The man you're talking about
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The man you're talking about |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | EW Emo |
| script | Hanns Saßmann |
| production | Oskar Glück for Projectograph-Film, Vienna |
| music | Heinz Sandauer |
| camera | Eduard Hoesch |
| cut | Else Baum |
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The man we are talking about is an Austrian comedy film from 1937 with Heinz Rühmann and Hans Moser in the leading roles. The plot has similarities with Max, the circus king .
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Zoology student Toni Mathis is expelled from the university because he missed the crucial exam. His uncle and patron is visibly disappointed and wants to marry him against his will to a country beauty from his village. But then Toni meets the trapeze artist Bianca and falls head over heels in love with her. Her father, the ringmaster Zarratti, only wants to consent to his daughter's marriage if her future husband is also an artist.
After Toni has tried out a few circus acts, his future father-in-law offers him the role of lion tamer. However, the predators instill tremendous fear in him. One of the clowns has a solution for Toni. He puts together a team of circus workers who, in deceptively real lion costumes, are supposed to perform with Toni instead of the trained big cats. But the previous lion tamer, a rejected admirer of Bianca, sabotaged the project by locking the fake lions in their changing room and letting the real ones run into the ring. Because he doesn't notice the exchange, Toni survives this test unscathed. He is then celebrated as a hero and accepted into the circus family.
background
The production was created in cooperation with the Austrian "National" Circus Rebernigg. Heinz Rühmann did not allow himself to be "doubled" by stuntmen in his films: In this film he juggled plates, rode a bicycle down a flight of stairs and danced on the rope. At the finale he appeared as a predator trainer: "I spent three days getting used to these beautiful animals, but only with the male ones, the female ones were too jealous of their master, the trainer (Karl) Rebernigg. He followed me carefully Weapons scanned before I was allowed into the ring, because he wanted to be sure that nothing could happen to his darlings. That might give you courage, I can tell you! " During the breaks in filming, Rühmann stayed in the ring, where he "got close" to the animals. At most, he should have been irritated by the fact that the extras laughed at him, which according to a "dramatic" hero like Hans Albers Rühmann would not have happened in a similar role. Producer Oskar Glück is said to have told the actor later in the cloakroom that he was not insured when the lion scene was recorded and that the film company was not liable for damage in the cage. When Rühmann was seen again as a predator tamer for the film No fear of big animals in 1953, a pane of glass separated him from the big cats during the shooting.
Trivia
In 1957 the material was filmed as a remake Das haut hin directed by Géza von Cziffra with Peter Alexander as Anton Mathis, Margit Nünke as Bianca Zaretti, Grethe Weiser as aunt and Gunther Philipp as butler.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film called the film a "[t] urbulent comedy with the popular startrio Rühmann-Lingen-Moser."
Web links
- The man of whom we speak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The man we are talking about at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://my.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/der-mann-von-dem-man-sprech,1307775,ApplicationMovie.html
- ^ Franz Josef Görtz, Hans Sarkowicz: Heinz Rühmann, 1902-1994: the actor and his century , Munich 2001, p. 175 f.
- ↑ The man of whom one speaks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 19, 2017 .