A lord on Alexanderplatz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A lord on Alexanderplatz |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Günter Reisch |
| script |
Kurt Belicke , Günter Reisch |
| production | DEFA , "Johannisthal" group |
| music | Gerd Natschinski |
| camera | Jürgen Brauer |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
| occupation | |
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Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz is a German DEFA film comedy directed by Günter Reisch from 1967.
action
The Heiratsschwindler Ewald honey returns after a long prison sentence with an inexpensive resurrected diplomatic car, suit and bowler hat to East Berlin back and moves in with his now adult daughter, who he has not seen for twelve years. He wants to lead an honest life close to retirement, dreams of owning a home and starts working as an insurance agent . Always gallant and courteous, he is also looking for a wealthy woman whom he actually wants to marry. He places an advertisement and numerous women get in touch.
His daughter Ina comes to Ewald's displeasure very much according to him: She uses her beauty and youth to fish rich, married men through adverts. She would like to talk to dentist Dr. Drive Härtel on a “business trip” to Lake Balaton , but Ewald thwarts this request by personally visiting Härtel and confronting him. He does the same with the master of the ceremony Günti Schwalbe. In the joint “lover poker”, father and daughter finally decide on the one they really want to “keep” - Ewald will now marry Ina's boss Ms. Müller.
Meanwhile, the Berlin police are on the heels of Ewald and Ina. Criminal psychologist Achim Engelhardt and the Hungarian criminalist Johanna Farkas in particular want to solve the cases. Both give advertisements typical for Ewald and Ina. So it happens that Achim and Johanna answer each other's advertisements and suspect him of being a marriage fraud during their rendezvous. Their identities only become known when both are arrested. Despite the unsuccessful start, Achim and Johanna become a couple.
Ewald marries Mrs. Müller. In the wedding carriage, however, three more women are waiting, whom Ewald supposedly wanted to marry and so he ends up in court. In the end it turns out that Ewald is actually innocent and, on the contrary, has done the women good, but has never given them hope. So he can enter the state of marriage as a free man.
production
A Lord at Alexanderplatz was filmed under the working title Ein Lord vom Friedrichshain in East Berlin. The film premiered on March 3, 1967 in the Berlin cosmos . It first ran on DFF 1 on television on October 6, 1968, and was released on DVD in 2006.
The figure of the emcee Günti Schwalbe, embodied by Ivan Malré , is a parody of Günthi Krause .
criticism
The contemporary criticism noted that the authors of the film reached "into the million box of traditional gags", but knew how to use them in an original way in new situations.
Cinema found: "Top actors offer great entertainment".
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 368 .
Web links
- A Lord on Alexanderplatz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A lord on Alexanderplatz at filmportal.de
- A lord on Alexanderplatz at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Habel, p. 368.
- ^ Gert Billing in: Weltbühne , No. 14, 1967.
- ↑ A lord at Alexanderplatz. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed December 12, 2017 .