Return to happiness

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Movie
Original title Return to happiness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Carl Boese
script Louis de Wohl,
Count d'Haussonville
production Walter by Ercert
Kurt Peters
music Eduard Künneke
camera Bruno Mondi
cut Putty Krafft
occupation

Heimkehr ins Glück is a feature film by the director Carl Boese from 1933. Paul Hörbiger , Heinz Rühmann and Luise Ullrich play the leading roles in the comedy .

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Karl Gruber, who rose from a shoemaker to general director of a flourishing Berlin shoe factory, has been working without vacation for four years while his wife Liane celebrates glamorous parties at home and flirts with the famous fashion designer Baron Schröder. In order to finally find peace again, Gruber travels alone and incognito for the first time to his remote hunting lodge near Gernsbach in the Black Forest . When he was picnicking on the way, his luxury convertible went into business for himself and came to a halt where the decrepit Hanomag small car of the unsuccessful illusionist Amadori, who trundled across the country with trained fox terriers and monkeys, was parked. Without having seen each other, Gruber and Amadori not only swap cars, but also roles. Amadori is having a good time with his animals in Gruber's estate and runs the company's business. Meanwhile, the real company boss in Gernsbach meets his former teacher, the simple shoemaker Pichler, and falls in love with his daughter, the teacher Liesl, who towed the defective Hanomag with her motorcycle when he arrived. Gruber once adopted his favorite swear word "six times wrongly sewn dachshund" from Pichler. When Pichler learns that Gruber is active in the shoe industry, he curses because he blames them with their poor mass-produced goods for the demise of the former owner of the largest cobbler's shop in Aussig . But soon the two get along again and together make a pair of shoes for Liesl in Pichler's little house. Gruber and Amadori meet in a beer garden, and Gruber's wife, who has followed with Schröder from Berlin, arrives and catches her husband with Liesl. Only then does Amadori realize that he was sitting next to the real Gruber. Liesl is disappointed that Gruber is married, but he does not give up and announces his wife's divorce. At breakfast in the hunting lodge with Gruber, Liane and Schröder, Amadori reveals evidence of the divorce process during a magic performance. Gruber can be chauffeured back with Liesl in a luxury car, the small car with Amadori in tow.

Production notes

Heimkehr ins Glück was one of around a dozen feature films that Carl Boese directed in 1933 alone. The shooting of Josef Than's Berlin production company ABC-Film took place in May 1933, after the seizure of power and after Goebbels' speech on March 28th before the umbrella organization of filmmakers in Germany . The NSDAP's film policy measures to harmonize and Aryanise the German film system, in particular the establishment of the Reichsfilmkammer , had not yet been implemented at the time of shooting. Josef Than, a Jewish Austrian, was still able to work as an author and producer, but his collaboration was withheld. The Jewish Austrian Ludwig Stössel was also able to work in the German Reich one last time before he went back to his home country and emigrated in 1938 after its " Anschluss ". As in Luis Trenker's Der Rebell , Stössel played Luise Ullrich's father.

Erika Falgar , who had previously performed as an operetta singer in Berlin, had her only film role as Gruber's wife in Heimkehr ins Glück . She died on June 30, 1933, before the film premiered.

Exterior shots show, among other things, the old town of Gernsbach , street scenes on the Murg in Obertsrot , Weisenbach and Forbach as well as the Baden-Baden Hofgut Mariahalden built for Hermann Sielcken as Gruber's hunting lodge. The car exchange takes place on the Murg tributary Raumünzach . However, the film mainly consists of interior shots in the studio sets designed by Franz Schroedter . The outer facade of the Gernsbach house, which can be seen as a shoemaker's house in daytime scenes, was also recreated for a night scene in the studio .

The premiere was on August 18, 1933 in Berlin's Titania Palast . The Berliner Morgenpost reported two days later by a "good range of [n] Recording" through nighters and "acclaim", "as two- and four-legged actor in front of the curtain" appeared.

From the film comes the hit song Does happiness come to you late by Eduard Künneke with a text by Richard Keßler . It is presented twice in Heimkehr ins Glück by Paul Hörbiger, Ludwig Stössel and Luise Ullrich.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Return to happiness. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Maria Hilchenbach: Cinema in Exile: The Emigration of German Film Artists 1933–1945 . Saur, 1982, ISBN 978-3-598-20544-6 .
  3. ^ Thomas Ziegler: The film actor Ludwig Stössel - From Burgenland to Hollywood . Thesis. University of Vienna, S. 70-73 ( PDF file ).
  4. Erika Falgar † In: Berliner Morgenpost, No. 156, July 1, 1933, first supplement ( digitized with photo).
  5. "Homecoming to Happiness". In: Berliner Morgenpost, No. 199, August 20, 1933 ( digitized ).
  6. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions, Part 3, New Series, Vol. 29, 1934, Nos. 1–12, p. 150 in Google Book Search