The little town wants to go to sleep
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The little town wants to go to sleep |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans H. King |
| script | Hans H. King Hans Lacmüller |
| production | Richard King |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Hilde Grabow |
| occupation | |
and Kurt Großkurth , Harry Hardt , Joachim Teege , Walter Sedlmayr | |
The small town wants to go to sleep is a 1953 German small town film posse by Hans H. König with Gustav Fröhlich and Jester Naefe in the leading roles.
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When a postal transport was attacked, the gangsters only stole a sack of compromised mail instead of the money they had hoped for. Six “honorable” dignitaries of the small town as well as the casual worker Oskar Blume, who has had several criminal records, now fear that their delicate and sensitive correspondence could fall into the wrong hands. At that time, the Adenauer years, “spicy” letters and other mail items were things like ordering nude photographs, alimony checks and the like. The sculptor Peter Bruck, who is not particularly respected in the town because of his allegedly “immoral” way of life, quickly comes under suspicion of knowing the contents of the letters. The dignitaries already have a lot of confidence in this outsider, he is an "artist" and a single father too.
Bruck makes fun of it, to scare the local philistines into the limbs and lets the oh-so-respectable citizens, with whom panic spreads, in their faith. Suddenly, the Paria Bruck is very popular in the village, because everyone involved jumps up to him in order not to be denounced by the sculptor as a “sinner”. With Ingrid Altmann, the pretty daughter of the all-powerful government building officer Friedrich Altmann, they even incite a “spy” on his neck, who is supposed to listen to the suspect with all means of female seduction. But Peter sees through the game quickly and even makes friends with that young lady. Finally the whole disreputable “affair” dissolves in favor: The missing mailbag with the little “dirty” secrets reappears safely, and Peter and Ingrid become a couple.
Production notes
The small town wants to go to sleep was shot under the working title Seven sinners in autumn 1953, the exterior shots in Limburg on three days in mid-October of the same year. Further exterior photos were taken in Starnberg, the studio photos in Wiesbaden. The premiere was on February 11, 1954 in Düsseldorf, the Berlin premiere took place on August 10, 1954.
Edgar Röll was production manager. Hans Sohnle and Fritz Lück were responsible for the film construction, Ilse Fehling designed the costumes.
Old star Gerda Maurus ( Woman in the Moon ) gave her farewell performance at the movie.
Reviews
The Limburg local press got excited in February 1954 after the premiere and saw their city depicted in a bad light. The editor of the Nassauer Bote said that director König had slipped into the trivial and vulgar with his hearty story. At one point it says: “Some scenes are even embarrassing and frivolous. (...) Truly, we are not prudes and we know life. But we say: This film doesn't belong on the screen in this form. Because he does not pillory human sins, but with his obscene manner calls for them to be imitated without hesitation. "Even with violent cuts, nothing can be saved, because:" If all the dirt is cut out of this film, there is hardly anything left. "
The Catholic film service struck in the same direction at this time, classified the film as “dangerous” and advised against going to the cinema. Decades later something was verbally disarmed; now the lexicon of the international film read: "The taste-insecure swank is less revealing than suggestive."
The specialist publication Film-Echo No. 7 of February 13, 1954 saw the whole affair much more relaxed: "Staged with a light hand, lively small town story full of delightful episodes."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The little town wants to go to sleep. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Background report on the shooting in Limburg
- The small town wants to go to sleep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The small town wants to go to sleep at filmportal.de