The world is turning upside down
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The world is turning upside down |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | YES Hübler-Kahla |
| script | JA Hübler-Kahla Kurt Nachmann |
| production | YES Hübler-Kahla |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera |
Anton Pucher Karl Kurzmayer |
| cut | Anna Höllering |
| occupation | |
and Jenny Liese , Harry Halm , Wilhelm Heim , Hans Jungbauer , Heinz Moog , Hedy Fassler , Gisa Wurm , Hans Dressler, Hermann Erhardt , Fritz Hintz-Fabricius , Peter Gerhard , Wolfgang von Schwind , Eduard Sekler, Walter Varndal | |
The world is turning upside down is an Austrian fictional film made in 1946 in the form of a satirical-comedic image of time with Hans Moser in the lead role. The Viennese director JA Hübler-Kahla , who was banned from working in the Third Reich because of his partly Jewish identity , heralded his comeback as a filmmaker here after a ten-year break.
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New Year's Eve 1946. In honor of the birthday child Franz Xaver Pomeisl, an always grumbling, ill-tempered Viennese employee a. D., a small celebration is held. Here Pomeisl puts forward the steep thesis that the past was always better than the present and that the future will be. Even wars, he claims, used to be “not as terrible” as they were in modern times. The biggest mistake in the world is that it keeps turning, says Pomeisl. And while he mourns the supposedly better times and turns the globe upside down, he gets into a wistful, crying mood. With the help of a magic ring that his old friend Pepi gave him for his jubilee party, the lost in thought can turn back time and embark on a journey into Vienna's distant past. A voice sounds from the off: "Franz Xaver Sylvester Pomeisl: You should get to know your" good old days "!"
His journey through time takes him into three different epochs. First we go to the year of the Congress of Vienna in 1814, when Pomeisl, as a small town clerk, on the orders of the Police Council of Creutzinger, is to replace the indisposed Prince Palaszki due to his resemblance and has to maneuver back and forth in this double role between rule and subject. Finally, instead of a war pact like the one the prince would have drawn up, Pomeisl drafted a peace pact. The renewed landing of Napoleon on the mainland in 1815 made this idea obsolete. Then Pomeisl was taken prisoner at the time of the siege of Vienna by the Turks (1683) and after an amusing chat with the military leader Agha he was sent back to his own people as an emissary. Pomeisl's last time station takes him to the ancient Celtic settlement of Vindobona in AD 176, around the time of the birth of what would later become Vienna. Here he has to organize the defense of what will later become Vienna against Roman cohorts and does so by proposing that the Roman invaders be cooked as good hosts and filled with delicious wine. This happens when Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife appear incognito in the settlement. The good hospitality saves Vindobona from destruction.
Pomeisl returns from these epochs with the knowledge that the earlier centuries, the "good old days", were not as wonderful as he always believed, and that the really good times are still to come. "The world is not turning the wrong way, we just have to learn to understand it properly," Pomeisl sums up logically.
Production notes
The shooting of The World Turns Wrong , the fourth Austrian post-war feature film, took place in the film studio of Vienna-Mauer in 1946; the premiere was on February 13, 1947. In Germany, the film was first seen on April 14, 1950 in Wiesbaden.
Josef W. Beyer took over the production management. Werner Schlichting designed the film structures, Albert Bei the costumes. Alfred Norkus set the tone. Georg M. Reuther was an assistant director.
Hans Moser sings (in the Vindobona episode) the song “Somewhere in this world must be a Platzerl”.
Josef Meinrad made his film debut with a Turkish role in Moser's second time travel station, as did Marianne Schönauer , who can be seen in the third episode as the beautiful Roman Empress. Alfred Gerasch as her old husband, on the other hand, gave his farewell performance on the big screen.
Reviews
In the Austrian Film Archive you can read: “THE WORLD ROTATES OUTSIDE is an Austrian alienation. In an artificial studio world, the country's history is filmed into an escapist dream backdrop, a dazzling projection surface for escapes from bitter reality. As Franz Xaver Pomeisl, Hans Moser undertakes melancholy journeys back to (supposedly) happier times. Weltschmerz is his basic attitude - after a few quarters of wine, even past wars seem even better to him than the destroyed Vienna of the present. His deceptive Tour d'Horizon is accompanied by numerous role changes and a loss of identity. "
In March 2020, Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film, said: “A cinematographic history laboratory, a moody and cheerful walk through bygone eras that reveals a lot about Austria's semi-official self-image in the immediate post-war period. The transfiguration of history experiences its programmatic intensification in the main character Franz Xaver Pomeisl (of course Hans Moser!), Who undertakes melancholy journeys back to (supposedly) better times. "
"... staged largely without momentum and esprit ..."
On film.at it says: "A cheerful and adventurous walk through a plot that reveals a lot about Austria's semi-official self-image in the immediate post-war period."
Individual evidence
- ^ Critique by Ernst Kieninger
- ↑ Criticism on diagonale.at
- ↑ The world is turning upside down in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 1, 2020
- ↑ The whole world is turning upside down on film.at
Web links
- The world turns upside in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The world is turning upside down at filmportal.de