Comrade Munchausen

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Movie
Original title Comrade Munchausen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Neuss
script Wolfgang Neuss
production Wolfgang Neuss for Satir Film GmbH (Berlin)
music Rudolf Maluck
Johannes Rediske
camera Hugo Schott
cut Bernd Bannach
occupation

Comrade Münchhausen is a cabaret film satire by and with Wolfgang Neuss . The film opened on June 24, 1962 in Berlin .

action

The farmer Oskar Puste works his little piece of land near Helmstedt on the west German side of the inner-German border , which has become a little smaller since the division of Germany . On the opposite side of the demarcation line is the socialist farmer Altmann, who is now working with a “nationally owned” tractor to cultivate farmer Pustes “socialist” arable land for the LPG . The party order of Walter Ulbricht , according to the socialism to capitalism is to overtake in all respects, takes the agrarian contemporary of over literally.

A competition develops between the two farmers, which at the same time degenerates into one between the systems. Before the ideological struggle can escalate, Bauer Puste lets a certain Mr. Biese from an ominous 'Research Center West' recruit him as a spy. Puste, who was an air force pilot in the last war, should, according to Biese, investigate "the weather between Vladivostok and Azerbaijan ", but in reality start a reconnaissance flight for a Western secret service. With a passport made out in the name of Pyotr Vanovich, Puste flies to the Soviet Union , where he is shot down and parachuted into a field. Since he has been speaking fairly Russian since his time as a Soviet prisoner of war, Puste quickly finds his way around the Soviet Union. In the following years he had to make ends meet as a corn farmer, bus driver, chess trainer, packer, lumberjack, fisherman, soccer player and porter. Eventually he finds himself in a cosmonaut training camp and is put on a rocket with two other Soviets. The goal: the planet Venus .

Since the manned space flight of the Russians is not that far away, the spaceship lands on a nudist beach on the island of Sylt . The Syltern mistook the cosmonauts for a clown troupe from the Soviet state circus. And while the two Russians feel as alien in the capitalist distance as they do on Venus, Bauer Puste quickly runs away. Finally, he ends up on his former, now nationalized, East German property, where he settles.

production

The film was shot from October 1, 1961 to January 19, 1962. The filming locations were Kampen (Sylt) , Hamburg , Berlin and the area around Helmstedt.

As Wolfgang Neuss said in 1962, he had received financial support of 178,000 marks for the production from the state ( Federal Center for Homeland Service ) after he had spoken to Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder, who was on vacation there on Sylt , about this. Another donor was Gerd Bucerius , also from the CDU , who contributed 30,000 marks.

Under the pseudonym Comrade Münchhausen, Neuss had also placed an advertisement in the newspaper Der Abend in early 1962 , in which he betrayed the murderer of the television crime thriller Das Halstuch ( Dieter Borsche ).

Comrade Münchhausen's first television broadcast took place on June 16, 1984 in the third channel of NDR .

criticism

In the biography of Wolfgang Neuss, the film's large lexicon of people wrote: “With“ Wir Kellerkinder ”and“ Comrade Münchhausen ”, two materials that were created according to his own book or under his own direction in the early 1960s, Neuss first tried to work with himself the respective main role of making cabaret filmable. "

The lexicon of the international film judged comrade Münchhausen : "Wolfgang Neuss' political film attempt in cabaret style has the topic of the division of Germany [...] from which [...] a breathless fireworks rattling with many words and cinematic 'gags' develops."

The online presence of Cinema said: "Clever sketch comedy, but not very cinematic."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article With breath in Der Spiegel
  2. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 653.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 3, p. 1288. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  4. ↑ Comrade Münchhausen in cinema.de

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