A poor boy, of his heart against worldly treasures and redeem them, and in his soul loses it: “The cold heart”, the tale of the Swabian late-romantic poet Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), has always been considered as something creepy nursery fable. Especially since a still-vaunted DEFA adaptation of 1950. Now the film’s Director Johannes Naber has revealed the substance thoroughly and to not update the only trick is convincing technically a gripping Fantasy epic.
Naber, to become known by the immigrant drama “The Albanians” and the capitalism-Grotesque “in the time of cannibals”, has thrown once, the heart of Jesus and the piety of the tale. “The Christian Faith we are not to take place,” John Naber explains – which is quite a brave author who was, after all, a graduate of a Protestant monastery school and a PhD theologian in the face of a Template.
But it paid off, also in terms of the film narrative: The Wilhelm Hauff noted the conflict between the capital-intensive timber merchants württemberg, from glass blowers to existing Baden middle class and the proto-proletarian charcoal makers uses Naber in his remake, the social barriers of a strict class society.
“When the woodcutter comes, the charcoal-burner!” This unwritten law of the black forest society, the “dirty bird” Peter Munk (Frederick Lau) gets pretty timber merchant’s son Bastian (David Schütter) is literally taught. And it is understood that the bid also extends to matters of the Heart: the poor boy do ever love a glass daughter, the beautiful “dancing Queen,” Lisbeth (Henriette Confurius), could win, seems to be completely hopeless.
But also benefits of the cinematic Look and Sound of a more modern perspective on the action: If the rival to Lisbeth’s favor, unsubscribe, your duel with Bastian’s long rafter poles are obvious, the stick fighting arts of far Eastern Martial Arts-adventure godfather. And if you take on a rude makeshift “Dancefloor” against each other, under the title of dance king (with Peter Munk is thanks to supernatural assistance, in the meantime, a clear advantage), roars through the black forest sounds, exotic drum music.
The Fairy tale is given a solid historical framework
Current Trends according to the nature decked ghosts, choose from the dark Tann out on Welfare and not Woe, only Peter wreak havoc: The heart of a good glass of males (Milan Peschel) is, with its small tribal society as a Clan-leader of the Australian Aborigines. And the bitter Holländer-Michel (Moritz Bleibtreu) meets the help-seeking Peter Munk has been with the blustering Grimm of a “wild guy”. The Ethno-Style, the spirits of the mask corresponds to the image of the people whose faces adorn the pale blue tattoos; it is the rank insignia of an archaic world.
To look cool, or is it here to stay? Hauff’s romantic criticism was aimed at a perverted the Protestant work ethic and a “heartless” economic system. In Nabers Film of the Swabian capitalism is a global: Consider the fact that the colonial Empire of the Dutch tribes, much to the black forests of Spruce was based, from which the ships of the Dutch East and West India companies, which were cobbled, it seems to be in the Film connection made to non-European cultures in a kind of “return of the Repressed” absolutely plausible.
This intercultural Touch makes “The cold heart” because of a Fantasy the Fact that the Fairy tale gets a solid historical framework. But especially the facilities crew at the Babelsberg Studios delivers with it a visually attractive Background. Before you follow the story of the Koehler boy who wants to exchange in the Dutch-Michel, his compassionate heart against a stone, and then a large fortune, and – temporarily – also love Lisbeth’s acquires, with great pleasure.
In the Video: The Trailer for “The cold heart”
“The cold heart”
2016
Director: John Naber
scenario: John Naber, Christian, Zipperle, Steffen Reuter, Andreas Marschall, Wilhelm Hauff (author)
cast: Frederick Lau, Henriette Confurius, Moritz Bleibtreu and Milan Peschel, David thrower, Sebastian Blomberg, André Hennicke, Roeland Wiesnekker
rental: world cinema film rental
length: 119 minutes
FSK: 12
Start: 20. October 2016
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