The pride of the 3rd Company

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Movie
Original title The pride of the 3rd Company
Pride of the third company Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 10 acts, 2519 m, 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Fred Sauer
script Friedrich Raff
production Leo Meyer
music Hans May
camera Friedl Behn-Grund
cut Fred Sauer
occupation

The pride of the 3rd company is the title of a sound film military swank filmed in 1931 under the direction of Fred Sauer , in which Heinz Rühmann plays the leading role. It also ran under the alternative title Musketier Diestelbeck and was a production of the DLS Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat AG Berlin. With actors such as Adolf Wohlbrück , Paul Henckels , Fritz Kampers , Rudolf Platte or Trude Berliner , the film was “top-class” and met with a largely benevolent audience.

action

The young soldier Diestelbeck learns how to drill in the barracks. At the same time, like his superior Sergeant Krause, he tries to get the hand of the daughter of the local restaurant owner Emma Wacker. The drill and the striving for the lover lead him to all sorts of pranks and he gets attention because he can imitate and caricature his superiors well. Therefore, he is left to lead a theater group on the occasion of the prince's visit. Here higher ranks play lower roles and vice versa. Finally, the Prince Regent visits the place and also finds his love in the place, who at first doesn't believe his status.

background

The shooting of "The Pride of the 3rd Company" took place between October 26th and November 17th 1931. Interior scenes were recorded in the DLS studios in Berlin-Staaken . "Parts of the exterior shots were filmed in Lübben during the entry of the new garrison in November 1931 " (Lübbener Kreisblatt of February 18, 1932). The photography was in the hands of Friedl Behn-Grund . Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf created the film structures. Adolf Essek was the production manager. Production manager was Leo Meyer. The sound was recorded on Tobis sound film equipment .

The film music was composed by Hans May , the lyrics by Johannes Brandt . You can hear the hit songs “Today I would like to be in love” and “Heavenly thunder weather!”.

The film was available to the test center on December 11, 1931 and was approved under No. B 30 603, but not for young people. It was premiered on January 4, 1932 in the Tauentzien Palace in Berlin .

In Lübben the film (sound film) "The Pride of the 3rd Company" was shown for the first time in the period from February 18 to 21, 1932 in the "Liuba" light theater.

On August 1, 1935, however, it was banned by the Film Inspectorate because of the "unacceptable drawing of the military for the National Socialists".

criticism

Oskar Kalbus wrote in the 2nd volume of his film album published in 1935 by the Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld: "When the material for the military grotesque ran out more and more, the film producer remembered that in peacetime the stage farce" The pride of the third company "was included the Rhenish comedian Hartstein in the lead role always and everywhere created real laughter. When this piece was made into a film (Fred Sauer 1932), success was certain from the start, especially because Heinz Rühmann plays the infantryman Diestelbeck ... "(p. 91)

The lexicon of the international film said: "Military swank, whose brilliant theatrical achievements let the clothing-like plot take a back seat."

literature

  • Helmut G. Asper: Max Ophüls. Arte Edition. Verlag Bertz + Fischer, 1998, ISBN 3-929470-85-3 , pp. 231, 260.
  • Gerhard Bienert: A life in a thousand roles. ed. by Dieter Reimer. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1989, p. 92.
  • Thomas Brandlmeier: The German film comedy before 1945. German Empire, Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Ed. Text + Criticism, 2004, pp. 70, 72.
  • Rolf Ebert: On the history of the city of Lübben (Spreewald). Chronological outline. Heimat-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-929600-27-7 , pp. 382, ​​772.
  • Ulrike Heikaus: German-language films as a cultural island. On the cultural integration of German-speaking Jews in Palestine from 1933–1945. (= Pri ha-Pardes. Volume 6). Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940793-36-2 , p. 133.
  • Knut Hickethier, Corinna Müller: Media History of Film. The perfecting of appearances: the cinema of the Weimar Republic in the context of the arts. Verlag Fink, 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3310-0 .
  • Anton Kaes: Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4008-3119-7 , p. 263.
  • Oskar Kalbus: On becoming German film art. Volume 2: The sound film. Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg 1935, pp. 90–92.
  • Thomas Koebner : This side of the "demonic canvas". Ed. Text + Criticism, 2003, ISBN 3-88377-732-3 , p. 216.
  • Torsten Körner: The little man as a star. Heinz Rühmann and his films from the 1950s. Campus Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-593-36754-8 , p. 23.
  • Verena Moritz: Battle zone cinema. Film in Austria 1918–1938. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2008, ISBN 978-3-902531-49-0 , p. 168.
  • Florian Odenwald: The Nazi struggle against the “un-German” in theater and film 1920–1945 (= Munich University Writings Theater Studies / Theater Studies. Volume 8). Verlag H. Utz, 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0632-3 , p. 370.
  • Jutta Sywottek: Mobilization for total war. (= Studies on Modern History. Volume 18). West German Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3-531-05063-X , p. 54.
  • Habakuk Traber, Elmar Weingarten: Repressed music. Berlin composer in exile. Verlag Berliner Festspiele / Argon Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-87024-118-7 , p. 299.
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag Berlin 1956.

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  1. ↑ cf. Ebert p. 382.
  2. ↑ to filmportal.de
  3. ↑ cf. ruehmann-heinz.de and haikosfilmlexikon.de
  4. ↑ After the Ufa-Palast am Zoo with 995 seats, the premier theater Tauentzien-Palast had the most seats of the more than 300 cinemas in Greater Berlin. Films like “Berlin: The Symphony of the Big City” (1927) by Walter Ruttmann or “I kiss your hand, Madame” with Marlene Dietrich and Harry Liedtke (and Richard Tauber's voice) (1929) premiered here, cf. Zglinicki pp. 449-451.
  5. ↑ cf. Ebert p. 382.
  6. ↑ a b The pride of the 3rd company in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used