The 42nd heaven
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Noise in the registry office |
| Original title | The 42nd heaven |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German / Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 90 minutes 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Früh |
| script | Kurt Früh Hans Hausmann |
| production | Max Dora, Gloriafilm , Praesens-Film |
| music |
Werner Kruse Hans Moeckel |
| camera | Emil Berna |
| cut | René Martinet |
| occupation | |
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High German version:
Swiss German version:
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The 42nd Heaven , also a noise in the registry office , is a Swiss musical comedy ( 1962 ) by the director Kurt Früh . Walter Roderer plays the main role . The film was shot with a partially different cast in a Swiss German and a High German version. The production costing 950,000 francs was a failure in both versions.
action
Wendelin Pfannenstiel works at the information desk in the town hall of a Swiss city. Among other things, he shows couples wishing to marry the way to the registry office in room 42. The registrar who works there, Trautwein, is about to retire. Because Wendelin knows the procedure of a wedding and the relevant paragraphs by heart, he is appointed as his successor.
He messes up the first wedding due to his nervousness, but after that the marriages run like clockwork. Until one day Fraulein Julia Zimmerlin stands before him, with whom he falls in love. Her jealous fiancé Marius drops the marriage because she has spoken too confidentially with the taxi driver. A little respected cowardly, Wendelin lives as sublet with the Beilfleiss couple, who dream of a white-tiled butcher's shop. His only friend is the organ mechanic Alfons. He looks for Julia, who lives with her friend Doris, and manages to get her to marry. A law firm announces that Wendelin is heir to an Australian fortune. Now all colleagues bow to him. The evening before, by listening, he learned that Julia could not forget Marius and said no at the registry office. Doris, with whom he gets along well, admires him. He begins to bring flowers and cakes to the couples he has married, accompanied by his friend's örgeli. But the couples all seem quarreling and unhappy. Wendelin is now checking more closely whether the couples really are a match, and refuses marriage to a 65-year-old director who wants to marry his young secretary. The mayor wants to put him in a sanatorium, and the Beilfleisses try to take legal action to obtain guardianship over him and his money because Mrs. Beilfleiss is his only relative. But “his” married couples appear as witnesses and thank them for his work. The inheritance turns out to be a mistake due to a mix-up of names, and Wendelin is back at the information desk. When Doris, who is unhappy in love with him, shows up, he notices his mistake and leads her to the registry office.
Reviews
The reviews of the film were mixed.
The website cinefacts.de notes that the main actor Walter Roderer is convincing “as an upright petty bourgeois of stature” and “proved himself ... to be able to sing”.
The lexicon of international films, on the other hand, describes the original as “Swiss-deliberate” and certifies the High German version to be stiff and musically inept.
Werner Wider considers The 42nd Heaven to be “one of the worst [Swiss] films that have probably ever been made”.
literature
- Michael Wenk: Walter Roderer - A life in pictures . Huber & Co. AG, Frauenfeld 2007
Web links
- 42. The sky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The 42nd heaven at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 42nd heaven in the television program of Swiss television . Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ Film review: The 42nd Heaven. cineman.ch, accessed on February 19, 2014 .
- ↑ The 42nd Heaven. Cinefacts , accessed February 19, 2014 .
- ↑ The 42nd Heaven. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 20, 2017 .
- ^ Werner Wider: The Swiss Film 1929-1964: Switzerland as a ritual . Limmat Verlag , Zurich 1981, ISBN 978-3-85791-034-0 , p. 511 .