The company gets married (1931)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The company is getting married |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Wilhelm |
| script | Max Glass |
| production | Max Glass Curt Melnitz |
| music | Ernst Steffan |
| camera | Nikolaus Farkas |
| cut | Alwin Elling (sound editor) |
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The company is getting married is a 1930 German comedy by the silent film veteran Carl Wilhelm , whose last staging and only sound film director was this. Ralph Arthur Roberts and Charlotte Ander play the leading roles.
action
Rittmeister a. D. von Werth is a silent partner in a fashion company called Goldzahn & Co. and is anything but enthusiastic about the antiquated business methods of the old owner, Mr. Goldzahn. This led to a dispute between the two gentlemen and Werth's revolutionary renewal proposals, whereupon the owner Goldzahn finally left his own company. The retired Rittmeister turned the entire business inside out and brought in numerous new ideas. In addition to the owner from outside the industry, the face of the new fashion company will now be, of all things, a sausage seller who also has no idea how to run a fashion company. This young woman's name is Trude, but she turns out to be quite patent and soon also to be indispensable. When the boss takes care of his girlfriend Lissy more and more instead of business matters, the shop soon threatens to go down the drain - if it weren't for Trude ...
As Rittmeister von Werth withdrew from the company, the young woman took the reins and kept the fashion business going. Trude's engagement is proving successful, so it is not surprising that she will soon be promoted to First Director. Trude is very popular with her colleagues, but one day she makes a mistake when she jokes around with a company employee, the traveler Philip. The apprentice Sally Friedländer catches her doing it and Trude's fate takes its course. For the successful company manager as well as for her lover, this means the end of a career at von Werth. The old man, whose Lissy doesn’t take loyalty seriously, tries to convince Trude to become his playmate from now on, but she refuses indignantly and indignantly. When Sally also leaves the company, Werth is lost as a businessman without his two best powers. Soon the shop will go into ruin. Werth gives in and asks Trude if she doesn't want to become his wife. Since she had liked her former boss, Trude finally agreed and the company got married.
Production notes
The company marries was founded in October / November 1930 and premiered on January 3, 1931 in Vienna. The Berlin premiere was on January 19, 1931. The film is a slightly modified remake of the silent film fun play of the same name with Ernst Lubitsch , which Wilhelm had made into a film for the first time at the end of 1913.
Co-producer Max Glass also took over the production management. Ernö Metzner designed the film structures. Composer Ernst Steffan also took over the musical direction and wrote the lyrics. The 20-year-old Emil Specht from Heidelberg made his film debut here as a sound engineer.
Reviews
The Wiener Zeitung tore down the strip: “... better pieces came from the Berlin sound film studios, so the poor quality of what is offered here should not be regarded as a norm. Proven forces ... are at work here to get what can be extracted from the couplet-decorated comedy “The company is getting married”, and that is little. (...) The only positive thing is a good presentation that ... is able to elevate the actually pointless film to the level of entertaining nonsense at least for a moment. "
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “There are film materials that are characterized by a lasting traction and whose effectiveness lasts for years, tastes and changes in fashion - which for obvious reasons means significantly more than in the case of a stage play. One such film material is “The company is getting married”. When the silent film “The company is getting married”, starring Ernst Lubitsch, came out about 15 years ago, it was a huge success. This success and its effective subject have been remembered and the latter has been renovated accordingly. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The company is getting married". In: Wiener Zeitung , January 4, 1931, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ "The company is getting married". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , 10 January 1931, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- The company marries the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The company gets married at filmportal.de