Hello service man
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hello service man |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK originally 12, today 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script |
Franz Antel , Lilian Belmont and Rudolf Österreicher based on an idea by Paul Hörbiger |
| production | Schönbrunn film , Vienna |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Hans Heinz Theyer |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
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Hallo Dienstmann is a mix-up comedy of the Viennese film with Hans Moser and Paul Hörbiger about a real and a fake servant .
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The music professor Ferdinand Godai goes to a masked ball as clerk no. 106, where he meets his divorced wife Susi, who wants him back. At the same ball, the pianist Alexander Lischka flirts with Hansi Scheidl and introduces himself to her as the son of a respected and influential diplomat. The next morning, Anton Lischka picks Gaby Brandstätter from the Südbahnhof station. Since Gaby's luggage is too much for Lischka, Lischka hires the already very tipsy Godai, who is in a nearby pub for a morning pint, and together they transport the suitcases and boxes home. There they both fight with a large wooden box (one of the most famous scenes in Austrian film history). Godai is overwhelmed by sleep in Gaby's apartment and loses his cigarette case. The next day Gaby Brandstätter took up her position at the Conservatory as Godai's assistant, but initially did not recognize him as the wrong servant. Then an amusing cat-and-mouse game develops around the lost cigarette case, in the course of which Lischka notices that he has been killed by a fake servant. He swears terrible vengeance. Susanne Godai sees the romance between Godai and Gaby with concern and begins an intrigue, at the end of which she finds herself a loser. At the final performance of the semester - the musical play "Hallo Dienstmann" is on the program - the "Dienstmann" cannot perform because of stage fright and Godai has to take on his role. Lischka, who is supposed to present the main actress Hansi with flowers, storms onto the stage to arrest the wrong service man. After the mistake has been cleared up, both sing the famous final song "Hallo Dienstmann".
The service man - Hans Moser's role in life
The film "Hallo Dienstmann" is a reminiscence of Hans Moser's famous sketch "Der Dienstmann" from the 1920s. Paul Hörbiger , who even as a young, unknown actor, admired Hans Moser in Heinrich Eisenbach's "Budapest Orpheum", had the idea for a comedy that gave Moser the opportunity to slip into his most popular role.
After he had his first successes as a character comedian in the early 1920s on various cabaret and vaudeville stages with solo numbers such as "Ich bin der Hausmeister vom Siebenerhaus" or "Der Patient" (penned by Fritz Löhner-Bedas ), Hans Moser wrote himself with the Sketch "Der Dienstmann" not only depicts his role in life, but also created some idioms that have long since become part of Austrian usage:
- "Well built, it doesn't matter."
- "How do I take him?"
- "With an underhand grip"
None of these quotes were later used in the film "Hallo Dienstmann".
Hans Moser's sketch “Der Dienstmann” was filmed twice. For the first time in 1928 in the Tri-Ergon process in Berlin (lost), a second short film was made in Vienna in 1932 under the direction of Adolf Rosens. Hans Moser had another film appearance as a clerk in the silent film "The Family Without Morals" (1927). But already in 1906 he played his first servant role in Bernhard Buchbinder's farce "The Shoemaker Boy".
When Franz Antel asked Paul Hörbiger whether he had an idea for a film with him and Moser, he gave him his own scenery, which had been rejected by the Nazis: a real servant meets a man disguised as a servant at a community ball . Hörbiger suggested Hello Dienstmann as the film title . As can be seen in the programs, the film was shot “based on an idea by Paul Hörbiger”.
The film was produced in the Vienna Schönbrunn studio. The outdoor shots were taken in Vienna and the surrounding area. The buildings were created by Felix Smetana , production management was in the hands of Carl Hofer . The world premiere took place on January 18, 1952 in Salzburg.
The suitcase scene - an anecdote
The film "Hallo Dienstmann" also achieved great popularity via the detour of anecdote, above all through the free retelling of the so-called "suitcase scene". In 1979 the Austrian author Georg Markus wrote in the Paul Hörbiger autobiography "I played for you":
- There is a scene, which is already classic today, in which Moser and I make a desperate attempt to drag an apparently heavy suitcase up the stairs. According to the script, I say: "Go, tell me, where is such a heavy suitcase better to carry - in the front or in the back?" Then specialist Moser, in his usual grumpy tone: "Well, in the back of course, it's lighter there." And While the camera is running, the Extempore occurs to me: "Well, you know what, colleague, then take it both in the back." Hans laughed terribly, and if you watch the film today you can still see exactly how at this point he tries unsuccessfully to suppress the laughter.
Reviews
- “Hallo, Dienstmann”, an Austrian comedy, wants nothing but two hours of undemanding entertainment, and this purpose is fully achieved without even the more artistically demanding cinema-goer having to worry. - Movies of the Week . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1952, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- “Undemanding confusion, the charm of which lies solely in the comedy typical of Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser.” - Lexicon of international film
- "Comedy in the well-known wine-blissful Viennese style. Careless marriage conception." - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 175
Web links
- Hello porter at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie poster
- IFB No. 1441
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Markus: Die Hörbigers , Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2006, p. 226
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 261
- ↑ Hello service man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2017 .