Thirteen chairs
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| Original title | Thirteen chairs |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | EW Emo |
| script | Per Schwenzen , EW Emo |
| production | EW Emo |
| music | Nico Dostal |
| camera | Eduard Hoesch |
| cut | Munni Obal |
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Dreizehn Stühle (alternative title: 13 chairs) is a German black and white film by EW Emo . The script was written by Per Schwenzen and EW Emo. The premieres took place on September 16, 1938 in the Capitol in Dresden , on September 20, 1938 in Vienna and on October 18, 1938 in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo .
action
The barber shop owner Felix Rabe travels to Vienna to inherit from his late aunt Barbara. The aunt leaves him only 13 chairs. In order to be able to afford the return ticket, he sells the estate to the second-hand dealer Alois Hofbauer. As he spends the night in his deceased aunt's apartment, he finds a letter from which it emerges that her entire fortune of 100,000 marks is sewn into one of these chairs.
All 13 chairs have since been sold to different customers. Felix promises Hofbauer a ten percent share of the assets if he helps him find the chairs again. A hunt for the chairs begins. The turbulent search leads through apartments, sections of the population and to a wide variety of people. The two are spared no situation, they are temporarily put in the madhouse. Little by little they actually find all the chairs, but each one is the wrong one. The last one that really contains the money is in an orphanage .
There the money has already been discovered in the chair, and the head nurse and the orphans are overjoyed because they consider the money to be a noble donation. Rabe and Hofbauer understand that they cannot claim anything back from here. But soon after, thanks to a hair restorer invented by Rabe, they both become rich men.
background
The idea was borrowed from the satirical novel Twelve Chairs ( Russian Двенадцать стульев ) (1928, German 1930) by the Soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov . The main character in her novel is the crook Ostap Bender . Due to the Jewish origin of one of the original authors, the novel is not mentioned in the opening credits. The storyline in which a hairdresser and an antiquarian are looking for the chairs was taken from the first film adaptation of the novel, the Polish-Czech film Dwanaście krzeseł - Dvanáct křesel (Twelve Chairs) by Michał Waszyński and Martin Frič from 1933, but there with a different ending of the story, also different from the novel.
The story of EW Emo was also filmed several times in Germany as Das Glück lies on the street (1957), as the television series Rabe, Pilz and thirteen chairs (1972) and as the television film My Grandpa and the 13 chairs (1997).
Reviews
"Sometimes a bit of a gaudy grotesque comedy, but staged with humor and temperament and played with pleasure."
“German adaptation of the socialism grotesque Twelve Chairs by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrovich Petrow - turned into the ordinary petty bourgeoisie; […] Not without humor, but without the aggressiveness of the - denied - original. (Rating: 2½ stars - above average) "
“You have to see and laugh what outrageous and owl mirror-like mischief the two do, how inexhaustible of delicious and crazy ideas, how one incites the other, so that shortly before the surprising and happy end they are rightly in an asylum land"
See also
Web links
- Thirteen chairs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thirteen chairs at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thirteen chairs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed September 28, 2011 .
- ^ Thirteen chairs in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier , Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 172