The Spessart Inn

The Haunted Castle is a German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann in 1958, loosely based on the same template The Haunted Castle by Wilhelm Hauff from the year 1827. The premiere took place on 15 January 1958.

Action

Franziska Countess of and Sandau is with her fiance Baron Sperling, her maid and a pastor in a carriage on the way to Würzburg, as they drive in the Spessart with the coach in a pit on the way, with a wheel breaks. Not realizing that this is the case of a notorious gang of robbers, they follow the advice of two dubious figures and rising from the nearby inn. There they meet the artisans Felix and Peter and to the robbers, who take the Comtesse hostage to extort from her father for a ransom. These exchanges ado Felix the clothes and escapes. When Frances learns that her father, the military sends instead of the ransom to be paid, it returns to the robbers to serve in her disguise as a boy to the captain. The detects the wrong game and soon falls in love with Franziska. When it comes to some confusions for the military attack on the bandit camp, Franziska flees with the robber captain and hides him in his home in his father's castle. There, she learns that the captain is in reality an impoverished Italian count who has fallen among thieves and even become their captain. He must once again flee from the seeking after him, soldiers, and Franziska appears to the wedding with her fiancé unloved Baron Sperling having to bend. But shortly before the ceremony The Robber Count resurfaced in the castle on, and Franziska breaks up with him in a new life.

Background

With the unstable balance of power during the time of the Napoleonic campaigns, the company became unstable, game rooms for violence were opened and gangs of robbers had economy. The story of Hauff's Spessart robbers was in the early 19th century to date, especially because the literary genre of the entertainment novel, especially the novel with robbers topics, through the works Götz von Berlichingen (Goethe) and The Robbers ( Schiller) came into fashion. Fought the shape of the robber as a noble criminal, though is with his gang of laws, but also for justice impoverished lower classes, was the "people" welcome.

Production

The locations for the opening scene of the historic market square of Miltenberg and the castle of Count Sandau Mespelbrunn Castle in the Spessart.

The drawings used in the film were made by Bele Bachem.

Lina Carstens has a cameo appearance as a cook. In the introduction it is not mentioned.

Sequels and remakes

In the follow Kurt Hoffmann turned 1960 The haunted castle in Spessart with the film set of lock Oelber on white trails in Lower Saxony and 1967 Wonderful Times in the Spessart. 2010 television movie was the Boys Love Mandy are going shown which is thematically similar to The haunted castle in the Spessart. Away from the operational framework of the three - Spessart films originated in 1977 under the direction of Walter Krüttner The pleasure palace in the Spessart.

Reviews

" [...] A lovely colorful relish creepy and cheerful musical film, which also oscillates mainly in his parodic first part far beyond the other German production. For younger not entirely free of uncomfortable elements, for adults, however, a winking pleasure. "

" Entertainment movie with star cast [ ... ] Fanciful, pretty photograph and musically spirited. "

" [ ... ] A colorful relish creepy and cheerful -musical film with parodical impact. "

Awards

  • German Film Award in Silver ( 1958): Liselotte Pulver Best Actress
  • Ernst Lubitsch Prize (1958 ): "The Haunted Castle " (director)
  • The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.
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