The case 7 A 9
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The case 7 A 9 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis Agotay |
| script | Louis Agotay |
| production | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| music | Emil Ferstl |
| camera | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| cut | Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
and Wolfgang Preiss , Heinz Kargus , Viktor Afritsch , Walter Ladengast , Wolf Harro , Manfred Ensinger , Johannes Buzalski | |
Case 7 A 9 , renamed to Falschmünzer am Werk shortly after its premiere , is a German crime film from 1950 by Louis Agotay with Paul Klinger and Paul Dahlke in the leading roles.
action
The ambitious newspaper reporter Conny Heuser is on the trail of a “hot” story about a ring of internationally active car and counterfeit money smugglers. Soon Heuser becomes the right hand of his friend, the German detective Inspector Braun. Together they chase the gangsters whose trail leads to Paris. The criminal gang runs a counterfeiting workshop there, which is located under the garage of the publisher Louis Kertesz. In order to be able to take action on site, they bring the Paris police inspector Paillard on board. The case soon became explosive when Monsieur Kertesz's body was found dead in the burned-out wreckage of his vehicle.
The case thus seems - for the time being - closed. Back home in Germany, Braun and the young Heuser have to take action again, because flowers have been put into circulation again. The trail leads to Hamburg, where suddenly the publisher Kertesz, who was believed dead, reappears happily. He is the head of the gang and had faked his own death. A wild hunt ensues in which Kertesz flees into a high-rise building and, surrounded by the police, plunges into the depths. His accomplice can be caught and arrested.
Production notes
Case 7 A 9 was shot in mid / late 1950 in the Munich Bavaria Studios and with external shoots in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg. The premiere took place on March 1, 1951 in Frankfurt's Eden Cinema. The TV premiere was on July 23, 1958 on ARD .
Cinematographer Ekkehard Kyrath was also a producer, his brother Horst Kyrath and company partner Karl Hamrun took over the production management. Ernst H. Albrecht , Theo Zwierski and Hans Berthel designed the film buildings. Heinz Pehlke was the second cameraman.
useful information
This film was initiated by events in 1950, when so-called blossoms increasingly appeared in the young Federal Republic.
This crime film is partly based on American film noir models such as The Kiss of Death , Password 777 , Street Without a Name and Asphalt Jungle .
15 days after the premiere in Frankfurt, the newly established Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) began its work in Wiesbaden. Three days before the film premiere, experts from the criminal police, the Bank Deutscher Länder and journalists in Frankfurt were able to present the film in a special presentation of the distributor and largely confirmed the authenticity of the processes shown in the film on the topics of counterfeiting and car smuggling, while largely dispensing with sensational effects.
Reviews
The contemporary press reviews at the beginning of 1951 were mixed. While the "Neue Zeitung" praised the atmospheric density, the "Frankfurter Rundschau" said that the effort to achieve a realistic representation is worthy of recognition, but is devalued again by showmanship. Conclusion: "A failed experiment that certainly does not lack the necessary seriousness, but the necessary speed."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Documentary staged crime film that peers at the great American models and uses stylistic devices of neorealism, but because of the triviality of the plot and the dialogues does not go beyond mediocrity."
Individual evidence
- ^ The case 7 A 9. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
Web links
- The case 7 A 9 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Case 7 A 9 at filmportal.de