The Beggar Student (1956)

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Movie
Original title The beggar student
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Werner Jacobs
script Fritz Boettger
production Günther Stapenhorst
for Carlton
music Bruno Uher ,
Carl Millöcker
camera Ernst W. Kalinke ,
Heinz Schnackertz
cut Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann
occupation

The begging student is a German operetta adaptation by Werner Jacobs from 1956. The world premiere took place on December 18, 1956 in the Stuttgart Universum .

action

Captain Symon Rymanowicz and Lieutenant Jan Janicki are disguised as students on their way to Krakow . Here they want to free Duke Adam from prison with other students. This was arrested by the new city commandant Colonel Ollendorf. In Krakow they meet young Katja with whom they go to a pub. They are supposed to hand over their sabers here, as Ollendorf's instructions prohibit students from carrying weapons. Numerous students have already been arrested by Ollendorf. Symon and Jan refuse to put down their weapons, which impresses the guests of the restaurant. When Katja is harassed by a cornett , Symon challenges him. In the following duel, the Cornett is disarmed and Katja assumes his identity. She is supposed to spy for the students among Ollendorf's men.

There is a big ball to which Ollendorf has invited the impoverished Countess Palmatica and her daughters Laura and Bronislawa. He hopes to win Laura's heart, but she beats him with her fan in front of everyone when he kisses her on the shoulder. When Ollendorf realizes that she only rejects him because of his low status, he swears revenge. At first, however, his men embarrassed themselves, as Katja and Mira stole all of the soldiers' sabers during the ball and passed them on to the students along with sneezing powder . They appear in front of the castle and engage in a skirmish with the soldiers. In the end, Symon and Jan flee to a wagon that turns out to be the prison's food wagon. Prison guard Enterich is about to arrest both of them when Ollendorf appears. He takes Symon, Jan and Enterich with him to implement his plan of revenge: Symon is supposed to pretend to be a wealthy Prince Wybicki and get a society lady to marry. Jan pretends to be his secretary and Drake is supposed to take care of both of them.

At first, Symon doesn't know that he should ensnare Laura, with whom he has already fallen in love. When Ollendorf shows him Laura as the planned victim, he is horrified because he doesn't want to cheat on a woman he loves. Jan has meanwhile fallen in love with the constantly hungry Bronislawa.

With Katja's and Mira's help, both men manage to free all of the captured students. The wedding between Symon and Laura takes place and shortly afterwards, Ollendorf, through Drake, lets dozens of beggars appear in the wedding hall, who pass Symon off as their fellow mate. Before Countess Palmatica can faint, the church bells begin to ring. The student uprising was successful, Duke Adam is released and has appointed Symon as the new governor. Since he also elevated him to the rank of count, the marriage between Symon and Laura is now befitting. Jan and Bronislawa also become a couple for good; Ollendorf, in turn, escapes arrest because Countess Palmatica inserts a word for him.

criticism

The film-dienst described the begging student as “Schw [a] nk [...], garnished with individual pieces of music [...] without momentum, mood and sparkling music [...]. The jokes are drawn from the Klamauks repertoire , and they are played quite casually. The whole thing is poor entertainment, a lame hermaphrodite who no longer dares to embrace the musical swing of real operettas, but who also did not know how to break free from this model. A banal game about rather dull disguise jokes with a lot of sudden love. "

The lexicon of international film published by film-dienst in 1991 saw "Millöcker's operetta in a coarsened, musically unappealing new film version".

Cinema described the film as “less charming than the 1936 version with Marika Rökk . Conclusion: lots of frills, but no tips. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filmdienst, No. 3, 1957.
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 322.
  3. ↑ The beggar student. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 7, 2018.