Every day is not a Sunday (1959)

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Movie
Original title Every day is not a Sunday
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Helmut Weiss
script Kurt Heuser ,
Werner E. Hintz
production Kurt Ulrich
for Kurt Ulrich Film
music Raimund Rosenberger
camera Georg Bruckbauer
cut Klaus Eckstein
occupation

Every day is no Sunday is a German feature film by Helmut Weiss from 1959. It is based on the novella Zwei Guitars by Volodja Semitjow . Elisabeth Müller plays the mother of twins, who stands between two very different men, played by Paul Hubschmid and Dietmar Schönherr .

action

Eva Kende lives with her eight-year-old twins Peter and Paul in Fanny Knöbel's artist guesthouse. Some singers of the Don Kosaken Choir Serge Jaroff , who is on tour, move in here for one day . One of the singers is Mitja Burganoff, who falls in love with Eva. But she has a secret: She always claims to her children that she is married and that the father is away. In reality, she has not heard from her boyfriend Alexander Brandstetter since she wrote to him about her pregnancy eight years ago. She also keeps a secret from Mitja that she was abandoned by her boyfriend.

After attending a concert with the Don Cossacks, Eva had an accident and had to be hospitalized with a concussion . The twins take advantage of the time without a mother. They finally want to get to know their father, and so Peter goes alone to the Brandstetter company in Frankfurt am Main to visit his father. He is admitted to Karl Brandstetter and shows him the photo that Eva had always presented to them as that of their father. Karl then recognizes his brother Alexander, but is unable to correct Peter and is forced to play his father.

When the recovered Eva came to pick Peter up in Frankfurt, Karl reveals to her that Alexander has been dead for eight years - he never found out that he had become a father and therefore never abandoned her. When Eva wants to go back home with Peter, he rebels because Karl is supposed to come with him as father. Eva travels to the Black Forest with both children , and Karl also follows a short time later. Although he tries to explain to the children that he is not their father, various circumstances prevent this. Mitja, who left the Don Cossack Choir for Eva, also appears in the Black Forest. As a member, he shouldn't have taken a wife on tour. However, the windy Agent Pacher gave him hope for a career as an opera singer. It breaks up quickly, and Mitja now has to go to small bars. Eva, on the other hand, cannot accept his marriage proposal, since she has long since fallen in love with Karl. She asks Serge Jaroff to take Mitja back into his choir.

Peter and Paul suspect that Eva and Karl are not married to each other. Before they can get to the bottom of the matter, however, Eva and Karl secretly decide to actually get married. Since Fanny Knöbel reveals the wedding location to both of them, the twins are there at the end of the marriage. The Don Cossack Choir sings for the bridal couple in the organ gallery. Mitja is also a member of the choir again and sees Eva leaving the church with tears in her eyes.

Production, publication

The St. Ulrich church in the Black Forest, location of the wedding

The film was shot in the Ufa-Ateliers Berlin-Tempelhof . Some outdoor shots, such as the tram accident and the theater visit, were shot at the Freiburg im Breisgau location. The wedding scenes at the end of the film were shot in the church of St. Ulrich in the Black Forest , whereas the organ scenes were recorded in another church. Hans Lehmann was in charge of production, while Willi A. Herrmann and Karl Schneider were responsible for building the films. Heinz Willeg was in charge of production .

Every day is no Sunday was based on the novella Two Guitars by Volodja Semitjow using the song Every day is no Sunday by Carl Clewing and Carl Ferdinand , which is sung in the film. The working title was also Two Guitars . The Don Cossacks under the direction of Serge Jaroff also sing Russian songs, but also German-language folk songs such as Heidenröslein .

The film was mass-launched in German cinemas on August 12, 1959. On October 27, 2017, Edel Germany GmbH released the film on DVD.

criticism

The film service called Every Day is Not Sunday a "love film designed for sentimentality in terms of material and milieu" and a "West German ' Gazebo ' 1959".

Cinema summarized the film as "sugary ideal world clichés" .

The critic Falk Schwarz said, “In many German B-Class films, the problem of authenticity arises”. If “an actor takes on a role”, it has to be “made believable. When the Austrian Dietmar Schönherr plays the Russian star tenor of the Don Cossacks "and" adds a little Slavic accent to his sparkling German, don't make it a Russian ". Schwarz criticized the script, which was "badly sewn to the edge". Since producer Ulrich loved the Don Cossack Choir, "a story has to be constructed around this choir". “Unfortunately,” one must “also state that Elisabeth Müller makes even less of her role than she hadn't written the script into”. Or was it director Helmut Weiss, “who wanted you so? Then she shouldn't have taken on the role - because of the authenticity ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Every day is not a Sunday Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Elisabeth Müller, Paul Hubschmid, Jochen and Jürgen Hanke)
  2. ↑ CK: Every day is not a Sunday . In: film-dienst , No. 35, 1959.
  3. ↑ Every day is not a Sunday Cf. cinema.de (including the illustrated film stage and 11 film images).
    Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Falk Schwarz: Every day is not a Sunday - sewn on edge on the page filmportal.de, February 11, 2015.
    Accessed on March 24, 2020.