The Immortal Scoundrel (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The immortal scoundrel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| script | Curt Johannes Braun |
| production | Günther Stapenhorst |
| music | Bert reason |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
| occupation | |
and Sepp Nigg , Bertl Schultes , Hans Hermann Schaufuß , Walter Ladengast , Klaus Pohl , Fritz Lafontaine , Hans Elwenspoek , Erik Frey , Paula Braend , Fred Kallmann , Minna Spaeth , Peter Carsten , Arno Ebert , Uli Steigberg , Adalbert Fuhlrott , Willy Friedrichs | |
The immortal Lump is a German film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Edmund Eysler (music) and Felix Dörmann (libretti) from 1953 , with a slightly different plot . Karlheinz Böhm , Ingrid Stenn and Heliane Bei play the leading roles under the direction of Arthur Maria Rabenalt .
action
The young village school teacher and talented composer Hans Ritter has a good heart that one day will be his undoing. When a storm raged outside one day, he gave an old beggar musician and his underage granddaughter shelter in the school building. Since Ritter also loves Anna, the village organist's daughter, one day he incurs the wrath of the scheming mayor's son, who himself has his eyes on the sweet girl. The rival ensures, allegedly because of the accommodation of the beggar musician and the little girl by Hans, that the teacher is dismissed from the school service and then has to move abroad. In truth, the mayor's son is hoping for better cards from Ritter's sweetheart.
Hans goes to Vienna and submits an opera he composed as part of a competition, which was a huge success. When he learns that his Anna has married the scheming rival at home, Ritter loses all of his creative talent. He fakes his own accidental death and adopts a new name: Petroni. Under this pseudonym he now appears as a simple piano player. In Vienna, Hans / Petroni sees the little begging musician's granddaughter of yore, Luise Freytag, again, who has become a talented speaker who performs in cafés. From now on, they want to travel the world together and perform. When Ritter secretly attends the inauguration of a monument in his honor in his hometown as a disguised “immortal rascal”, Anna meets again. She's widowed in the meantime ...
Production notes
The immortal rag was created in 1953 in Geiselgasteig near Munich (studio) and in Virgen in Tyrol (exterior shots). The film premiered on December 18, 1953 in Freiburg and other cities. The Berlin premiere was on March 18, 1954.
Otto Lehmann was in charge of production, Willi Schatz and Felix Smetana designed the film structures.
The 25-year-old Peter Carsten made his film debut here.
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “Talmi-noble Rührstück, an antiquated model from the thirties in the Marlitt style. The stranded artist with unkempt whiskers and a gloomy, flying - Dutch - look (Karlheinz Böhm) finds redemption in the compassionate love of a noisy café singer. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says succinctly: "Shallow melodrama without anything remarkable in terms of staging, which offers an abundance of emotional inconsistencies apart from reality."
Web links
- The immortal Lump in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The immortal rascal at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Virgen was the location of the first film version of this material in 1929.
- ↑ Short review in Der Spiegel from February 10, 1954
- ↑ The Immortal Scoundrel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .