The real Jacob (1931)

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Movie
Original title The real Jacob
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1931
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK youth ban at the time
Rod
Director Hans Steinhoff
script Walter Wassermann
Walter Schlee
production Lothar Stark
Anatol Potok
music Artur Guttmann
Hans J. Salter
camera Karl Puth
occupation

The true Jakob (title in Austria and working title: Das Mädel vom Varieté ) is a German comedy film from 1931 directed by Hans Steinhoff . The leading roles are occupied by Ralph Arthur Roberts , Anny Ahlers , Felix Bressart and Hansi Arnstaedt .

The film is based on the eponymous stage swing of Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach , known as the author duo Arnold and Bach .

action

City councilor Peter Struwe, who has devoted himself to moral behavior and virtue, is the focus of the moral association in Pleißenbach. He orients himself in his zealous efforts to his uncle, Privy Councilor Stülpnagel, who surpasses him in this respect. You live together in the same house. For Struwe's second wife, Mila, the zeal with which both men inflict anyone who, in their opinion, is not behaving properly is difficult to bear. Mila has so far avoided telling her husband Peter that her daughter Yvette has accepted a job as a dancer in a renowned vaudeville theater in the capital. He thinks his stepdaughter is still in Canada.

When Struwe, together with the cashier Böcklein, accepted an invitation that invited the respective board of directors of all moral associations to a congress in the capital, he deliberately went to a vaudeville show with them, as the picture of one of the dancers that Mila pointed out to him had, was extraordinarily delighted. Of course, he previously feigned indignation towards his wife. When he faces the attractive dancer who introduces herself to him as Yvette, he doesn't even waste the thought that this could be his stepdaughter. However, the young woman makes fun of showing off her stepfather in his narrow-mindedness. Since she is protected from approaches by men by her friend James Ellison, it is up to Mila, who has followed her husband, to initiate him about the game planned by her daughter and her. And in fact, Yvette manages to bewitch her stepfather in such a way that he is no longer even interested in the congress. The cashier Böcklein also gets lost and ends up in an amusement bar. Since he likes it exceptionally well among the nice girls and in the relaxed atmosphere, he lets the congress be congress.

Back in Pleißenbach, Privy Councilor Stülpnagel wants to know everything about the conference and also about the stink bombs that blew up the event according to the radio news. Struwe and Böcklein fall from the clouds, because of course they have no idea what actually happened at the congress. But things get worse, only Struwe's daughter Lotte arrives from his first marriage, who has been expelled from boarding school because of a quarrel with the student Fred. And then Yvette appears, falls around Struwe's neck and doesn't want to be persuaded by him to leave again. Fortunately, Mila clears everything up and so it also dissolves that Yvette is her daughter. Last but not least, Lotte and Fred get back together and Yvette even wants to go to the altar with her James. But above all Mila is very happy about her successful experiment, because her Peter now knows how to differentiate between real joie de vivre and recklessness. He has finally buried his prejudices and the real Jacob has emerged.

Production and film launch

The film was produced by Lothar Stark-Film GmbH (Berlin). On March 7, 1931 he was banned from young people under the number B.28411 by the censorship authority, the Berlin Film Inspectorate, which was confirmed on March 12 under the number B.20070. On March 18, 1931, this ban was confirmed again by the Oberprüfstelle under number O.02030 and remained in place when it was checked again on July 15, 1934 under number O.07375.

After the National Socialists took power in Germany, the film was banned under their pressure by the film inspection agency on April 17, 1934.

The film premiered in Germany on March 16, 1931. In the United States it ran under the title True Jacob and was first performed on August 6, 1931. In Sweden it started on January 9, 1932 under the title På vift fast gift and in Greece under the title O diavolakos .

Further films

Songs in the movie

  • Sunday, this is my Friday ..
  • Love comes without asking much .. ,

both sung by Igo Guttmann.

criticism

Karlheinz Wendtland said that the subject of moral apostles being caught as sinners of virtue was of course not new. The decisive factor, however, is that "the actors guard against exaggerations". It is interesting what Dr. Koch would have stated in the film week : “So nothing new, from the first picture to the last scene. The only new thing is that Felix Bressart is much stronger than Ralph Arthur Roberts, whose comedy, which is all too effective, shatters Bressart completely in this fine, thin dryness. Bressart is, in contrast to Roberts, the superior: Roberts is suddenly the tire holder for the new speaker Felix ... The audience was thrilled. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The true Jakob censorship decisions difarchiv.deutsches-filminstitut.de
  2. ↑ a b Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies, born in 1931, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first edition 1989, second revised edition 1991, p. 69, film 47/1931. ISBN 3-926945-09-5