Is Geraldine an Angel?

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Movie
Original title Is Geraldine an Angel?
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steve Previn
script Carl Merz ,
Kurt Nachmann
production Wiener Stadthalle
music Heinz Gietz
camera Georg Bruckbauer
cut Alfred Srp
occupation

Is Geraldine an Angel? is an Austrian comedy film directed by Steve Previn from 1963 .

action

Geraldine lives with her aunt Klara and her husband Viktor, who is a music publisher. His partner is the young Niki, who begins a secret relationship with Geraldine during the summer vacation. She has to go back to Sweden and Niki will be traveling to Monte Carlo shortly . The company often has to do with tax matters in the small state of Monaco. To say goodbye to Niki, Geraldine receives a little stuffed bear, which was supposedly his favorite stuffed animal that he once received from his mother. Geraldine will guard the bear like treasure for the next few months and write love letters with Niki. However, he has numerous affairs in her absence, including plans to travel to Monte Carlo on a romantic vacation with the married Elisabeth van Deysen, as he takes a different lover with him every time he goes there.

After six months in Sweden, Geraldine returns to her aunt's house. The fried fish has become a young woman and Niki is genuinely surprised when he sees her again. His trip to Monte Carlo is imminent, but Elisabeth cancels her participation because her husband has surprisingly come home. Aunt Klara wants to open the eyes of the amorous Geraldine and lets her overhear the phone conversation between Niki and Elisabeth. Geraldine is outraged. Because Niki has already bought the flight tickets, he invites Geraldine to come to Monte Carlo with him. She agrees, but wants to teach him a lesson.

Geraldine is demure in Monte Carlo. Accidentally she takes a sleeping pill intended for Niki herself in the evening and is now incredibly tired. Niki, however, wants to spend the night with her and so Geraldine flees over the balcony into the next room, where she goes to sleep. The owner of this room is the playboy Jan, but he is fed up with women and gets drunk in the hotel bar. Niki, who cannot find Geraldine, joins him, and both drink to the wickedness of women. Shortly afterwards Jan finds Geraldine, whom he does not know, in his bed, but withdraws and spends the night on the balcony. Geraldine escapes to her room the next morning, but loses her shoe in Jan's room. She quickly packs her things and goes back home. Her hotel room does not remain unoccupied for long, however, as Elisabeth van Deysen followed suit at short notice and moved into the hotel room that was already booked in her name. This causes a surprise for Niki and confusion for Jan.

Geraldine had told her aunt something about a stay in St. Wolfgang with friends. Aunt Klara is all the more surprised when one day Jan stands in front of the door looking for the owner of the shoe that Geraldine had lost in the hotel room. So it turns out that Niki was with Geraldine in Monte Carlo. Aunt Klara suspects the worst and wants to force Niki to marry Geraldine. But he doesn't think about it. Geraldine, in turn, makes an agreement with Jan: He tries to bring her and Niki together because he has recognized that she loves Niki. If he doesn't make it, she will give him another chance, since Jan has fallen in love with the originally "unknown angel". Jan visits Niki to clear up the misunderstanding with the night in Monte Carlo. However, Niki is currently visiting Elisabeth, who he has hidden half undressed in the bedroom from the visit. Geraldine follows and not only sees numerous stuffed bears at Niki's, but also Elisabeth's hidden clothes. She now pretends to be with Jan and ends up going to Monte Carlo with him. Niki is outraged that her aunt is allowing this. After some confusion about plane tickets, Niki, Uncle Viktor and Aunt Klara end up in Monte Carlo, where Geraldine and Jan are already. Aunt Klara dissuades Viktor from cheating. Jan in turn makes it clear to Geraldine that he is actually not a gentleman and that he will spend the night with her. Then he locks the door from the outside because he has to give a friend a short helping hand. When he does not come back and Geraldine cannot leave the hotel room, she flees again via the balcony. Niki is waiting for her in the next room and embraces her. Jan is there too - he used the trick to bring Geraldine and Niki back together. The night, however, goes by in a civilized manner: Jan's room is in the middle, while Geraldine and Niki have to sleep in separate rooms to the left and right of him.

production

Since he was preparing a Johann Strauss film after a film for the choir boys, Steve Previn, the brother of the composer André Previn , was currently in Vienna. Producer Karl Spiehs took the opportunity to hire a Hollywood director with him. The film is based on the play Is Geraldine an Angel by Hans Jaray from 1933. The film costumes were created by Paul Seltenhammer , the buildings are by Herta Hareiter . The production line had Heinz Pollak . The popular Waltraud Haas can be seen in a cameo as a stewardess.

The film was released in German cinemas on August 30, 1963. According to Spiehs, it was a commercial and artistic bust.

criticism

For the film service was Is Geraldine an Angel? an "undemanding game of confusion about the conservative gender role clichés of the early 1960s, which tries to draw its clumsy joke from the ever new failures of the woman hero."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See theaterverbandtirol.at
  2. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 73
  3. ↑ Is Geraldine an angel? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used