The landlady also has a niece
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| Original title | The landlady also has a niece | ||
| Country of production |
Austria , Germany , Italy |
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| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 1969 | ||
| length | 98 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Franz Antel | ||
| script |
Kurt Nachmann Günter Ebert |
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| production | Franz Antel | ||
| music | Gianni Ferrio | ||
| camera | Hanns Matula | ||
| cut | F. Anoclettani | ||
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Frau Wirtin also has a niece is an Austrian-German-Italian comedy film by Franz Antel from 1968 with Terry Torday as the landlady and her own niece, Harald Leipnitz as Ferdinand, Claudio Brook as Freiherr von Ambras and Heinrich Schweiger as Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Susanne, the landlady of the Lahn, still roams the country with her acting troupe. At a castle in Alsace they are arrested by Napoleonic henchmen who want to arrest Ferdinand, Susanne's “first hero” of the drama troupe, because the French soldiers mistakenly believe him to be the rebellious Baron von Ambras, an opponent of Napoleon. With the help of Susanne and her revealing girls, the soldiers can distract for a moment. Nevertheless, Ferdinand is arrested and kidnapped. With Ambras' baby, found all alone in the castle, Susanne and her people travel on to Paris to convince Napoleon to release Ferdinand again.
Napoleon is currently staying in a pleasure palace with the aptly named Monplaisir, once built by Louis XIV, to negotiate with Russian and Austrian delegations. For dynastic and strategic reasons, Napoleon wanted to marry Marie-Louise, the daughter of the Austrian emperor, and for the same reasons the Russians wanted to prevent this. This even goes so far that the Russian envoy Bulakieff instructs his men to kidnap the baby of Ambras, which they mistake for Napoleon's child. For Napoleon, however, the child would be proof that he is quite capable of procreation. But that is exactly what Austria's Emperor Franz doubts, since his French counterpart, at over 40 years old, is still not a father. For this reason, Emperor Franz Emperor Napoleon does not want to give his Marie-Louise as a wife to the French who are allegedly incapable of childbearing.
In this tricky situation, the real Ferdinand Napoleon is presented. He realizes that Ferdinand is not Ambras and wants to have him executed because there are no errors of justice in Napoleon's France. Ferdinand is now a highly political pledge when the landlady von der Lahn and the French Emperor, who still know each other from both times in Giessen, see each other again. An agreement is reached: if Susanne helps Napoleon that there is no longer any doubt about his fertility, he will see to it that her Ferdinand is released again. Susanne herself is supposed to play her own niece, with whom Napoleon once fathered this child, in an acting farce in front of Austria and Russia's representatives. This idea succeeds, and everything could turn out well if Bulakieff's henchmen had not snatched and kidnapped the baby from poor Pumpernickel, one of Susanne's confidants in the drama troupe, whom he was supposed to watch out for during her absence on Susanne's behalf.
Napoleon has what he wanted, but he wants even more: He really wants to catch the Napoleon opponent Freiherr von Ambras and announces that Ferdinand will only be released when Ambras surrenders. Otherwise Ferdinand would be executed in Ambras' place. When Susanne's real Ambras appears in search of his child, whom she had taken from Ambras' castle some time ago, several Napoleonic soldiers, who have obviously been chasing him for some time, storm into Susanne's love nest. The landlady von der Lahn has to act quickly and goes to bed with Ambras. The soldiers storm into their boudoir, see Napoleon's imperial headgear and leave the room immediately, since they have to assume that Napoleon is under the covers.
A little later, Ambras beats up the Russian secret agents with the help of the Austrian confidante Count Lombardini and with the help of a friend frees his own baby from the hands of the Russian secret police and then frees Ferdinand from dungeon. Then he takes Ferdinand's position in prison. Napoleon is able to marry the Austrian Emperor's daughter Marie-Louise without encountering any further Russian resistance. The real Ambras is brought before him as a prisoner Ferdinand, and Susanne uses a ruse to get the presented man, who Napoleon believes is Ferdinand, released by decree. Ambras leaves the court as a free man. Meanwhile, Ferdinand has crept into the scene in the uniform of a Napoleonic guardsman and can finally embrace his Susanne again.
Production notes
The landlady also has a niece was filmed in Hungary in autumn 1968 and premiered on April 16, 1969. It is the third part of the six-part Wirtin film series Antels.
Carl Szokoll was production manager, Kurt Kodal took over production management. The Filmbauten created Herta Hareiter , Lambert Hofer junior equipment. Gerdago designed the costumes. Eberhard Schroeder was one of three assistant directors.
On March 20, 1969, the film was approved by the FSK for ages 18+. On June 3, 2004, a re-evaluation was carried out for a DVD release. The release for this is from 16.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films called this film "a messy game of confusion."
Web links
- Landlady also has a niece in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The landlady also has a niece at filmportal.de
- The landlady also has a niece in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of release for the landlady also has a niece . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2004 (PDF; test number: 40 455 DVD).
- ↑ The landlady also has a niece. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on June 13, 2020 .
- ↑ The landlady also has a niece. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .