A hen party

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Movie
Original title A hen party
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Curt Bois
script Werner Bernhardy
Curt Bois
production DEFA
music Paul Strasser
camera Robert Baberske
cut Lena Neumann
occupation

A hen party is a comedy film by director Curt Bois from 1955. The literary film adaptation is based on the old Berlin posse of the same name by the author Werner Bernhardy , who also worked on the script . In the main role , Rolf Moebius embodies the publicist and satirist Adolf Glasbrenner .

action

Berlin in the middle of the 19th century: Adolf Glasbrenner, known as "Brennglas", is a critical publicist and satirist known for his provocative statements. Politicians are uncomfortable with his publications, as they bring facts into the public eye that are rather embarrassing for those in power.

Adolf Glasbrenner is also not satisfied with his situation, as his fiancée Adele Peroni renders faithful and loyal service to the royal theater: a circumstance that makes it impossible for him to marry her. So he intends to disrupt a performance by his bride at the theater with a hen party. As a result, Adele gets caught between the fronts. On the one hand, she does not want to grieve her progressive and democratically minded husband, on the other hand, she gets into a conflict with the Prussian reaction . The incumbent minister of education even threatens to have her husband arrested if she does not sign a contract with the theater.

The plot of the film takes a happy turn when the minister of education and other colleagues are compromised . Nothing stands in the way of Adele and Adolf's happy marriage.

Production and publication

The film was produced on Agfacolor in the Babelsberg studio, the exterior shots were made in Berlin. It was shown for the first time in several Berlin cinemas on August 19, 1955, and on the same day in the Official Trial Program of the Berlin TV Center .

criticism

Heino Brandes wrote in Neues Deutschland :

“Curt Bois has already successfully staged this old Berlin posse in the Deutsches Theater. He is a well-known, resourceful actor, a master of improvisation. Sometimes in the film the actor Bois went over with the director, he played out scenes a lot and had others added for the sake of comedy. "

The Lexicon of International Films writes that instead of the desired Berlin atmosphere, the film simply offers poorly staged slapstick. Parallels to the life and work of the satirist Adolf Glasbrenner are intentional, but not very authentic.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DEFA - Foundation - Films. In: defa-stiftung.de. Retrieved July 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 548
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from August 19, 1955, p. 6
  4. ↑ Neue Zeit of August 12, 1955, p. 6
  5. ^ New Germany of August 21, 1955, p. 4
  6. ↑ A hen party. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used