The third from the right

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Movie
Original title The third from the right
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Géza from Cziffra
script Geza from Cziffra
production Walter Koppel ,
Gyula Trebitsch
music Michael Jary
camera Willy Winterstein
cut Alice Ludwig-Rasch
occupation

The third from the right is a German music and revue film from 1950 by Géza von Cziffra , who had a great revue film success as early as 1943 with The White Dream . Vera Molnar can be seen in the title role . Hollywood returnees Peter van Eyck plays at her side .

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The young and not particularly successful dancer Katrin, so far only listed among her own kind as “third from the right”, the synonym for a nameless showgirl, finally wants to make a great career. That is why she is also gullible on the greasy Mr. Schneider, the financier of a traveling dance troupe of a revue. To pave her career, he lures Katrin into his apartment for alleged dinners. But before it can come to the extreme, the stout bald man is shot by an unknown person. Before Katrin knows it, she has been involved in a tricky criminal case involving the theft of valuable costumes adorned with precious stones and gold. She promptly becomes the main suspect.

Numerous different types populate the scenery. Katrin is also suspected of having been involved in the attack on Schneider and falls into the crosshairs of the experienced detective superintendent Metz. When suddenly the entire show troupe disappears, things become more and more mysterious. Who is behind the criminal machinations? Is it the gambling-addicted conductor and head of the troupe, Renato, his disappointed lover Asta, the seemingly harmless factotum Hahnchen, the shady cabaret owner Braun, Katrin's dance partner Viktor or perhaps even the “good soul” Lotte? In the end everything dissolves in favor: After the head dancer has failed, Katrin has the chance of her life and can step forward from the back row of the nameless showgirls and now gets the main dancing role in the new revue.

Production notes

The third from the right was filmed from September 27, 1950 in the new large studio of Hamburger Real-Film , a three-story hall and premiered on December 25, 1950 in numerous German cities.

Gyula Trebitsch took over the production management, Werner Pohl ensured the good tone. Herbert Kirchhoff designed the film structures. In view of the enormous equipment requirements, he and the costume designer Paul Seltenhammer were particularly challenged this time. As Der Spiegel reported in its 40/1950 issue, “Architect and Head of Equipment Herbert Kirchhoff ... rolled over the international review literature for the“ third from the right ”. He put revue pictures with exhausting stair constructions, ambitious black glass parquet, skyscrapers and jungle trees in the studio hall. Before that, he built it to measure in the model. In the meantime, Boss Koppel did not get annoyed to travel to Paris himself to study the Parisian review atmosphere at the source. Paul Seltenhammer designed the over 200 costumes for him. He used to dress the ladies at the Folies Bergeres in Paris. "

Artistic performances

useful information

This film actually consists of two films: one with the storyline and the other with the song, dance and revue scenes: there is no connection between the revue scenes and the plot; that's why a number girl on roller skates announces the revue pictures from singing, ballet and show orchestra.

The third from the right was a great success with the public, it “beats almost all box office records”. As a result, numerous other production companies tried to emulate this, and the result was an age of West German revue films that lasted around a decade. Together with the two other box office and audience hits of 1950, Schwarzwaldmädel and Das doppelte Lottchen , the third from the right marked the final end of the so-called debris film : “For years, German film had to turn to larger and more serious topics, not least for lack of equipment. Now there is no need to save any more. The German economic miracle has already begun. So: away with the problem films! Towards the equipment! "

Reviews

In Curt Riess ' Das There's only once can be read: “Instead of a story there is only a so-called red thread. It is of course a young dance girl, the third person from the right who is making a career and finally getting her partner to be a husband. That's all. Between countless singing and a few dance scenes, we can experience a lot of equipment. And the director has this set photographed as if he wanted to point it out to us again and again: just look what it cost! "

“Everything is double and multiple, the sheer mass stands for what is missing in life: wealth, glamor and carelessness, pleasure travel and eroticism. This is the timbre of a film without a present or a past. (...) Because the plot is a bit poor and the revue is so opulent, Vera Molnar, who had just learned to dance and sing, is not very prominent in the picture. (...) With the many dance and song numbers, Herbert Kirchhoff's lush architecture almost seems natural. "

"Comparatively lavishly equipped hit and revue film with humorous and criminalistic elements in the style and taste of the 50s."

- Lexicon of International Films

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report “ Close your eyes and jump” in Der Spiegel from October 4, 1950
  2. ↑ The third from the right on newfilmkritik.de
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, October 4, 1950
  4. ↑ a b c Curt Riess: There's only one. The book of German film after 1945. Henri Nannen Verlag, Hamburg 1958, p. 298 f.
  5. ↑ criticism on newfilmkritik.de
  6. ^ The third from the right in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 1, 2019 Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used

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