Happy Journey (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Happy Travel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Engel |
| script |
Paul Helwig Herbert Witt |
| production | Capitol-Film GmbH, Berlin |
| music |
Eduard Künneke Hans Carste |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut | Carl Otto Bartning |
| occupation | |
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Happy Journey is a German feature film by Thomas Engel from 1954 .
action
Robert Langen and Lutz Steffens have a research assignment to do on the desolate South Sea island of Formitosa, on which it becomes too boring for them over time. In order to combat their homesickness, they want to exchange letters with young women from their home country and shortly afterwards their advertisement appears in a Hamburg newspaper. It wasn't long before the two of them received their first letters. Lutz received mail from a Monika Brinkmann, while Robert's correspondent was Eva Gordon. There was an Eva Gordon, but the letters were written by Monika on a whim, without Eva knowing anything about it. But then the two young scientists were called back to their institute in Hamburg for a short time.
In a good mood, they go to the travel agency where Monika works as soon as they arrive. Robert's expectations were exceeded, which is not surprising with a part-time photo model. Only Lutz is very confused how Eva reacts when he tracks her down. She puts an end to a first “attempt at getting closer”, because Dr. Eva Gordon is engaged to her boss, the somewhat absent-minded mathematics professor Van Mühlen, and the wedding is supposed to take place the next day. In her outrage, Eva goes to the police to report the abuse of her name and photos. Monika has no choice but to admit the dizziness and apologize to Eva. She has now found that the cheeky young man seems very amiable to her and that fate means well for her. After some confusion, two couples in love travel to Formitosa.
production
Happy Journey is a film based on the operetta of the same name by Max Bertuch and Kurt Schwabach , with music by Eduard Künneke from 1932. The same material was filmed in 1933 by director Alfred Abel under the same title. The production took place in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio, the outdoor shots were taken in Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg and Ibiza . Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz created the buildings, Peter Wehrand was production manager. The film premiered on December 21, 1954 at Kino Europa in Düsseldorf. The film was first broadcast on November 26, 1962 on ARD's First Program .
criticism
The lexicon of international film described the film as average, musically supported entertainment from the 1950s.
The magazine Filmblätter found that with "many nice ideas and lively dialogues" about Künneke's melodies "a cheerful story of confusion had been written."
Web links
- Happy journey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happy journey at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 421 f.
- ↑ Happy journey. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , p. 120