The scapegoat from Spatzenhausen

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Movie
Original title The scapegoat from Spatzenhausen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Herbert B. Fredersdorf
script Franz Marischka
Franz Michael Schilder
production Rudolf Wischert
Günther Stapenhorst
for Carlton-Film
music Gert Wilden
camera Dieter Wedekind
cut Brigitte Fredersdorf
occupation

The Scapegoat von Spatzenhausen is a German Heimatfilm comedy by Herbert B. Fredersdorf from 1958 . In addition to Hans Moser, the main roles are occupied by Isa Günther and Jutta Günther as well as Bert Fortell and Albert Rueprecht .

action

The old Ferdinand Schöberl, who works as the station master of Spatzenhausen, receives a visit from his grandniece Margot one day. She and her twin sister Inge inherited the house in which Ferdinand lives. Both want to sell the house in order to be able to finance their studies, but Margot changes her mind when she gets to know the quiet of the place. Only the rattle of the trains disturbs the idyll from time to time. The trains haunt Ferdinand too, for 40 years he has had the dream of turning Spatzenhausen into a station for the express train, but previous attempts have always been rejected. When Mayor Angerholzer also decides to expand a 300-meter-long road to the town in order to stimulate car traffic from Spatzenhausen, Ferdinand becomes a bitter advocate of the express train idea. Although his personal audition at the office ended with a friendly expulsion, he announced at the next village meeting that Spatzenhausen would be a stop for the express train. Ferdinand persuades his neighbor Blasius to pull the emergency brake on the train if the train passes Spatzenhausen. In fact, the first passengers can comfortably reach the village. Next, Ferdinand positions a stop signal at the station and the train has to stop next time too. However, when Ferdinand's superior threatens to fire him for his arbitrariness, Ferdinand gives in and the next train passes Spatzenhausen without stopping.

The travelers are outraged and want to beat Ferdinand up at night on the way home from the bar, but he has organized police protection. Due to the scandal, Angerholzer's road project has now received so much interest that it is being implemented. The two arguers Angerholzer and Ferdinand are on the verge of forced reconciliation when Angerholzer's son Martin falls in love with Ferdinand's great niece Margot. Meanwhile, her twin sister Inge flirts with the doctor Dr. Staudinger, who as a widower raises his little daughter Claudia alone. Angerholzer and Ferdinand forbid the relationship between Margot and Martin, especially since in the dispute between the two men, the children end up taking the side of their relatives. Inge, in turn, is supported by Dr. Staudinger abandoned because he thinks she is Margot and is cheating on him with Martin. Both girls travel back to town disappointed.

Just as Dr. Staudinger is in town, where the mystery of the twins is finally solved, and Angerholzer's heavily pregnant daughter goes into labor. Since Dr. Staudinger could not get off the express train in Spatzenhausen in time, Angerholzer asked Ferdinand to stop the train at Spatzenhausen station. Although Ferdinand knows that this will cost him his position, he stops the train in view of the emergency. Dr. For all of them, however, Staudinger unexpectedly did not go to the Angerholzers by train, but by car. A little later, Ferdinand received a summons for a disciplinary discussion by post - the preliminary stage for termination. Now Angerholzer stands up for him. Not only can he get Ferdinand to keep his job with his brother-in-law, the district administrator. He also manages to finally make Spatzenhausen the station for the express train via the district administrator. The twins also come to a happy end: after the reconciliation between Angerholzer and Ferdinand, nothing stands in the way of Margot and Martin's marriage. Inge and Dr. Staudingers become a couple, so that Claudia finally has a new mother.

production

Production notes

The Spatzenhausen scapegoat was filmed in the Carlton Ateliers in Munich, among other places. Many of the outdoor shots were taken in Au near Bad Aibling. The train station was in Au on Kohlbachstrasse opposite the Singer house. At that time, some interior shots of the film were shot in Haus Singer. In the meantime, however, the Bad Aibling-Feilnbach railway line has been shut down and dismantled. Curt Stallmach designed the film, and Teddy Turai designed the costumes . Arno Wothe and Robert Salvagnac were responsible for the animation of the credits .

Several songs can be heard in the film:

publication

It was the last film production by Fredersdorf and at the same time the last film in which the Günther twins appeared. The Spatzenhausen scapegoat had its premiere on October 23, 1958.

On June 25, 2007, UFA released the film on DVD for the first time.

criticism

For the film-dienst , The Scapegoat von Spatzenhausen was a "modest comedy that, despite some self-irony, comes up with the usual clichés and all the 'specialties' of Heimatfilm."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Scapegoat from Spatzenhausen Ill. DVD case Tobis
  2. ↑ The Scapegoat of Spatzenhausen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used