The Liar and the Nun (film)

Movie
Original title	The liar and the nun
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1967
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Rolf Thiele
script	Joseph Czech
production	Otto Dürer
music	Carl de Groof
camera	Wolf Wirth
cut	Lotte Klimitschek
occupation
Heidelinde Weis : Angela, novice Robert Hoffmann : Charly, a liar Elisabeth Flickenschildt : The Abbess Karl Schönböck : Petrops, butler Rudolf Rhomberg : Father Accursius Curd Jürgens : Cardinal Jane Tilden : wife of Schicketanz Joachim Wolff : Udo Harry Karl Ernst : Guest Ilse Künkele : novice master Philomena Ingrid Simon : Room daughter Helmuth Wallner : Bodo

The Liar and the Nun is an Austrian feature film by director Rolf Thiele from 1967. The screenplay was written by Joseph Czech . It is based on the play of the same name in three acts by Curt Goetz . The outdoor shots were taken at Lake Attersee in Upper Austria , at Zvíkov Castle in today's Czech Republic and in Salzburg . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was first released on November 10, 1967.

action

The novice Angela is one night under the jasmine bushes of the monastery garden a baby who appears to have been abandoned by his mother. She takes it to her cell and looks after it until the strict abbess tells her that the child cannot stay in the monastery for long. But because Angela does not want to part with the boy and the abbess calls a doctor to examine whether the nuns' dire fears regarding the child's origin are true, Angela, in desperation, jumps out of the window into a lake. She is pulled to the bank by the young idiot Charly. This is supported by a rich but unknown father, which enables him to spend his studies with all sorts of bells and whistles.

After some confusion, which the cardinal even appears to clarify , it turns out that Charly is the child's father, while the cardinal reveals himself to be his father. This is how it comes to a happy ending between Charly and Angela.

criticism

"Filming of a stage play by Curt Goetz, well photographed and played in an acceptably entertaining manner."

- Lexicon of international film

“A stylistically very inconsistent film interspersed with fashionable gimmicks, which lacks spirit and charm, especially in those parts that were invented in addition to the original. Possible from 16 years. "

- Protestant film observer.

Web links

• The Liar and the nun in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 193/1967, p. 619
2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 3174 (1988), p. 2337