The Vanished Miniature (1954)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The missing miniature |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Carl-Heinz Schroth |
| script | Erich Kästner based on his novel of the same name |
| production | Carlton-Film GmbH, Munich ( Günther Stapenhorst ) |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| cut | Fritz Stapenhorst, Ilse Wilken |
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The Disappeared Miniature is a German film comedy from 1954, which was directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth . The premiere took place on December 25, 1954 in Bielefeld . The film is based on the novel The Disappeared Miniature (or “The Adventures of a Sensitive Butcher Master”) by Erich Kästner from 1935.
action
Butcher Külz from Hanover travels to Copenhagen - suddenly tired of the family and the job and without telling his family about it . There he meets the young and pretty Irene Trübner, private secretary of the rich art collector Steinhövel. She asks him to help her transport a miniature that her employer recently bought at auction in Copenhagen to Hanover. The newspaper has just reported about the robbery of some of the art objects that were auctioned off at the same auction, and she is afraid of being stolen as well.
The two agree that Külz should inconspicuously receive the miniature from her the next morning at the train station in order to deceive any robbers. However, Miss Irene does not give Mr. Külz the original, but a copy. The robbers, one of whom made the acquaintance of Mr. Külz during a “drinking binge” the previous day, travel with him in the same compartment in the “third class”. In her “second class” compartment, Miss Trübner meets Rudi Struve again, whom she also only met the previous day. The miniature is stolen from Mr. Külz during the train journey.
Only after some turbulence, in which the miniature and its copy change hands several times, can the robbers be caught in Hanover, the miniature handed over to Mr. Steinhövel and Miss Trübner and the fake "Rudi Struve", who works for the insurance company who is insured the miniature proves to be a couple.
background
The script, written by Erich Kästner himself, adheres closely to the underlying novel. Entire text passages have been adopted. The master butcher Külz comes from Berlin in the novel and from Hanover in the film.
The film was shot in the Carlton studio in Munich-Tulbeckstrasse as well as in Copenhagen , Lübeck , Travemünde , Hanover and Großenbrode . Max Mellin and Wolf Englert created the buildings, Klaus Stapenhorst was production manager. The world premiere took place on December 15, 1954 in Bielefeld .
criticism
“Staged a bit lengthy, the film lives from the outstanding performance of Paul Westermeier, but above all from Erich Kästner's delicious observations of bourgeois everyday life and human weaknesses. All in all a happy conversation. "
Web links
- The missing thumbnails in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The missing miniature at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 477
- ↑ The missing miniature. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .