The detours of beautiful Karl

Movie
Original title	The detours of beautiful Karl
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1938
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Carl Froelich
script	Harald Braun , Jacob Geis , Philipp Lothar Mayring
production	Carl Froelich
music	Hansom Milde-Meissner
camera	Reimar Kuntze
cut	Gustav Lohse
occupation
Heinz Rühmann : Karl Kramer Karin Hardt : Grete Wernicke Albert Florath : Father Wernicke Claire Reigbert : Mother Wernicke Sybille Schmitz : Lu Donon Ernst Legal : Old Albert Paul Westermeier : Otto Huebner Leo Peukert : Heinz Balzer Margarete Kupfer : Aunt Knifke Paul Bildt : Privy Councilor Roderich Donon Werner Finck : journalist Carl Günther : Racing team owner Hoinken Kurt Seifert : Horse Wenzel Hugo Froelich : Neddebom spirits manufacturer Hansi Arnstaedt : Baroness Carl Heinz Carell : Counselor Siebenhütter

The detours of the beautiful Karl is a German comedy based on the novel of the same name by Paul Enderling from 1920 , edited by Klaus S. Richter. The premiere took place on January 31, 1938 in the Capitol am Zoo in Berlin .

action

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea . But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself. Over the winter he gets a job in the best Berlin wine bar and, through the acquaintance of the daughter of a wealthy member of the Reichstag and various fortunate circumstances, he gains access to the top ten thousand in the city, where he gives the bon vivant and keeps his actual job secret. In the course of time he has almost completely forgotten his Grete on the Baltic Sea. Only with great effort does he find his way back to her.

Reception and criticism

The comedy tries to ridicule the Weimar Republic and the democracy that existed in Germany until 1933 . The the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda imputed film testing , the National Socialist German Reich for film censorship and Filmprädikatisierung responsible, gave the film the title of "artistic value".

The Catholic Film Service described the film as a "comedy in which the Weimar Republic, as is usual in the Hitler state, is caricatured as a playground for corrupt party politicians".

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Heinz Rühmann: That's it. Memories . 15th edition Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 286, ISBN 3-548-20521-6 .
2. ↑ Cf. The detours of the beautiful Karl in the film dictionary .

Web links

• The detours of the beautiful Karl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The detours of the beautiful Karl at filmportal.de