Emilia Galotti (film)

• Karin Hübner: Emilia Galotti
• Gerhard Bienert: ODOARDO Galotti
• Maly Delschaft: Claudia Galotti
• Hans -Peter Thielen: Hettore Gonzaga, Prince of Guastalla
• E. O. Fuhrmann: Marinelli, chamberlain of the Prince
• Eduard von Winterstein: Camillo Rota, Guides
• Gerry Wolff: Conti, painter
• Horst Schulze: Count Appiani
• Gisela Uhlen: Countess ORSINA
• Karl -Heinz Peters: Angelo
• Karen Fredersdorf: Old Mother
• Adolf Peter Hoffmann: Chancellor Crimaldi
• Marianne Wünscher: Woman Crimaldi
• Lissy Tempelhof: 1 daughter Crimaldis
• Marianne Worbs: 2nd daughter Crimaldis
• Günther Ballier: valet of Prince
• Hannes Felgner: Dehiouent
• Alexander Papendiek: Pierre
• Helmut Strasbourg: Baptista
• Charles Hans Vogt: scout Countess ORSINA
• Nico Turoff: Bauer
• Hildegard Diestelmann: maid at Galotti
• Max Klingberg: Niccolo
• Lutz Götz: 1 robber
• Teddy Wulff: 2 robbers
• Hans -Eberhard Gäbel: 3 robbers
• Christoph Beyertt: Lean Mr.
• Egon Vogel: spy
• Liesel Eckhardt: Matron
• Georg Helge: hair stylist at Marinelli
• Erwin Behling: coachman of the Prince
• Herbert Ambach: coachman Marinelli
• Gustav Seyberlich: Coachman ORSINA
• Peter Krassno - Glasoff: pioneer
• Walter Grimm: Majordomo
• Klaus Räthel: Priest
• Horst Zwingenberg: courtier
• Willi Michaelis: Bauer
• Axel Thiesen: Servant of Count Appiani
• Hans Knoll: Sergeant
• Hans Wiesner: Servant at Marinelli
• Gerti Zillmer: 1 maid of honor
• Ellen Plessow: 2 maid of honor
• Agnes Kraus: 3 maid of honor
• Gerda Müller: 4 maid of honor
• Guido Goroll: 1 Hofherr
• Axel Triebel: 2 Hofherr
• Heinz Rosenthal: 3 Hofherr
• Arthur crediting Wager: 4 Hofherr
• Hans -Jürgen Lingks: 1 lackey of Prince
• Fritz Mahr: 2 lackey of Prince
• Ferdinand Gold Acker: 3 lackey of Prince
• Günter Voigt: 4 lackey of Prince

Emilia Galotti is a German film adaptation of the DEFA by Martin Hellberg from the year 1958. It is based on the play Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Emilia Galotti experienced on March 14, 1958 at the Berlin cinema Babylon its premiere.

Action

At a ball the Prince of Guastalla Hettore Gonzaga, long his mistress Countess ORSINA looks tired, for the first time the young Emilia Galotti, daughter of Colonel ODOARDO Galotti. However, he desires from the first moment, they can speak only a short time on the ball, as Countess ORSINA announced. A short time later, he sees her portrait painter at Conti and buys him from the portrait. Again and again he sees the portrait in Back Drawn and finally decides to take action. Just then tells him his chamberlain Marinelli that Count Appiani intends to marry in the inner circle the next day. The bride should be Emilia Galotti. Hettore Gonzaga Marinelli instructs to stop the wedding by any means. First Marinelli wants to send the Count at the behest of Prince with an order out of the country, but rejects the Count this with regard to its wedding from. Hettore Gonzaga again examined the next morning secretly Emilia Galotti in the church and harassed them. Emilia returns horrified back to her mother Claudia and reported it to her. Both decide the Father to say nothing of the behavior of the prince. Count Appiani also appears confused at the Galotti and tells Claudia the offer Marin Ellis. The advises his master to go to his summer residence.

Marinelli can be attacked on the wedding day, the coach of the couple near the prince's pleasure palace of robbers. While Emilia Galotti frantically flees from the carriage, and is brought by an employee of the Prince on his pleasure palace, the robbers kill the Count Appiani. A messenger rides going to report ODOARDO from attack, while making the mother with her entourage on the way to the castle of Count. There Emilia is incredulous and horrified when she realizes she is in whose castle itself. The prince led into the upper chambers, but can gain access loudly soon Claudia. The Countess ORSINA, which also appears a short time later will be rejected by Marinelli and unceremoniously addition, complimented by Hettore Gonzaga. There, the rejected ORSINA hits the freshly arrived ODOARDO, which they reported, among other things, that APPIANI is dead, and the prince has not talked confidentially in the morning with Emilia in the church. She gives him her dagger, which he tucked in his garment. The Claudia rushed to the scene confirmed Orsinas words and going to organize a coach to the departure of the family. ODOARDO be allowed due to speak in front of Hettore Gonzaga, his daughter, who is to stay with a friendly, depraved couple according to the will of the prince. At Emilia's request, ODOARDO stabs his daughter to protect them from the shame of the seduction of the prince. Hettore Gonzaga now cursed Marinelli, who had presented him as a friend, but in reality it was a devil.

Criticism

The contemporary criticism of the GDR wrote that Emilia Galotti " only become a mediocre film" is, even if the drama can be shown now people who previously could not see it in the theater. In particular, the deviation Hellbergs was criticized from the original, so would the director " in its design way under the bourgeois- revolutionary level of the classic original works." Other critics, however, praised the film just for its new vision and wrote that the film " in some phase of an exciting crime story is like ."

The FRG filmdienst wrote in 1963 that the film is " a hermaphrodite that kind [ is ], of which was once very rightly: it degrades theater and film. [ ... ] The processing goes over half daring approaches, which is usually limited to displacement of passages, little addition. [ ... ] The drama [ is ] taken plenty of the occasion, previous history related temporal relationships and to denounce the abuses solid, the dialog mentioned shifts for a tendentious coloring quite rich. "

The lexicon of the International film marked the feature film as " an insignificant Abfilmung theater performance by the DEFA director Hellberg " what the character of the film as an independent feature film, however, does not correspond in terms of truth.