Gangster premiere
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Such a theater |
| Original title | Gangster premiere |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curd Juergens |
| script | Curd Juergens Franz Gribitz |
| production | Alpen-Film Austria, Graz |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut |
Rosemarie Hadacz Karl Aulitzky |
| occupation | |
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Gangster premiere , distributed in Germany under the title So ein Theater , is an Austrian crime film comedy from 1951 by and with Curd Jürgens . Bruni Löbel and Grethe Weiser also play the leading roles .
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The somewhat naive but theater-loving Hanni, an apprentice, absolutely wants to make it big as a stage actress. She then went to the big city and went to a theater that has now been closed and that pretends to be an artistic enterprise. Hanni wants to audition here, hoping to be hired. However, Hanni does not notice that crooks, members of a gang of smugglers, have taken possession of this former gaming venue and converted it into a trading center for black market goods. For the gang, Hanni becomes a real problem because she absolutely does not want to give way. On the other hand, you can't let her go either, because who knows what she'll be telling around about this theater where nothing is going on?
And so someone comes up with the “glorious” idea of building a Potemkin village: a theater converted into a robber's den, in which the crooks perform theater artists. Now there is only a piece left to rehearse with the still unsuspecting Hanni before the eponymous “gangster premiere” can take place. Hanni is enthusiastic because she actually believes she will soon be able to debut as a stage actress. Her far less naive acting teacher, the former operetta diva Mizzi Lorenz, is definitely more skeptical. She quickly notices that something is wrong with these "actors" in the theater. But thanks to Mizzi's solid nature, the charade will soon turn into a real theater performance after all, and the premiere, with Hanni and the sliders as actors, can come! In this way, the once closed stage is being returned to its old purpose.
Production notes
Filming of Gangster Premiere began on July 16, 1951 and ended in September of the same year. The film was shot in Vienna and in the studios of Thalerhof (Graz). It premiered in three Viennese cinemas on October 26, 1951. The film has been seen in Germany since its premiere in Krefeld on December 25, 1951.
Gisela Schneeberger took over the production management, Willy Egger the production management . The married couple Werner Schlichting and Isabella Ploberger designed the film structures, Marcel André designed the costumes.
criticism
“A humorous, generally rather lackluster comedy; one of the four films with which the actor Curd Jürgens tried his luck as a director. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gangster premiere in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 1, 2020
Web links
- Gangster Premiere at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gangster premiere at filmportal.de