Riots in the bachelor home
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Riots in the bachelor home |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 116 minutes |
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| Director | Manfred Noa |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge Viktor Abel |
| production | Ama-Film GmbH, Berlin |
| music | Werner Schmidt-Boelcke |
| camera | Willy Hameister |
| occupation | |
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim is a German silent film lustspiel from 1929 by Manfred Noa with Siegfried Arno and Kurt Gerron in the leading roles as the comedian duo Beef and Steak.
action
Beef and steak are inseparable friends, bachelors and bon vivants, and always financially clammy. When they are feeling particularly bad again, the thick steak has what he believes is a “brilliant” idea. He wants to fool the heir to the dry beef, Adele, and her brother, Uncle Theobald, that Beef has become the father of an illegitimate child. In this farce, Steak wants to slip into the role of the virtuous, indignant father of the "violated" child's mother. The aim of this farce is to steal as much money as possible from the rich aunt, which one should have for the time being. The plan works.
The two devious men have a good time first, but the big end is not long in coming. Hereditary aunt Adele dies and in her will decreed that nephew Beef must now take care of the illegitimate baby. So a child is urgently needed! Käthe, the grown-up daughter of a widow who is quite marrying, is to become a saving angel for both of them: She is costumed as a baby and moves to the bachelor's home for beef and steak. But of course the dizziness is exposed. Since this is a comedy, everything ends harmoniously: Beef takes Kathe as his wife, and Uncle Theobald grabs Kathe's mother, the merry widow.
Production notes
The film filmed in March and April in the Berlin Efa-Film-Studio, working title Revolte im Junggesellenheim , passed the censorship on May 7, 1929. The first performance of the six-act act with a length of 2924 meters took place on July 1, 1929 in the Berlin Capitol. A youth ban was issued.
The buildings are by Max Heilbronner . Helmut Schreiber was the unit manager.
useful information
The film Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim is one of two comedies in which the comedian duo Beef (Arno) and Steak (Gerron) did their humorous “mischief” in 1929. In September 1929, we hold on and loyal together, followed by another comedy suit , this time directed by Herbert Nossen.
The characters beef (a long skinny man) and steak (a little fat man) are based on the typology of the Danish models Pat and Patachon , a comedian duo that enjoyed great popularity in German-speaking countries at the time. The copy attempt failed thoroughly, the film about Beef & Steak was not a success.
Reviews
The reviews were consistently poor. Here are four examples:
"A" fun game ". The film Aufruhr im Bachelheim has adopted this warlike name (...) He deserves it; because all swaying motifs are opened up in it like tanks. They are directed threateningly at the viewer, ready to crush them if they don't want to laugh. So they try to do by force what should have been achieved with a joke. But it is far away. "
“It's going to be a decent movie, but it seems forced. Excellent effects, but you can't laugh. Something is missing, the grotesque, tragicomic basic sense. Almost mathematical, exact brain work, with a cold heart. Here everything runs so securely that you can see the strings more clearly than the puppet. (…) The question arises whether the German way of filming is naturally geared towards the familiar, primitive comedy. It must be like that. "
“Germany has grotesque actors in abundance. Two of them have decided to finally create the German comedy film. (...) Two types? These characters are missing everything! Everything typical as well as everything characteristic. Gerron and Arno don't even reach ... the two Danish comedians Pat and Patachon. "
“What the entire winter production of the German film industry has proven is shown to an even greater extent in the films that are now coming out: the hopeless idiocy of the so-called lighter feature film. Also the ... comedy Beef and Steak shows neither a new idea nor anything that has not already been seen in dozens of similar films. "
Web links
- Stir in the bachelor quarters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Riot in the bachelor home at filmportal.de