The High Tourist (1961)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The high tourist |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Erfurth |
| script |
Eckart Hachfeld based on Curt Kraatz and Max Neal 's stage swing of the same name |
| production | Alexander Grüter for Corona, Munich |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Adolph Schlyßleder |
| occupation | |
| |
Der Hochtourist is a German film game from 1961 with Willy Millowitsch in the title role.
action
Director Friedrich Wilhelm Mylius from Cologne is an honorable citizen of his city, but who has a secret passion that neither his wife Johanna nor their daughter Marlies suspect: he is passionate about acting. Since he has the opportunity to live out this passion on a real stage, he always travels to Munich, where he celebrates small triumphs as the actor “Mühlenbeck”. In order to keep his family in the dark about the purpose of this trip, he ties up his wife and daughter with a decent bear every time: He claims that he only goes to Bavaria to indulge his alleged passion of mountaineering. In order to substantiate this claim, the high tourist regularly sends postcards with detailed reports from his mountain tours. Of course, all of them have been copied. The family is bursting with pride, as one assumes in the Mylius house that Mylius undertakes the most daring tours and climbs the stormiest peaks in the process.
In the meantime, Mylius had his first artistic successes as Mühlenbeck; the hobby mime even succeeds in getting his venue, the “House of Muses”, out of the red, whereupon he is even appointed director of the stage. But when Mylius' 50th birthday approaches, the whole fraud threatens to be exposed. The Mylius family traveled to the Alps to surprise the jubilee. Allegedly a mountain hut is to be inaugurated there in honor of Mylius. But he is not known locally in Mittenwald, the alpinist Rainthaler, the most experienced mountain guide in the area, has never heard of a Friedrich Wilhelm Mylius. Now the whole structure of lies collapses. But while the prevented artist failed miserably as a mountaineer, Friedrich Wilhelm Mylius alias Mühlenbeck celebrates one success after another as a theater mime. His own family cannot avoid recognizing his acting achievements when Johanna and Alice see him live on stage for the first time.
Production notes
The high tourist was created in May and June 1961 in Mittenwald and the surrounding area and was premiered on August 18, 1961.
Max Mellin designed the film structures, which were carried out by Carl Ludwig Kirmse , who presented his last film work here. Max Koslowski was in charge of production.
After 1931 and 1942, this was the third film adaptation of this popular comedy toy.
criticism
In Films 1959/61 the following can be read: "Hardly any relevant gag has been forgotten."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Undemanding slapstick film without any esprit, just like the television performances of the Millowitsch Theater."
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1959/61. Handbook VI of the Catholic film criticism. P. 76
- ↑ The high tourist. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
Web links
- The Hochtourist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The high tourist at filmportal.de