The tourist guide of Lisbon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The tourist guide of Lisbon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script |
Hanns H. Fischer Janne Furch Werner Eplinius |
| production |
Hans Deppe Wilhelm Gernhardt Fernando Macedo Almeida Santos Leão Spiguel |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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The Tourist Guide of Lisbon is a German hit film from 1956 with Vico Torriani in the leading male role.
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Antonio Duarte and his friends Sebastian and Bill earn money as a tourist guide in Lisbon . Bill drives the tourist bus, while Sebastian delights tourists as a painter at a characteristic spot by the sea. All three live in a castle that Antonio's father Jeronimo manages and in which they only live temporarily. One day Antonio shows a group of boarding school girls from Geneva under the direction of their teacher Miss von Hornstein, known as Hörnchen, Lisbon. The attractive Mercedes Gonzales has fallen in love with Antonio and is doing everything to make herself interesting for him. She poses with him for a photo and finally invites him out for the evening. The group drives back to Geneva the next day and Mercedes and their friends bet that she will leave Lisbon as Antonio's fiancée. Antonio, however, has no intention of becoming engaged to the young woman he does not know. She threatens him with otherwise going into the water and Antonio doesn't take her seriously. However, Hörnchen knows that Mercedes would actually be able to do so, especially since she cannot swim. Shortly afterwards, Mercedes plunges into the water and can only be saved by Antonio when he agrees to an engagement.
In Geneva, Father Gonzales is alarmed. Mercedes will be the heiress of a million dollar fortune and since she has got it into her head to really marry Antonio, he puts private detective Claudia Bronner on Antonio. She is supposed to find out if he's not a dowry hunter. Antonio didn't take the engagement seriously, doesn't plan to marry Mercedes and also ignores her letters. Sebastian, in turn, had fallen in love with Mercedes and answered the letters with Antonio's permission. In these letters he writes poetically how much he loves Mercedes. Claudia arrives in Lisbon and takes part in a city tour. She annoys Antonio and Sebastian by correcting both of them over and over again. At the end, Antonio explains to her that most tourists like it when the stories are interesting and exciting. He offers her a "more correct" individual tour and she agrees. During the tour, the two get closer, even if Antonio senses that she is hiding something from him. He goes out to dinner with her and meets her again later at the hotel. The Baroness Karaczyl recognizes Claudia from an earlier meeting. She engages in a simple form of fraud by getting rich men to buy her a piece of jewelry that is already in her possession and that she has previously placed in the hotel shop's jewelry cabinet in consultation with the seller. You and the seller then share the profit. Because the Baroness believes Claudia is after her, she secretly searches Claudia's room and notices that Antonio is being followed by her. She now reports to Antonio about Claudia's true intention. Antonio is disappointed, says Claudia, that he knows everything about her, and leaves. Claudia had meanwhile phoned Geneva and explained that Antonio was not a dowry hunter and was also not interested in Mercedes. She is now devastated.
Because of the love letters, Mercedes surprisingly appears in Lisbon. Antonio drops her off with Sebastian, who confesses to having written the letters himself. Both become a couple. Antonio, however, is unhappy and cannot even enjoy bullfighting . Claudia also sits listlessly in the audience and now and then observes the bent Antonio through binoculars. During the break, she takes heart and wants to speak to Antonio, but Bill sends her away because it only makes Antonio unhappy. Antonio hears about it and hurries after Claudia. The two finally meet in a tavern and embrace. It comes to a happy ending.
Production and Background
The tourist guide of Lisbon was created based on an idea by Lore Stapenhorst . The film was shot in Lisbon and in the CCC film studios in Berlin. The costumes were created by Ursula Stutz , the film structures are by Willy A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann . The film features four different songs that Vico Torriani sings. The lyrics are from Hans Bradtke :
- Fall in love with Lisbon
- A mannequin from Paris
- You are my most beautiful romance novel
- It must be nice to be a torero
The film is set in Lisbon in the 1950s, before the construction of a number of famous landmarks of Lisbon, such as the Ponte 25 de Abril , the statue of Christ , or the monument to the voyages of discovery , but also before the outbreak of the Portuguese colonial war, which caused international outrage . The film does without a mention of the totalitarian Estado Novo regime of dictator Salazar . Rather, the entertainment film is limited to the development of a turbulent, carefree love story against the sunny background of the old quarters and the charm of the city. It corresponds to the pattern of many homeland films and the hit films set in holiday countries , whereby it is one of the few examples that were shot in Portugal . The film, which had its film premiere on December 28, 1956 at the Scala in Esslingen , also did not achieve as lasting success as some other films by Hans Deppe, for example guitars sounding softly through the night or mandolins and moonlight that were played in Italy. The film was released in stores on DVD in 2011 .
criticism
The film service called The Tourist Guide of Lisbon a "painstakingly put together, carelessly staged love story of a singing tourist guide in front of a Portuguese travel brochure background."
Web links
- The guide of Lisbon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The tourist guide of Lisbon at filmportal.de
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Tourist Guide of Lisbon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .