The haunted castle in the Spessart

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Movie
Original title The haunted castle in the Spessart
The haunted castle in the Spessart Logo 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kurt Hoffmann
script Günter Neumann ,
Heinz Pauck
production Georg Witt
music Friedrich Hollaender ,
Olaf Bienert ,
Alfred Strasser
camera Günther Anders
cut Hilwa from Boro
occupation
Oelber Castle in Lower Saxony served as the castle backdrop for the exterior shots

The Spukschloß im Spessart is a German comedy film by the director Kurt Hoffmann from 1960. Liselotte Pulver plays the leading role , as in the previous film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart . The male main part is occupied by Heinz Baumann , leading roles with Hubert von Meyerinck , Hanne Wieder , Hans Clarin , Georg Thomalla , Curt Bois , Hans Richter and Paul Esser .

The film was referred to as a " grusical " in the distribution material. 13 music tracks in the film are sung by the actors, including the best-known "We do everything for you".

action

The robbers in the Spessart fared badly. They were walled up alive in the basement of the tavern in the Spessart . Only in the Federal Republic of the economic boom was the ruin of the inn torn down because a motorway was to be built through the Spessart. Ironically, a new "Tavern for Travelers" is being built right on the square of the inn; the “Spessart” motorway service station. This is how the spirits of the robbers manage to escape. They seek refuge in a nearby castle where the young Countess Charlotte von Sandau lives. The spirits cannot be redeemed until each of them has done a good deed.

The economic situation in the palace is dire and Countess Charlotte is on the verge of bankruptcy. In this situation, Oberregierungsrat von Teckel appears, a descendant of the police major von Teckel, who had once captured the robbers. He suggests to the countess that, by virtue of his office in Bonn, the palace should accommodate a foreign state guest, Prince Kalaka from Celebresia. At the same time, the son of a building contractor who wants to convert the castle into a luxury hotel is spying around the castle.

When the ghosts steal the prince's jewelry, Countess Charlotte is arrested as a thief and the ghosts have to convince the authorities of their existence in order to free them. This succeeds, and in the end the ghosts help Charlotte out of her financial tightness by taking part in the race to the moon as astronauts for the Americans against the Soviets for a generous fee .

production

Production notes, filming

The plot is loosely linked to the film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , which was shot in 1958, also under Hoffmann's direction. The later television director Rainer Erler also worked on the film as an assistant director .

The shooting took place from June 23 to the end of September 1960. The interior shots were taken in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig, the exterior shots in Miltenberg (market square, old stone bridge over the Mud ), Aschaffenburg , Bonn , Munich and San Remo . Because of its picturesque appearance, the Oelber Castle in Oelber on the white road in Lower Saxony served as the castle backdrop .

Film music

  • prolog
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Hubert von Meyerinck, Georg Thomalla, Curt Bois, Paul Esser, Hanne Wieder, Hans Richter and choir
  • The haunted castle in the Spessart
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender; Singing: choir
  • The dream on the tree
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Georg Thomalla, Curt Bois, Hans Richer and Hanne Wieder
  • We do everything for you
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Georg Thomalla, Curt Bois and Liselotte Pulver
  • A little slide into the past
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Heinz Baumann
  • Poisoner Rumba
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Hanne Wieder, Paul Esser, Georg Thomalla, Curt Bois and Hans Richter /
      Liselotte Pulver, Heinz Baumann and Hubert von Meyerinck
  • Suleika
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Liselotte Pulver
  • Clothes make the man
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Georg Thomalla and Curt Bois
  • Ship blues
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neuman
    • Singing: choir
  • That takes two
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Heinz Baumann and Liselotte Pulver
  • We want to see that
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Paul Esser, Hans Richter, Georg Thomalla and Curt Bois
  • Reception chant
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: choir
  • A state treaty
    • Music: Friedrich Hollaender / Text: Günter Neumann
    • Singing: Hubert von Meyerinck
  • Fehrbelliner cavalry march
    • Music: Richard Henrion, instrumental

Background, publication, continuation

While preparing for the shooting, the actor Wolfgang Müller died as a student pilot in a plane crash in Switzerland. His team player Wolfgang Neuss ( the two Wolfgang's ) was fired from the shooting of this film. The two had played the band of robbers Knoll and Funzel in Das Wirtshaus im Spessart . When casting the main role, Hoffmann again relied on his proven team, including his favorite actress Liselotte Pulver. Günter Neumann, who wrote the script together with Heinz Pauck, was one of "the preferred writer of the comedy specialist".

The haunted castle in the Spessart was premiered on December 15, 1960 in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. In July 1961, the film was presented at the Moscow Film Festival. It was published in Finland on July 14, 1961, in Denmark on March 19, 1962, in Sweden on April 16, 1962, in Hungary on June 21, 1962 and in 1964 under the title The Haunted Castle in the USA. The film was also released in the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain.

The film was directed by the Alive AG on December 14, 2018 along with the film The Spessart Inn and Glorious Times in the Spessart issued within the series "Jewels of film history" on Blu-ray. Alive released the film as a single film on DVD on February 10, 2017, also as part of the “Jewels of Film History” series.

