Behind the seven tracks

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Movie
German title Behind the seven tracks
Original title Behind the seven tracks
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Publishing year 1959
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kurt Früh
script Kurt Früh ,
Hans Hausmann
production Kurt Früh ,
Lazar Wechsler ,
Max Dora
music Walter Baumgartner
camera Emil Berna
cut Hans Heinrich Egger
occupation

Behind the seven tracks is a Swiss petty bourgeois drama from 1959 by Kurt Früh . The film is about three older clochards who try to help a young mother in her shed at the train station behind the seven tracks .

people

  • Clochards:
  • Barbarossa , played by Max Haufler , is so called because of his big beard, in reality his name is Karl Kessler . He is a staunch vagabond and is of an advanced age.
  • Clown , played by Ruedi Walter , is so named because he once worked in the circus. He is the youngest of the trio and never at a loss for a joke. However, every now and then he steals some schnapps or bananas and thus comes into conflict with the law.
  • Dürst , played by Zarli Carigiet , is a little younger than Barbarossa and was once married. When his wife left him, Dürst ended up on the street. His most valuable possession is a gold watch that he inherited and will keep until one of the three clochards is seriously ill.
  • Inge Bögner , played by Ursula Heyer , is a young German maid who worked for the Eberhardt family in Switzerland. She is expecting a child whose father is Paul Eberhardt.
  • Paul Eberhardt , played by Helmut Förnbacher , is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eberhardt and by no means a food lover. It is implied that he had several affairs and had a son with Inge, the maid. The student wants to marry Inge so as not to lose face.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Eberhardt , played by Alfred Schlageter and Marianne Hediger , are Paul's parents and owners of a paper mill. The father is appalled by his son's deeds and wants to get rid of everything with money. The mother tries to keep the possibility open of becoming a family.
  • Frau Herzog , played by Margrit Rainer , is the barrier guard at the train station and helps Inge with the birth. Several times she commands the clochards to help Inge. She herself is a little older and claims to have had several children.

action

Three " clochards ", Clown, Dürst and Barbarossa lead a happy, work-shy life in a shed at the Zurich train station in the 1950s. Their everyday life, which consists mainly of stealing from dealers and drinking, is turned upside down when the barely 20-year-old German girl Inge hides with them. Inge is in severe labor. With the help of the barrier guard Frau Herzog, she gives birth to a baby boy whom she calls Paul. Clown and Dürst want to help the young woman and go, contrary to her usual nature, to work voluntarily to get food for mother and child. Barbarossa is extremely reluctant to accept the idea of ​​regular work. He's very dismissive towards Inge. Little by little, however, he, too, likes the idea of ​​helping the poor German girl and her fatherless son. This can be seen when Barbarossa shaves and proposes marriage to Inge in the finest, rented clothes. However, she does not get around to answering this, because just at this moment clown and Dürst burst into the door, drunk, and laugh at Barbarossa. This disappears from the shed with tears in his eyes.

In the meantime, the engine driver Hartmann finds the young mother in the shed and is appalled by the Clochards. However, Hartmann takes a liking to Inge. He hides this from her, however. Hartmann and the clochards Dürst and Clown find out who the father of Inge's son is. The child's father is called Paul Eberhardt (that's why the child's name is Paul) and is the son of a paper manufacturer. Now the engine driver and the two clochards bring the rich son into the shed rather roughly. He did not know that Inge was pregnant and protests that he would face all the consequences and marry Inge. She agrees, but doubts whether it will be a happy ending.

Paul's parents are anything but happy when they hear about their son's adventure, especially since Inge was their maid. They ask Inge and the people with whom she has been since she disappeared to come to them to discuss everything. Inge bursts into tears when she hears about it. It seems unthinkable to her that the Clochards should make a good impression on this noble company. So she asks Hartmann that he should pretend to have taken Inge in. He, eaten up by jealousy about Paul, refuses the request. Inge doesn't know what to do next. The Clochards help out again. Dürst and Clown buy the clothes with the watch from Dürst and transform them into a train driver named Hartmann. Frau Herzog plays his wife.

The evening goes very well with the Eberhardts and the plan seems to be working. But then the real Hartmann dives into an elegant evening gown and says that he has taken Inge in. It is only when everyone looks in amazement at the real Hartmann that he realizes that he unwillingly uncovered the whole hoax and ruined Inge's future. Father Eberhardt starts yelling and his son Paul tries to stand up to him. Paul makes it clear that he expects to be supported by his parents, since he is making the “sacrifice” of marrying Inge. Inge is appalled by Paul's words and leaves the property with the child. The Clochards, Frau Herzog and Hartmann follow.

Later you see Hartmann a little kinked by his locomotive. Inge appears with the child and says that this train driver wants to be and that his name is not Paul. So he is called after Hartmann's first name. Then you see Hartmann, Inge and the child driving away on a locomotive. The Clochards are in their sniff and miraculously get their watch back, whereupon Barbarossa says: «Don't brood! There is a thing where me nid dörf brood! " (Eng .: Don't brood! There are things where it is better not to brood!).

Production and publication

The film was produced in 1959 under the direction of Kurt Früh based on a script by Kurt Früh and Hans Hausmann. Walter Baumgartner composed the music and Emil Berna was responsible for the camera work .

Swiss television broadcasts the film once a year. Praesens released the film on DVD; the only language version is Swiss German .

Stage version

Kurt Früh's daughter Katja adapted the film as a play in 2004. The plot is almost the same, but the only location is the shed, which means that the Eberhardts visit the shed instead of the villa.

continuation

Due to the great success with the public, Kurt Früh shot the sequel " The Devil Has Good Laughing " in 1960 , in which the devil personally leads the three clochards into financial temptation with gifts of money. In the German / Swiss co-production, which ran in Germany under the title “Three Weird Birds”, stars like Gustav Knuth , Trude Herr and Theo Lingen also played alongside the actors from the first part . Nevertheless, the film was unable to attract nearly as many viewers to the cinemas as its predecessor and turned out to be a financial flop.

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