This man is mine

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Movie
Original title This man is mine
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Paul Verhoeven
script Carl Friedrich Lustigh
production Young Film Union Rolf Meyer , Hamburg
music Werner Eisbrenner
camera Igor Oberberg
cut Martha Dübber
occupation

This man is mine is a German comedy film from 1950 directed by Paul Verhoeven . The main roles in this love triangle are cast with Winnie Markus , Gustav Fröhlich and Heidemarie Hatheyer . Gretl Schörg can be seen in a leading role.

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Gretel Fänger remembers how it all began, back then in the small village of Hunzen . Dr. Wilhelm Löhnefink had been transferred there as a doctor. The widow Fita Busse, with whom he rented, looked after him, albeit not entirely selflessly. She had her eye on him. When he ended up in his bed one night rather drunk, the next morning he couldn't remember how he got there in the first place. When he found a hairpin on his pillow, he feared that he had gotten involved with Fita Busse. His friend, the pharmacist Paul Fänger, who did not think Fita Busse was the right woman at Löhnefink's side, decided that Wilhelm would have to marry in order to avoid further pursuits by Fita. Since his niece Gretel Fänger worked in a marriage institute, he turned to her for help.

Just when Gretel was trying to get her friend, the bartender Rita Andersen, back to life, whose boyfriend, the boxer Walter Welling, wanted to marry, as she had read in the newspaper, but not her, the pharmacist and Wilhelm met, whom he had pretended that they would go to a concert together at the marriage institute. Löhnefink quickly saw what was going on there and annoyed several of the women with uncharacteristic statements. Just as he was about to leave, he saw the very charming Rita and was carried away. He wanted to get to know this woman at all costs. After an initial misunderstanding, things went very well between the two of them. Wilhelm in particular fell in love immediately. Welling then showed up to tell Rita that the woman he was going to marry was of course referring to her. What made Rita happy meant a bitter disappointment for Löhnefink. Gretel Fänger, however, was fired by her boss because she accused her of being responsible for the mess during the concert in her institute. Since Gretel felt more for Löhnefink in the meantime, her uncle's offer to come to Hunzen with her came at just the right time. In the following years there were bitter arguments between the widow Busse and Gretel Fänger, the deeper reason being that both wanted to win Löhnefink for themselves. Fita not only terminated the tenancy of the doctor, but tried in every possible way to make life difficult for him and especially Gretel in the hope that she would withdraw. The women even went so far that they physically attacked each other, which got so bad that they had to be forcibly separated from the Löhnefink and the catcher.

Due to Löhnefink's good nature towards his patients, he had a lot of outstanding debts, but hardly any income. Gretel decided that this had to change and immediately put her plan into practice. Since she was otherwise not getting on well, she also decided to arouse Wilhelm's jealousy. Just as the two were getting closer, the naturopath Karl Dewoka, who supposedly needed medical help, appeared and stirred up a lot of dust. Nobody could have suspected that Fita would be teaming up with the man to wipe out the doctor. It quickly made the rounds in the village that he had cured the allegedly paralyzed Fita, even though it was a game between the two of them. The patients then scrambled to be treated by him, but Löhnefink's waiting room remained empty. Gretel then decided to intervene. She pretended to be interested in Dewoka while the pharmacist and Löhnefink took up positions under the bed and overheard him admitting that he was an unemployed actor who was only fooling people. When the bed collapsed, a wild brawl ensued, in which almost all the men in the village soon took part. Karl Dewoka retreated and Wilhelm assured Gretel that she was a splendid girl. Before long they both got married.

A year has passed when Gretel takes all of this out of her diary. And something else has changed, not only does Wilhelm belong to her, a little boy was also born to the couple. “And you are mine too,” she says happily as she embraces her child.

Production notes and background

The working title of the film, shot in 1949, was Good Morning, Doctor! The production company was the Junge Film-Union Rolf Meyer (Hamburg). The studio in Hamburg-Bendestorf served as the studio , while the exterior shots were taken in and around Hamburg.

The film structures were created by Erich Grave , while Helmuth Volmer was in charge of production. This man belongs to me was subjected to an FSK test on February 15, 1950 under the number 00941 and released from the age of 16 with the addition “not holiday-free”. The premiere of the film took place on March 14, 1950 in the Kiki in Berlin .

The box office results of various films that came to the cinema in 1950 fell short of expectations. This man is mine too . On June 4, 1951, the Hamburg financing company and National-Verleih (Fifi-National) sued the Junge Film-Union for repayment of a DM 837,658.33 partial loan for This man belongs to me and the film The wonderful Galathee . In Rolf Meyer's opinion, the films should have borne more than themselves, even if he had to admit that "unfortunately, outspoken sensations were not successful". However, the films would correspond to or even exceed the average of German production. A failure film that had to be "pulled through" was not included. The Junge Film-Union saw one reason for the failure in the fact that the distributor from outside the industry had not properly evaluated the films. Another reason is probably that one film chases the next, which amounts to an oversupply.

criticism

The lexicon of international films was not convinced by the film and judged: “The fight of two women for a man - fought with the means of an unpretentious comedy. Conventional light entertainment. "

Cinema said, “This triangular story, a topos, [is] (almost) as old as the art of poetry itself. Paul Verhoeven doesn't necessarily try to gain new potential from the constellation, but instead concentrates on the comic Aspects of the struggle between two women for the same man. "The film serves," without fully exploiting the emotional content or even the tragedy of this conflict, easy-to-consume entertainment ". It is "a typical product of the fifties, conventional in staging and presentation".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 100
  2. One film chases the other In: Der Spiegel 42/1951 of October 17, 1951. Accessed July 8, 2015.
  3. This man is mine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. This man belongs to me kino.de. Retrieved July 8, 2015.