Everything for the company (1935)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Everything for the company |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Meinert |
| script | Rudolf Meinert |
| production | BMS film |
| music |
Artur Guttmann Hans J. Salter |
| camera | Willy Goldberger |
| cut | Puffy Krafft |
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Everything for the company is an Austrian generation and family melodrama written in 1934 by Rudolf Meinert with Felix Bressart , Oskar Karlweis , Hermine Sterler and Otto Wallburg in the leading roles. The story is based on the play “ Schottenring ” by Armin Friedmann and Ludwig Nerz .
action
The old Philipp Sonndorfer resigned from the company management 16 years ago after a heated argument with his son Max. Since then, he alone has been in charge of the Sonndorfer & Sohn textile factory. When Max falls out with his own son Otto, he goes his own way and leaves the company. Since Philipp Sonndorfer has a lot left for his grandson, the two are ideal partners in their endeavor to get Max Sonndorfer back. Otto wants to set up his own company, Sonndorfer & Co., With grandfather Philipp, and thus prove to Max that he is more capable of being a businessman than Max. Max Sonndorfer is very angry that he thinks that he is closely related to a competing company falls in the back like that. The competition begins to damage Max over the long term, and he soon runs into massive liquidity problems. In order not to lose to his son in this company competition, Max demands that his son Otto marry Daisy Rix, the daughter of a very wealthy American business magnate who, however, once fled the country because of embezzlement.
Otto doesn't even think about complying with his father's wish, because he loves the Viennese doctor Dr. Hertha Becker. Gradually, Max begins to have the water up to his neck, and the hoped-for windfall turns out to be a pipe dream, because the news comes from the USA that the Rix group has collapsed. Max's career as a businessman comes to an end, when the old Sonndorfer lets himself be softened thanks to the intercession of Ella Sonndorfer, Maxen's wife, and still give his ill-fated son financial support. Ella has already poured all of her own savings into Sonndorfer & Sohn, her husband's company - she gave everything for the company, just to avoid having her husband's name tainted with the penalty of bankruptcy. Philipp, who had not thought much of his sister-in-law so far, now has to revise his attitude towards Ella. And so all Sonndorfers will be reunited in peace in the new company, which will henceforth be called “Sonndorfer & Sons”, and the old dispute is buried.
Production notes and trivia
Everything for the company , a classic emigrant production of those years, put together by Jews who fled Hitler's Germany, was created at the end of 1934 in the Schönbrunn Film Atelier in Vienna and was premiered on April 5, 1935 at the same location. The mass start was April 19, 1935. Given the strong Jewish participation (director and screenwriter Meinert, cameraman Willy Goldberger , the composers Artur Guttmann and Hans J. Salter and the leading actors Bressart, Karlweis, Wallburg and Sterler) the film was in Hitler's Germany not brought out.
The composers Guttmann and Salter also took on the musical direction. Artur Berger designed the film structures.
Of Everything for the company and a Dutch version was titled De vier Mullers made, in which the young Johannes Heesters played his second sound film role. After filming, he stayed in Austria and started his remarkable German-speaking career there.
For the veteran director Rudolf Meinert, this production was his last film work. In 1943 he was murdered in a concentration camp by the German National Socialists.
Curious on the side: Although Alfred Neugebauer was a few years older than his film father Bressart, he played his son. “Son” Karlweis and “Filmmutter” Sterler, on the other hand, were one and the same year. With that, grandchild actor Karlweis was actually a year older than his "grandfather" Felix Bressart. This only worked because Bressart was given white hair and thus visibly aged.
music
The following music titles were played or sung:
- This melody is definitely for you!
- You and me - me and you - we are one!
- Bird's Song: You have to take life philosophically
The lyrics were written by Peter Herz and Paul Frank
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “Well-tempered merchant's piece, carried by well-pointed dialogue, except for the somewhat sentimental solution… level-conscious, continuously staged. Comedian and lover in smooth ensemble play. (...) At least a good medium film. "
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “Under Rudolf Meinert's direction, Felix Bressart shows himself to be excellent in the character role of senior boss, while the youngest Sonndorfer Oskar Karlweis portrays with good humor. Otto Wallburg was also successful as always. "
On film.at it says: “The conventional film adaptation of a successful theater play: family quarrels and comedic skirmishes around a traditional company. Grandfather Bressart allies himself with grandson Karlweis in order to put his arrogant son Neugebauer on the right path. Between the fronts Otto Wallburg, who is in top form as an intrigue of spinning reporters. "
Web links
- Everything for the company in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everything for the company at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everything for the company in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Everything for the company". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , April 12, 1935, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Everything for the company on film.at