Kurt Hoffmann shot another sequel in 1967 under the title Herrliche Zeiten im Spessart . In 2010, the TV film Im Spessart the ghosts are shown, which is thematically based on The Spooky Castle in Spessart .

reception

criticism

At the premiere of the film in Berlin's Gloria Palast, there was cheering and applause from the audience.

Der Spiegel wrote in 1961 that Kurt Hoffmann's film, announced as a 'grusical', turned out to be “an operetta of old scrap”, in which a “damned bouquet” was sought, Bonn was apostrophized as a “godforsaken nest” ”and a“ 'Bewitched' Bundeswehr band “Play rumba. The “comic peak” is when “an African potentate is maddened by women”, speaks “a strange language” and proclaims “enormi appetiti erotiki”. Olaf Bienert arranged the melodies of Friedrich Hollaender "in such a way" that they would sound "like Olaf Bienert's".

Gottfried Paulsen , who wrote a review for Die Zeit in December 1960 , saw things differently. He wrote that Kurt Hoffmann had "switched his light wave to green and lifted the speed limit". Nevertheless “don't rush into anything”. Although “the modern fairy tale gets off to a leisurely pace after the excursion into history, it soon winds up quickly in an uninterrupted chain of delightful ideas and genuinely cinematic comedy”. Unfortunately, the conclusion was "an embarrassing solution". The dialogues and lyrics were also praised, which would "sometimes become cabaret". Liselotte Pulver pulls “all the stops again” as the young lady of the castle Charlotte. She is "with her hilarious talent always monitored in a pleasant way by her bright mind". Whatever she does, she does it “with charm, including singing”. Ernst Waldow played the poor uncle “dignified”, Elsa Wagner played the aunt “dear”. Hubert von Meyerinck acted with “tried and tested guts”; Heinz Baumann has "a little difficult to keep up with this celebrity guard". Hans Clarin gave the Middle Eastern Prince Kalaka "with acrobatic talent, but exaggerated comedy". The ghost crowd in the person of Curt Bois, Georg Thomalla, Paul Esser, Hans Richter and even the “vocal sensual Hanne Wieder” was also praised. It is “gratifying” that Curt Bois could be won over for the film.

The Heyne Filmlexikon described the film as an "original horror comedy with satirical undertones" in its 1993 edition. Die Zeit praised the film: "A grusical: an enchanting spooky story and cheeky but amiable review of the time with cabaret highlights."

The lexicon of international films stated: "The imaginatively staged 'grusical' is above the average of German comedies of those years and sometimes even soars into satire: there is also a cabaret 'Bonn parody'."

Cinema drew the conclusion: "Self-ironic, witty fun."

On the Remember it for Later page , reference was made to a review of the film printed in the magazine Film : “Kurt Hoffmann's 'Grusical' is a wild potpourri of slippery jokes, special effects, singing, self-references and swipes against capitalists, old Nazis and civil servants. The plot about the struggle of the good family against expropriation - one of the standards of the German comedy - is only a pretext and can hardly stop the eclecticism of the film. Anyone who associates the 'German entertainment film' seal of quality with stylistic slowness and narrow-mindedness will experience their blue miracle in SPUKSCHLOSS. The wealth of ideas and also the courage of Hoffmann are remarkable. His film is certainly not subversive, that would be a bit too much of a good thing, but it uses the freedom he enjoyed thanks to the success of the predecessor to push the boundaries of what is possible in a family film. "

The MDR referred to the previous film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , and said that the film made in 1960 was “no longer a pure romantic robber ballad, but a witty-ironic farce of West German politics at the end of the 1950s, an amusing 'grusical' that sparked off Gags and nifty tricks ”. Another time "convince Liselotte Pulver as the lovable leading actress". Friedrich Holländer's music was apostrophized as “sparkling”.

Awards

At the premiere of the later classic, the Association of German Film Critics was so impressed by the film that it distinguished it as follows:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart see page filmreporter.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  2. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
  3. ↑ The Spukschlop in the Spessart see page wolfgangneuss.de
  4. ↑ a b The haunted castle in the Spessart see page wunschliste.de
  5. ↑ The Spessart Trilogy Fig. DVD case film jewels (in the picture foreground: Liselotte Pulver)
  6. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart Fig. DVD case film jewels (in the foreground: Liselotte Pulver, behind Paul Esser, Curt Bois, Hanne Wieder, Hans Richter, Georg Thomalla)
  7. ↑ a b Gottfried Paulsen : In the Spessart and in the Taiga In: Die Zeit , December 23, 1960, No. 52/1960. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  8. ↑ The haunted castle in Spessart (Germany) In: Der Spiegel 1/1961. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart see page cinema.de (including 23 film images). Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  11. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart (Kurt Hoffmann, Germany 1960) see page funkhundd.wordpress.com (including the film poster). Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  12. ↑ The haunted castle in the Spessart see page mdr.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019.