Through thick and thin

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Thick and Thin (disambiguation) .

Movie
Original title	Through thick and thin
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	79 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Theo Lingen
script	Theo Lingen, Fritz Eckhardt
production	Willie Hoffmann-Andersen
music	Werner Richard Heymann
camera	Herbert Körner
cut	Margarete Steinborn , Hermann Ludwig
occupation
Theo Lingen : Theodor Müller Fita Benkhoff : Else Müller, his wife Dietrich Kühnel : Rolf, son of both Thessy Kuhls : Marlene, daughter of both Hannes Hübner : Peter, the youngest Siegfried Breuer : Schulze, Müller's partner Carola Höhn : Elisabeth Ebert Grethe Weiser : Countess Donnersberg Walter Müller : Sartorius Lucie English : Minna, the Müller's maid Hans Richter : Schindler, assistant director Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann : Michel Jacob Tiedtke : garage master Paul Westermeier : Uncle Ottokar Walter Gross Eva-Ingeborg Scholz Victor Janson

Through Dick und Dünn is a German comedy film from 1951. Theo Lingen is the director, leading actor and, together with Fritz Eckhardt , author of the story. The film is a prototypical "Lingen slapstick" comedy about a "magical" inheritance.

action

One morning at the breakfast table, Theodor Müller received the message in the mail that Uncle Ottokar had died in Stuttgart and that Theodor's wife Else had been appointed sole heir. Else and the children Marlene, Rolf and Peter immediately start planning the expected inheritance . The family decides that Theodor should go to Stuttgart and look after the inheritance.

Before he leaves, Theodor takes another look in his jewelry store to make sure that everything is right, which he runs with his wife and Mr. Schulze. Countess Donnersberg is currently trying to sell valuable gemstones to Schulze cheaply, but Theodor advises against it. He does not know that Schulze has already told Else about the favorable opportunity to buy stones and that she insists on a deal with the countess. As it turns out later, Theodor's distrust was justified and the countess is arrested by the police as part of a gang of thieves.

When Theodor returned the inheritance to his family from Stuttgart, they were very disappointed. Else inherited a cost accounting, an old gramophone and a very old car. Even when Theodor told the family some miracles about the car, for example that, surprisingly, the tank never ran out and the car saved him from being attacked by highwaymen, that didn't lift the mood. When a trip by car comes to an abrupt end due to a breakdown, the family doesn't want to have anything more to do with the old car.

A film company that needs such an old car for a film scene has to accept that Theodor Müller wants to control the car himself. Since he was not told that a high-speed supercharged engine was installed in the vehicle, his drive across the fairground , where the film was to be shot, will be a fiasco .

Finally, the youngest member of the family, Peter, secretly borrows the car for an evening excursion into the countryside. The excursion ends lightly for Peter when the car crashes down an embankment into a lake, but he himself remains unharmed. When the car is recovered, one discovers a cassette in it, which is handed over to the millers. To the family's delight, it contains a small fortune, which the family can use to buy a new car.

production

It is an Apollo film in Gloria film distribution. The film recordings were made in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio and in Berlin and the surrounding area. Gabriel Pellon was responsible for the buildings . Production management was in the hands of Willie Hoffmann-Andersen . The premiere of the film took place on September 21, 1951 in the Rheingold in Karlsruhe .

media

So far the film has only been released as a video version ( Bild am Sonntag video collection “Heimat”).

Reviews

“Theo Lingen number revue as it is in the book. As a director, author (together with the versatile Fritz Eckhardt) and leading actor, he pulls off the leather in these over-twisted clothes, routinely gives the overwhelmed everyone who unexpectedly gets lucky. After all, Fita Benkhoff, Grete Weiser, Lucie Englisch and Hans Richter provide key words. "

- kino.de

“An old-timer Ford brings unexpected happiness into the house of an overwhelmed father. Overstretched clothes with tried and tested comedians and worn gags. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Juwelier Müller, a kind-hearted, albeit slightly idiot, father of a family inherits an ancient car with his family. At first he wants to sell it again immediately, but then he keeps it. It turns out to be not only a car with a soul, but also the cause of numerous mischief. But in the end the car brings luck to everyone. - Slapstick by and with Theo Lingen. "

- Filmportal.de

Web links

• Through thick and thin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Through Thick and Thin - Movie Poster
• Through thick and thin - IFB No. 1281 ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 177
2. ↑ Through thick and thin video
3. ↑ Through-thick-and-thin at kino.de. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
4. ↑ Through thick and thin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
5. ↑ Through thick and thin at Filmportal.de. Retrieved April 15, 2012.