12 hearts for Charly
| Movie | |
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| Original title | 12 hearts for Charly |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Fritz Andelfinger |
| script | Karl Georg Külb |
| production | Cinephon-Film, Berlin |
| music | Peter Kornfeld |
| camera | Walter Pindter |
| cut | Friedel Buckow |
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12 Hearts for Charly is a German feature film made in 1949 with Willy Fritsch in a double role.
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Dr. Wolfgang Amadeus Wagenbichler and his brother Charly were separated from each other at birth. While Charly made his career as a jazz musician in the United States, Wolfgang Amadeus, thanks to his name, is practically predestined to love classical music, and a. as a music teacher at a corresponding institute in West Germany. Wolfgang fell in love with a teacher who, like him, works at a housekeeping school. One day his twin brother Charly, who was believed to be dead, returns to the German town as a member of a jazz band of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration . Both men are surprised by their reflection, but despite their different socialization - Wolfgang is a thoroughly serious and stiff German, Charly is more of the Luftikus, who is swarmed by women - they quickly notice similarities.
Both brothers consider what it would be like to temporarily lead each other's lives and decide to swap roles just to have fun. As the band leader of a jazz combo, the hearts of women fly to Charly while the serious and sedate Wolfgang goes on a business trip. One day a dodgy friend of Charly turns up, who wants to give the jazz-playing Luftikus her daughter his own flesh and blood and hopes to be married by the handsome GI musician and then taken to the USA. This leads to all sorts of entanglements between the two brothers, but these are harmoniously resolved at the end of the film. While Wolfgang embraces his teacher, Charly also finds a woman for life in Good Old Germany.
Production notes
12 Hearts for Charly was created in the winter of 1948/49 in Göttingen and the surrounding area and passed the Allied military censorship in April 1949. The premiere took place on May 6, 1949 in Düsseldorf, the Berlin premiere was on September 16 of the same year.
Alfred Bittins and Felix Kleinau took over the production management. Hans Luigi created the film structures. Conny Carstennsen was the unit manager. As with other productions of the early post-war period, Norbert Schultze, who was poorly reputed for his work as a film music composition propagandist for the Third Reich, used the pseudonym Peter Kornfeld.
reception
“Looking back on the actor's filmmaking, the double role in the now insignificant film“ 12 hearts for Charly ”is symptomatic of Willy Fritsch's change of character. For the last time, the now forty-eight-year-old plays the cheerful and cheeky charmer to whom all hearts fly, but in the same film he also embodies the role of the serious, mature man who, if necessary, will do without. "
Web links
- 12 hearts for Charly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 12 hearts for Charly at filmportal.de