Charley's aunt

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Movie
Original title Charley's aunt
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1996
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Sönke Wortmann
script Robert Kulzer
Herman Weigel
production Bernd Eichinger
Uschi Reich
music Chris Jones
camera Lukas Strebel
cut Klaus Handorf
occupation

Charley's Aunt is a German television - comedy from the year 1996 . The literary film adaptation is based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas .

action

Waldemar Pückler, the owner of a chain of Berlin meat shops, has been cheated out of five million dollars by Stefan Lohmann, an investment advisor for an investment bank from Hong Kong . His house bank gives him a week to avert the seizure of his operations. For this purpose he travels to Munich with his daughter and her girlfriend to meet the German - Argentinian " cattle baroness " Lucia d'Alvarez and to do business with her. She came to Munich to find partners to convert her ranch to hemp and also to meet her nephew Karl-Heinz, known as " Charley", and her old sandpit friend Attila.

Lohmann has also come to Munich to go into hiding in his villa, which he shares with his brother Frank. However, he is planning a bigger party in the house with Charley, to which Pückler's daughter and girlfriend are expected. For this reason, and because the key to his wardrobe was lost, Lohmann first moved into a suite in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof , where Pückler stayed. When he realizes that the person responsible for his unfortunate financial situation lives in the same hotel, he wants to take revenge on him. Lohmann tries to escape by “borrowing” a dress from the cattle baroness, whom he met on the plane and with whom he fell in love, and pretending to be Lucia d'Alvarez. Pückler tries to pay his respects to “her”, but Lohmann manages to escape to Schumann’s noble bar .

There, however, the real Lucia wanted to meet her old friend Attila, who promptly thinks Lohmann is his sandpit love because he has not seen her since childhood. When the real Lucia shows up, Lohmann fled to his house with Attila in tow to get rid of his false identity at the party, which is now in full swing.

However, Pückler also shows up here to pick up his daughter, whom he forbidden from attending the party and whom he had actually sent to the theater. Lohmann is forced to maintain his false identity as the host's aunt and to defend himself against advances on the part of the master butcher, including a marriage proposal. In between he has to change several times because the real aunt has come, who is looking for her mysterious doppelganger and who is ultimately mistaken for the impostor by Pückler herself.

Finally there is a showdown in which Lohmann reveals his real identity. He can appease Pückler by threading the business relationship between him and Lucia d'Alvarez so that the master butcher can avert his impending bankruptcy. However, he gives up the butcher's business and enters the hemp trade. Lohmann and Lucia d'Alvarez go to Argentina together to build up their hemp empire there.

background

The film is based on the theatrical comedy Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas . However, he only uses the core motif of the piece, the travesty and the associated mix-ups, transports the material into the present and tells a completely new story. It is therefore not to be regarded as a remake of the older cinema films .

Produced by Bernd Eichinger and Constantin Film for Sat.1 , the comedy was created as part of the four-part German Classics series , in which German films from the 1950s and 1960s were remade. The other parts of the series were the drama Das Mädchen Rosemarie staged by Bernd Eichinger , the thriller It happened in broad daylight by Nico Hofmann and Die Halbstarken , directed by Urs Egger . Due to a lack of audience ratings , the series originally planned for a longer period was not continued.

Reviews

film-dienst : "Mix-up comedy, the motifs from Brendan Thomas' classic stage template, from the various film adaptations of the successful material as well as from ingredients of the 'new' German comedy mixed. Slowly and without narrative rhythm, staged and played listlessly, the film exhausts itself in a string largely bland gags. "

literature

  • Brandon Thomas : Charley's aunt. Schwank in 3 acts (Original title: Charley's Aunt ). Das Bühnenspiel, No. 152. German by Angela Röhl and Reinhold Rüdiger. Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1979, 95 pages, ISBN 3-7695-0552-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charley's aunt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used