The emperor and the laundress

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Movie
Original title The emperor and the laundress
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ernst Neubach
script Ernst Neubach
production Alfred Stöger
for Wiener Mundus
music Hans May
camera Ernst W. Kalinke
cut Renate Jelinek
occupation

The Emperor and the Laundry Girl is an Austrian feature film by Ernst Neubach from 1957 . It was also titled This is how you only kiss in Vienna .

action

Vienna in 1910: the unsuccessful painter Hans Herrlinger loves the young Franzi Stiglmeier, who works as a running girl in a clothing store. She brings the new clothes to the customers who, however, rarely pay. Instead, Franzi only receives marriage proposals and kisses from the gentlemen, although she has already been promised to Schwan's senior teacher. Franzi's boss, the clothing manufacturer Ludwig Springbrunn, is desperate about his staff, because even the cashier Thusnelda, who occasionally has to serve as a model for the old-fashioned clothes, shows little pleasure in her work. A short time later, Springbrunn's shop is about to be shut down, especially since Springbrunn itself regularly dismisses its staff in order to hire them again later.

One day, Hans takes heart and confesses his love to Franzi. She rejects him, but a little later Hans gets her to dance with him in a café. Franzi's mother Rosa, who works as a laundress for the imperial family, and Franzi's fiancé von Schwan are also present and finally see Hans kissing Franzi after a lively dance. Rosa is horrified and sees her daughter's honor in danger. She doesn't know who Hans is and reports him to the police and eventually to various ministries. When no one was processing her complaint, she wrote a letter to Emperor Franz Joseph I personally, which she hid in a freshly flattened imperial nightgown. Here a house servant finds him who reads the letter to the entire workforce. In it, Rosa, who originally comes from Berlin, raves about the beauty of her daughter and the crime of the kiss. The content of the letter, which also caused a lot of laughter, soon spread throughout Vienna. Shortly afterwards everyone in Springbrunn's shop wants to be served only by Franzi. She knows nothing about the letter and the uproar, but has met with Hans again when she was about to bring some hats to customers. Hans was appalled by the old-fashioned style of the models and redesigned them in a modern way. The hats were sold immediately. Due to the sudden rush in the store, Springbrunn appoints Franzi as the first saleswoman. She ensures that Hans is hired as the creative head of the business and he brings the shop up to speed. After a redecoration, a new collection follows, which anticipates the 1930s to 1950s with its daring cuts and causes a stir in Vienna. The demand for a rendezvous with Franzi is unbroken and porter Anton promises every admirer a meeting with the unknown beauty. Soon he received dozens of business cards, received tips and was in a bind. Without further ado, he hires all of the fashion house's mannequins who pretend to be Franzi Stiglmeier.

Ludwig Springbrunn's fashion house, who is now called Louis Lafontaine , is flourishing and Franzi has a lot to do as the company's newly appointed authorized signatory . In addition to billing and orders, she has to dine regularly with important customers or suppliers in order to negotiate prices and establish contacts. Your relationship with Hans suffers until he's had enough. He breaks up with her because she put work before their relationship. Franzi's love affairs, but in reality those of her numerous deputies, soon fill the gossip columns of the newspapers and become the talk of the town. The reputation of the fashion house suffers, especially since the city's conservatives oppose Franzi. In a café, Hans hears Franzi being insulted at a men's regulars table. He goes to the men, starts a fight and slaps one of the gentlemen - Archduke Max himself. Hans is arrested and, as a Munich resident, is now supposed to be deported to Germany for insulting majesty. Franzi is desperate. In the end she sees through the game that Anton played at her expense. As Franzi, one of the mannequins was always with the Archduke himself and arranged for her to have an audience with him. Franzi asks for a pardon from Hans. The Archduke lets himself be softened, especially since the Emperor himself has meanwhile learned of the numerous doppelgangers. At the highest order, all Franzi doppelgangers have to marry their found lovers in a mass wedding in order to restore Franzi's reputation. Franzi herself also ends up in front of the altar: she marries her Hans, while her mother Rosa has found a man for life in Ludwig Springbrunn.

production

The Kaiser and the Laundress was created as a musical comedy. In addition to numerous operetta-like melodies, the Kilima Hawaiians with the title On a South Sea Island can be heard. The film costumes were created by Leo Bei and Margarethe Volters , the film structures were created by Leo Metzenbauer . Hans May wrote his last original composition for this film. The film had its premiere on December 20, 1957 at the Luxor in Karlsruhe .

criticism

For the film service , The Emperor and the Laundry Girl was an “operetta-like, frantically exuberant comedy film”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Emperor and the Laundress. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used