Same disk space after erasing all backup of a folder in TM

I entered the Time Machine and chose to erase all backups of a very large movies folder.
but the disk space is still the same.
how can i claim the disk space back ?

Thanks for your answer. I searched that website before a no answer there.
Also no "sparsebundle" file is involved here.
I am backing up to another partition of my hard drive.
Right now TM is complaining every hour about lack of disk space. so I expects TM to manage the free space wise.
I think maybe there was a problem with deleting the backups of the folder i removed (which I removed through the TM Interface)
any other ideas ?
thanks

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