My wife's friends
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My wife's friends |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script |
Jochen Kuhlmey , Thea Brecht |
| production |
Walter Koppel , Gyula Trebitsch |
| music | Willi Kollo |
| camera | Heinz Schnackertz |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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The Friends of My Wife is a German comedy film from 1949 by Hans Deppe . Sonja Ziemann , Carl-Heinz Schroth and Gerda Maurus play the main roles .
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Walter Brinkmann is the epitome of an overly correct, loyal German philistine who always makes sure that morality and order always prevail in his home with his wife and three underage children. The free spirit and lyricist Bernd Freiberg, advised by Walter on financial matters, is the exact opposite of Walter, and he then invites Brinkmann to the cabaret, for which he provides lyrics that his sister Fee sings. Freiberg hopes that the father of the family will thaw something with the flair of a savings bank official and get to know the relaxed and funny sides of life. When Walter actually visits the performance with his wife, Freiberg holds up the mirror to him with a Brinkmann parody. While everyone in the audience laughs, Walter is deeply indignant, believing that the way Freiberg portrays him is not at all. But soon he also realizes that he lacks the lightness of being and that he should dare something, sometimes go overboard, in order to outsmart his own pedantic ego. By an unfortunate circumstance he accidentally became a straw widower because his wife continued on the train without him, one day the opportunity arises to "let the pig out".
So the good family man and loyal father goes back to the cabaret the following evening to watch the young women singing and swinging their legs during their performances. He particularly likes Fee Freiberg, Walter's sister, who works as an entertainer in cabaret. Spießer Brinkmann promptly begins to take a liking to the young woman, and a harmless flirtation begins between the two of them. The teenage Bodo “Bull” Kühn, a friend of Brinkmann's children, gets wind of it and informs the Brinkmann children. They are alarmed and resolve to take care of their “renegade” father while the mother is away. Housekeeper Lotte also secretly climbs up after Walter Brinkmann to see if things are going well. As the three friends of my wife who give the title, Herbert, Uschi and Hänschen Brinkmann chase after their strolling father and steal his wallet so that he doesn't have too much. They also send their mother a telegram asking her to come back as soon as possible. When Grete Brinkmann returns, she recognizes one or the other visual change in her husband. In any case, Walter's Lustwandeln did not harm his marriage, on the contrary: at an encounter between Fee and mother Brinkmann, Grete explains to the artist that she is actually very grateful to her for having “pepped up” her husband a little.
Production notes
My Wife's Friends was made in the late winter of 1949 in the real film studios in Hamburg-Wandsbek and Rahlstedt and was premiered on August 25, 1949 in the Hanseatic city. In Berlin, the film ran in the west of the city on November 4, 1949 and in the east on June 26, 1950.
Co-producer Gyula Trebitsch also took over the production management, Mathias Matthies designed the film structures, Trebitsch's wife Erna Sander the costumes. Paul Grupp assisted chief cameraman Heinz Schnackertz .
This production was a so-called exchange film West Germany / Central Germany.
Reviews
In Der Spiegel 36/1949 it was read: “Director: Hans Deppe, old master specialist for simple film stories with artfully threaded pseudo-complications, mild jokes and hearty undertones. It turned out to be a real dork with music by Willi Kollo, around Carl Heinz Schroth. He turns out to be a classy comedian, an actor who can be reasonably funny. He plays a long-time husband whose linear way of life is harmlessly confused by an almost adventure. But everything turns out well. Because the "friends of my wife", the children, interfere in their own way, as children do in pleasure pieces. Sonja Ziemann is busy looking seductively sophisticated. "
"The films" The Friends of My Wife "," Hafenmelodie "and" Derby ", which premiered in the evening , belong to the common middle genre of film production and do not require any arguments."
"Light entertainment, prepared unpretentiously, but served appetizingly."
Web links
- The friends of my wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My wife's friends at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Critique in Der Spiegel of September 1, 1949
- ↑ Short review in Die Zeit from September 1, 1949
- ↑ My Wife's Friends in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 1, 2019