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Levins Mühle ist ein deutsches Filmdrama von Horst Seemann aus dem Jahr 1980. Es ist eine Literaturverfilmung des 1964 erschienenen Romans Levins Mühle: 34 Sätze über meinen Großvater von Johannes Bobrowski.
Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not want the Jew, Levin, to grind corn in his small boat mill. Assuming that the law is on his side since he is German, Johann opens the lock one night and washes Levin's mill away.
Nov 14, 2020 · 21 Accesses. Zusammenfassung. Der 1964 erschienene Roman gilt als bedeutendster Prosatext des Autors. – Der Großvater des Erzählers lebt als reicher Mühlenbesitzer in Westpreußen, wo seit 1870 nationale Ressentiments gegen andersrassige Minderheiten vorherrschen.
In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans and Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not want the Jew, Levin, to grind corn in his small boat mill. Assuming that the law is on his side since he is German, Johann opens the lock one night and washes Levin's mill away.
The film is set in the seventies of the previous century Germans, Poles, Romanies and Jews live next to each other in a small village in Western Prussia, near the Lower Weichsel. The wealthy German mill owner Johann refuses to allow the Jew Levin to grind grain in his boat mill.
One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.
