The chaste bon vivant (1952)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The chaste bon vivant |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Boese |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge Peter Paulsen Curth Flatow |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera |
Herbert Körner Ted Kornowicz |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
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The chaste bon vivant is a German love movie fun play from 1952 by Carl Boese with Georg Thomalla , Joe Stöckel , Grethe Weiser and Marianne Koch in the leading roles. The story is based on the Schwank of the same name (1921) by Arnold and Bach .
action
The Rhenish factory owner couple Julius and Regine Seibold have a daughter named Gerty who has just come of age and has lived in Berlin for a year. When she comes home one day, she not only has modern notions about love and marriage with her, but also a much older companion at her side. His name is Dr. Heinz Fellner and is equally wealthy and elegant. This does not fit the Seibolds at all, because they already have the equally efficient and eccentric partner Max Stieglitz in their sights for their Gerty; not least because they absolutely want the company's assets to remain in family ownership. Goldfinch looks rather ossified and rational, but in the eyes of the Seibold parents is at least rock solid and knows how to deal with numbers.
Mother Regine can also understand her daughter, however, the elegant bon vivant Fellner, with his urbane appearance and impeccable manners, does much more than the bone-dry boring Max. In response to father Julius' objection that Gerty's chosen Heinz is a man with numerous "experiences." “Contrary to Gerty, she only wanted someone like that as a future, because her husband should have a reputation as an experienced bon vivant and bon vivant. Father Julius, who actually liked his life like Dr. Fellner now secretly decides to "pimp" Max's past life a little, in other words to add a "past" or a somewhat wicked past life to him, in order to make him interesting for Gerty after all.
Soon the whole city knows: Max Stieglitz had or still has an affair with the star actor Rita Reiner. In the eyes of others, the chaste Max Stieglitz becomes the bon vivant Max Stieglitz. He soon becomes so absorbed in his role and changes in such a way that Mother Seibold actually sees the partner with different eyes and daughter Gerty develops a real interest in him. Things didn't go well for long, because one day Ms. Reiner and her fiancé Walter Riemann visited the city and the bomb burst. After a few more turbulent entanglements, however, Max and Gerty finally find each other and become a couple.
Production notes
The shooting of The Chaste Bon vivant began on May 15, 1952 and ended the following month. The premiere took place on July 17, 1952 in the Stuttgart Universum-Kino, the Berlin premiere was on August 22 of the same year.
Heinz Laaser took over the production management. Emil Hasler designed the film structures implemented by Walter Kutz . Bruno Balz wrote the lyrics for Michael Jary's composition.
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “In the film version of Arnold and Bach's eponymous Schwank, screenwriter Bobby E. Lüthge did not leave any mossy" comedy "game unused. Joe Stöckl, the side-jumping husband of Grethe Weiser, arranges matchmaking lists of wars in order to win his daughter's love for his accountant, the prematurely cranky bachelor Georg Thomalla. Thomalla has to demonstrate again that German comedies are unthinkable without broken dishes and collapsing armchairs. Clumsy rubbish. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Average comedy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The chaste bon vivant" . Brief review in Der Spiegel on July 23, 1952
- ↑ The chaste bon vivant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .
Web links
- The chaste playboy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The chaste bon vivant at filmportal.de