The haunted castle in the Salzkammergut

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Movie
Original title The haunted castle in the Salzkammergut
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Billian ,
Rolf Olsen
script Hans Billian,
Rolf Olsen
production Music House
music Gerhard Becker ,
Gerhard Schröder ,
Gert Wilden
camera Karl Löb
occupation

The Haunted Castle in the Salzkammergut is a German hit film by Hans Billian and Rolf Olsen from 1966.

action

After three years in the USA, singer Hannelore Auer is returning to Europe. She is picked up by Manfred Schnelldorfer and both drive to the Weißen Rössl on Lake Wolfgang . They want to meet Eva and Udo, since Udo is performing nearby. Eva was originally an actress, but gave up after marrying Udo. Because Manfred asks, Hannelore tells him the story of how they got married on the trip.

Everything starts with a big argument. Udo wants to go on tour with Otto Pfeffer's revue and his fiancée Eva should come along. However, she changes her mind and wants to be an actress instead. Both fight and Udo goes on tour alone. Via the acting agent Schwarz, Eva receives an engagement from director Sauerwein, who wants to perform a play about Cleopatra on an open-air stage. Isolde Tristan, who Eva met in the casting office, is also employed. Schadenfroh reports on her commitment and an early breakthrough on stage. With the other actors Rudi Lustig, Viktor Emmanuel Paulini and Sigrid Gloria Scharf, Eva and Isolde go to Forchtenstein Castle , where they are supposed to play the theater the next day. Director Sauerwein had speculated that his nephew Heinrich, as lord of the castle, would accommodate all the actors. Heinrich, however, turns out to be the caretaker and the castle rooms are rented - to Otto Pfeffer and his Revue, who want to play on a floating stage in the neighboring town of Mörbisch am See . Eva and the other actors are therefore relocated the next morning.

Udo and his singers appear the next day. In the evening they want to play a prank on Eva and the actors and organize a spontaneous concert in the castle courtyard. The spectators run away from the theater group in droves to attend the concert, so that the group ends up standing in front of empty stands. Sour wine is ruined and unhappy. Eva, Isolde and Sigrid are outraged and Eva breaks Udo's friendship. The actors promise to take revenge. At night they act like monsters and ghosts and deprive the singers of their sleep. They also sabotage the next day's revue. They drill into a boat that is being used for a performance, so that the singer is soon in the water. In addition, they fill instruments with water, bring down Director Pfeffer and saw the stage so that half of the revue troupe falls into the water at the end. The engagement is over for the actors and so Eva and Isolde set off on their way home the next day. Udo catches them. Director Pfeffer has started a big advertising campaign and so the actors play in the evening in front of a full house. The tragic piece about Cleopatra turns out to be a laughing success due to the inability of the actors and is so enthusiastic that Pfeffer will include it in his revue in abbreviated form. Eva and Udo make up again and in the end, even a wedding between the two is conceivable.

production

Forchtenstein Castle, a location for the film

The haunted castle in the Salzkammergut was filmed under the working title ... and so we go with singing , In love up to our ears and wedding in the Salzkammergut, among other places, at Forchtenstein Castle . The film structures come from Hans Zehetner . The film was released on November 25, 1966.

Numerous songs can be heard in the film:

criticism

For the film service , the haunted castle in the Salzkammergut was “stupid slapstick”. The Protestant film observer draws a similar conclusion : “Schlagerrevue from the clothes box of grandpa's cinema with a minimum of plot and wit and a maximum of foolishness. Approved for ages 6 and up - so that there are at least a few viewers who don't know the puns yet. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The haunted castle in the Salzkammergut. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Published by the Evangelical Press Association in Munich, Critique No. 453/1966, p. 820