The 4 journeymen
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The 4 journeymen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Froelich |
| script | Jochen Huth based on his play of the same name (1936) |
| production | Carl Froelich |
| music | Hansom Milde-Meissner |
| camera | Reimar Kuntze |
| cut | Gustav Lohse |
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Die 4 Gesellen (also listed under Die vier Gesellen and Ja, ja, die Liebe ) is a German love comedy from 1938 with Hans Söhnker and Ingrid Bergman , who took on her first German-language film role here. Directed by Carl Froelich .
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Last day of class at the vocational school for the graphic industry in Berlin. Teacher Stefan Kohlund lets his students go into professional life, not without telling the women that it is probably better for them to get married than to have to bite through the tough everyday work. The derogatory macho remark, expressed with smugness and a certain arrogance, challenges the ambitious Marianne Kruge, who definitely wants to make a career. She and her three fellow students Käthe, Lotte and Franziska are a tight-knit team. After everyone else has already left the studio, Kohlund confesses his affection for Marianne in a rather clumsy way and hopes that she will immediately fall into his arms. But she is quite turned off by his kind of "declaration of love" and goes away furiously, not without making it clear to Kohlund that she will be successful as a commercial artist. Kohlund, who wants to leave for Dresden the same evening in order to start a new job at a cigarette factory there the following day, attends the closing party given by the four friends shortly beforehand. There, too, Kohlund Marianne makes comments of the kind that a kitchen apron would look particularly good on her. Then Kohlund has to go to the train station and calls Marianne to say goodbye to the platform number and time. When he actually took the train off, she ran to the train station, only to tell him again that she would assert herself professionally.
From now on, the four young women try to get jobs as commercial graphic artists from companies through which they can prove their skills. Marianne receives one rejection after the other in her job search, and the other three young women are no different. Marianne has the brilliant idea. Why don't the four girls just get together and set up their own graphics and advertising agency, called "The 4 Journeyman"? Käthe, Lotte and Franziska are enthusiastic, and their own small company quickly emerges. Men should not have any influence there, and the motto is: "Business interests come before private interests". The order situation has been poor from the start. This only changes when a cigarette factory puts out an advertising contract. How can Marianne and the other three journeymen suspect that their old teacher Kohlund, of all people, who has just returned to Berlin, is their head of advertising?
But even Stefan Kohlund doesn't know who is behind the "4 journeymen". He likes their presence and gives the advertising contract to the small graphic office on behalf of the cigarette factory. The four girls do an excellent job, which quickly gets around in the industry. Kohlund is amazed at this achievement and has to thoroughly revise his image of women. The 4 journeymen are showered with follow-up orders. Marianne quickly develops an over-zeal and mercilessly drives her three colleagues. A lot of overtime has to be put on in order to meet one's own standards, and the company's motto "Business interests come before private interests" is gradually being softened: The oldest of them, Lotte Waag, met and fell in love with a government councilor and secretly married him. Käthe's conquest, on the other hand, is a precision mechanic with whom she is expecting a child. The patent and by no means embarrassed Franziska wants to get away more and more from practical art and concentrate entirely on her great love, oil painting.
Soon Marianne is pretty much alone with her work frenzy and her idea of an advertising agency. She looks a little resignedly at the oil painting "The 4 journeymen" created by Franziska, which shows her and the three friends at work. Suddenly Stefan Kohlund stands next to her and says that she should stay the way she is. And this time he makes Marianne a much more sensitive and intelligent declaration of love than the first time.
Production notes
Die 4 Gesellen was shot between mid-April and late May 1938 in the Froelich studio in Berlin-Tempelhof . It premiered on October 1, 1938 in Hamburg, and it premiered in Berlin nine days later. Since October 31, 1938, the film could also be seen in Austria (the then " Ostmark ").
The film, which only cost around RM 684,000 , only gained importance due to the fact that the future world star Ingrid Bergman spoke German for the first time in front of the camera (almost without an accent). Later she was only to do this again in 1954 in the Stefan Zweig film adaptation of Angst . Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler , who had the film shown on Obersalzberg in 1938 , gave Die 4 Gesellen little recognition in his traditional, notorious grades. Nevertheless, the strip received the rating "artistically valuable".
Froelich's permanent employee, Friedrich Pflughaupt, was the production manager here too. The film structures were created by Franz Schroedter and carried out by Walter Haag . The later star directors Rolf Hansen and Harald Braun served Froelich as assistant directors.
The only music track was "Deep longing, I have a deep longing in me", sung by Zarah Leander from her film To New Shores, which was released the year before (1937) .
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “This plot deals with a problem, which most of its predecessors missed, without however finding a solution. This may have tempted Ingrid Bergmann to make her role too weighty, which her humor-matched opponents could not balance. Even Slezak didn't really get through. The dialogues have their punch lines, Milde-Meissner's music is abundant. (...) A good medium film with social perspectives. "
"Pleasing and entertaining pre-war comedy."
See also
Web links
- The four fellows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The 4 journeymen at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 9th year 1938. 117.38, p. 220, Berlin 1998
- ↑ cf. Boguslaw Drewniaks The German Film 1938–1945, A Complete Overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 634
- ↑ The 4 journeymen in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The 4 journeymen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
