The winner (1932)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The winner |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Martin and Hans Hinrich |
| script |
Robert Liebmann Billie Wilder Leonhard Frank |
| production | Erich Pommer for UFA , Berlin |
| music | Werner Richard Heymann |
| camera |
Günther Rittau Otto Baecker |
| occupation | |
as well as Arthur Mainzer , Alfred Beierle , Eugen Burg , Hans Deppe , Arthur Peiser , Willi Schur , Bruno Ziener , Charlotte Serda and the Comedian Harmonists . | |
The winner is a German feature film from the year 1932. Under the direction of Paul Martin and Hans Hinrich play Hans Albers and Käthe von Nagy , the leading roles.
action
Hans Kühnert is employed in the main telegraph office. His supervisor gives him the job of fetching cigarettes for him. The shop is very busy right now, mainly because several horse bets are currently being concluded. Due to a misunderstanding when buying a cigarette, Kühnert received a betting slip instead of the smoldering stick, which eventually brought him 900 RM . Kühnert sees himself immediately as the winner, buys posh clothes and quits his job. From now on he wants to live as a bon vivant. Believing that everything would continue like this, he tries his luck again at betting and promptly loses all of what he has won. At least his love affair seems to hold him back, because on the racetrack he meets the pretty and obviously wealthy banker's daughter Helene Ponta, with whom he instantly falls in love. In order not to have a chance with her, he does not tell Helene that his chic appearance does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about his wallet.
Although engaged to the ice hockey player Hunter, Helene Kühnert accepts the invitation to dinner in an elegant and expensive restaurant. The evening goes exceptionally well - so well that Hans no longer dares to tell his beloved that he is really a poor man. Even the money his mother gave to take out the beauty is not enough to foot the bill. With a cheeky trick - he grabs a napkin, puts it over his forearm and collects other guests as a "waiter" - he can still settle the bill. When Kühnert pumps his mother up for money again, the righteous woman talks to him until he looks for a job to get his wages and bread again. Hans tries his hand at dancers in the hotel where his mother works as a cloakroom. It is there, of all places, in the “Atlantic”, that he meets Helene, and his entire artfully constructed building of lies collapses like a house of cards.
Because when Helene dances with him, she realizes that her beau is de facto a gigolo. Deeply injured, she throws bills at his feet. The break seems perfect. Kühnert realizes that this wrong life in the fast lane is not goal-oriented and then tries to ground himself again and get back down to earth. Hans spends the money thrown at him on a bouquet of flowers that he sends to Helene, and he takes the job of a telephone operator at the "Atlantic". However, Helene has long since lost her heart to the charming man and asks Hans to come to her. Overjoyed to get another chance from her, Kühnert forgets in the excitement to pass on a telegram commissioned by her father, bank director Ponta. As luck would have it, this faux pas saved Ponta from ruin and secured his fortune. Now Hans Kühnert is really a winner: Mr. Papa makes him his partner and gives him his daughter as a wife.
Production notes
Both directors Hinrich and Martin made their film debuts at Der Sieger . The shooting took place from December 1931 to the end of January 1932. The premiere was on March 21, 1932 in the Gloria Palast .
Eberhard Klagemann served producer Erich Pommer as production manager. Erich Kettelhut created the film structures, Joe Strassner created the costumes. Fritz Thiery took care of the sound, Heinz Lingen studied the choreography . The lyrics are by Robert Liebmann , Robert Gilbert and Max Kolpe . Ekkehard Kyrath served Günther Rittau and Otto Baecker as camera assistants. Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and the Comedian Harmonists took care of the vocals.
The film also became famous thanks to the hit song performed by Albers, “ Oops, now I'm coming ” (melody: Heymann, text: Gilbert).
A French version of the film was also produced under the title Le vainqueur . While Käthe von Nagy repeated her German role, Jean Murat played the Albers part (here called Robert Kurtner).
criticism
In Oskar Kalbus ' The Development of German Cinematic Art it is said:
“ 'Der Sieger' fulfills the demand that has been made of the film over and over again lately, that it should create the modern fairy tale, since the entire sum of the fantastic is available to it in the pictorial design. The film did justice to this requirement, but from a completely different angle than was thought, from pure naturalism that allows one to dance over from the real to the dream. A winner by filmmaker's grace, who has signed a special agreement with the famous lucky coincidence and is the first to cross the finish line in games, love and work (...). […] The beginning is brilliant, how noise and image become a rhythm, a song, a song. Wonderful the parody of the Wolga song! And when an invisible choir (the Comedian Harmonists) suddenly symbolizes a guilty conscience in a scene in which Albers is making a big bill without owning a penny, signposts are set up into new territory. All of this raises the film far above average. "
In the edition of April 2, 1932, on page 4 of the Österreichische Film-Zeitung , you can read: “Hans Hinrich and Paul Martin have the film with many good ideas and a fairytale touch, which is very good with the fairytale and improbability of the plot acts, staged; The choirs that are often used here appear original. "
The American C. Hooper Trask, who was filming in Germany ( “ Ein blonder Traum ” ) in May 1932, tore the film down in his review published in the New York Times on May 15, 1932 : “And another dastardly deed to be chalked up to the crimes of the scenario writers is the script of Hans Albers's latest starring vehicle, 'Der Sieger' (The Victor). It is credited to one of Germany's best novelists, Leonhard Frank. I have a dim recollection of a lot of vacant pictures, but I can't recall one in which less happened than here. The first five minutes are built around an amusing little idea and then the story vanishes like mist suddenly blown away. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The winner". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , April 2, 1932, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ The Winner in New York Times
- ↑ Translation: “Another vicious act that one has to blame for the crimes of the screenwriters is the book for Hans Albers' last film 'Der Sieger'. It was written by one of Germany's best novelists, Leonhard Frank. I have hazy memories of a number of empty films, but I can't remember a single one in which less happens than this one. The first five minutes are built around a pretty little idea and then suddenly the story disappears like fog that is suddenly blown away. "
Web links
- The winner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The winner at filmportal.de