Vacation from Me (1963)

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Movie
Original title Vacation from me
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Grimm
script Ilse Lotz-Dupont
production Franz Seitz junior
for Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Munich
music Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera Dieter Wedekind
cut Ingeborg Taschner
occupation

Ferien vom Ich is a German film comedy directed by Hans Grimm from 1963 .

action

Frank A. Stevenson is a millionaire and owner of an American aircraft company. On the crossing to a new appointment he meets the ship's doctor Dr. Schumacher, who revealed his dream to him: He would like to open a rest home for rich people at Schloss Aich in the Salzburger Land. They should be able to relax anonymously there, everyone would live under a pseudonym and thus be able to spend the best possible “vacation from me”. Frank accepts the idea and so he spontaneously donates the holiday home. He himself wants to stop by in a while to check the development.

Meanwhile, the budding journalist Angelika Holzmann receives her first assignment, which should decide whether she will be accepted at the journalism school or not. She is supposed to interview Stevenson. He is currently on the way to the rest home, Angelika, in turn, has missed her last flight and is spontaneously taken at the airport by Frank in his private helicopter to Salzburg. Frank introduces himself to her as August Bauer - the name he will also bear in the convalescent home. In the next few days Angelika searches in vain for Frank, whom she only knows must be one of the guests in the home. Since everyone lives under a false name, however, she is quite helpless. The little boy Nicki wants to help her.

Nicki lives with his mother Florentine in the convalescent home. Florentine is led by Dr. Schumacher ensnared, but rejects him. She never got over the separation from her husband completely: It was Frank, Nicki is their son, but Frank knows nothing about him. When Florentine realizes that Frank is at home, she persuades Nicki to play a game: He shouldn't tell anyone his last name and pretend he doesn't know Florentine. Nicki also moves in with a friend not far from home.

Nicki befriends Frank and goes fishing with him. Frank, in turn, speaks to Florentine and they both come closer again. When Nicki announces that it will be his birthday the next day, Frank picks up the airplane-loving boy in a helicopter and flies with him to Vienna. Nicki had pretended that his parents were the bakery owners Brömmel from Vienna and only admits his fraud when Frank tries to take him to the bakery. He confesses to Frank that he is really Florentine's son, and Frank is delighted. You buy a necklace from Florentine and spend the day lively in Vienna. Florentine is worried and thinks Frank could have kidnapped Nicki, but her aunt Zita appeases her. Nicki returns home safe and sound and Florentine can slowly imagine a new life at Frank's side.

Angelika has found out through her boyfriend that August is Frank. She lets Frank dictate the interview to her and realizes that she is not suited to be a journalist. When Frank bought the interview from her for 1000 Marks, she fell happily on his neck - just as Florentine appeared and Frank wanted to ask for a new future together. Florentine rushes away disappointed, but Angelika can clear up the misunderstanding and Florentine and Frank find each other. Florentine confesses to Frank that she has a child, and Frank also thinks he has a child. Both want to imagine their children dancing in the evening. Only now does it become apparent that both have spoken of Nicki and the three of them dance as a happy family.

production

Ferien vom Ich is based on the novel of the same name by Paul Keller from 1916. It had previously been made into a film in 1934 and 1952 . The film had its premiere on October 25, 1963.

With this film, director Grimm ended his directorial career and then withdrew into private life. Even Walter Reyer and Hans Holt finished with holidays from I their regular cinema activity largely and worked henceforth mainly in television productions.

The film structures were made by Walter Haag , the costumes were created by Ina Stein .

criticism

The film-dienst found that the film “[takes] the traits of a homeland film, full of scenic landscapes and amiable people, with musical interludes, but free of conflicts. "The Protestant Film Watcher blows in the same horn:" In this third film adaptation of the well-known novel by Paul Keller about the Tuskulum for managers and similar people, the German Heimatfilm, believed to be dead, celebrated a superfluous birth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vacation from the ego. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 616/1963