The double husband

Movie
Original title	The double husband
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1955
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ferdinand Dörfler
script	Rudolf Dortenwald
production	Dörfler film production , Ferdinand Dörfler
music	Peter Igelhoff
camera	Erich Claunigk
cut	Jutta Hering
occupation
Joe Stöckel : a) Otto Koblanck b) August Schmitt Grethe Weiser : Grethe Koblanck Peer Schmidt : Heinz Krämer Ingeborg Cornelius : Dolores Gonzales Ingrid Pan : Inge Koblanck Georg Lehn : Fritz Schneider Oliver Hassencamp : Fernando Gonzales Ingrid Lutz : Kitty, bar singer Erika von Thellmann : Klothilde Kümmerling Ellen Hille : Klara Berger Alfred Schrempf : Paul Berger Barbara Born : Linchen Berger Carla Hagen : Anna Joseph Offenbach : Bailiff Wastl Witt : taxi driver Elise Aulinger : welfare officer Eduard Linkers : Bachwitz Werner Lieven : Hotel porter Leo Siedler : Hotel manager

The double husband is a German feature film by Ferdinand Dörfler from 1955 . The main roles are occupied by Joe Stöckel in a double role, Grethe Weiser , Peer Schmidt , Ingeborg Cornelius and Ingrid Pan .

action

Heinz Krämer, who works part-time as a pianist in a somewhat better hotel bar, is in love with Inge Koblanck. Their parents are Otto Koblanck and his wife Grethe, who own a prosperous fur fashion store. As is so often the case in life, Grethe doesn't think that Heinz is the right man for her daughter. In order to convince his future mother-in-law, he gives her his latest invention. It is a mini camera including a transmitter with which Grethe can constantly monitor her husband when he is out and about. And that is also necessary, because Otto is not a child of sadness when it comes to flirting with young women. What Grethe now sees on the screen is worse than she expected. Otto is in the arms of Dolores Gonzales, a South American beauty. What Otto does not know, however, is that she and her husband Fernando only want to take a large amount of money from the Liebestollen.

When Grethe confronts her husband with his extramarital aberrations, the latter believes in his wife's clairvoyant abilities. But Grethe Koblanck makes a mistake because she treats the maid badly. But like every good maid, this pearl knows more than her employer suspects and this knowledge is now passed on to the landlord. Otto now knows the reasons for his wife's omniscience and is looking for a way out. Then he remembers August Schmitt, a gentleman who looks astonishingly like him. He hires him as his doppelganger, who is now on the road with the camera. It was not foreseeable, however, that August, like Otto, had a strong urge to have beautiful women and now begins to work the prepared field. Grethe is watching on the TV how “her husband” gets into precarious situations when he walks through the door into the room. Is she beginning to doubt her sanity, or does she have a "double husband"? But Grethe recovers and begins energetically to clean up. After the big mess, in which even slaps are distributed, the company ends peacefully united at Heinz and Inge's wedding table. Otto is happy to have once again escaped all dangers.

Production, publication

The shooting for the film produced by Dörfler Film took place in Munich in 1955 in the Bavaria-Atelier Munich- Geiselgasteig .

The film had its world premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on July 14, 1955 in the Kino Palast in Stuttgart. On July 1, 2016, the film was released on DVD by SJ Entertainment.

criticism

For the lexicon of international films , it is a “silly film twinge” in which the “urban Bavarian comedian Joe Stöckel” in the double lead role of the film set “in the urban Munich milieu” “looks just as out of place as Grethe from Berlin Wise ”.

On the page Kino.de one was also of the opinion that it was a "silly comedy about a cheater", "who sends his double to his wife". Ferdinand Dörfler makes use of “the repertoire of the mistaken comedy moth box from the repertoire that is all too often drawn to light, and does not leave out any silliness. The main problem [is] the local color, which is supposed to be exuded by the urban Munich as well as by the old Bavarian dialect of the main actor Joe Stöckel - which of course doesn't want to fit into the metropolis any more than its female counterpart, the Berlin-based Schnute Grethe Weiser. Some thigh knockers for low demands [are] there in any case ”.

Web links

• The double husband in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The double husband at filmportal.de
• The double husband see page doerfler-film.de (including film poster and trailer)
• The double husband Fig. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 2809 (in the picture Joe Stöckel (double), Grethe Weiser)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The double husband Fig. DVD cover Dörfler Film
2. ↑ The double husband. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 21, 2020 .  
3. ↑ The double husband see page kino.de. Retrieved February 21, 2020.