The strange life of Mr. Bruggs

Movie
Original title	The strange life of Mr. Bruggs
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Erich Engel
script	Curt J. Brown
production	Trianon-Film KG, Munich ( Ferdinand Althoff )
music	Lothar Bruhne
camera	Heinz Schnackertz
cut	Luise Dreyer-Sachsenburg
occupation
Gustav Knuth : Eberhard Bruggs Christl Mardayn : Eveline Bruggs Gertrud Kückelmann : Gabriele Bruggs Karl Ludwig Diehl : Mr. von Seidel Adrian Hoven : Rupert Bruggs Friedrich Domin : Bank Director Reisch Trude Haefelin : Bettina Heinemann Dorothea Wieck : Miss Holder Alice Treff : Dr. Erika Hardt Werner Fuetterer : Dr. fiddler Hans Olden : Otto, the servant Heini Göbel : Leo Storrmann, a draftsman Jakob Tiedtke : Otto Kube, animal dealer Carsta Löck , Mrs. Lemke Bum Krüger : Holsten, detective Hannelore Bollmann : Vivi Viktor Afritsch : 1. Foreigners Wastl Witt : Forester

The Strange Life of Mr Bruggs is a German feature film from 1951. It was released in Austria under the title Papa Bruggs .

action

Eberhard Bruggs is the ruler of an industrial empire. The simple man had worked his way up from a locksmith's apprentice, and now everything is dancing to his tune. However, Bruggs never got used to his high position, and he detests so-called better society. While his family has adapted completely, Eberhard leads a double life. On his days off, he mingles with the people incognito. Here he is among people he understands and whom he can help.

His life only becomes problematic when he becomes seriously ill in his exile and difficulties arise in his work, as a result of which his double life is exposed. His family now recognizes what is really missing and takes care of him so that he no longer needs a second identity in the future.

background

Director Erich Engel had already tried in 1945 to produce this material with Emil Jannings under the title Wo ist Herr Belling? to film. However, the film could not be completed shortly before the end of the war.

The strange life of Mr Bruggs was filmed in the Bavaria Film studios in Geiselgasteig , in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof and in the Freimann Federal Railway Repair Shop. The buildings were created by Rudolf Pfenninger and Max Seefelder , while Oskar Marion acted as production manager . The film had its world premiere on August 10, 1951 at the Berlin International Film Festival , but was not included in the award.

Reviews

The lexicon of the international film found: "Smoothly staged family fates without realistic time references." Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz called the film in the lexicon "Films on TV" a "routinely staged sequence of unbelievable things" and awarded 1½ out of 4 possible stars (= moderate) . The film was also described as "[German] average". The subversive aspects of the film were not appreciated.

Web links

• The strange life of the Lord Bruggs in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 215
2. ↑ ^{a b} The strange life of Mr. Bruggs in the lexicon of international films
3. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 739.
4. ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 391.