Beloved impostor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Beloved impostor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ákos of Ráthonyi |
| script | Gregory of Rezzori |
| production |
Walter Koppel for real film |
| music | Siegfried Franz |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut |
Caspar van den Berg , Ursula van den Berg |
| occupation | |
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Beloved impostor (alternative title: ... and who kisses me? ) Is a German comedy film by Ákos von Ráthonyi from 1961.
action
The Berliner Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, should marry the oatmeal millionaire David Ogden. The supposedly rich Martine Colombe, whose cabin was rented twice in the tourist class, is quartered in the cabin that Robert secretly lives in. Martine quickly finds the man under her bed. Robert, in turn, notices that Martine is not a fine lady at all, but a mannequin who has stolen a designer's current collection and is hoping to marry a millionaire in America. You come to terms because you know each other's secrets - she sleeps in and he sleeps under the bed.
Martine clings to David Ogden's heels, and David Ogden is thrilled when she appears at dinner in the same dress as his mother, defying her for the first time in her life. He falls in love with her, which has increasingly delusional and crazy consequences: David becomes insane when he is in love. Since there are always three watchdogs around him who are supposed to prevent a connection with Martine, a violent argument soon ensues. When David has to think that Martine really only loves him for his sake and not for his money, he gives away the family fortune to strange passengers and is finally locked away by his guardians.
Martine has meanwhile arranged a meeting between Robert and Barbara. She quickly realizes that Robert and Martine are closer than she would ever be with Robert. After all, she pretends to have used Robert as a prize in poker and lost. She gives him the playing cards as a souvenir and leaves.
In the end Martine realizes that she actually no longer has any desire for a millionaire. She crawls under Robert's bed and they both think about how Robert can go ashore in New York unnoticed and what Barbara is actually supposed to do in town. They decide to play a game of cards and Robert finds a piece of paper from Barbara: She has paid for the suite for both of them for the New York - Hamburg crossing and wishes them both that they will love each other.
production
The screenplay for the film was based on motifs from the play The Impostor by Jacques Deval , translated by Charles Regnier . The shooting took place in the real film studio in Hamburg . The exterior scenes were filmed on the Hanseatic .
The premiere was on February 16, 1961 in the Turm-Palast in Frankfurt am Main .
criticism
In 1961, the film-dienst criticized the "swinglessly lined up scenes full of film humor clichés" and the "dull, lightless dialogues ...": "Everything is so heavy and lengthy as if you wanted to compete with sleeping pills."
The lexicon of international films published by film-dienst in 1990 described the beloved impostor as a "lengthy comedy". In the online version, the wording on "Long-winded film that tries to conjure up a comedy spirit with all its might."
Web links
- Beloved impostor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beloved impostor at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Bas .: Beloved impostor . In: film-dienst , No. 10, 1961.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1280.
- ↑ Beloved impostor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 21, 2018 .