The Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
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| Original title | The Feuerzangenbowle |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script | Helmut Käutner |
| production | Rialto Film ( Horst Wendlandt ) |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Jane Sperr |
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Die Feuerzangenbowle is a German comedy film that was filmed in West Berlin and Wolfenbüttel in the summer of 1970 under the direction of Helmut Käutner . The film producer Horst Wendlandt tried with the remake of the eponymous novel by Heinrich Spoerl and the classic film of the same name on the commercial success of the film series The clown of the first bank to participate. The premiere of the film took place on September 18, 1970 in Berlin's Gloria-Palast , the nationwide mass start took place one day later.
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Over a fire tong punch , a group of men tell stories from their school days. The successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer envies his friends the fun they had at school. He was denied such a thing because he was brought up by a tutor. His friends then decide to dress him up as a schoolboy and let him go to a "real" school for a few weeks.
History of origin
prehistory
As early as 1961, Rialto Film had announced a remake of the Heinz Rühmann film So ein Flegel with Peter Alexander and Johanna von Koczian and had to postpone it again and again. When the film, based on the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle by Heinrich Spoerl, was about to be realized again in 1968, the planned director Rolf Thiele and alongside Peter Alexander the actors Cornelia Froboess , Anita Kupsch , Heinz Erhardt and Boyd Bachmann.
After the success of the film To Hell with the Paukern in April 1968, the responsible Constantin film distributor decided without further ado to bring the second part of the film series Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank to the cinemas as a Peter Alexander film instead of So ein Flegel . Wendlandt now produced the "Lümmel" continuation Zum Teufel mit der Penne under the direction of Werner Jacobs . In 1969 Wendlandt made the unofficial "Lümmel" film Klassenkeile with Uschi Glas and Walter Giller (director: Franz Josef Gottlieb ) for Constantin-Verleih .
In 1970, Wendlandt was able to win over the renowned director Helmut Käutner for his long-planned Spoerl film , who had not directed a feature film since 1964 ( rascal stories ). Since the Constantin-Filmverleih had already planned for the second half of the year the school clothes music, music - because the penne wobbles , Wendlandt reached an agreement with the Inter-Filmverleih, which was hoping for a good deal from Die Feuerzangenbowle . With Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen and Rudolf Schündler , some prominent actors from the real "Lümmel" films stood in front of the camera. In addition, one saw Walter Giller, Fritz Tillmann , Willy Reichert , Helen Vita , Nadja Tiller and Hans Richter , who was already involved in the famous film adaptation from 1944 .
production
The shooting took place from June 30th to August 7th, 1970 in West Berlin and to a large extent in Wolfenbüttel . The registry office on the town market was converted into the Hotel Axmacher, and the gymnasium in the castle also served as a film set. The high school is today's Gail-S-Halvorsen -Schule in Berlin-Dahlem. Most of the recordings were shot there. Pfeiffer and the other Pennäler sway with singing around the Herzog-August-Monument on the Wolfenbüttel city market. The coffee garden was set up on the green space between the Herzog August Bibliothek and the Lessinghaus , in which Pfeiffer, in his inimitable manner, sits at the table of the school director Knauer without being asked to impress his wife. While walking around the Wolfenbütteler Stadtgraben, Hans and Eva made their first tender bonds.
The studio recordings were made in the Ufa film studios in Berlin-Tempelhof . The film architect was Michael Girschek. Ingrid Zoré designed the costumes . As usual, Helmut Käutner's wife Erica Balqué took on the assistant director's position . The film composer in charge was Bernhard Eichhorn , who had worked regularly with Käutner since 1940.
reception
The FSK released the film on September 18, 1970, on the day of its premiere, for people aged six and over. The nationwide mass start followed a day later. The premiere in Wolfenbüttel took place on September 26, 1970 in the sold out Filmpalast on Langen Strasse, in the presence of the main actors Walter Giller, Nadja Tiller and Uschi Glas.
The remake did not achieve the popularity of the film of the same name with Heinz Rühmann . But the commercial success was more than satisfactory and encouraged the film producer Wendlandt to produce another comedy two years later, the main thing being holidays , which is set in a student and teacher milieu.
From July 1971 the distribution of the film Die Feuerzangenbowle was taken over by Constantin-Filmverleih. The Inter-Filmverleih had to go after some failures like Blonde Bait for the Murderer or How did such a lovely girl get into this business? (both 1970) file for bankruptcy in early 1972.
Reviews
"Compared to the version from 1944, this school satire - despite being directed by Helmut Käutner - lacks atmosphere, wit and charm."
"[The film is] less caricaturing than the model from 1944."
"Although Helmut Käutner staged ( Große Freiheit No. 7 ), the original whistle is missing."
"No comparison with the original."
“Remake of the cheerful novel by Heinrich Spoerl, which (with the exception of Walter Giller in the main role) cannot hold its own against the first film version (1944). Still a better representative of the 'louting' film genre, which one can look at with a bit of amusement. "
See also
Web links
- The Feuerzangenbowle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Feuerzangenbowle at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 96 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2731 meters
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Feuerzangenbowle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 42 771 DVD).
- ↑ a b c Entry on the film in the Lümmel blog Reloaded
- ↑ Joachim Kramp: The louts are on the loose! in the Lümmel blog Reloaded
- ↑ The Feuerzangenbowle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 416/1970