The mole (1948)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The award-winning mole |
| Original title | The mole |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Carl |
| script | Helmut Kemmerl |
| production |
Emerich Hanus Elfi from Dassanowsky |
| music | Oskar Wagner |
| camera | Rudolf Icsey |
| cut | Hanns Matula |
| occupation | |
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The mole is an Austrian film amusement produced with the most modest means from 1948 by the actor Rudolf Carl , who plays one of the leading roles alongside Oskar Sima .
action
In the Austrian town of Reibing there is a tangible moral scandal. A wealthy American has decreed in his will that the one lady that at a delicate point of her body usually from view of the general public is protected by clothing, a mole , to enjoy his $ 10,000 heritage has. That lady was once his lover and was reviled and defamed by a narrow-minded, petty-bourgeois "morality association" because of her way of life. The doctor, Dr. Krips was called in, who is supposed to conduct a delicate investigation into the numerous inheritance candidates who were once angry about the immorality and now suddenly appear on the scene in view of the prospect of a rain of money. Only the waitress in the local restaurant, Kathi, who is scolded as "immoral", does not take part in this embarrassing circus.
The cunning and enterprising community servant Hustinger drills peepholes in the wall of the medical examination room and rents them out to the male Reibinger, all of whom are representatives of the community council, who gather there in order to possibly get a glimpse of the intimate details of the women examined by the doctor . The village pseudo-morality is exposed as hypocrisy and bigotry. In the end, the inheritance farce turns out to be an act of revenge by the predecessor Kathis and later wife of the American, who wanted to expose the philistine and double standards of the Reibinger women from which she once had to suffer. The $ 10,000 is finally paid to the lovable Kathis, and the Hustinger daughter Franzi gets the chauffeur of the testator, who is really none other than his son.
Production notes
The liver spot , the first of two Carl’s film directors, was made in the atelier of Wien-Bauernmarkt and in the vicinity of Vienna and was premiered on August 21, 1948 in the Austrian capital. The German premiere was on February 25, 1949 in Gelsenkirchen. Here the film ran under the slightly different title The award-winning mole .
August Diglas took over the production management. Sepp Rothauer designed the film structures.
Reviews
The contemporary reviews in Catholic Austria were partly devastating in view of the "slipperiness" of the material, as was found at the time: The Vienna daily found that "Instead of laughing you shake your head", and New Austria complained that you search in vain "After a spark of spirit or taste". The Kleine Blatt, on the other hand, stated after the premiere that the audience had reacted to the film "softly yawning and without any applause".
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "A very roughly turned swank from Austria's early post-war production."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiener Tageszeitung from August 22, 1948, p. 7
- ^ New Austria of August 24, 1948, p. 5
- ^ Small sheet of August 28, 1948, p. 13
- ↑ The mole. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- The Mole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mole at filmportal.de