The clever mother-in-law

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Movie
Original title The clever mother-in-law
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1939
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Max Wallner
Werner P. Zibaso
Heinz Becker-Trier
production Peter Ostermayr
music Ludwig Schmidseder
camera Herbert Körner
cut Paul May (as Paul Ostermayr)
occupation

The clever mother-in-law (reference title: Schmidt and Schmidtchen ) is a 1939 German comedy of confusion, directed by Hans Deppe . The main roles are occupied by Ida Wüst , Charlott Daudert , Christian Gollong and Georg Alexander . The script is based on an idea by Paul Rischke .

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After the death of her husband, a confectioner owner, Ms. Böhler continues to run the main business in Frankfurt am Main in an energetic and confident manner. She also keeps an eye on the branches of her cafés in Baden-Baden and Cologne. The couple dreamed of giving each of their daughters one of their cafes. However, the eldest married an engineer in Bamberg and the other a doctor in Dortmund. Mrs. Böhler is determined to steer her youngest daughter Anni in the right direction, so that at least Anni chooses a man from the confectionery industry and so the family business can be preserved. She thinks she has found the right candidate in the young Bockelmann who runs the branch in Baden-Baden. However, there is one crucial catch: Anni is in love with the chemist Robert Schmidt, who works at the Florida cosmetics factory in Berlin. Robert is very talented in his job, but has little assertiveness and remains meek even when his colleagues play a trick on him again, which often happens. In the plant he is usually called Schmidtchen to differentiate himself from Conny Schmidt, the director of the plants. Since Anni is pushing for a marriage, Robert goes to director Schmidt and asks for more salary, which he is denied. The young chemist received a letter from his possibly future mother-in-law, which she wrote in her resolute manner and which is giving Robert a lot of trouble. He even toyed with the idea of ​​doing without Anni. However, his friends, with whom he also shares a flat, manage to get Robert back up. His circle of friends consists of the musician Hans Giebel, the talented young singer and cabaret artist Rosita, the writer Peter Wißmann and his colleague Toni Leitner, who works as an advertising specialist in the Florida works. These four come up with a plan to get Robert to fight for Anni. So they talk to the friend to the sound of the new song by Hans Giebel, performed by Rosita, which is about Aunt Emilie , that he has the "sharp eye" that he only has to use, then he will see everyone immediately small beef. They came up with the idea because Peter Wißmann successfully sold his story “The Man with the Sharp Eye”. In addition, Robert does not yet know that Toni received a telegram in his name with the text: “Today I came to the management. stop consequences unpredictable. Robert ”to Ms. Böhler. Since the quartet also bribed porter Krüger to take part, Robert believes his friends are right and suddenly appears completely different. Again he calls in to director Schmidt and is so condescending that an immediate termination is the result.

When he wants to leave the company dejected, he suddenly finds himself facing his Anni and her mother. The telegram sent to them immediately sent them to Berlin. Mrs. Böhler sees her old business friend Speckmann again at the plant, on whom Conny Schmidt and the scheming technical director Pfister had all hoped that he would restore the badly-looking company with his orders. Ms. Böhler and Speckmann greet each other warmly what Pfister observes. Since Speckmann had just rudely rejected further business with the Florida works, Pfister sees this as a sign. He concludes that if Ms. Böhler and Speckmann treat each other so warmly, Schmidtchen must also know him, so he remains important for the company. You have to cancel your termination immediately.

Ms. Böhler and Anni, who wanted to wait for him in Robert's apartment because he supposedly still has an important conference to handle, ended up in Conny Schmidt's elegant villa because of the same name and because of misleading information. There, too, there are various misunderstandings, culminating in the fact that Liselott, one of Conny Schmidt's friends, appears there. At least she ensures clarity for the Böhler women when she shows them a picture of the real director Schmidt. Careful, as Ms. Böhler is, she has also invited Speckmann to the villa to talk to Robert, who has appeared with his friend Toni. And last but not least, Conny Schmidt turns up, who did not dare to go home after his servant told him that a bride with a mother-in-law had appeared. Mrs. Böhler switched quickly and in the meantime got an idea of ​​the real situation. Speckmann joins the Florida works, Pfister is dismissed and Robert gets his post as technical director. And of course Anni gets her Robert. Just as carefully as Ms. Böhler runs her cafés, she also shows herself to be a clever mother-in-law.

Production notes

The shooting took place between February 1 and early March 1939 in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . The production company was Tonlicht-Film GmbH, Peter Ostermayr (Berlin) on behalf of Universum Film AG ( UFA ). In addition to editing, Paul May also held the position of production assistant. The buildings were contributed by Hanns H. Kuhnert and Franz Koehn . Ted Kornowicz assisted chief cameraman Herbert Körner . The lyrics to the songs A small white house ( Slowfox ), The Aunt Emilie ( Foxtrot moderato), The later the evening, the nicer the guests! (Foxtrot) come from Günther Schwenn . All songs were sung by Rosita Serrano .

After the film had been tested on April 25, 1939, the premiere took place on May 17, 1939 in Vienna. The Berlin premiere was on May 31, 1939 in three cinemas (Ufa-Theater Kurfürstendamm, Ufa-Theater Friedrichstrasse and Titania-Palast). In the United States, the film was released on October 8, 1939 under the title Wise Mother in Law .

The production costs were around 475,000 RM , making the film extremely inexpensive to produce.

criticism

The lexicon of international film summarized its criticism in the sentence: "Routine mistaken comedy with musical interludes by Rosita Serrano."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 10th year 1939. Berlin 1999, p. 112
  2. ↑ The clever mother-in-law. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used