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Mountain Crystal
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Wikipedia article
'Mountain Crystal' is a 1949 Austrian-German historical drama film directed by Harald Reinl and featuring a cast of unknown actors including Franz Eichberger, Hans Renz and Cilli Greif. It is a mountain film based on a novella of the same title by Adalbert Stifter. The film's sets were designed by the Austrian art director Fritz Jptner-Jonstorff. It was the directorial debut of Reinl who went on to become a successful film director.
Plot
The Tyrolean mountain farmer's son Franz loves Sanna, the daughter of a dyer beyond the mountain ridge. His rival, a hunter, caught him poaching, shot him and left him wounded. The hunter then has a fatal accident in a crevasse, but the villagers consider Franz, who was seriously injured, to be the murderer of the missing hunter. Acquitted for lack of evidence, he is still outlawed by everyone. Only Sanna sticks to him, marries him and is therefore rejected by her father.
Franz is repeatedly confronted with the murder charge, which affects his whole life. Years later, his two children want to look for the Christ child at Christmas time because the bitter father does not tolerate a Christmas tree in his house. They get lost in the glacier region and find shelter in an ice cave, where the hunter's intact body is located. In a joint rescue operation, not only are the children rescued, but Franz is finally rehabilitated and finds his faith in God and the people again.
Cast
*Franz Eichberger as Franz Valteiner
*Hans Renz as Frber von Millsdorf
*Cilli Greif as Frberin, dessen Frau
*Maria Stolz as Sanna, beider Tochter
*Michael Killisch-Horn as Konrad, Knabe
*Hildegard Mayr as Sannele, Mdchen
*Hans Thni as Franz Valteiners Vater
*Robert Falch as Der Jgersteffel
Production
Harald Reinl worked again with the producers [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687205/ Josef Plesner] and Hubert Schonger to realize his first feature film, shot in winter 1948/49. Fritz Jptner-Jonstorff was responsible for the buildings, the studio was in Kufstein. The exterior shots were taken in Kitzbhel, in the Kaiser Mountains, on the Tuxer Joch, at the Upper Court, and on the Spannagel Glacier. In addition to the actors mentioned by name, farmers, hunters, and shepherds from Tyrol also appear in the film. The premiere took place on the 22nd of October 1949 in Munich, Germany, followed by the screening in Vienna on December 23 the same year.
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