Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman (1960) [N/A]
Featuring:
Margrit Winter, Ruedi Walter, Margrit Rainer
Written by:
Jeremias Gotthelf
Hans Rudolf Hubler
Franz Schnyder
Directed by:
Franz Schnyder
Release Date:
October 21, 1960
Original Title:
Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Teil 1: Wie Jakobli zu einer Frau kommt
Alternate Titles:
Anne Bäbi Jowäger
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
Neue Film AG
Praesens-Film
Production Countries:
Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name of Albert Bitzius), which was also published in two parts.
The film opens with the plight of Jakobli Jowäger, the scion of the family, who is suffering from smallpox and was not vaccinated. The family housekeeper, Mädi, has been treating him with various unguents, which the visiting doctor dismisses with contempt. Jakobli retains some facial scarring and loses his vision in one eye, but otherwise recovers. The film goes on to describe the conflicts within the Jowäger family and between them and the neighboring families as Jakobli seeks a bride, as well as the conflicts between the doctor (and the progressive minister who supports him) and the general populace (including the Jowäger family) which tends to superstition and is more inclined to trust charlatans and folk remedies than academic medicine.
