Happy ending at the Attersee

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Movie
German title Happy ending at the Wörthersee
Original title Happy ending at the Attersee
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Hollmann
script Kurt Nachmann
production Karl Spiehs
for Wiener Stadthalle
music Johannes Fehring
camera Walter Partsch
cut Erika Geiger
occupation

Happy-End am Attersee is an Austrian feature film by Hans Hollmann from 1964. In Germany it was shown under the title Happy-End am Wörthersee .

content

The action Happiness in the sun , as was also for some years West Berlin children in summer "holiday children" to Austria , where they can go on holiday with a family for several weeks. On the plane from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main and from there on the bus to Salzburg , the children Willy and Bienchen become friends and are sad when they have to separate in Salzburg because each comes to a different family: Willy has the "holiday mother" Director Stefanie Wendt, who is rich and successful at work, but cannot keep a man. He gets bored easily and is also available to her Swiss fiancé Dr. Critical of Otto Künzli. Bienchen was supposed to be staying with the old but maternal Agathe Petermann, who however passed away. She bequeathed her property, the Villa Waldfrieden in St. Velden am Moos, in equal parts to her brother Severin and her two nephews Johannes and Walther - if they live there together for a year. All three are appalled because they have completely different attitudes towards life. Severin is a retired, pessimistic and misanthropic investigator and councilor, Johannes a withdrawn geologist and Walther an arrogant, pompous conductor and cannot stand each other. Due to the inheritance, they move in together and all of a sudden Bienchen is at the door. While Johannes takes her into the group, Walther and Severin reject the girl, but like Johannes, they quickly take her to the heart because of her carefree attitude.

Before separating, Bienchen and Willy had promised to write to each other. When Willy's letter comes back to the sender because the recipient allegedly died, he is so worried that he sets off on foot to distant St. Velden am Moos. An argument with Stefanie and Dr. Künzli contributes to his decision. On the way he meets the bad master of the honor, Jerry Fink, who can sing well. Because he is fed up with the Tingelle life, Jerry gets involved in the trade in a stolen saint figure that he is supposed to smuggle to Graz . Since Jerry takes Willy in his car in the direction of St. Velden am Moos and Willy realizes that Jerry is actually a good person, he takes the figure and secretly places it in a chapel. After a manhunt for the missing Willy, both are taken to the station.

Meanwhile, Bienchen has fallen ill from waiting in vain for news from Willy. Stefanie, who actually wanted to present Willy to a journalist as a vacation child, notices his absence and sets off on a search that leads her to St. Velden am Moos. Here she also meets Johannes, with whom she was once a couple, but whom she had left in favor of work. Concern for Willy, the two get closer again and end up as newly engaged. Jerry and Willy are finally released because Severin uses his investigation and questioning skills on the station and Willy can coax the truth about the actually unwanted smuggling. Walther also became a better person in the end and announced that from now on the villa will take in ten holiday children every year.

production

Short scenes from the film were shot in Salzburg. The German premiere took place on November 20, 1964.

The film contains different music tracks:

  • The 5 Liverpools: Let the Sunshine in
  • Paul Hörbiger: When a Viennese dreams of Berlin
  • Peter Kraus: Take it easy, little girl
  • Peter Kraus: Heidi Hodi

criticism

The lexicon of the international film called Happy-End am Attersee "commercial comedy entertainment about two Berlin holiday children."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1489.