The gentleman with the black bowler hat
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The gentleman with the black bowler hat |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Suter |
| script |
Karl Suter Alfred Bruggmann Hans Gmür Walter Roderer |
| production |
Erwin C. Dietrich Georges Schellenbaum |
| music | Hans Moeckel |
| camera | Rudolf Sandtner |
| cut | René Martinet |
| occupation | |
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The gentleman with the black bowler hat (alternative title: impostor for three days ) is a Swiss crime comedy by Karl Suter from 1960.
action
As a conscientious bank employee, Hugo Wiederkehr has to do with all kinds of customers. Among others with the industrialist Meissen and his pretty daughter Christine, with whom he falls in love. But it remains unmatched because it belongs to a different social class. In addition, he works as a hobbyist and inventor, which also requires a lot of money. When his employer denied him a loan because his father was in jail for fraud, he resigned in disappointment. Hugo wants to find the necessary money differently. As a former employee of the bank, he is familiar with the transport of money between Zurich and Geneva, which is carried out by plane.
During a flight he manages to get 3 million francs unnoticed. The police are at a loss. He changed his clothes and stayed at a luxury hotel in Geneva, where the wealthy upper class became aware of him. Without recognizing him, Meissen introduces him to his daughter Christine. At a nuclear conference, Hugo mistook his suitcase for the briefcase of the Russian delegation filled with secret papers. There is a chase that ends at a police station. The mix-up is cleared up. Christine wants to marry Hugo because of his courage. He sends the money back to his bank because he no longer needs it.
background
After the success of the comedy Der Mustergatte , Erwin C. Dietrich and Walter Roderer got together again for a film production. From the beginning, it was intended to be used in the Federal Republic of Germany, which made it necessary to hire several well-known German actors. Bruno Ganz made his screen debut here.
The shooting lasted from March to April 1960. Nino Borghi set up the interior scenes in the Salmen film studio in Schlieren . The exterior shots were filmed in Geneva , Cointrin , Kloten and Zurich .
The film opened the 13th Locarno International Film Festival on July 21, 1960 . On August 19, 1961, the simultaneous start in Switzerland and the Federal Republic. The French-language dubbed version premiered on September 16, 1960 in the Alhambra cinema in Geneva. The work was also awarded in Austria, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia. The film adaptation received the rating "valuable" from the Wiesbaden film evaluation office .
Reviews
“A cleverly underplayed ironic comedy that only remains on the surface in its criticism of the economic world, economic boom mentality and conformity. Formally a series of entertaining skits that do not find any staging density. "
literature
- Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film - Feature Films 1896–1965 . Swiss Film Archive / Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne 1987, ISBN 2-88267-001-X .
- Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Monets - The incredible story of the Swiss cinema entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-033-00960-3 .
- Michael Wenk: Walter Roderer - A life in pictures . Huber & Co. AG, Frauenfeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7193-1439-2 .
Web links
- The man with the black melon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.willyfueter.ch/filme/1960der-herr-mit-der-schwarzen-melone-ch.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ The gentleman with the black bowler hat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .