Heaven, we inherit a castle!

Movie
Original title	Heaven, we inherit a castle!
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1943
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Peter Paul Brewer
script	Otto Ernst Hesse Eberhard Keindorff Günter Neumann
production	Prague movie
music	Hans Ebert
camera	Wenzel Hanusch
occupation
Anny Ondra : Karla Schreyvogel Hans Brausewetter : Max Schreyvogel, her husband Gisela Scholtz : Eduarda, both daughter Richard Häussler : Georg Kalübbe, estate director Walter Janssen : Landowner Kantner Carla Rust : Leonore Kantner, his daughter Max Gülstorff : Cooperative bank director Kracht Herbert Huebner : Counselor Steppe Oskar Sima : Matz, his secretary Heinz Salfner : Karl Strabow, valet Karl Hellmer : Schlöger, castle accountant Eduard Bornträger : Gustav Schröder, authorized signatory at Kracht Erich Dunskus : Chief Tax Council Ernst Legal : gardener Oskar Höcker : Farm workers Dorothea Thiess : Mrs. Kluge, cook Friedel Müller : second cook Klaus Pohl : Kantner's accountant Rudolf Stadler : Farmer Reichergaste Hermine Ziegler : Miss Gildo, educator Rudolf Reif : Member of the cooperative bank FW Schröder-Schrom : Member of the cooperative bank

Heaven, we inherit a castle! is a 1942 German feature film by Peter Paul Brauer with Anny Ondra and Hans Brausewetter in the leading roles as the castle owners. The story is based on Hans Fallada's novel Little Man - Big Man, Everything Reversed (1940).

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Karla and Max Schreyvogel have a daughter by the name of Eduarda, whom they only named so in order to make themselves dear to the heirloom Eduard Schreyvogel, a wealthy landlord and castle owner. They usually call the girl "mosquito". "Mücke" is only called strictly "Eduarda" when it has eaten something up. When the Schreyvogels go on a shore excursion on the occasion of Eduarda's birthday, Karla and “Mücke” get to know Georg Kalübbe and his bride Leonore Kantner, while Max, an employee at an agricultural cooperative bank, uses the trip to collect outstanding debts from defaulting credit customers. Kalübbe manages the estate of the deceased heirloom and invites the Schreyvogels to visit the magnificent property of the close relative. The Gaugarten manor has not yet been awarded to any of Eduard's numerous nephews, even though all of the nephews named their children Eduard or Eduarda in an ingratiating way. The decision as to who will inherit the castle is decided by a great coincidence: because in fact Max, obviously in contrast to his brothers, calls "Mücke" in the presence of the notary, Justizrat Steppe, regularly Eduarda, because he spoke about the supposedly naughty child several times that day annoys. In doing so, he has fulfilled the requirement of an inheritance entitlement that the dead uncle Eduard had ordered in his will.

Although the deceased ancestral uncle always claimed that money would not make you happy, Max, as expected, sees it differently in view of the inheritance, which comprises around six million marks. Max quits his previous job and tries to get involved in the farm as the new lord of the castle. Since he has no idea about it, the estate manager Kalübbe regularly lets him come up with his change requests. Karla, on the other hand, is more fortunate with her ideas and suggestions. In Max, this first leads to discomfort, then to jealousy. He promptly believes that his Karla must have an affair with Georg, just as he lets her get away with everything. Max then hooks up with Leonore, who only goes into this game because she has separated from Kalübbe in order to look for a wealthy patron who can help her father, the impoverished landowner Kantner, financially out of trouble. Kantner, who has run his Paulshof estate into bankruptcy, wants Leonore to find a wealthy husband. When Max learns the connections from Georg, he brings him and Leonore back together so that, with Max's financial help, he can nurture Gut Paulshof again. Max does not see himself as the landowner and would like to give back the inheritance and get a divorce from Karla at the same time. But then he realizes his injustice and sees how much Karla is thriving in her new tasks, such as redesigning the estate workers' housing estate. The family decides to be happy here from now on.

Production notes

Filming Heaven, We Inherit a Castle! began on July 21, 1942 in the Hostiwar studios near Prague, the exterior recordings were made in September of the same year. The film premiered on April 16, 1943 in Munich. The Berlin premiere was on June 9, 1943 in the Tauentzienpalast . The production cost was 870,000 RM.

Ludwig Carlsen took over the production management for this first production of Prag-Film, founded in 1941. H P. Adam designed the film structures.

For Anny Ondra this was the last film until the end of the war in 1945.

Reviews

Boguslaw Drewniak saw the film as an "undemanding marriage comedy about an inheritance".

"... Naive comedy ..."

- Lexicon of International Films

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 159. (028.43), Berlin 2001
2. ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 509
3. ↑ Heaven, we inherit a castle! in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 1, 2020

Web links

• Heaven, we inherit a castle! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heaven, we inherit a castle! at filmportal.de
• Heaven, we inherit a castle! on virtual-history.com