Inge and the millions
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Inge and the millions |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Engel |
| script |
Curt Johannes Braun , Emil Burri |
| production | Bruno Duday |
| music | Erik Plessow |
| camera | Carl Hoffmann , Werner Bohne |
| cut | Milo Harbich |
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Inge and the Millions is a German feature film from 1933. Directed by Erich Engel based on a screenplay by Curt Johannes Braun and Emil Burri . Brigitte Helm and Willy Eichberger played the leading roles .
action
The Berlin secretary Inge Hensel travels to Switzerland on behalf of her boss, the banker Seemann. She is supposed to bring money from the bank there, which is forbidden in Germany in 1933. At the train station in Konstanz she meets Walter Brink, who misses his train to Berlin and decides to accompany her to Schaffhausen . There they spend the afternoon together, so that Inge is late for her meeting with Seemann's business partner Conrady. On the return trip together, Walter said he wanted to see Inge more often in Berlin, but she said that would not be possible.
Seemann and his business partners Conrady and Kutzner are worried about their money and want to get everything abroad. To do this, they want to cancel all of their loans, including that of Walter's boss, the haulage owner Böttcher, who comes to the bank in person to get an extension. His company is doing well and he is worried about his employees and their families. But Seemann remains tough. Walter would like to invite Inge to the wedding party he organized for his friend Lindemann and the landlord's daughter Lotte. Inge has to work because Seemann wants her to meet Conrady. However, he only sees it as a way to get drunk. Inge then drives to the wedding party, which takes place in the Böttchers company. When the celebrants want to pick up Cooper, they find him dead; he killed himself.
The forwarder's assets are auctioned way below their value, which is why Walter tries to get Seemann to interrupt the auction and resume a few days later with probably better returns. He makes sure that it is enough for his demands and insists on continuing immediately. Inge should stay with him and then bring him the money. When she does this, Seemann is already in the process of moving abroad. He invites her to come with him, but when Conrady and friends arrive for a move-out party, Inge goes into Lotte's parents' inn. There she wrote a voluntary report for foreign exchange smuggling and sent it to the police by post. Before going to jail, however, she would like to spend a nice evening with Walter. He knows nothing about it and speaks of a wedding. Only when he brings her home in the middle of the night does he notice that she has problems. She takes him into the apartment to explain it to him. There they find a seaman who wants to dissuade Inge from filing a complaint. Walter leaves the apartment indignant. Shortly afterwards the police arrive and arrest Seemann and Inge.
The next morning Walter seeks help from Lotte, who assures him that Inge is the right one for him. When they read in the newspaper that Inge has been arrested, Walter rushes to the police to help her. However, Inge has already been released. Now nothing stands in the way of Inge and Walter's wedding.
background
In the first year of the National Socialists' reign, in which Inge and the Millions was created, the government's influence on the film industry was felt. Klaus Kreimeier wrote that Erich Engel was accused of being a "blatant communist". He is said to have spoken out against obliging Christians. If this should be confirmed, it was said, his contract for a film with Brigitte Helm would be terminated . Obviously this did not happen.
For the Jew Otto Wallburg , the role of Conrady Inge and the millions was the penultimate role in German films. Armin Loacker combines this with an advice from Germany to the Austrian film producers, according to which Jews should only be used in roles that correspond to the “racial mentality”.
In addition to the actors named in the opening credits , Josef Sieber , Walter Steinbeck , Paul Rehkopf , Harry Hardt , Fita Benkhoff and Elfriede Jerra are named on the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation website .
Inge and the Millions was filmed in Berlin and Konstanz as well as on a paddle steamer on Lake Constance . The interior photos were taken in October 1933 in the Ufa studio in Neubabelsberg.
publication
Inge and the Millions was premiered on December 22nd, 1933 in Berlin in the Ufa-Theater Kurfürstendamm. The production and distribution company was Universum Film AG (UFA) .
reception
Inge and the Millions was described as a hit film.
The historian Harold James describes the situation for filmmakers in the German Reich as difficult. Much content was banned, but there were no regulations on what films should contain. In addition to “light entertainment”, the studios loyal to the line only had criticism of what was criticized by National Socialism as being particular to the Weimar Republic . These are "materialism and individualism" as well as "shifting foreign currency and capital flight", and "of course to the Jews". Inge and the millions turned against everything at the same time and is therefore cited as an example.
See also
Web links
- Inge and the millions in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Inge and the millions at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Inge and the millions. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 24, 2017 .
- ^ A b Klaus Kreimeier : The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918–1945 . University of California Press, Berkeley 1999, ISBN 0-520-22069-2 , pp. 211–212 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on September 24, 2017] German: The Ufa Story: History of a film company . Munich, Vienna 1992. Translated by Robert and Rita Kimber).
- ^ Armin Loacker: Film emigration from Nazi Germany. (PDF) In: Münchner Stadtmuseum . Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Inge and the Millions. In: Murnau Foundation. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films - Carl Hoffmann
- ↑ Harold James : The Deutsche Bank in the Third Reich . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50955-X , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 24, 2017] English: The Nazi dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank . New York 2003. Translated by Karin Schambach and Karl Heinz Siber).