The engagement in Zurich
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The engagement in Zurich |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script |
Barbara Noack Heinz Pauck Helmut Käutner |
| production |
Real film , Hamburg ( Gyula Trebitsch ) |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Heinz Pehlke |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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The Zurich engagement is a German feature film from 1957 by Helmut Käutner based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Noack with Liselotte Pulver , Paul Hubschmid and Bernhard Wicki in the leading roles.
action
After an argument with her friend Jürgen, the writer Juliane "Julchen" Thomas seeks distance and consolation from her uncle Julius in Berlin. A rowdy emergency patient nicknamed "Buffalo" appears in his dental practice. He is accompanied by his friend, the charming Zurich doctor Jean Berner, with whom Julchen falls in love on the spot. A little later, when Juliane presented a screenplay to a film production company in which she told exactly this story, she met “Buffalo” there, whose real name is Paul Frank and who is supposed to direct the filming of her book.
“Büffel” seems to like “Julchen”. He sees through her announcement that she wants to get engaged for the upcoming Christmas in Zurich as a hoax. But he offers her to take her with him in the car to Zurich on this occasion, as he and his son "Pips" are traveling to St. Moritz over New Year's Eve. In the hope of meeting Jean there again, Juliane agrees. In order not to have to get off the car in Zurich, she invents the story during the trip that her engagement to a "Mr. Uri" has to be postponed because the father of the future groom died unexpectedly. In St. Moritz, Juliane befriends “Pips” and Jean joins them too. "Buffalo", who is secretly amused by her invented stories, engages an unemployed actor who pretends to be "Mr. Uri" in order to pick up Juliane. Jean introduces Juliane to his conservative family, and Juliane soon realizes that she doesn't fit into this world and that she is in love with "Buffalo". Juliane and Jean split up in friendship, and Jean encourages Juliane to reveal herself as "buffalo".
After further involvement, Juliane and "Büffel" meet again in Hamburg to watch the finished film together. It comes to a happy ending, which “Pips” is also happy about, who can now come home from boarding school.
background
The film was produced from December 27, 1956 to February 28, 1957 in the Real-Film-Studios Hamburg-Wandsbek . The outdoor shots were taken in Zurich , Heidelberg , Hamburg and St. Moritz . The premiere took place on April 16, 1957 at the World Games in Hanover .
An inside gag is that both Liselotte Pulver (from Bern) and the director (back then only as a film role) Bernhard Wicki were Swiss citizens who played Germans from Hamburg and Berlin. Paul Hubschmid, who plays a Swiss doctor, was also Swiss.
In supporting roles are u. a. Werner Finck as Uncle Julius, Wolfgang Lukschy as ex-boyfriend Jürgen, Sonja Ziemann as the leading actress in the film based on Julchen's script, Rudolf Platte as Julchen's “Zurich fiancé” and Roland Kaiser as “Pips”, “Büffel's” lively son.
Helmut Käutner made a cameo as a journalist with the text: “I don't know. I don't think it's right for directors to act in their own films. "
In a remake of the film for television ( Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe ), broadcast on ARD on December 14, 2007, Lilo Pulver had a cameo as herself in the final scene.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film: Charming comedy with enjoyable swipes at the German film industry and full of tongue-in-cheek irony .
- Protestant film observer: A girl turns her initially disappointing heartfelt experiences into a film story and offers it to a film company. A director not only takes pleasure in the subject matter, so that it comes to entanglements, which this comedy presents with spirit, wit and charm.
literature
- Barbara Noack : The Zurich engagement. Novel . Unabridged edition, 12th edition. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1993, 217 pages, ISBN 3-548-20042-7
- Liselotte Pulver : Zurich engagement, in: dies .: What passes is not lost. Hamburg 2019. pp. 65–70.
Web links
- The Zurich engagement in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Zurich engagement at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: The Zurich engagement - script for love. Tittelbach.tv , December 14, 2007, accessed on March 2, 2017 . - The Zurich engagement - screenplay to love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ The Zurich engagement. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Critique No. 283/1957