Lieschen Müller's dream
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lieschen Müller's dream |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script |
Willibald Eser Helmut Käutner |
| production | Use Kubaschewski |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Günther Senftleben |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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Lieschen Müller's Dream is a German film musical by Helmut Käutner from 1961 , which was also shown under the title Happy-End in Seventh Heaven .
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Lieschen Müller is a small bank clerk in the small town of Dingskirchen, has a little sister with Anni, no longer parents and lives alone. She receives a small salary, goes to the movies every now and then and regularly has lunch at Dane Jan's fast food restaurant. One day customer Dr. Schmidt in her bank and invites her to accompany him as a secretary on a journey through different countries. He gives her an hour to think about it. Shortly afterwards, in the snack bar, Lieschen meets Anni and her friend Paul, who, as a lawyer, is currently calculating the planned vacation, whereby money is tight and his austerity measures make Anni angry. Paul asks Lieschen if she doesn't want to go on vacation with him, but she refuses. Lieschen cannot accept Jan's offer to go to the cinema with her either, as she has to spend the evening working overtime in the office to finish work if she and Dr. Schmidt wants to go on a business trip. Back in the office, Lieschen Müller falls into a daydream:
Lieschen dreams of the sea and tells Dr. Schmidt shortly afterwards to take part in his journey, even if she was aware that what was happening could only happen in a dream world. With Dr. Schmidt drives her to the Hotel Deluxe, where every dream will come true. She wants a simple hotel room that looks like her own apartment at the end of the day, even if it has numerous additional rooms. Dr. Schmidt is satisfied and makes it clear to Lieschen what his real purpose of the trip is. He's not actually a rich man, just a skilled finance broker. He prepared his latest coup in various newspaper articles: he passed Lieschen as the heir of three billion dollars that an Uncle Joe from America bequeathed to her. The money does not exist, but just the great attention and the idea that Lieschen might have the money open all doors for her. With Dr. Schmidt opens a credit institute, of which she becomes president under the name Liz Miller.
Anni and Paul appear because Anni, as a sister, owns half of the property. Dr. Schmidt encourages Paul to sue Lieschen for half the money, which increases public attention and the little lawyer Paul becomes known. Jan, who loves Lieschen, tries in vain to get close to her. Since more and more private secretaries have to be fired from Lieschen because they have fallen in love with the boss, Dr. Schmidt a television quiz in which Lieschen's future husband is to be determined. Jan prevails, who ends up unconventionally through the screen in Lieschen's bedroom. The marriage protocol is strict, so Jan cannot fall in love with Lieschen; the couple only play it on public occasions, never in private. Both appear together in public for the first time on the occasion of a Martian rocket launch. Meanwhile, Paul wins his lawsuit in court. When the court ruled that the entire property must be presented for inspection, Dr. Schmidt stage a bank robbery so that there is no more money and Paul fails with the lawsuit.
Jan begins to get bored at Lieschen's side and flirts with Anni. Dr. Meanwhile, Schmidt suggests that Lieschen marry her; but she just wants a man she loves. She meets with Jan outside of the protocol, but he only shows her contempt. At the end there is a big celebration where the high-ranking guests dance around the golden calf . Jan brings the real "Uncle Joe" with him, whose picture given to the press actually showed a little actor whom Jan has now tracked down. Lieschen has had enough of all this dizziness and announces to the guests that the inheritance was invented. Dr. Schmidt portrays their revelation as a joke. However, when Paul also announced that he had restarted the trial and won, Dr. Schmidt after and he believes he is now being arrested for fraud. However, the great gentlemen make it clear to him that exposing the fraud would cause considerable damage to the state. By a miracle of the economy, the bank has also paid off all debts and is working in the profit range. Jan and Lieschen become a couple through their confession.
Lieschen wakes up in her office where she fell asleep during overtime. Your boss asks you to call it a day. The trip with Dr. Schmidt, who Lieschen cancels, cannot take place anyway because Dr. Schmidt had been arrested for credit fraud. Lieschen leaves her job. She meets Jan again and agrees to take a walk together. A movie poster announces the film The Dream of Lieschen Müller .
Production notes
The film was directed by the production company Co. KG DIVINA-FILM GmbH & manufactured. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The outdoor shots were taken in Berlin , the studio shots from September to November 1961 in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau . The film contains numerous trick effects that were realized by Karl-Ludwig Ruppel and Horst Schier (photo effects) and Flo Nordhoff (animation). The costumes were created by Margot Schönberger , the film construction came from Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger .
The solo dancers are Konstanze Vernon , Gene Reed and John Schapar . Irene Mann realized the choreography . The film is designed as a musical in which numerous songs support the plot. Among other things, you can hear the songs When Lieschen Müller dreams, If heaven were made of paper, Happiness, nobody can buy that, Where is the man and A small family house . Walter Giller , Hardy Krüger and Ruth Leuwerik made a cameo in the film as autograph hunters .
Lieschen Müller's dream premiered on December 19, 1961 in the Berlin Zoo-Palast . On May 20, 1990, Sat 1 showed it for the first time on German television.
Reviews
On the occasion of the film premiere, Der Spiegel wrote that the film lacked wit and tension and that this could not be “brought about by a strenuous abundance of ironically used props and tricky, technically perfect play of colors”. Käutner's work "looks more like a stretched advertising film for modern living culture." The film-dienst called The Dream of Lieschen Müller a "satire on the pacifier bliss of Germans at the time of the economic miracle". It is, however, a “disappointing film, whose wit and satire fall by the wayside and which gets lost in the pussycat mentality that it claims to denounce; stretched as well as confused. "
Awards
The Young Film Critics' second prize in the category “Prize for the worst performance by a well-known director”, which was awarded for the second time in early 1962, went in equal parts to Käutner's films The Dream of Lieschen Müller and Schwarzer Kies .
literature
- Lieschen Müller's dream . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 166.
Web links
- The dream of Jane Smith in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lieschen Müller's dream at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in Germany: The dream of Lieschen Müller . In: Der Spiegel , No. 1, 1962, p. 74.
- ↑ The dream of Lieschen Müller. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Ae: Film prices with a little malice . In: Die Zeit , No. 10, 1962.