Five million are looking for an heir
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| Original title | Five million are looking for an heir |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Carl Boese |
| script | George Hurdalek and Jacob Geis based on the novel by Harald Baumgarten |
| production | Hans Tost |
| music | Lothar Bruhne |
| camera | Ewald Daub |
| cut | Gottlieb Madl |
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Five million are looking for an heir is a German comedy film with Heinz Rühmann, which premiered on April 1, 1938 in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo . It is based on the novel of the same name by Harald Baumgarten (born 1890) from 1932.
action
The wealthy American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett has decreed in his will that Peter can only inherit the five million dollars left to him if he is happily married. Otherwise, the five million will go to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.
Commissioned by the executor, Mister Blubberbloom comes to Europe to find out whether Peter is happy with his wife Hix. The insidious bubbling boom, however, brings Peter to New York without his wife and wants the beautiful Mabel to appear as his wife there at the performance.
But Patrick, who looks very much like his cousin, also wants the money. He appears at Hix and travels with her to New York as well. In the Atlantik-Hotel everyone meets without first meeting. There are confusing scenes, and even as a viewer, it is difficult to see which of the two pettos is in front of you. Finally, Blubberbloom reveals himself to be a gangster and hides Hix to prevent a meeting with her husband. But in the end, Hix and Peter finally meet, hug, and this obvious happiness also decides the millions. But even Patrick doesn’t go away empty-handed: he won Mabel’s heart.
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The outstanding part of the film is the hit song I'll break the hearts of the proudest women based on the text by Bruno Balz and the music by Lothar Brühne . The refrain is:
- "I break the hearts of the proudest women because I'm so stormy and so passionate,"
- "All you have to do is look me in the eye and it's gone."
Rühmann proves to be a gifted comedian when it comes to interpretation. The imposing attitude of the text is thwarted by the small figure and the seemingly awkward movements of Rühmann when he was presented on the stage. A man whistles in between, and the women addressed talk about other things during the singing.
Reviews
- "Grotesque comedy and a grateful double role for the young Heinz Rühmann" - Lexicon of international film
- “A strenuous entertainment film from the Nazi era, with conventional dramaturgy, stereotypical misunderstandings and an image of America for average racist Germans who see the typical domestics in colored people. Rühmann feels at home in a double role, sings and whistles 'I'm breaking the hearts of the proudest women' and doing gymnastics on a skyscraper facade. ”(Rating: 2 stars = average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV “ (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 266
See also
literature
- Harald Baumgarten: Five million are looking for an heir. Novel . Ullstein, Berlin 1932, 266 pp.
Web links
- Five million are looking for an heir in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Five million are looking for an heir at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Five million are looking for an heir. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 23, 2017 .