Left on the ground floor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Left on the ground floor |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Früh |
| script |
Fritz's brother Kurt Früh Alex Freihart based on the Berliner Volksstück Das Fenster zum Flur (1960) by Curth Flatow and Horst Pillau |
| production |
Max Dora Lazar changer |
| music | Walter Baumgartner |
| camera | Emil Berna |
| cut |
René Martinet Anne-Marie Demmer |
| occupation | |
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On the ground floor on the left is a Swiss fiction film in the folk play style from 1963 by Kurt Früh .
action
The plot of "The Window to the Corridor" has been moved from Berlin to Zurich. There the resolute Annie Wieser heads her family. She, who is married to a modest tram conductor, harasses hers with her grandiose plans that affect all areas of their lives and work. She is very ambitious, believes that her husband still has a big career leap ahead of him and wants her daughter Evi to become a famous singer one day. After all, her older daughter Helen has already married an American millionaire. Annie firmly assumes that her son Herbert will one day be a major surgeon. What the head of household does not know, however, is that many of their wishes are pure soap bubbles. Even Helen's “millionaire” from the USA does not exist, she only had a child named Danny turned on for her. The father who goes with him has long been over the mountains!
Evi's breakthrough as a singing star is a long way off, she's still muddling through a bar, always hoping to be “discovered” one day. Herbert, on the other hand, does not want to study medicine at all, because he always feels sick when he has to attend an autopsy . To make matters worse, father Karl has now also become unemployed. Neither of them dares to tell Mother Annie the truth, fearing that this shock, the breaking of the lie, could be too much for her. But Annie is a resolute woman and stronger than her husband and children believe. When she found out about the shattered dreams, she didn't slump into herself, but forged new plans for the future: Karl is to have an operation, a new father has to be found for Danny, and Evis friend, the Yugoslav guest worker Sandro Jovanović, who is already a musician in Tried night clubs, might one day have his big break ...
Production notes
On the ground floor on the left the film was shot from January 14th to February 8th, 1963 in the Salmen film studio in Schlieren. Outdoor shots were taken in Zurich, where the film premiered on March 26, 1963 in the local Apollo film theater.
The film structures were designed by Max Röthlisberger , the costumes by Robert Gamma. Margrit Rainer was supposed to take over the Steinmann role, but she refused.
On the ground floor on the left , the second film adaptation of this folk play, which premiered in 1960, by Curth Flatow and Horst Pillau was in a short time . As early as 1961, the film Your Most Beautiful Day with Inge Meysel was made based on this model and directed by Paul Verhoeven . On the ground floor on the left was also the last feature film production by the once proud and now lying down Gloriafilm AG. In order to secure the financing (300,000 Swiss francs), the great competition of yore, the Praesens-Film Lazar Wechsler , was brought on board. But the homely story was ultimately staged by Kurt Früh too conservative and lacking in action, completely in the style of a television production.
Reviews
“Early designed on the ground floor on the left like a chamber play, in which the plot comes from the characters and is not driven by external influences. (…) The 'Vaudeville' tends towards a parable, but in this case it slips into banality, because the filmmaker does not dare to intervene creatively. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: “The German folk piece ... has been transferred to the 'Züri-Dütsch' and the coherent Zurich petty bourgeoisie with a great sense for witty, dry dialogues. The failure with the audience proved, however, that the time of the genre to which it belongs had expired. "
Web links
- On the ground floor on the left in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Swiss Film. P. 552
- ↑ Left on the ground floor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .