I entrust you with my wife
| Movie | |
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| Original title | I entrust you with my wife |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Kurt Hoffmann |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge , Helmut Weiss , Erich Kästner |
| production | Terra cinematography |
| music |
Werner Bochmann , Franz Grothe (song) |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Elisabeth Pewny |
| occupation | |
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I entrust you with my wife is a German comedy film by the director Kurt Hoffmann . Heinz Rühmann played the main role in the black and white film shot in the summer of 1942 . The world premiere took place on April 2, 1943 in the Atlantik-Palast in Munich . In Berlin , the film was shown for the first time on June 8, 1943 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo and in the Lichtburg .
content
Peter Trost is a staunch bachelor and owner of an extremely successful bachelor supplies company. His latest inventions include a breakfast sandwich spreader, an automatic stocking tamper and a mechanical button sewer. To avoid his adoring secretary Lil, Peter goes fishing for a few days. At the train station he meets his old school friend Robert Deinhardt. His wife Ellinor is angry because Robert wants to travel to an architects' congress without her company. She firmly believes that Robert wants to cheat on her with his attractive secretary Mary. In return, she threatens him in turn to cheat him with the conductor Fred Hansen. Robert asks his friend Peter to postpone his fishing vacation for two days to take care of his wife.
In fact, Peter follows the spirited Ellinor at every turn, for which he first has to take an involuntary bath in a swimming pool of the Blau-Weiss tennis club and steal a bus that is supposed to go to Berlin-Zehlendorf . He finally manages to break into Ellinor's apartment, where the intrusive Fred Hansen is already. Grotesque situations arise that bring Peter's friend Kurt, a lawyer, into police custody. In the evening Peter Ellinor follows into the elegant “Astoria”, in which Fred Hansen of all people appears and the heavyweight boxer Emil Sanfthuber keeps an eye on Ellinor. Last but not least, the secretary Lil, who is in love with Peter, turns up completely surprisingly, and she can only be got rid of with great difficulty.
The lawyer Kurt, who has meanwhile been released and has also rushed to the “Astoria”, advises Peter to appear to be the person with whom Ellinor is trying to cheat on her husband, then he just needs to take care of himself. This leads to a calm and open conversation between Peter and Ellinor. Meanwhile, Kurt distracts Emil Sanfthuber, but this does not go entirely according to plan. When Ellinor learns on the phone that her husband is really cheating on her with the secretary Mary, the turbulent evening ends completely differently than expected.
Ellinor and Peter drive to Peter's apartment, where they continue their pleasant conversation. But there, too, the bizarre entanglements overtake them. One after the other, the lovely secretary Lil, the lawyer Kurt and Robert Deinhardt appear there. Lil finally realizes that Peter doesn't want anything to do with her, but can take comfort from Kurt. Robert and Ellinor split up for good and in the end Peter and Ellinor are a couple.
History of origin
Pre-production
The plot of the film is based on the Hungarian play of the same name (original title: Angyalt vettem feleségul ) by János Vaszary from 1932. Under the direction of the author, it was filmed in Hungary in 1937 under the title Rád bízom a feleségem .
The script for the German film adaptation was written by Bobby E. Lüthge with the collaboration of Helmut Weiss and Erich Kästner, not mentioned in the opening credits . Although Kästner was largely prohibited from publishing during the National Socialist era , he was able to write or revise scripts several times under the pseudonym "Berthold Bürger" with special permits. However, Kästner's share in I entrust you with my wife can no longer be estimated today. In a letter to his mother he wrote: “I don't enjoy this work at all. But I'm afraid that I can't avoid it ”.
Alf Teichs , the then head of production and chief dramaturge at Terra-Filmkunst GmbH , later said in retrospect that the script was too “stage-like” so that “optical gags” had to be added.
Jenny Jugo was actually intended for the female lead . However, she refused.
production
I entrust you with my wife was the fourth Heinz Rühmann film directed by Kurt Hoffmann . The comedy was produced by Rühmann's own production group at Berlin's Terra-Film. Production manager was Robert Leistenschneider . The shooting took place from June 4th to the beginning of August 1942 in the Ufastadt Babelsberg as well as in Berlin. This is how the chase scene with the omnibus came about at Steubenplatz in Berlin-Westend, among other places .
The film architect Willi A. Herrmann was responsible for the buildings . Assistant director was Helmut Weiss, who had also worked on the script and was later to direct the Rühmann film Die Feuerzangenbowle , among other things .
music
The music for the film was composed by Werner Bochmann , with the title Most Beautiful of All Women, sung by Kurt von Ruffin in the film, penned by Franz Grothe (music) and Willy Dehmel (text). The music recordings, some of which were remarkably " swinging " for the time , were recorded by Willi Stech and his orchestra.
The film hit Very Most Beautiful of All Women was released on record in 1942/43, among others by the Teddy Kleindin and Horst Winter dance orchestra ( Telefunken A 10479) and as an instrumental by the UFA Dance Orchestra under the direction of Wilhelm Greiss ( Polydor 47836) and by the Elite Dance Orchestra directed by Corny Ostermann (Imperial 17411).
Reviews
"The old Rühmann comedy benefits from a simple but effective plot, well-measured situation comedy and a number of wonderfully played batch roles."
See also
Web links
- I trust you to my wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I entrust you with my wife at filmportal.de
- I entrust you with my wife ( Memento from May 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de
- I entrust you with my wife in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ 88 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 85 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2414 meters
- ^ Ingo Tornow: Erich Kästner and the film . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-12611-6 , pp. 19-20 .
- ↑ Erich Kästner : My dear good mother, you! Your old boy. Letters and postcards from 30 years. Selected and introduced by Luiselotte Enderle . Albrecht Knaus Verlag , Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-8135-5112-1 , p. 240 .
- ^ Gregor Ball and Eberhard Spiess : Heinz Rühmann and his films . Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10213-8 , p. 109 .
- ↑ Guido Altendorf: Declaration of love to Jenny Jugo. Life and movies. In: Jugo. Film history in clothes. Potsdam 2008, page 22
- ↑ I entrust you with my wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .