Today my husband is getting married (1956)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Today my husband is getting married |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Hoffmann |
| script |
Johanna Sibelius , Eberhard Keindorff |
| production |
Georg Witt for Georg Witt film |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Gertrud Hinz |
| occupation | |
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Today my husband is getting married is a German comedy film by Kurt Hoffmann from 1956. The film is based on the novel Today my husband marries by Annemarie Selinko .
action
Thesi Petersen from Zurich is a young fashion designer and, divorced from her husband Robert, lives alone in a small attic apartment in Hamburg . She's messy but pretty and always happy. She is swarmed by men as soon as they find out that she is divorced from her husband. Only your dentist Dr. Agartz shows himself absent-minded during treatment, does not recognize her and reveals to her in practice that Robert will marry again and that it was only his ex that was to blame for the separation anyway. Thesi is disgruntled. Memories of her marriage to Robert lead to the realization that both always argued over small things. Her foulness, for example, or that he was never home and she has rearranged the apartment again in the meantime. At some point Thesi got tired of it and spontaneously packed her things.
She goes out alone. The writer Niki Springer and the German consul in Mexico Georg Lindberg notice them in a café . Betsy, who loves both of them unsuccessfully, brings Thesi to her table - she met Thesi when she was preparing her German visa . Niki and Georg fall in love with Thesi, who both hired to annoy Robert. At his engagement party she appears unannounced in a daringly cut-out dress, presents both men as her lovers, smokes a cigarette and leaves after a short time. The party and Robert's fiancée Karin remain shocked.
Thesi and Georg become a couple. Although Thesi has repeatedly spoken out against getting married again, she becomes sentimental when Robert's marriage date with Karin draws closer and Georg has to go back to Mexico. She accepts Georg's fourth application and both plan to travel together by steamship to Mexico a few days later . Robert unexpectedly appears at the Thesis farewell party the day before departure, who is increasingly having an argument with his fiancée because of his good relationship with Thesi, among other things. They both recognize that their marriage together also had nice phases.
Thesi already feels sick during the celebration. The next day, she is hospitalized with scarlet fever . Georg extends his vacation in Germany in order to visit her regularly in the hospital, but it is mainly Robert who visits her every day. Soon the sickroom is full of flowers from both men. Thesi is only getting better slowly. She uses the time to think about her feelings. In the end it is clear to her that she loves Robert more than Georg. He says goodbye to Mexico alone, but thanks Thesi for the most beautiful summer months he has ever had. Robert has meanwhile separated from Karin, who realized that he will never get away from his ex. When Thesi enters her attic apartment, all the furniture is missing. Before she can call the police, Robert stands in front of her. He brought their furniture back to his apartment while they were in the hospital, where most of them were also before the divorce. He brings Thesi to him and carries her over the threshold as if to a wedding. While he is briefly at work, Thesi spontaneously rearranges the apartment. This time Robert takes it with humor and makes her a marriage proposal, which she accepts.
production
The film was shot from May 15 to mid-July 1956 in Hamburg and in the Bavaria film studios. The premiere took place on August 30, 1956 in the "Metro im Schwan" in Frankfurt am Main .
The novel was filmed again for television in 2006.
Deviations from the literary original
The plot takes place in the original novel in Denmark and covers the period between the summer of 1939, shortly before the German invasion of Poland, and the autumn of 1940, after the German occupation of Denmark. In the novel, Thesi comes from Vienna, lost her father in the First World War and, in contrast to the Danes, who remained neutral at the time, experienced the hardship of the war and post-war years.
Two important male characters in fiction, the American war reporter John (replaced by the German consul in the film) and the Englishman Gary, have just returned from the Spanish Civil War . Her divorced husband even advises her to marry John in order to avoid the great war in Europe that everyone is expecting. After a house search and near-arrest by the German occupiers because her ex-husband Sven Poulsen was a Danish resistance fighter, namely the one at the beginning of the Romans appearing dentist, helped to escape.
criticism
In 1956, Der Spiegel noted that, unlike the novel, the script did not "[contain] political sentiments and ... [modest] with marginal notes about love and marriage." The director consistently managed to avoid overly deliberate drolery, so that the film can be classified as a comedy with some reservations.
The film service praised Today my husband married in 1956:
“This comedy is high-spirited, amusing, full of humor and grace and made with such a light hand that one would hardly have thought possible in German film. Plot, sophisticated board game and cheerful jokes merge seamlessly into one another. [...] With all the exuberance, there are contemplative undertones. That is rare, and you can really enjoy it. "
The Lexicon of International Films published by film-dienst in 1990 called the film a “spirited comedy above the German average”.
Cinema described the film as “a really brisk, spirited post-war comedy. Conclusion: Kesser fun with old-fashioned charm. "
Web links
- Today my husband married in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Today my husband is getting married at filmportal.de