The Liar (1961)

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Movie
Original title The liar
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ladislao Vajda
script István Békeffi
Hans Jacoby
production Gyula Trebitsch
music Siegfried Franz
Fritz Rotter (songs)
camera Günther Anders
cut Hermann Haller
occupation

The Liar is a German feature film from 1961. The comedy is based on the play The Eleven Lives of Leo by AB Shiffrin. The first performance took place on December 21, 1961 in the Ufa-Palast in Cologne.

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Sebastian Schumann is an office worker. His wife has left him and now he lives alone with his eight-year-old daughter Nicky. He lets Nicky believe that her mother has died and is now an angel in heaven . Schumann fantasizes a virtual world for his little daughter, where he is always the hero. Sometimes he's a diplomat , sometimes an astronaut , secret agent , bank manager and an unbeatable boxer . The gray world of his everyday life changes into a world of lies. Soon he believes in his own stories. Eventually this leads to his company laying off him. He cannot tell his daughter about the release either. Schumann is now penniless, but sticks to his lies to keep the daughter away from the evil reality. For a neighbor, however, that only means irresponsibility. She reports him and the youth welfare office wants to take his child away from him on the basis of this report and bring it to a welfare institution. The father is perplexed and devastated. Nicky knows how to help himself, however, and with the help of his friend Annemarie, he succeeds in convincing the youth welfare office of the loving, positive upbringing of the father and thus building a new, intact family with Annemarie.

Reviews

  • "Heinz Rühmann (...) shines (..) with his ability to transform and clearly enjoys slicing." (Rating: 2 stars = average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 519
  • "Sentimental comedy whose little truths are administered with gentle humor." - " Lexicon of International Films " (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  • "A contemplative for Rühmann fans." - Heyne Film Lexicon, Munich 1996
  • "The« lie of life », presented tragically and with heartfelt tones in a film with Heinz Rühmann. Recommended for adults." - Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Pressverband München, Review No. 753/1961

Awards

Gustav Knuth was awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1962 for his portrayal .

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