The house in Montevideo (1951)

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Movie
Original title The house in Montevideo
The house in Montevideo 1951 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1951
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Curt Goetz ,
Valérie von Martens
script Curt Goetz,
Hans Domnick
production Hans Domnick
music Franz Grothe
camera Werner Krien
occupation

The house in Montevideo is the first film adaptation of Curt Goetz 's play of the same name . Goetz himself wrote the script and directed the film in 1951 together with his wife Valérie von Martens , with whom he had often played the play on stage. As in previous years in the theater, the couple also took on the two main roles. In 1963 Helmut Käutner made a remake with Heinz Rühmann and Ruth Leuwerik as the Nägler couple.

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The impeccable Professor Traugott Hermann Nägler lives with his wife Marianne and their twelve children (named after Richard Wagner characters and the Latin ordinal numbers) in a middle-class small town idyll .

When the eldest daughter Atlanta inherits a house in Montevideo from Nägler's deceased sister , the professor of moral integrity is not at all pleased at first - his sister was the black sheep of the family. She got pregnant without being married. But together with Pastor Riesling, a friend of the family, Marianne succeeds in persuading her husband to travel to Montevideo so that they can inherit.

In Montevideo the moral ideas of the Näglers are completely shaken when they suspect what kind of establishment may be hidden in the house of the dead. In fact, it's not a brothel , but a kind of music boarding school. As a gifted and commercially successful singer, the deceased had enough means to build the house and pay for the lessons.

However, there is also an amount of 750,000 dollars associated with the inheritance , which reconciles the professor with his sister's way of life. But there is one condition tied to the inheritance: In Nägler's family, the same moral derailment must occur within a certain period of time for which he once broke the baton through his sister. Professor Nägler wants to persuade his daughter not to marry her loved one and still get pregnant in order to see the condition of the will fulfilled. Of course, this plan meets with complete incomprehension. In the end, a coincidence comes to his aid.

Production notes

The outdoor shots were shot in Cuxhaven , Otterndorf and in Montevideo , the capital of Uruguay , and further shooting took place in the Göttingen film studio .

The film premiered on November 8, 1951 in the Schwan in Frankfurt am Main . It started in Austria in December 1951. In the German Democratic Republic , the comedy was shown in cinemas on April 23, 1954; the film was first shown in DFF 1 on June 4, 1954. It ran for the first time on October 18, 1975 on ZDF on television in the Federal Republic of Germany .

It is a film by Hans Domnick -Filmproduktion GmbH, Göttingen.

Song in the film: We hike, we hike! Music: Franz Grothe / Text: Willy Dehmel / Singing: Choir

Reviews

  • “ Lexikon des Internationale Films ” (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997: “Goetz comedy staged with intelligence, charm and ingenuity, which treats its delicate subject in a witty and humorous way and appeals to philanthropy, wit and kindness with playful elegance . An entertaining pleasure especially in his light-footed use of the language. "
  • Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 344–345: "Entertaining and original, this classic of subtle jokes turns common moral terms upside down." (Rating: very good)

Award

  • 1952 Bambi for the artistically best film of 1951

literature

  • Curt Goetz: The house in Montevideo or Traugott's temptation. An old-style comedy about morality, temptation, and the reward of virtue in four acts . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-87203-045-0

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