Confessions of a Furnished Man
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| Original title | Confessions of a Furnished Man |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 103 minutes |
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| Director | Franz Peter Wirth |
| script | Oliver Hassencamp |
| production | Wolf Schwarz for the NDF, Munich |
| music | Bert reason |
| camera | Günther Senftleben |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
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Confessions of a Furnished Man is a German feature film from 1962. Directed by Franz Peter Wirth , Karl-Michael Vogler plays the leading role of a charming womanizer .
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A few utensils, his clothes and a duck - the Munich graphic artist Lukas doesn't own much more . He is a smart charmer and hopeless womanizer, a life artist without a permanent residence and the will to bond. Lukas can never stay in the same place for long, and so he travels from apartment to apartment, always subtenanting a furnished apartment . There he prefers to give in to his amorous adventures. The notoriously unwilling to bond is very popular with women. His paths cross between the bed and the bathtub with women of various origins - from the petty bourgeois to the upper class lady to the nobility. The relatives of one or the other “seduced” sees Lukas' goings-on with great discomfort.
Lukas' dance around the eternally feminine begins with the end of his short-term relationship with Ingrid, and as in the following years, his (male) friends have to do their thing again to save the handsome bachelor from "accidentally" falling into the harbor To enter into marriage. After many affairs, one day Lukas meets a young woman who is obviously just as free-spirited and free-spirited as he is, and for the first time he begins to develop real interest in a bed companion. But Daniela turns the tables and lets him fidget.
Production notes
Confessions of a Furnished Man is based on the novel of the same name by Oliver Hassencamp published three years earlier . The film, shot in 1962, premiered on January 4, 1963 in Hanover .
The film structures were made by Rolf Zehetbauer and Herbert Strabel , the costumes were designed by Ilse Dubois .
Leading actor Vogler won the German Film Critics' Prize for his performance .
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “The staging by Franz Peter Wirth (“ Heroes ”) is pleasantly light, measured against the German entertainment film level, without being shallow. However, the film lags behind the model ("love games") of the French Philippe de Broca mainly because of its lower aversion to clichés. "
In a film review of kub you can read: “Amorous adventures, as you tell them to others in a café or as you spin them - no more; but when was the last time a German film succeeded in doing this? In addition, a wealth of unobtrusive gags, ironic musical accents, pleasantly concrete types, caricatured with the left hand. Dialogues and gestures break off in the uncertain; Karl-Michael Vogler is a master at it, a little Cary Grant, a little Jack Lemmon. Sometimes, however, the model " One pajama for two " shines through a little too clearly. "
The manual VII of the Catholic Film Critics criticized from the perspective of 1963, supposedly through lack of morality. There it says: "Unsuccessful attempt at a social satire, the lack of moral standpoints culminating in the self-evident approval of having sex before marriage and the trivializing of adultery."
The Protestant film observer comes to a similar conclusion : “Clearly geared towards erotic expectations and from an irresponsible view of life. To be rejected. "
Web links
- Confessions of a furnished Lord in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Confessions of a furnished gentleman at filmportal.de