Almenrausch and Edelweiss (1957)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Alpine rush and edelweiss |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script |
Franz Marischka Ilse Lotz-Dupont Tibor Yost |
| production | Bergland Film, Danube film production |
| music |
Nils Nobach Hans Blum |
| camera | Walter Riml |
| cut | Eva Kroll |
| occupation | |
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Almenrausch und Edelweiß is an Austrian homeland film comedy by Harald Reinl from 1957. It is one of the tourist films within the genre.
action
Maresi and her mother Friedl receive the news that a distant aunt has bequeathed them a small fortune. Friedl signs the papers, but she writes "Meier". However, the inheritance should go to a "Friedl Meyer". Friedl refuses to show the estate administrator her marriage certificate and reveals to her daughter that she never married her father Ferdinand Meyer, because he had left her standing in front of the altar out of misery. Ferdinand Meyer doesn't know anything about his daughter either, since Friedl left her fiancé after the wedding that had broken off. Maresi decides to visit Ferdinand Meyer, who has meanwhile become general director of a publishing house, and to persuade him to marry her mother. Last but not least, mother and daughter could use the money from the inheritance as the family hotel is doing badly.
Ferdinand Meyer has meanwhile been convinced by his doctor that he has to cut back on his health. He plans to go to the village in the Salzkammergut , where Friedl also lives, and take a vacation there at his hunting lodge. This embarrasses his valet Leo, who has secretly sublet the hut to the photographers Robert and Max. However, both refuse to move out of the hut early and so Leo claims to Ferdinand that the hut had burned down. Instead, he has already rented a room to the general manager in a hotel in the village.
Ferdinand soon learns that the hut is still there and moves in with Max and Robert under the name of Mr. Schwan. Leo, in turn, is held at the hotel for the general manager and courted. The dancer and art shooter Ilonka hopes to have made a good catch with him and Maresi, who thinks she has found her father in him, is appalled that Leo apparently doesn't know what to do with her or her mother.
Entanglements and misunderstandings arise, Ilonka discovers the true identity of Leo and leaves him, but tries to flirt with Ferdinand, whose identity she in turn found out. That makes Max suffer, who has fallen in love with Ilonka but is poor. Robert loves Maresi and they both want to get married after a short time, but Leo, as Maresi's "father", opposes the marriage and thus causes frustration. Ferdinand finally dissolves everything. He and Friedl fell in love again at first sight and want to get married and he has nothing against the relationship between Maresi and Robert. At the end there are also Max and Ilonka, who got a contract as an actress and who can now “afford” Max.
production
Almenrausch und Edelweiß was filmed from late September to early November 1957 in Bad Goisern , Ort Castle in Gmunden , Gosau and Hallstatt . Studio recordings were made in the Bergland film studio in Wels . The film was released in cinemas in several German cities on December 20, 1957. The FSK 18 rating was withdrawn after a few changes to the film; since April 1958 the film has been released for ages 16 and over.
The Hansen Quartet sings the folk songs in the film The strong Max from Halifax , Today I dance 'without a shoe' and darling, think of me .
criticism
In her book Die Heimat-Macher, Gertrud Steiner assigned the film to the so-called tourist films and found that "the standardization was greatest" in these summer fun games:
“The main location is almost always the hotel, which is populated by tourists, within whose viewing horizon the action takes place, which is often just a thin thread without any compelling inner cohesion to justify the use of gags, mix-ups, disguises, love scenes and hit songs . […] 'Love' is at the center of the action. And the more meaningless the plot appears, the more couples there are. Three to four pairs at the end are not uncommon. Nobody should go 'empty'. "
The same genre also includes summer fun games such as Sonnenschein und Wolkenbruch (1955), Holiday am Wörthersee (1956) and Where the Lark Sings (1956).
The lexicon of international films described Almenrausch and Edelweiss as “confusion films ” with “Theo Lingen in his standard role as valet”: “Lingen in the mountain lift, Lingen in a mass brawl, Lingen plucking edelweiss (and falling onto a hay wagon), Lingen in the ice cave freezing into an echo ghost, Lingen shot into the air by the fireworks ... A pile of comic clothes. "The film service described the Heimatfilm as" silly cramped gossip. "
literature
- Alpine rush and edelweiss . In: Kristina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema. A bio and filmography . Reinhard Weber specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809390-9-6 , pp. 66–67.
Web links
- Almenrausch and Edelweiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Almenrausch and Edelweiss at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 205.
- ↑ Klaus Brühne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 97.
- ↑ Almenrausch and Edelweiss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .