The laughing vagabond (film)

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Movie
Original title The laughing vagabond
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Thomas Engel
script Fritz Böttger ,
Per Schwenzen
production Willy Zeyn film
music Charly Niessen
camera Heinz Hölscher
cut Ilse Voigt
occupation

Sing and play it:

Der lachende Vagabund is a German hit film by Thomas Engel from 1958. The title refers to the popular hit Der lachende Vagabund , whose interpreter Fred Bertelmann played the leading role in the film. Susanne Cramer , Hans Nielsen , Ursula Herking , Christiane Maybach , Hugo Lindinger and Bum Krüger as well as Conny Froboess , Angèle Durand and Ralph Bendix play leading roles .

action

Fred Berghoff, reporter for the Abend-Express, leaves his fiancée Pia Hollebusch standing at the altar. Not because he does not want to marry her, but because Pia's aunt Olga Vogelsang threatened to turn off the money on the Abend-Express in the event of a marriage, as Vogelsang-Werke owns a fifty percent stake in the newspaper. The paper is run by Olga's brother, who is Pia's father - and since Pia is the only heir to the Vogelsang works, she is supposed to marry a man who can later take over the works. Olga doesn't trust Fred to do this because she only sees a little scribe. Fred announces that he will make the Evening Express one of the largest newspapers.

His opportunity arises when Olga receives a letter from her husband Otto, the general director of Vogelsang-Werke, while talking to him . He announces to her that he is leaving her and the city in order to finally be free and live a stray. On his way, Otto first meets the young singer Conny, with whom he dances. A little later his expensive things are stolen from him while bathing and he is left behind with the ragged clothes he left behind and without money or papers. He is picked up by Fred, who has set out to find Otto: He wants to accompany him on his “outbreak” and secretly process this in a series of articles that is to appear regularly in the Abend-Express. Since Otto has never seen Fred, Fred does not reveal his identity to him either.

Both men wander through life, begging and singing their own food and even getting hired as stuntmen to earn money. The articles that Fred writes after the experiences make the Evening Express a bestseller. After a short time, however, Fred is plagued by a guilty conscience and he reveals his true identity to Otto. However, he is excited to finally get to know his almost son-in-law, because Olga's refusal to marry Fred and Pia was the reason why Otto moved into the world - he could no longer bear his wife's pants on at home. Otto now makes suggestions on how the articles could be made even more sensational.

Fred and Otto keep getting into strange situations: They end up with the actress Diana and flee from her jealous fiancé Jacomo; A short time later, they are abused by the bar owner Annabella as a smuggler for stolen goods without her knowledge , but they literally lay them at the feet of a police officer. In the end, they earn money as an advertising medium for a hotel on the Riviera .

Pia and Olga also stayed at this hotel. They were driven here by Bastian, a real vagabond who had stolen Otto's suit some time ago and now feels responsible for his family. Together with Bastian and the gypsy violinist Hilario, the two women plan to give their husbands a lesson. They both lead to a gypsy camp, where Hilario actually wants to marry his bride the next day. However, they pretend that Fred had been announced in the camp as the groom for the daughter of the gypsy baron Enrico. After Fred has passed a peculiar marriage ritual, he is now supposed to kidnap the veiled bride and marry. In the end, she turns out to be Pia and Fred is only too happy to agree to the marriage. Olga and Otto also finally reconcile.

Production, publication

The laughing vagabond was filmed in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau ; the exterior shots were taken in Yugoslavia , the trailer z. B. in Rovinj . Various hits are sung in the film. The theme of the film is the title-giving hit The laughing vagabond (music: Jim Lowe , text: Peter Mösser ), sung by Fred Bertelmann. Bertelmann also sings the title But your name is Pia… . Conny Froboess presents the track Blue Jean Boy , Angèle Durand sings Rubino and Ralf Bendix can be heard with the hit Die Sonne von Andalucia . The orchestra Erwin Lehn and the Südfunk Orchester will play, musical arrangements will be performed by Erich Becht , Gert Wilden and Heinz Simon.

The theatrical release of the film was on October 17, 1958. In Denmark, the film was from April 27, 1959 under the title Den leende Vagabond in the cinema and in the Netherlands from July 10, 1959.

The film was released on DVD by Eurovideo Bildprogramm GmbH on September 7, 2006, it is also included in the "Fred Bertelmann Collection 2", which was published by Concorde Video on December 1, 2011, and the film Songs sound on Lake Maggiore contains. On May 3, 2012, Concorde Video released the single film on DVD.

criticism

The lexicon of international films described the film as a "Schlagerlustspiel that can withstand even modest demands with difficulty."

Cinema said, “Yeah, those were the days when homelessness was considered a fun thing to do. At least that is what reporter Fred Berghoff […] does at the end of the 50s, who wanders south with business captain Otto Vogelsang […] disguised as a beggar. Cheerful adventures are waiting for them ... but not for spectators who do this old-fashioned slapstick. Conclusion: The vagabond laughs. But only he. "

Kino.de saw it similarly and wrote: “Harmless comedy from the economic boom, in which pop star Fred Bertelmann tries out the vagabond life as a reporter.” The title represents “at the same time the greatest musical success of singer and main actor Fred Bertelmann”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The laughing vagabond see page filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2142.
  3. ↑ The laughing vagabond. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on April 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The laughing vagabond see page kino.de. Retrieved June 13, 2020.