Your best day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Your best day |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
| script |
Curth Flatow , Horst Pillau |
| production | Melodie-Film GmbH ( Aldo von Pinelli ) |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Your most beautiful day is a German feature film by Paul Verhoeven from 1962. It is based on Curth Flatow's play Das Fenster zum Flur .
action
Behind her strict facade, mother Anni Wiesner is happy: Her daughter Helene, who married a millionaire in America, has come to Germany with her little son so that Anni can see her grandson for the first time. Her son Herbert successfully studies medicine and Anni's husband Karl makes a career with the Berlin tram . Only daughter Inge seems to be the black sheep. Her mother had planned a career as a dancer for her, but Inge earned her money as a waitress and hung around with the musician Adam.
The reality that the individual family members keep from her looks different, however. Helene never married the millionaire, but was abandoned by him shortly after the crossing to America. Your child was born out of wedlock; the child's father is a married man. She earned money doing odd jobs and ultimately fled home. Herbert has long studied no more medicine, but has a diploma businessman decided -Studies. Karl, on the other hand, fears that he will have to give up his job because his eyes are ill and an operation is imminent. He should actually be driving his tram when it records its last trip in a big ceremony and in front of the television cameras, but he is afraid that he will not see well enough. Anni doesn't know anything about it either. She appears cocky towards other people, as Helene in particular is used to better things than life in a small apartment. She also treats Helene's former friend Erich, who has since built his own life as a plumber, badly.
At some point Inge has enough: she opens her mother's eyes and shows her that Helene is now working in the KaDeW's cosmetics department . Anni causes a scandal in the department store. At home, Herbert opens his course of study for her and Anni rejects both children, so that Karl doesn't even dare to talk about his illness. When Anni, in her anger, treats Inge badly again, she swears to leave and never to come home.
The evening brings the farewell ride on Karl's tram line. Karl drives himself because he did not have the courage to speak of his illness and causes a minor accident. He flees home horrified and Herbert now reports to Anni about Karl's illness. While Helene and Erich meet in secret, Inge spends the night with the shy trumpeter Adam - he is on an armchair and she is in bed. The next day he proposes marriage to her, but gets drunk on the way to Annis apartment. Here Inge and Anni spoke and made up. Even the drunk Adam, who plays the trumpet loudly, no longer lets Anni doubt the young man's suitability as a son-in-law. Helene and Erich also announce that they want to get married - of their own accord and not because Anni wants it or not. There is also a happy ending for Karl, who despite his illness is promoted to traffic foreman. Anni has big plans again only for her son Herbert: If so, then he should become a “qualified wholesaler”.
production
The film was shot in Berlin in 1961 . You can see the Kurfürstendamm and the Charlottenburg Palace . The premiere took place on April 3, 1962 in the Berlin Zoo Palast . The film first ran on television on March 27, 1967 in the first program .
The soundtrack was created using the melody Das Herz von Berlin by Ralph Maria Siegel .
criticism
The film-dienst criticized your most beautiful day in 1962 for its “sugary film slogan”: “What began with at least a slight blink at reality (and how much does that mean in German films!) Is devastated with lively clichés. [...] Verhoeven staged according to cheap television average. Inge Meysel pulls off her tried-and-true mother mesh. Rudolf Platte is allowed to swallow laxative pills in order to wake up high acting mood. And the young people are busy miming themselves. A film of missed opportunities. "
In the Lexicon of International Films published in 1990, the film-dienst described your most beautiful day as “a cheerful folk piece with a contemplative note, but unfortunately also with concessions to the cheap.” In the updated edition from 2001, it was criticized that in the film “all approaches of a sense of reality drowned in an abundance of clichés ”.
On the occasion of a television broadcast of the film in 1988, Der Spiegel found that the film was designed to "allow Inge Meysel to develop her sentimental mommism." She does it relentlessly in this German feature film from 1962 (director: Paul Verhoeven) ”.
Cinema described the film as a "leisurely charade behind Spießer's facade".
The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “A“ folk piece ”, the lower ground floor level of which must have an educational effect on all who believe they see it as a lifelike study of the environment. Unacceptable under 16 years of age. "
Web links
- Your best day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Your best day at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ev .: Your most beautiful day . In: Film-Dienst, No. 19, 1962.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 4. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1742.
- ↑ Your most beautiful day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2018 .
- ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel , No. 34, 1988, p. 192.
- ↑ Your most beautiful day. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 205/1962