The old forester's house (film)

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Movie
Original title The old forester's house
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Philipp
script Werner P. Zibaso
Harald Philipp
production Walter Traut
for Wega-Film
music Klaus Ogermann
camera Herbert Thallmayer
cut Walter Boos
occupation

The old Försterhaus is a German hit film with Heimatfilm elements by Harald Philipp from 1956.

action

Helga Imhoff works as an advertising manager for a music producer. She is ensnared by Director Hardt, who, despite her reservedness, regularly increases her salary and thus always provides new gossip for colleague Miss Bressel. Although Hardt wants to take her on a business trip, Helga decides to take a trip into the blue with her colleagues and the musicians of the Max Greger orchestra . The journey ends at an old forester's house run by Paul Kramer. Helga knows him from the time of the Second World War , when he was in the Navy and she was a little girl. Paul took over the forester's house, which was converted into an inn with the help of a DM 10,000 loan from Mr. Engel, from his parents, but business is bad. Mr. Engel, on the other hand, has turned out to be a permanent guest of the forester's house, has a lavish meal every day and waits until he can buy the property cheaply after the Kramer bankruptcy.

Helga and Paul, who is a widower and father of a little boy, get closer, and Helga promises to help Paul. During the stay, three traveling music students present folk songs, including Das alten Försterhaus , and Helga recognizes the potential of the songs. She has them rearranged and recorded. A live radio broadcast brings in more money for the forester's house. Paul, who had already signed a new contract with the Navy before meeting Helga, travels to the sea to cancel the contract. Mr. Engel took the opportunity and asked for his loan of DM 10,000 back within a very short time.

Although it seems hopeless at first, Helga's best friend Ursel helps out with money that she partly takes from the company's own fee fund without Helga's knowledge. The plan is to replace the money withdrawn with income from a planned benefit concert the next day, but Director Hardt unexpectedly comes back from the business trip earlier and needs the fee money for a marketing campaign. Helga takes the blame on herself, but hides from Hardt what she used the money for. She should explain to Hardt in his apartment. Miss Bessel overhears the conversation. When Paul calls the company and wants to speak to Helga, Miss Bessel explains to him that she is in the director's private apartment. Paul goes to the apartment and gets the picture wrong - assuming that Helga had to have an affair with Hardt for the money, he rushes back to the forester's house. Despite his previous refusal, he now accepts the job in the navy. During the live concert in the forester's house, he leaves with an omnibus. Helga runs after the bus and is able to catch up with him, as a tire damage makes the bus stop after a short time. Helga and Paul hug each other and both return to the party in the forester's house, where they also embrace Paul's little son Frank.

production

The film was produced by the production company Wega-Film GmbH ( Wiesbaden ) in cooperation with CCC-Film GmbH , the first distribution was Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The studio recordings were made in the Divina-Studio Baldham .

The old forester's house was mass launched in cinemas on December 21, 1956. On November 3, 1991, the film ran for the first time on RTL Plus on television.

Various songs can be heard in the film:

The Max Greger Band and the Kurt Graunke Orchestra play . Individual tracks are accompanied by vocals from the Golden 4, the Sunnies, the Comediens and the Sunshines. The two Arlingtons, the Massino troupe and the solo dancers Tolly Albertus and John Schapar dance.

criticism

The lexicon of international film called The old forester's house the "worst of the German 50-Production: a picture and Dialoggestammel of astonishing proportions." The film leaves wrote that directed here manage "a clever liaison of homeland idyll and Revue splashes [n]". Cinema called the film “Trash Made in Germany. Partly involuntarily funny ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 104.
  2. ↑ cit. based on: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hits . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 129.
  3. ↑ See cinema.de