The Sunday child
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Sunday child |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Meisel |
| script | Gustav Kampendonk |
| production |
Kurt Ulrich for Berolina Film |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Kurt Schulz |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
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The Sunday Child , alternative title Schneider Wibbel , is a German comedy film by Kurt Meisel from 1956. It is based on motifs from the play Schneider Wibbel by Hans Müller-Schlösser .
action
Germany in 1948 at Carnival time: On the day of Weiberfastnacht , Schneider Anton Wibbel tries to swap a gramophone for cigarettes with the British occupiers . The Scottish military policeman Bosty McMillar offers him two bottles of whiskey and drives him home. Anton forgets both bottles in the car and a little later finds the crank for the gramophone in his jacket pocket. In the evening, Bosty in a kilt stands in the door and brings the bottles over. Anton's wife Fin, on the other hand, has just disguised herself as a witch in order to throw herself into the carnival bustle with her friends, even if the jealous Anton is not very enthusiastic about it. He gets drunk with Bosty and soon they both swap clothes tipsy: Bosty goes to the carnival as a sailor and Anton as a Scot. When the military police suddenly appear in the hustle and bustle of the carnival, Anton is arrested for wearing a uniform without authorization. At the trial before the military court, he covers Bosty and is therefore sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment, which he is supposed to begin in two days. Anton persuades his ailing companion Mattes to go to prison under his name, where the rest will do him good. Meanwhile, Anton and Fin drive to Anton’s grandmother on the Rhine.
Ten days later, Anton and Fin received a telegram in which they were told of the death of "Anton", that is, Mattes', who had died of delayed pneumonia. Anton is desperate because he is now considered dead. Back in his apartment, he constantly has to hide in the storage room and is not allowed to leave the house. Fin, in turn, appears publicly as a grieving widow. Not only the lazy fellow Mölfes would like to have her as his wife, but also Bosty. Fin rejects both of them, but over time suffers from Anton's jealousy. He secretly follows her to a festival of the Scots, to which Bosty Fin has invited. When Anton enters his own apartment through the window at night, watchful neighbors call the police, who discover Anton in the storage room. In an emergency, he pretends to be Jimmy Wibbel from America, the brother of the late Anton. Everyone, except Mölfes, believed the story, and soon afterwards Fin and Anton were married for a second time. The unknown Meta Hubbelrath, who turns out to be a relative of Mattes, also appears at the wedding celebration. His family is worried because they haven't heard from him for a long time. Anton talks about head and neck and speaks of the "blessed Mattes", so that Meta Hubbelrath soon believes in a crime. She reports the Wibbels to the police.
During interrogation, Anton first reports that Mattes left after an argument with him, but forgets that he couldn't have known Mattes as Jimmy. Fin, in turn, says that Mattes went to prison for Anton and died there. Anton then went away; a little later Jimmy came and married her. The version seems logical at first, but a new problem arises: If Anton left, Fin should not have married Jimmy because she was never divorced from Anton. Since bigamy is also a long prison sentence, Anton finally admits to being himself. However, since Anton cannot prove that he is not Jimmy, the punishment for bigamy is still in the room.
In the meantime Mölfes did not give up and had Bosty search for a supposed Jimmy Wibbel in America because he suspects Anton to be an impostor . At Mölfes' wedding with his girlfriend Mariechen, the real Jimmy Wibbel - Anton's real twin brother from America - appears next to Anton and Fin. Anton can now prove his identity and Bosty is delighted that Anton is still alive. He notes that this time he would like to go to jail for Anton, as Anton didn't betray him at the time.
production
The Sunday child was filmed in Berlin, in Königswinter and at the ruins on the Drachenfels not far from Drachenburg Castle and in the Berlin-Tempelhof film studios. The film premiered on September 12, 1956 in the Apollo in Düsseldorf . The broadcaster Second German Television first showed the film on July 30, 1966.
The songs in the film were composed by Friedrich Schröder, the lyrics are by Hans Bradtke .
criticism
On the occasion of the premiere of the film, Der Spiegel wrote that Kurt Meisel had "unearthed the dusty laughing success of the tailor Wibbel [...] again for the film and relocated it somewhat violently to the year 1948, without gaining anything more than a few feeble jokes being naive retouched current affairs. Heinz Rühmann occasionally makes attempts to get into deeper areas of humor, but cannot noticeably counteract the lavish development of superficial reading book optimism. "
The Lexicon of International Films wrote that in the film “the British occupation in the Rhineland is portrayed in a good-natured manner. Thanks to the dynamic actors, despite some platitudes, it was funny and entertaining. ”For Cinema , Das Sonntagskind was “ a swinging mix-up based on motifs from the comedy 'Schneider Wibbel' by Hans Müller-Schlösser. Conclusion: Ironic pinpricks against the authorities. "
Web links
- Sunday's child in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Sunday child at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in Germany: The Sunday Child . In: Der Spiegel , No. 45, 1956, p. 66.
- ↑ The Sunday Child. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de