Adventure in the castle

Movie
Original title	Adventure in the castle
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1952
length	86 minutes
Rod
Director	Rudolf Steinboeck
script	Rudolf Oertel
production	Nova-Film Vienna-Film ( JA Vesely )
music	Karl Pauspertl
camera	Willi Sohm
cut	Josef Juvancic Leontine Klicka
occupation
Doris Kirchner : Marianne Erni Mangold : Mizzi Herta Staal : Hansi Hermann Thimig : Director Wilibald Müller Susanne Engelhart : Professor Karl Skraup : Jakob Ernst Stankovski : Raimund Erwin Strahl : Walter Gerhard Riedmann : Georg Robert Tessen : Fred Rudolf Rhomberg : Karl Karl Fochler : Baron von Forstenau Lotte Lang : Mrs. Simone Schimek Karl Bachmann : Mr. Schimek Anni Korin : Inge Hertha Martin : Fritzi Dolores Ling : Senta Anneliese Iser : Christl Margit Gall : Edith Hugo Gottschlich : Mr. Wagner Eva Syld-Simmel : Mrs. Wagner Karl Böhm : Mr. Schister Evi Servaes : Mrs. Schister Bibiane Zeller : Jane Fritz Eckhardt : Castle buyer Kurt Sowinetz : his friend

Adventure in the Castle is an Austrian comedy film directed by Rudolf Steinboeck from 1952.

action

The review of sensations , which director Wilibald Müller has built, travels unsuccessfully over the villages and small towns. The dancers who Wilibald had hired with big promises straight away from their studies are frustrated because they are not allowed to dance what they can really do. Wilibald, on the other hand, is desperate because of the lack of money, insufficient venues and the utterly disinterested audience that prefers to go to the cinema. When the main dancer Marianne also fell ill, the revue moved to the next town to find a doctor. On the way, the revue car had an accident in the open and the theater group took refuge in a nearby castle in the rain. The resident, who is only called Professor, and her house servant Jakob shelter the artists, as they are not prepared to visit and suffer from acute financial difficulties themselves. Young Georg, whom the professor treats like her son, has long had enough of the desperate situation: he sells the lock, which does not belong to him, with a handshake while playing cards.

Because of Marianne's poor health, the revue group is allowed to stay longer in the castle. Georg opens the planned sale of the castle, but appeases everyone when the professor collapses. He did not sign a contract, just gave his word. The revue group has an idea to get the castle up and running: They want to turn the castle into a hotel. You will receive a mortgage from the bank and will soon be able to open the castle as a hotel. The castle buyer and his cronies appear at the opening. They insist on the legal validity of the purchase, especially since Georg had already accepted a deposit of 100 schillings from them, and stay in the hotel, which they only want to leave when the contract has been legally signed.

The revue members, who also take over the service in the hotel, secretly practice in their free time at a dance festival that is finally supposed to attract real guests to the hotel. For the medieval dances, lady and knight costumes are necessary. When one of the dancers in a knight's costume walks through the hotel, the buyer thinks it is haunted. The news spreads and soon numerous guests are arriving at the castle. The revue dancers' first conscious attempt at spooky goes wrong, however, and so the dancers uncover the truth: that they are actually revue dancers, that they staged the spook out of necessity and would much rather entertain the guests with a dance performance. This is a great success and impresario Robert von der Oper, who is among the guests, gives them an engagement. Georg can meanwhile convict the buyer of the castle of card fake and have him arrested, so that the castle is saved.

Some time later, the revue dancers appear on their first engagement. They play the ballet Cinderella with a ballet group in the courtyard of the castle, and the performance is a great success.

production

Adventure in the Castle , the Vienna film was shot in the Rosenhügel film studios. The outdoor shots were taken in Lower Austria. The costumes were created by Elli Rolf , the film structures are by Hans Zehetner . The Wiener Symphoniker play , the lyrics are by Otto Horn . The film was shown for the first time in GDR cinemas on November 28, 1952 in East Berlin. The Austrian premiere took place in Vienna on February 17, 1953.

criticism

For the film service , Adventure in the Castle was an “undemanding revue film”.

Web links

• Adventure in the castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Adventure in the castle at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 241
2. ↑ Adventure in the castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .