The lucky tailor
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The lucky tailor |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 32 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Otto Löwenstein |
| script | Felix Salten |
| production |
Siegmund Philipp Arnold Pressburger |
| occupation | |
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The Glücksschneider is an Austro-Hungarian silent film comedy from 1915 with Rudolf Schildkraut .
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Master tailor Schramek is a rock solid worker and generously also grants his customers installment payments. Schramek's dissolute son takes full advantage of his father and always lives beyond his means. Schramek, the tenant, has a relationship with the homeowner's cook. After a wild night of drinking with her, he wakes up the next morning with a huge hangover. When he first reads the newspaper, he couldn't believe his eyes: his lucky ticket won! Scarcely enough cash in hand, Schramek rushes to the next fashion store and has new and ultra-chic clothes from top to bottom. Then he first pays the debt owed by the landlord. With the new windfall, the social barriers that had previously applied to him fell, and the house owner's daughter began to show interest in the simple tailor. The young bank clerk Alfred, who loves the young woman, is anything but enthusiastic about this. The not so young and handsome cook is now logged off from Schramek and is tidying up her ex-lover's workshop for the last time.
The tailor really lets it rip. He and his new, young friend pursue every pleasure; you can see them at the racetrack as well as when you go to the theater. His new flame is nevertheless not ready to keep his hands off their Alfred and takes him with them for these pleasures. At the gaming table, Schramek snubs a teammate in such a way that he challenges the parvenu to a duel. Schramek can avoid the upcoming honor trade by shooting wildly at all those present, who then immediately flee. In his high spirits, Schramek does not suspect that his new flame is still tying up with Alfred until he catches the two of them in flagrante turtling while walking through the woods. To make matters worse, the brave little tailor also had all the money he won. And he returns meekly to his workshop and ruefully asks Amalia to come back to him.
Production notes
The Glücksschneider was created in Vienna and Trieste . The first performance of the three-act act with a length of 1130 meters took place on January 7, 1916 in Vienna. In Germany, where the film was censored in May 1916, Der Glücksschneider was shown that same year.
Gerhard Lamprecht gives in his volume German silent films 1915-1916 on page 439 a presumably non-existent Schildkraut film Die Glücksschmiede . This is likely to be a linguistic mix-up with Der Glücksschneider .
Reviews
“A Viennese Rudolf Schildkraut film, which once again provides us with proof of the profit that Rudolf Schildkraut means for the film stage, who is probably one of the greatest of all film actors. An act, taken from the Viennese people's soul, gives Schildkraut the opportunity to show the little man how he lives and how he laughs and cries. "