The Pants (film)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title The pants
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Hans Behrendt
script Franz Schulz
production Eugen Kürschner for Phoebus-Film
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Carl Drews
occupation

Die Hose is a German silent film from 1927 based on the comedy of the same name by Carl Sternheim . Under the direction of Hans Behrendt , Werner Krauß as a bourgeois, ordinary petty bourgeois and Jenny Jugo as his wife play the main roles.

action

In a small German town during the imperial era. The petty-bourgeois, honest couple, Maske, live an inconspicuous, thoroughly bourgeois life without ups and downs. A big mishap happened to the still young Luise Maske. At the very moment when the prince drives past the central market square and allows his subjects to pay homage, Luise loses her trousers in front of the sovereign. While the person concerned is deeply embarrassed by this mishap, the exposed view of the pretty young woman's legs immediately arouses covetousness in two other men, the hairdresser Mandelstam and an elegant man of the world named Scarron.

While Theobald Mask remains completely trapped in his role of the supposedly decent, average bourgeois who upholds moral values, the other men now have far less honorable intentions. Each of them thinks about how he can win over the attractive Luise and relax the sprawling, boring husband's wife - at least for a temporary, intimate tête-à-tête . While Theobald tries to satisfy his secret desires with the neighbor across the street in his double standard, the competition tries to outdo each other, but fails miserably - on himself. Even the prince has meanwhile cast an eye on Luise. He has her brought to his castle and makes her drunk there to have better chances with her. But Luise, a very good wife, is not used to alcohol and falls asleep happily on the prince's couch.

Production notes

The satire Die Hose is considered to be the most ambitious silent film production by the entertainment film director Behrendt. The film was shot from May to June 1927. The film premiered on August 20, 1927. After the war, Die Hose was shown for the first time on June 3, 1961 as part of an ARD first broadcast.

For Jenny Jugo, who until then had mostly played supporting roles, Die Hose was the ultimate breakthrough to become a film star.

The film structures were designed by Heinrich C. Richter and Franz Schroedter . Veit Harlan , who became known in the Third Reich as the creator of the most notorious anti-Semitic feature film Jud Suss , plays the supporting role of a Jewish hairdresser in Die Hose .

Reviews

The following can be read in the Film-Kurier : “It was a stupid thing to measure against Chaplin, for example. Werner Krauss as Theobald mask is a scientific monstrosity: a tadpole, a very formidable beast that crows and hisses and croaks. When Jenny Jugo looks into the world with her big, questioning, silly child's eyes, she is sometimes irresistible. She has never been, even remotely, so well placed as here. "

Oskar Kalbus ' Vom Becoming German Film Art said: "Werner Krauss as secretary mask gives an unforgettable role, not worked through in a large line, but nothing but mosaic pictures, countless small individual features, which make this film a chamber play."

Reclam's film guide judged the film: “A carefully staged“ actor film ”, which above all gave Werner Krauss the opportunity for a sophisticated and effective caricature of the small-town philistine. From the morning shave to the bowling evening, the anxious, happy-go-lucky man lives here, whose whiskers tremble in indignation - as long as there is no danger associated with this indignation, but who has the most submissive kippers at his disposal if it is to his own advantage. "

The Lexicon of International Films writes: "Famous silent film satire [...] on phariseeism and subservience in a German royal seat before 1914. The plot caricatures the marital infidelity of a beautiful civil servant's wife, triggered by a ridiculous mishap."

literature

  • Joachim Reichow: The pants. In: Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. 2nd Edition. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , p. 154 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film-Kurier No. 197 of August 22, 1927.
  2. ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film. Berlin 1935, p. 75.
  3. ^ Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski: Reclams film guide. Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-15-010204-9 , p. 71.
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films. Volume 3, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, p. 1675 f.

Web links