Hocus pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...?

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Movie
Original title Hocus pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...?
Hocus-pocus 1966 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kurt Hoffmann
script Eberhard Keindorff ,
Johanna Sibelius
production Hans Domnick ,
Heinz Angermeyer
music Franz Grothe
camera Richard fear
occupation

Hocus pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...? is a German film from 1966 and the third film adaptation of the play of the same name by Curt Goetz .

action

Slender Agda Kjerulf is accused of murdering her husband, the unsuccessful painter Hilmar Kjerulf, on a boat trip together. After her lawyer has resigned his mandate, the mysterious Peer Bille steps in as an eloquent, active and extremely witty defense attorney, who is ultimately exposed as the defendant's lover and also confesses to the murder. Finally, the process takes an unexpected turn ...

The plot of this thriller pulls out all the stops of Goetz's virtuosity. The lawyer Peer Bille is not really one, and the murder trial turns out to be a cunning circumstantial trial to think about a murder that ultimately never happened. This confusion is enlivened by the "widow" of the painter Kjerulf, who only appears that way at first glance, whose works suddenly sell well and profitably after their staged death. The plot of the comedy turns into a truly enjoyable farce because nothing is what it seems. In the end, it turns out to be a teaching piece and a gorgeous declaration of love.

background

In 1930, the piece for the first time under the direction of was Gustav Ucicky with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch starring filmed . In addition, Ucicky staged a second, English-language film adaptation with the same staff and part of the ensemble (including again Lilian Harvey) in which Laurence Olivier had taken over the part of Willy Fritsch. In 1953, director Kurt Hoffmann directed the second film adaptation of the play, for which Curt Goetz and his wife Valérie von Martens took over the leading roles and Goetz also wrote the script based on his own template.

Only twelve years later, Hoffmann filmed the play again; this time with Heinz Rühmann and Liselotte Pulver in the leading roles, with whom he had staged another new Curt Goetz film ( Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius ) a year before . In the remake, the actor and cabaret artist Joachim Teege took on the same role that he had played under Hoffmann in 1953: the witness Munio Eunano. The backdrop is emphatically unrealistic, theatrical and exaggerated, which is clearly good for the play and the actors' play.

The film was shot from November 11th to December 17th, 1965 in the CCC studio in Berlin-Spandau. The premiere of the film was on March 3, 1966 in Hamburg (Barke).

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : "Re- filming of the polished dialogue art game by Curt Goetz, now fashionably decorated as a cabaret farce with more affected than witty joke and with Rühmann / Pulver audiences".
  • Evangelischer Filmbeobachter (Review No. 77/1966): “Colorful and completely non-binding remake of the play of the same name by Curt Goetz, in which an attractive woman is accused of husband murder. Despite the star line-up and attempts at modernization, the film does not overcome the painful dichotomy between the original and the clichéd interpretation. "

Awards

literature

  • Curt Goetz : Hokuspokus , in des .: Hokuspokus and Die tote Aante and other incidents . Stage Works, Volume 2. Droemer-Knaur, Munich and Zurich 1964, (156 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
  2. ↑ Hocus-pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used