the first time by Kinowelt/StudioCanal on November 7, 2008 together with the home film High fir Published within the series “A reunion with … Anita Gutwell” on DVD. [4] A further publication of Kinowelt took place on July 17, 2009 [5] as well as on January 6, 2011 together with the successor film The poacher from the silver forest . [6] On February 17, 2011, Kinowelt released the film as the second of the series “A piece of home to collect”, including sheet metal sign. [7] On February 9, 2018, Alive – Sales and Marketing published the film classics The forester and the poacher from the silver forest In a double box within the series “Jewels in Film History”.

criticism [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Despite its commercial success, the film was rated more ambiguous in later times.

On the one hand, becomes Echo of the mountains referred to as a classic or prototype of the home film. [8] [9] From the TV feature film Filmlexikon he is still classified as worth seeing today: “One of those indestructible home films that always in the same breath Black Forest girl and Green is the heath is mentioned and despite its repetitive television broadcasts still does not have any signs of wear. ” [ten] In many reviews, the excellent landscape and animal shots are highlighted in many reviews. [11] [twelfth] [13] [14]

However, the stereotypical act is critically seen. Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz evaluate in Lexicon “Films on TV” The film as average snap. [15] The lexicon of international film and the Handbuch V of Catholic film criticism speak of a “sweet” act that is only compensated for by the beautiful nature shots. [16] [17]

On the film page Remember it for later It is referred to that the film was “originally planned as a documentary about Jäger in Styria” and “only became a feature film” by adding a love story. It also says that director Alfons Stummer staged the film “Without flair, without a sense of pace or rhythm and without any joke as a drowsy pictures with questionable ideology, whose brass is difficult to bear today”. [18]

Johannes Kösegi from the side Cinema Said with “a few exceptions such as a jealous admirer from the city or the profit -greed sawmill owner” “only good people were shown”. A “triangular story that ultimately brings itself to the satisfaction of all resolutions by bringing the right ones together” release the viewer “with a good feeling”. The “emotional act” is “shaped by the typical clichés of the Ganghofer novels”. Ultimately, “many folk song interludes would also enrich the mountain idyll shown”. According to “this rigid pattern”, both “silver forest films are knitted, which are still like their successful sister works today ‘The heath is green’ and ‘Black Forest girl’ no signs of wear ”. [19]

Awards [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Günther Schwab: The forester from the silver forest. novel . Unabridged paperback edition. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1993, 173 pages, ISBN 3-548-22999-9
  • Nadja Julia Scheitler: Representation and meaning of home in the feature film “The Förster vom Silberwald” . Master thesis. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 2002, 73 p.
  1. ↑ Jens Ivo Engels: Natural Policy in the Federal Republic. Idea world and political behavioral styles in nature conservation and environmental movement 1950–1980, Paderborn 2006, page 238.
  2. ↑ According to the Spiegel, issue 39 of September 22, 1980
  3. ↑ See: Der Spiegel, Issue 1 of January 7, 1980
  4. ↑ The forester from the silver forest/Hohe firen Fig. DVD cover “A reunion with … Anita Gutwell”
  5. ↑ The forester from the silver forest (Echo of the mountains) Fig. DVD envelope cinema world
  6. ↑ The forester from the silver forest/the poacher from the silver forest Fig. DVD envelope cinema world
  7. ↑ The forester from the silver forest Fig. DVD envelope “a piece of home to collect”
  8. ↑ Thomas Kramer: Reclams Lexicon of German Film . Reclam, Ditzingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-15-010410-1.
  9. ↑ Lexicon of international film . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
  10. ↑ The big TV feature film Filmlexikon . Digital-library special band (CD-ROM edition). Directmedia, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-036-1, pp. 4205–4206
  11. ↑ Thomas Kramer: Reclams Lexicon of German Film . Reclam, Ditzingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-15-010410-1.
  12. ↑ Lexicon of international film . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
  13. ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbuch V der Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 120
  14. ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbuch V der Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 120
  15. ↑ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon “Films on TV” . (Extended new edition). Rasch und Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p. 243
  16. ↑ Lexicon of international film . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
  17. ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbuch V der Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 120
  18. ↑ The forester from the silver forest/echo of the mountains, Alfons Stummer, Austria/Germany 1954 See page Funkhundd.wordpress.com. Accessed on May 2, 2019.
  19. ↑ The forester from the silver forest and the poacher from the silver forest Criticism & opinion on the page kinofilmer.de, accessed on May 11, 2019.