Die Regiments-Tochter

All the transcriptions of Daughter of the Regiment have posed a challenge to generations of filmmakers and theater artists. The original opera was written for the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1840 and consolidated the success of Gaetano Donizetti. It was set during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century, which became a thorn in the side of many stagers who had, and still have, a desire to change the background politics to suit the situation at hand. The time and place of the plot have changed in various ways. It is therefore not surprising that in Austria in 1953 it was important for a change to strengthen the role of the Tyrolean mountains in the style of Heimatfilm and to create the ideal conditions for the reunion of Liebespaar Robert Lindner and Aglaja Schmid, who had already enjoyed success together in Der Seelenbräu in 1950. Finally, an ignorant viewer could easily perceive the entire film as just another romantic berg-film shot on Agfa and be maximally satisfied. How important the theme of Daughter of the Regiment was in the German language region in the early 1950s is evidenced by the simultaneous creation of the German and Italian versions alongside this Austrian one, so it actually went into movie theaters in three different versions in one year. (08.02.2022)