A very rich man
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A very rich man |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 80 minutes |
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| Director | Stefan Szekely |
| script |
Eugen Szatmari Ernst Wolff |
| production | Joe Pasternak |
| music | Theo Mackeben |
| camera |
Reimar Kuntze Heinrich Balasch |
| cut | Andrew Marton |
| occupation | |
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A very rich man is a German film fun game by Stefan Szekely with Curt Bois in the title role, made at the end of 1931 . At his side, Dolly Haas played the leading female role.
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Adele von Hahnenkamp is a grande dame as it is in the book. The elderly aristocrat desperately wants to marry her beloved granddaughter Ulla to a man of her class. In order to make the marriage with Ulla palatable to the chosen one, Adele wants to add 10,000 Reichsmarks as a dowry, and as a further addition a thick diamond ring attracts from the family jewelry. But since the times are extremely bad towards the end of the Weimar Republic and the money is not exactly easy, Madame plans to make a cheap copy of fat Brilli. Since Grandmother Adele doesn't trust anyone, she simply sits down at the workbench of the jeweler in order to keep a close eye on the journeyman's, a thin little boy named Curt Nickel.
But the young man is a veritable Schlemihl , an unlucky fellow of the highest order with two left hands and a tendency to clumsy. Despite Adele's presence, who watches over the work with eagle eyes, the diamond has suddenly disappeared. Curt is promptly suspected of having stolen the valuable clunker. However, since this no longer appears despite an immediate search, it is assumed that Curt could have swallowed the gem without further ado. Frau von Hahnenkamp insists on an X-ray, and the examination actually shows that there is something in Curt's stomach that doesn't belong there. Madame is extremely angry and demands an operation from the doctor immediately, which the doctor refuses.
Curt should now either be forced to undergo an operation or excrete it naturally. And so he is quartered as a temporary guest in the von Hahnenkamp house. The upcoming wedding of Ullas has to be postponed. Nickel knows how important it is and, over time, takes on more and more of the old lady of the house. Ulla von Hahnenkamp is not at all wrong about the entire development, because she is not at all interested in the future husband. Rather, your heart belongs to a young lawyer. Curt Nickel has meanwhile taken over the rule in the Hahnenkamp house. The temporarily extremely rich man urges the family to attend a ball.
Once there, Curt, who really only wants to put a nice rumba on the floor with his girlfriend Dolly, quickly falls into the hands of three crooks who kidnap him. The gangsters have found out about the presumably valuable stomach contents of the abductee and threaten Curt with a beating. Meanwhile, Dolly finds the diamond that accidentally fell into Nickel's cuff. With the help of the police, she can free her loved one again. As the last act, Curt wants to help the lovely Ulla to her happiness: he brazenly threatens grandmother Adele to swallow the diamond if the old lady does not agree to her granddaughter's wedding with the beloved young lawyer.
Production notes
A very rich man was shot exactly one month between November 12 and December 12, 1931 and was premiered on February 13, 1932 in the Atrium cinema in Berlin. On the occasion of Curt Bois' 90th birthday on April 5, 1991, the film was shown for the first time on April 8, 1991 on German television (DFF).
Universal producer Joe Pasternak also took over the production management. The film structures were created by Carl Böhm and Erich Czerwonski , the costumes by Ida Revelli and Hans Dupke. Composer Theo Mackeben also took care of the musical direction.
Music track
The following music tracks Theo Mackeben with texts by Max Colpet were played or sung:
- A hot kiss, a sweet look
- Crook song
- There is a man in our city
- Come on, let's not dance a rumba
- We are the press photographers
These titles were published by the music publisher Adolph Fürstner, Berlin
useful information
A very rich man was not just Bois' second sound film, which he turned off shortly after his debut, Der Schlemihl . In this production, too, he embodied a notorious unlucky fellow.
Reviews
The following was to be read in the Film-Kurier of February 13, 1932: “The diamond that lies in your stomach if you have swallowed it is not such a rewarding prop as René Clairsche hats, Franc bills, flying suitcases, trackable vests and trousers - everything revolves, everything moves around him, he himself has an imaginary hardened hook, ready for operation in a corner of his stomach. (...) So if the beloved object, which is supposed to spark the hustle and bustle of dancing in the bourgeois world character film, cannot itself be moved on the film, the swallower must be set in motion; a Curt Bois role comes out of it. "
In CineGraph , Curt Bois' biography said, “Bois and Haas are fun, but never freaked out - tipsy, never drunk. Basically, the film is a crisis-era employee comedy: the rich try to save their emergency jewels. Curt and Dolly, the little people, get their little luck out of it. And a touch of the grotesque: two or three small appearances that Bois designed all by himself. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Historically interesting musical grotesques from the social and underworld milieu of the early 30s."
Individual evidence
- ^ Film-Kurier, No. 38, of February 13, 1932
- ^ Curt Bois in: Cinegraph. Delivery 5, E 1
- ↑ A very rich man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 10, 2019 .
Web links
- A rich man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A very rich man at filmportal.de