The holiday child
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The holiday child |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Head |
| script |
Ernst Henthaler , Fritz Koselka , Karl Leiter |
| production | Vienna film |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera |
Günther Anders , Herbert Thallmayer |
| occupation | |
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Das Ferienkind is a film by director Karl Leiter from 1943 with Hans Moser in the leading role.
action
The retired station director Vinzenz Panigel (Hans Moser) no longer wants to have anything to do with his daughter Hedi and her family because she married the Hamburg waiter Müller. Panigel's housekeeper Emma ( Gisa Wurm ) and his friend, the teacher Stockhammer ( Theodor Danegger ), try to change that by blaming Panigel's grandson Hans (Franz Paessler) as the vacation child. For his part, Panigel is interested in a wild boy so that he can drive his two unmarried cousins, who have settled down with him, out of his house. On the journey from Hamburg to Wallgau, however, his grandson and another boy swap their names, so that Stockhammer is constantly trying to get Panigel under the wrong boy. However, Panigel chooses the right boy with the wrong name. Little by little, Panigel's heart softens for his grandson, who, however, he considers to be a complete stranger. The film then comes to a head and changes from a comedy to a sentimental melodrama when the grandson has a serious accident while climbing a mountain. Finally there is a happy ending and Panigel reconciles with his family.
background
The holiday child was Hans Moser's favorite film. Moser had a great fondness for sentimental touches like Das Gäßchen zum Paradies or Herr Josef's last love . But he was hardly allowed to play such roles because the audience only wanted to see the wildly gesticulating grumbler. The holiday child is Moser's only successful mover. Successful only because in the first 60 minutes Hans Moser showed how the audience wanted to see him.
The basic motif of the film is the same as in The Little Lord : a hard-hearted old man becomes a loving grandfather. However, a turbulent comedy of confusion precedes this main topic in the holiday child.
After the end of the war, the Allies classified Das Ferienkind as a Nazi propaganda film . The reason for this decision was probably that it was intended to make the rural population more palatable to the deportation of children from cities threatened by bombing attacks.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international films : “A good grandson reconciles a child-hostile grandfather with his parents. Harmless mix-up comedy. "
See also
Web links
- The holiday child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The holiday child. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 2, 2017 .