Christel from the post office

Movie
Original title	Christel from the post office
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1956
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Karl Anton
script	Franz Marischka
production	Kurt Ulrich for Berolina-Film
music	Werner Müller
camera	Willi Sohm
cut	Annemarie Rokoss
occupation
Gardy Granass : Postman Christel Werner Hardy Krüger : Detective Assistant Horst Arndt Claus Biederstaedt : Mecky Doppler Paul Hörbiger : Hotel owner Ferdinand Brenneis Hannelore Bollmann : Rita Hohenfeld Gunther Philipp : Poldi Blaha Carl Wery : Detective Inspector Egon Hanke Carla Hagen : Postman Ruth Bornemann Lotte Rausch : Housekeeper Ella Lenz Ludwig Manfred Lommel : Botanist Prof. Manfred Hummel Karl Hellmer : Hotel porter Pelzer Wolfgang Neuss : Klabuschke cloakroom Stanislav Ledinek : garden tavern owner Antonio Hilde von Stolz : Anni Klewinski Wulf Rittscher : General Director Klewinski Gretl Theimer : Mrs. Klewinski Hans Schwarz Jr. : House servant Franz Bruno W. Pantel : Otto Erna Haffner

The Christel von der Post is a German Heimatfilm by Karl Anton from 1956. The title refers to the postwoman Christel from Carl Zeller's 1891 operetta The Bird Dealer . Although Christel is also the postman in the film , film and operetta have nothing else in common.

action

The 26-year-old Christel Werner is a postman in Rothenburg ob der Tauber . She and Kriminalassistent Horst are a couple, but Christel suffers because he constantly has to work, yet never earned enough to give her a marriage proposal to make.

Meanwhile, the well-known trumpeter and nephew of the hotel owner Ferdinand Brenneis has arrived at the Hotel Post with Mecky Doppler , who immediately flirts with Christel. However, she rejects him. Only over time do they get closer, especially since Mecky is a good friend of Horst's. He sees the relationship between both of them with displeasure and finally lets Christel go because he cannot reach Mecky's fame.

Meanwhile, numerous new guests have arrived at the hotel, including the rich but absent-minded Rita Hohenfeld. She thinks she is the trumpeter Mecky's mistress, who is now flirting with Christel. Rita, who keeps misplacing her jewelry, finally reports to the police that all of her jewelry has been stolen. The last one to see her the night before was Mecky, who had also recently lost all of his money gambling . Detective assistant Horst finds part of the jewelry box in Mecky's closet and Mecky's cufflink in Rita's room . He must therefore arrest his friend at the behest of his boss. He himself had doubts about the perpetrators of Mecky, who is to appear as a star guest at the Postfest in a few days, and he investigates.

The case resolves on the day of the Post Festival. While the audience is waiting for Mecky's trumpet solo and is already getting restless, Horst tells the robbed Rita that her jewelry has been found. She rushes to her car, in which the jewelry is hidden, is watched by Horst and arrested: she herself had hidden the jewelry, which she had insured a short time before. She wanted to get money quickly through insurance fraud and also get revenge on her unfaithful lover Mecky. Mecky is now free and can appear at the festival. Christel, on the other hand, has recognized that Horst is ambitious and single-minded and has found her way back to him. For the clarification of the case, Horst now even has the prospect of the post of detective inspector.

production

The title goes back to the song Ich bin die Christel von der Post der Briefchristel from the operetta The Bird Trader .

Producer Kurt Ulrich commissioned Franz Marischka to write an exposé for the title Die Christel von der Post , which also had to include a small crime story in order to create a bit of tension. The synopsis met Ulrichs approval and became the basis for the finished script. Marischka was also able to win over the popular Hardy Krüger for the male lead and, at his request, built a scene into the script in which Krüger could show his skills as a boxer.

The shooting took place in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the surrounding area as well as on the Berlin Waldbühne . The film premiered on December 20, 1956 at the World Games in Hanover ; it first ran on television on April 12, 1971.

Three hits can be heard in the film: Papa doesn't want to understand that (today's music) , That is typically Italian and write it to me a thousand times . The Cornel-Trio, Willy Hagara , Kurt Reimann , The Sunnies and the Schöneberger Boys' Choir will sing . Horst Fischer recorded the trumpet solo of "Mecky Doppler" , the Hammond organ accompaniment came from Heinrich Riethmüller .

criticism

The lexicon of international films described Die Christel von der Post as a "[o] perette-like homeland comedy with crime and clothing ingredients."

Cinema described Die Christel von der Post as a "charming delivery woman from staid times."

Web links

• The Christel from the post in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Christel von der Post at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Zwetschi Marischka: Always smile , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 159 f.
2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 544.
3. ↑ See cinema.de