Hello Caesar!

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Movie
Original title Hello Caesar!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Reinhold Schünzel
script Szöke Szakall
Reinhold Schünzel
production Reinhold Schünzel
camera Ludwig Lippert
occupation

Hello Caesar! is a 1926 German silent film comedy by and with Reinhold Schünzel .

action

Artist Caesar has seen better days. The talented juggler has difficulties in finding a follow-up engagement and therefore undertakes a trip from Berlin to the Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary, where he wants to meet the American variety director Willard, who is supposed to be on vacation there. Caesar would like to offer himself to the omnipotent showman so that he can make a commitment to the other side of the Atlantic. When he thinks he is getting to know Willard on site, Caesar confuses him with a certain Mr. Lehmann and unabashedly digs into his pretty young daughter.

Caesar leaves no stone unturned to impress Willard / Lehmann with his sleight of hand. As a result, the young artist does not even notice that the daughter of his landlady, Rosl Svoboda, has long since kept an eye on him. When it comes to a hotel fire, everything finally gets mixed up. After the smoke has evaporated, however, Caesar sees much more clearly and for all his efforts receives both a contract and a new bride.

Production notes

Hello Caesar! was shot in June and July 1926 in Berlin and Karlsbad (external shoots) and passed the censorship on August 4, 1926. The film was 2596 meters long, divided into six acts. The first performance took place on May 5, 1927 in Berlin's Mozart Hall.

Unit manager Fritz Grossmann was the husband of Schünzel's half-sister Elsa Schünzel . Hans Sohnle and Otto Erdmann designed the film structures.

useful information

Schünzel's staging can be seen as a reaction cast into the cinematic comedy to the rampant general exodus of leading German-speaking film professionals in the direction of the United States and Hollywood at the time. After Ernst Lubitsch was the first major German film artist to leave his homeland for America at the end of 1922, the year Hallo Caesar! , 1926, plenty of Berlin film greats like FW Murnau , EA Dupont , Conrad Veidt , Berthold Viertel , Paul Ludwig Stein and Lya de Putti across the Atlantic. Hello Caesar! made fun of the tendency of German filmmakers to seek their salvation, especially in Hollywood, in only slightly claused form.

Duplicity of Events: As if Hollywood wanted proof of the veracity of the Hello Caesar! The premise shown, was spending his annual vacation in the spa town of Karlovy Vary at the time this German comedy was shot by Hollywood film tycoon Carl Laemmle , and was courted by numerous Berlin filmmakers, as the Lichtbildbühne reported in its July 7, 1926 issue . Schünzel, on the other hand, not only stayed in the German Reich in 1926, but even through the turning point in 1933, and only left his old homeland when a further stay would have posed a danger to his life and limb, which incidentally was severe for him among the exiles of the German film community in Hollywood Should bring criticism.

Reviews

In its issue of May 6, 1927, the Film-Kurier saw the "comic tradition" of Central Europe against Hollywood comedians like Harold Lloyd preserved by Schünzel and claimed that it was by no means copying American models, while the Lichtbildbühne in its issue No. 108/1927 pointed out that with this production Schünzel only aimed at the laughter of the audience in every conceivable situation instead of making great demands on the cinematic entertainment value. In addition, the latter publication stated that the film lacks structure and a central idea and that Schünzel's Hallo Caesar! would be on a slippery surface.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Here it is, instead of a filmmaker, a Berlin juggler who offers himself to an American variety director (instead of a US film boss)
  2. ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg on November 7, 1994 on focus.de
  3. ↑ Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. S. 40, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

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