On the Alm, there's no sin (1950)

Movie
Original title	On the alpine pasture, there's no sin
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1950
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Franz Antel
script	Franz Antel, Aldo von Pinelli
production	Berna Filmproduktion Donau Filmproduktion ( Eduard Hoesch )
music	Hans Lang
camera	Hans Heinz Theyer
occupation
Maria Andergast : Kitty Schröder, welfare sister Inge Egger : Inge Thaller, hotel secretary Rudolf Carl : August Pfundhammer, innkeeper Susi Nicoletti : Annerl, his daughter Karl Skraup : Mayor Ignaz Nagler Annie Rosar : Maria, his wife Alexander Trojan : Hans, their son Joseph Egger : grandfather Hans Richter : Paul Wittke, photo reporter Ludwig Schmidseder : Max Obermayr, correspondent Peter Hey : Dr. Traugott Blessed Ida Krottendorf : Zenzi, maid Isulinde Reuser : Eva Hugo Lindinger Hertha Martin

Auf der Alm, there is no sin , is an Austrian comedy film by Franz Antel from 1950.

action

The film is an Austrian homeland comedy about a mayor who gets headwinds from all sides. The strict mayor Ignaz Nagler not only rejects his son's marriage to a Viennese woman, he also denies forty illegitimate children the vacation stay planned by the state government. Two reporters add to the entanglements. Only when the welfare sister Kitty Schröder pretends to be the mayor's illegitimate daughter, his resistance is finally overcome.

production

The production was Auf der Alm, there is koa Sünd in Atelier Parsch near Salzburg . The outdoor shots were taken in the Salzkammergut . Director Franz Antel reports in his autobiography that he urgently asked producer Eduard Hösch to provide some extras because he wanted to make a good film. But he got the answer: "You won't make a good film for my money!"

To the examiners of the FSK the film appeared to be too shallow, but it was released on October 17, 1950 with the unusual note: "The commission deeply regrets that the principles do not allow this film to be banned." October 1950 in Munich.

Various songs can be heard in the film, including Auf der Alm, da there's ka Sünd and the Spatzenlied , which became popular hits thanks to Maria Andergast's interpretation and were released on record.

criticism

For the film service , the film was a “shallow comedy with tame situation comedy and stale punchlines”. Another contemporary criticism describes the film as “shallow peasant swank”, which owes its amusement more than the book to the “melodious, rapid music by Hans Lang, and also to a good cast”.

literature

• Rupert Leutgeb, Wolfgang Tauscher: Hans Lang - Melodies go around the world. Zwettl 2008, ISBN 978-3-901287-13-8 .
• There's no sin on the Alm . In: Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1987.

Web links

• On the pasture, since it is no sin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• On the Alm, there is no sin at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} On the alpine pasture, there's no sin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 13, 2018 .  
2. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 94
3. ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 75
4. ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949–1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 146
5. ↑ Rupert Leutgeb, Wolfgang Tauscher: Hans Lang - Melodies go around the world. Zwettl 2008, ISBN 978-3-901287-13-8 , p. 170 f.