The apple is off (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The apple is gone |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script |
Kurd E. Heyne Helmut Käutner Bobby Todd |
| production | Camera-Film GmbH, Hamburg-Munich ( Helmut Beck-Herzog , Helmut Käutner) |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| occupation | |
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The apple is ab is a German comedy film by Helmut Käutner from 1948. It was based on motifs from the musical cabaret revue of the news magazine of the same name .
action
The owner of the Adam apple juice company , Adam Schmidt, stands between his wife Lilly Schmidt and his lover Eva Meier-Eden. Unable to make up his mind, one day he leaves, followed by his trusty dachshund. He tries to drown and hang himself, but fails and ends up in the Weissensee spa, which is run by Professor Petri. You want to treat him. Adam receives an apple that is always supposed to warn him and that he is not allowed to eat. After meeting Eva in Café Paradies and one with Lilly in Satan's parlor, Adam bites the apple anyway and is released from the sanatorium by Professor Petri. Adam missed the last train and stayed in the sanatorium's waiting area.
He dreams that he will be the first person to wake up in heaven. He meets Peter and Lucifer in heaven, who are discussing the further development of the world, but Adam breaks the globe through an accident. The fragments of the earth now have to be put back together again. Since Adam is boring, he is allowed to accompany Peter to the heavenly workshops, where Eve is being built. There is also a model of a dachshund in the workshops and Adam reacts enthusiastically. He talks to one of the workers who makes the dog come to life for him. The dachshund joins Adam and man has "got on the dog". Eve comes to life a short time later and gets to know Adam. She is harassed by Lucifer, who is then banished from heaven by Peter and goes to hell.
Because the earth is not ready yet, Peter sends Adam and Eve to Paradise, an exhibit that was developed as a prototype of an idealized earth. There's not much going on in paradise. According to the prohibition sign, a single apple hanging from a small tree may not be picked. The devil leads Adam and Eve to Hell, offers them a feast, a gun and a mirror, and in the end tells them to pay for the amenities. Because both of them have no money, the devil announces that he will present the bill to them later on earth. Because he couldn't keep both people in hell, Lucifer sends the serpent Lilith to paradise. While Eve is sleeping, Lilith seduces Adam and makes him pick the apple for her. Because he does not wear glasses, Petrus confuses Lilith with Eve and rejects the wrong woman with Adam from Paradise. Miss Seraphim tries in vain to draw his attention to the mistake. Adam and Lilith are referred to the unfinished earth, where they also live many years later. Adam has risen to become a managing director. Lilith has a secret lover in tax advisor Lucifer. Miss Seraphim, on the other hand, ensures that Eve is sent from heaven to earth. She introduces herself to Adam as a new employee and he recognizes her after a while.
The constellation of the man between two women leads to a conference of heaven and hell, in which Peter first, wearing rose-colored glasses , approves of bigamy, but then adjourns the conference. Adam, Eve and Lilith are outraged and Adam decides to become a bachelor instead. At a second conference, Eva and Lilith are merged into a perfect mix; a woman who resembles both emerges.
Adam Schmidt wakes up in the vestibule of the sanatorium. The first train leaves shortly and he rushes to the stop. Here he sees the Eva Lilith woman from his dream again and follows her into the tram that is leaving.
production
The apple is from is based on a piece written by the cabaret group Die Nachrichtener in 1935, but which was not performed because the group was banned. It was not until the late 1930s that the revue was first shown in the comedians' cabaret . The basis was the one-act play of the play Der Apfel ist ab, reworked and defused by Helmut Käutner .
The film based on motifs from the revue was finally shot in the Munich-Geiselgasteig film studio from February to March 1948. The tram scene at the end shows the stone stairs from the old Haidhauser cemetery and at the same time the access to the former tram depot there, Einsteinstrasse 62. The songs can be heard in the film, The apple is off , The time with you , You are my luck and the one does not have one . With Bobby Todd , a member of the four messengers took on the leading role. He and the former news reports Kurd E. Heyne and Helmut Käutner wrote the script. Käutner directed and was seen in the role of Peter. Margot Hielscher was initially planned to play the role of Lilith or Lilly . The role was eventually taken on by Joana Maria Gorvin . The costumes were created by Edith Kindler (women) and the Reischenbeck brothers (men), the film construction was done by Gerhard Ladner and Wolfgang Znamenacek . Theodor Nischwitz was responsible for the trick effects .
The apple is from was banned from public holidays by the Allied military censorship in November 1948 and released from the age of 16. The film premiered on November 23, 1948 in Hamburg's Waterloo Theater. On March 27, 1988, the film was shown on 3sat for the first time on German television.
criticism
For Die Zeit , the 1948 film was “a cabaret-intellectualistic fairy tale with threadbare depths. It is made with spirit and wit, also with love and humor, but not - with heart, not with warmth. "
The film-dienst called The Apple is a comedy with “original decor ideas born out of the need of the times; the ironic-political parody is amusing, but not completely convincing in terms of the staging ”. “A small, strange cinema jewel”, stated Cinema .
Awards
The apple is from was nominated in 1949 for the Grand Prix of the Cannes International Film Festival .
Web links
- The apple is from the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The apple is off at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Glaser: Small cultural history of Germany in the 20th century . CH Beck, Munich 2002, p. 183.
- ↑ The apple is gone . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 107.
- ↑ The apple is gone. And a film with three ends . In: Der Spiegel , No. 19, 1947, p. 20.
- ↑ Erika Müller: The apple is off . In: Die Zeit , December 2, 1948.
- ↑ The apple is gone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The apple is off on cinema.de