Director Johannes Naber, with its award-winning, chamber-play-like capitalism-Satire “the time of the cannibals” for attention. With “The cold heart”, he managed a coherent and atmospheric remake of Wilhelm Hauff’s fairy tales.
died put fairy-tale adaptations – scored Hollywood in the recent past, multiple times. Whether “The Huntsman & The Ice Queen,” with Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, “Cinderella” Blanchett Cate, or “mirror mirror” with Julia Roberts. The audience loves the old stories in a new guise. In “The cold heart” is now a whole squad of German Stars to tell the classic by Wilhelm Hauff.
Frederick Lau (“Victoria”) plays the young, almost penniless, Köhler, Peter, arrives in the battle for the love of his life a fateful Pact with the Evil one. Henriette Confurius (“The beloved sisters”) is Peter’s beloved Lisbeth. For the young man the girl from a good glass maker-home seems out of reach, until the hearts of men gathering Dutch-Michel (Moritz Bleibtreu) shows up. Also starring Milan Peschel, Sebastian Blomberg, Lars Rudolph, and André M. Hennicke.
The Hauff’s tale of submission he takes, despite some dramatic liberties very seriously. In an ironic refractions, built-in Gags and not the Story intended effects nbut omitted, unlike his American colleagues. Does the Interpretation of the mysterious, murky story about the shadow sides of capitalism. The viewers need to get involved but aware of the slow, somewhat thoughtful narrative style, the archaic life in the film, newly invented, and of good and evil spirits inhabited the black forest.
Peter wants to remain in front of the village community, and Lisbeth’s strict father. The way glass male from Milan Peschel as a friendly spirit of nature, played – offers his help. The glass of the males ensures that Peter conquered as the best dancer of the village is the heart of his Lisbeth. Peter has now so much money in the pocket of his arch-enemy, the timber merchant Etzel. And the young saithe is the owner of a glassworks.
However, after a run of bad luck, he is a grisly trade with the Dutch Michel. Peter leaves it up to the of the society outcast for a lot of money to be bloody beating heart, and a heart of cold stone implanted in it. While it is true to a similar demonic Holländer-Michel, Erwin Geschonneck in the famous DEFA film adaptation from the year 1950. From the compassionate Peter, a man with, literally, a stone heart is – until he repents him of the love redeemed.
The classic black forest scenes were filmed in the state of Baden-Württemberg and in the Saxon Elbe Sandstone mountains. But Director Naber invents the hard life of the black forest-dwellers entirely new: For the differentiation of the stand belonging to the people, tattoos on forehead and cheeks have, the conflicts, the fight with the Floor and the men maintain costume is a rare hair.
Naber has succeeded with his Version of the fairy tale of a traditionally told, but atmospherically dense and coherent reinterpretation of “The cold heart”.
The cold heart, to Germany to 2016 – directed by: Johannes Naber, Frederick Lau, Henriette Confurius, Moritz Bleibtreu and Milan Peschel, 119 Min.
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