No Angel Is That Pure (1960)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | No angel is so pure |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Becker |
| script | Eckart Hachfeld |
| production |
Artur Brauner for CCC-Film |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Wolfgang Fluff |
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No angel is so pure is a German crime comedy by Wolfgang Becker from 1960.
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Because of jealousy he ravaged the room of his easy-going friend Kitty, Konrad, the son of a bank director, was sentenced to six months in prison. He is released from custody together with the intruders Bubi and Sepp. All three of them got under the influence of shady lawyer Dr. Zilinsky received musical instruments and played beat music. Dr. Zilinsky is actually the head of the criminal gang, which includes Bubi and Sepp. Together with burglary specialist Micki Flunder, you plan to rob Konrad's father's bank. You want to break into the vault from the outside via a tunnel. The noise of the jackhammer is supposed to be drowned out by jazz music played in front of the bench. Dr. Zilinsky can convince Konrad that his father no longer wants to know anything about the son who is now convicted. The money they want to steal from the bank is also the inheritance due to Konrad anyway.
In a bar the crooks get to know the young Therese, who collects money for the Salvation Army . The men around Dr. Zilinsky managed to persuade Therese to collect money in front of the bank during the first jazz concert. While Therese hopes to get more money from the young people, the crooks believe that a concert disguised as a fundraising campaign for the Salvation Army will not be broken up by the police. The plan fails when other Salvation Army collectors come by during the concert and Therese forbids collecting in an “immoral” setting. Therese is also released from the Salvation Army and is now moving in with Dr. Zilinsky, Sepp, Bubi, Konrad and Micki Flunder. Under their influence, Bubi, Sepp and Konrad attend the Sunday service for the first time and sometimes even get scruples when they think about the break-in. The preparation continues, because the innocent Therese can get the bank director to put up a tent next to the bank. The “musicians” want to give concerts here and collect money for the orphanage where Therese grew up. In the back of the tent, however, is the entrance to the tunnel, which should lead directly in front of the vault wall.
Konrad has fallen in love with Therese and wants to get out of the business. However, because he once drew the floor plan of the bank for the crooks, Dr. Zilinsky used leverage to silence him. Therese also discovers the gang's secret when she discovers the tunnel. She wants to get the bank director to tear down the tent prematurely, but he refuses. Konrad goes unnoticed by the others to his father, who welcomes him with open arms. Konrad now knows that Dr. Zilinksy lied to him and was never in contact with his father. He now leads his father to the tent and shows him the tunnel. Micki Flunder is also there, who has just had a violent argument with Konrad's ex Kitty and devastated her apartment and now wanted to continue working on the wall breakthrough. Therese meanwhile guides an excavator directly over the dug tunnel. The excavator collapses and blocks Konrad, his father and Micki Flunder on their way back. With the permission of the bank director, Micki Flunder is now making the wall breakthrough to the vault. The police, alerted by Therese, are waiting in the vault and are amazed when the bank director himself is the first to step out of the breakthrough. Micki Flunder will receive a check from him for his work. He is arrested in front of the bank for having vandalized Kitty's apartment. Konrad and Therese become a couple, while Dr. Zilinsky is arrested when he tries to give musical instruments to some convicts again.
production
No angel is so pure was filmed from December 1959 to January 1960 in Berlin and the CCC Studios in Berlin-Spandau . The film's bank building was on Lützowstrasse in Berlin, other exterior shots were filmed on Genthiner Strasse. The film was submitted to the FSK for review in February 1960 . The criticized the film as blasphemous in numerous scenes and initially demanded that ten scenes of the film should be changed or removed before approval. When the film was shown again, other scenes were criticized that “[injure] the religious sentiment of the masses”, including various biblical quotations used by the gangsters that “cannot be part of a comedy-level film”. Director Becker then had further cuts made to the film, which was finally approved by the FSK for people aged 16 and over. No angel is so pure experienced its premiere on February 18, 1960 in the Gloria-Palast in Frankfurt am Main . Director Becker stayed away from the premiere "in order to demonstrate against the mutilation of the film by the voluntary self-regulation." This was followed by an appeal procedure in which the FSK released many of the previously deleted positions in March 1960.
No angel is so pure was the last film by Hans Albers , who died in 1960, the year it premiered. Fred Kraus , who plays Konrad's father in the film, is actually the father of Konrad actor Peter Kraus.
The song Kriminal-Tango can be heard several times in the film . Peter Kraus also sings Doll-Doll-Dolly .
criticism
The film service called No Angel is so purely a "rogue comedy, despite the amusing representational contributions a bit tense and sometimes tactless."
Web links
- No angel is so pure in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No angel is that pure at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The pious Therese . In: Der Spiegel , No. 10, 1960, p. 71.
- ^ The pious Therese . In: Der Spiegel , No. 10, 1960, p. 72.
- ↑ a b rearview mirror . In: Der Spiegel , No. 11, 1960, p. 82.
- ↑ No angel is so pure. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .