Blue today and blue tomorrow
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Blue today and blue tomorrow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Philipp |
| script |
Curth Flatow Eckart Hachfeld |
| production |
Eberhard Meichsner for Divina |
| music | Klaus Ogermann |
| camera | Oskar Schnirch |
| cut | Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
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Today blue and tomorrow blue is a German comedy film by Harald Philipp from 1957.
action
In the tranquil little town of Lieberich, City Councilor Hugo Bunzel and his wife Elfriede are actively involved in the “Association for Combating Drunkenness” and are trying everything to ban alcohol from public life. He is particularly annoyed that Mayor Jakob Selbach has been preventing a bypass road for a long time, since the trucks that drive through Lieberich and cause Hugo to shake lamps and crumble plaster, not least supply Jakobs Gasthaus with hard liquor. One day Hugo receives notification that his brother Wilhelm has died. Hugo is supposed to come to Mainz to open his will , but believes he has inherited debts, since the brothers once broke up because of Wilhelm's love for alcohol and his work as a schnapps representative. In Mainz, Hugo learns that Wilhelm was at the end of the trade council and that he made and left a fortune by selling his sparkling wine cellars . The inheritance of one million marks goes to Hugo - but with one condition: he should drink three bottles of champagne every day for a month, without changing his normal daily routine and not reporting anything about the will and the conditions to anyone. At first Hugo refuses, but then decides to be able to offer his three sons Dieter, Hermann and Klaus and daughter Lilo a carefree future in the long term. He is supported by the young Werner Ott, who is supposed to record the daily consumption of sparkling wine.
Hugo accommodates Werner in his house under a pretext. The first sparkling wine is secretly consumed in the local history museum in Lieberich and leads to a violent high and the next day to an even stronger hangover. Nevertheless, Hugo manages to master the first four weeks without major incidents. Over time, however, Elfriede worries about his health, as he would occasionally waver and talk with difficulty. General Practitioner Dr. Schluck notes that in cases like this, half a bottle of sparkling wine a day would be helpful for non-alcoholics and prescribes it to Hugo. Elfriede now secretly orders some champagne bottles in stores and sees Werner Ott, who buys the daily ration of three bottles of champagne for Hugo. She now suspects that Werner is an alcoholic, and Hugo confirms this. He only brought Werner into his house to convert him. As a “care case”, Werner is now also of interest to Hugo's daughter Lilo, who falls in love with him. This is not right for Mayor Jakob, he is planning the wedding of Lilo and his son Wilfried in order to get Hugo on his side. Jakob doesn't know that Wilfried has long since fallen in love with Evi, the daughter of the well-known drinker Hasenbein.
The beginning of the "sick treatment" with sparkling wine leads to Hugo spontaneously drinking six bottles at once and Dr. Swallow stops treatment. Instead, he prescribes Niederwalder Heilsprudel. Hugo secretly fills these bottles with sparkling wine in order to continue to consume his three bottles every day undetected. At the next meeting of the “Association for Combating Drunkenness”, the refilled Niederwalder Heilsprudel ensures an exuberant atmosphere and an enthusiastic rabbit's leg who can spontaneously convert to anti-alcoholism. At the big winegrowers festival in Lieberich one day before the execution of the will, there is a scandal when the drunken club members storm the festival and Hugo accidentally lights the big fireworks at the end of the will. Lilo is drunk too, because she finally wanted to see what Werner goes through every day. Jakob, in turn, finally wants to force Lilo to marry and lock her and son Wilfried together in the wine cellar, but catches Wilfried and Evi. His big announcement that he wanted to ensure the forced marriage of two lovers by opening the wine cellar causes enthusiasm at Hasenbein, since Evi is now the mayor's daughter-in-law. Jacob, however, is shaken. The day ends badly for the Bunzels too: When Hugo throws his own money out of his study, he is arrested because Jakob believes he had embezzled state funds. Any attempts to give Hugo the last three bottles of wine in prison fail. Hugo is finally released at the exact time the will comes into force. Dr. Schluck is obliged to draw blood and check the alcohol content. Although Dr. Accidentally swallowed blood from Elfriede, but she also has no alcohol in her blood, so that Hugo does not become an heir to Wilhelm's fortune. In that case, a new will comes into force, which Hugo was not aware of: The million will now go in equal parts to Hugo's four children and Lieberich exuberantly celebrates the town's first millionaire.
production
The film was directed by the production company KG Divina GmbH & Co. produced. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The studio recordings were made in the Divina-Studio Baldham , the exterior recordings were shot in Michelstadt in the Odenwald . Today's tourist office at Marktplatz 1 was used in the film as the Zum cheerful Jakob inn , while the town hall in Michelstadt also represented the town hall in the film. Claudia Herberg created the costumes, and Hans Berthel designed the film .
The theme song Today blue and tomorrow blue by Maria Kloth and Franz Wendhof was sung by the Golgowsky Quartet . You can also hear Hannelore Cremer with the song Since you are there . The Cornel-Trio and The Sunnies also sing. Other songs in the film are Who should pay for it? and you can't stand on one leg .
It was Elmar Wepper's first film to be in front of the camera with his brother Fritz Wepper.
The film premiered on December 27, 1957 at the Union in Darmstadt and at the Aurelia Lichtspiele in Baden-Baden, and was released in German cinemas three days later. In Austria the film was shown in cinemas under the title Eine verrückte Familie .
criticism
For the film service , Today Blue and Tomorrow Blue was "a comedy that initially made you smile with subtle means, but eventually turned into loud slapstick and old-fashioned jokes with free advertising for the sparkling wine industry"
Web links
- Today and tomorrow blue blue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue today and blue tomorrow at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blue today and blue tomorrow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .