Come first
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Original title | Come first |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1951 |
length | 81 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Erich Engel |
script |
Just shy of Ernst Nebhut |
production | Gyula Trebitsch |
music | Michael Jary |
camera | Albert Benitz |
cut | Luise Dreyer-Sachsenberg |
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Come on First is a German feature film from 1951 by Erich Engel . The main roles are played by Hannelore Schroth , Günther Lüders and Ernst Lothar .
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"Come first" is the standard saying that every debt collector in the still very young Federal Republic hears when trying to cash in. No matter which apartment door opens, it is always the same sentence, spoken by the old man, the maid, the housewife and the child. Because only at the beginning of the month does new money come into the payroll, and many, financially speaking, whistle out of the last hole in the last days of the old month. It's not much different for the business owners, they too are constantly being put off, and since you can't afford to lose customers, willy-nilly it is accepted if the bill is paid later. This payment behavior has serious consequences for the young saleswoman Inge Imhoff: She loses her position in Mr. Kolbert's textile business. Then she sets out to teach the defaulting customers manners and finally to collect the outstanding debts from them. As soon as Inge has successfully collected arrears, her father takes it off again - he has debts too!
In the house of the young composer, sonnyboy and constant bankrupt Bruno Freyberg, who has just written a new work but prefers to deal with the lovely femininity, for example in the form of an elegant taxi acquaintance, Inge meets the staid Gustav Schäfer, who how Inge, albeit much more professionally, makes a living as a debt collector. The elderly looking gentleman gives the novice Inge one or two tips on how to get the money without being scrapped at the front door. “The ringing is the soul of cashing,” explains Schäfer in a fit of poetry, “after a while you ring the bell melodically and in time. The “Blue Danube Waltz”, for example, has a devastating effect. ”In this way you have already won half, because that would give you admission to the debtors' apartments. Thanks to their tight budget, composer Bruno and his lanky lyricist Charlie Stein live in a bachelor's apartment - full ashtrays, liquor bottles and art prints on the wall included. When Bruno is not sitting at the piano, his only belongings of value, he is usually too late, is constantly in the chalk with others and relies entirely on his boyish charm. In any case, the fact that he is talented has not earned him any money. His slow fox “Fate said yes” is played both in the “Paradiso” dance bar and on the radio. He trills another song over the telephone line to his producer, and he buys the Lief straight away. Only with the payment behavior, there is a problem with him too ...
The threads of those involved come together when it becomes clear that Bruno would like to start a relationship with Gustav Schäfer's wife Gitta, the taxi acquaintance from the beginning of the film, while her husband Gustav is currently investigating the troubled marriage of Dr. Brand and his wife cares. There it is Minnie who messes up the household by constantly buying new things to please her husband. She doesn't have the money either, and so Minnie, like most of the other customers, orders Gustav on credit. Dr. Meanwhile, Brand is clueless. Inge sneaks into Bruno's and Charlie's apartment several times and gets on the nerves of the two men who have just been made happy by the mailman until she finally receives the outstanding DM 918. Now shopkeeper Kolbert also recognizes what he had in his Miss Imhoff and gives her back to her old job as a saleswoman. Ironically, it is Inge, a thief, who becomes “moral” even before Bruno and admonishes him to end the relationship with Ms. Schäfer that has barely begun. With her strict views, she arouses Bruno interest, and they both eventually fall in love. How different the two outlooks on life are will soon become apparent. When it comes to hosting the engagement dinner, the question arises as to what should be served. “What my wife likes most,” says groom Bruno, and Inge naturally adds: “Things paid for”.
useful information
The main actor Ernst Lothar is often confused with the Viennese theater doyen of the same name, Ernst Lothar , née Müller. Both are not identical to each other and have had the same first name since their birth, i.e. before they chose the same pseudonym “Ernst Lothar”, namely Lothar Ernst. The “Ernst Lothar” seen in this film was actually called Lothar Ernst Saure (1923–1982).
Production notes
The shooting took place between the end of July and the end of August 1951 in a makeshift studio of the Graf Goltz barracks in Hamburg-Rahlstedt. The film premiered on November 9, 1951.
Walter Koppel has the overall management, Gyula Trebitsch the production management. The film structures are by Herbert Kirchhoff and Albrecht Becker . The costumes come from Erna Sander . Werner Pohl and Robert Fehrmann took care of the sound. Hermann Kugelstadt worked as an assistant director, Heinz Pehlke took over the camera work under Albert Benitz 'chief camera. Axel von Ambesser spoke the ironic off-screen comment .
Reviews
Curt Riess ' “There's only one time” called the film an “amusing, realistic gloss”.
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Solidly staged and well-performed comedy, harmonious in atmosphere and time color."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curt Riess: There's only one. The book of German film after 1945. Henri Nannen Verlag, Hamburg 1958, p. 152
- ↑ Come first. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 10, 2020 .
Web links
- Come the first in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Come to filmportal.de first