Heroism after closing time

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Movie
Original title Heroism after closing time
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 90, 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Schleif (first episode)
Wolfgang Becker (second episode)
Fritz Stapenhorst (third episode)
Erik Ode (fourth episode)
script Joachim Fernau
Hanns H. Fischer
production Alfred Bittin's
Gero alarm clock
music Herbert Windt (first and second episode)
Hans-Martin Majewski (third and fourth episode)
camera Oskar Schnirch (first episode)
Otto Baecker (second episode)
Wolfgang Mueller-Sehn (third episode)
Otto Baecker (fourth episode)
cut Hermann Ludwig
Ilse Wilken
occupation
Schwäb'sche Eisebahn
The magician Maro
Romeo and Juliet on tandem
Captain Fox

Heroism after the store closes is a four-part German film from 1955 that allegedly tells cheerful soldiers' stories from the end of the Second World War . The four episode directors involved were Wolfgang Schleif , Wolfgang Becker , Fritz Stapenhorst and Erik Ode . The leading roles include Josef Sieber , Charles Regnier and Harald Juhnke . Werner Finck leads through the framework story. The film is based on four stories from the book of the same name by John Forster .

action

Germany, in the spring of 1945. The war is lost for Germany and the defeated Wehrmacht soldiers just want to go home.

Schwäb'sche Eisebahn

Western Front: In the south-west of Germany a number of soldiers, representatives of all branches of the armed forces, are in dire straits by advancing allied troops. In order not to end up in captivity, a Swabian private has a brilliant idea: Why not hijack an old locomotive at an abandoned train station, with which you can leave for home? Said and done. After many incidents, they managed to escape under the leadership of Richard Siewert and his friend Willi, but in the end the decrepit locomotive turned out to be so rickety that it could only be brought to a stop using the emergency brake.

The magician Maro

Eastern Front: While retreating from the Soviet Army, the three German soldiers Maro, Gluckert and Fink billeted themselves in an abandoned castle. Here they are found by three Red Army soldiers. In order not to be shot immediately, the hobby magician among them, Maro, wants to hold a kind of fraternization party with the Russians, during which there is plenty of alcohol. In the frenzy, the Russians put on Wehrmacht uniforms for fun. The drunkenness leads to a general drowsiness. Suddenly more Soviet soldiers appear, and again it is Maro who can outsmart the enemy. He delivers his own people to the newly arrived Russians as enemy soldiers and thus buys freedom for himself, Guckert and Fink.

Romeo and Juliet on tandem

Western Front: The two compatriots Anton Hirsemenzel and Julius Dingelmann were taken prisoner by the French and have to do labor on a farm. But both are drawn back home and are therefore planning their escape. They dress up as lovers - one of them has to put on women's clothes for this - and sit down on a tandem in the direction of the German border. On their bizarre escape they meet the pretty French woman Juliette ...

Captain Fox

The smart German prisoner-of-war Sergeant Burmann bets the US commander, Captain Fox, that he can escape from the camp he runs. With the help of the German camp doctor, he fell into a kind of rigor mortis, whereupon the sergeant was sent from the camp to a German hospital in a coffin. The German outsmarted the American, won the bet and is finally free.

Production notes

The shooting took place in the spring of 1955 in the studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek and in Berlin-Grunewaldsee, Fischbachau near Bayrischzell and in Kirrweiler in the Palatinate (exterior shots). The premiere was on May 18, 1955 in Hanover (Kino Weltspiele), the Berlin premiere on June 6 of the same year. It was first broadcast on television on November 27, 1965 on ARD .

Producer Alfred Bittins took over the production management with Helmuth Volmer , Alf Teichs was chief dramaturge. Wilhelm Vorwerg designed the film structures for the first two episodes, Hans Berthel for the third and Willi Klaue for the last.

The film was continued in the same year in Parole Heimat , another episode film, the action of which, however, takes place after the store closes before heroism .

Reviews

Der Spiegel judged: "The last act as a humoresque - end of war, imprisonment and escape as a" cheerful adventure ": the risky, paradoxical undertaking, based on a novel by John Forster, surprisingly succeeded. The four directors of this episode film, with one exception (Fritz Stapenhorst), bypassed the military clothes. The many excellent, non-prominent actors (especially Charles Regnier and Harald Juhnke) prove that tact, joke and horror can be combined with Eulenspiegel's gifts. "

At Filmdienst it says: "Some of the films are played in a comedic way, the contributions are only concerned with superficial situation comedy, so the film rather mocks the real experiences of time."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heroism after the store closes In: Der Spiegel 25/1955, accessed on December 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Heroism after the store closes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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