Laughing heirs

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Movie
Original title Laughing heirs
Laughing Heirs Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Max Ophüls
script Felix Joachimson
production Universum Film AG ( Bruno Duday )
music Clemens Schmalstich
camera Eduard Hoesch
cut Herbert B. Fredersdorf
occupation

Lachende Erben is a German comedy film based on a novella by Trude Herka from 1933 . The film premiere took place on March 6, 1933.

content

Peter Frank, the dedicated head of advertising at the Bockelmann wine company, travels by express train to Assmannshausen and leaves no stone unturned in trying to sell his fellow travelers the Bockelmann wines and sparkling wines in the Mitropa dining car, much to the displeasure of his travel acquaintance Gina Stumm, theirs Father is Bockelmann's biggest competitor, of all people. However, from now on she wants to win over the successful Frank as head of advertising (then: head of propaganda ) for her company.

When Frank arrives in Assmannshausen, he learns of the death of his boss. The old winemaker and wine merchant Bockelmann, a grumpy, curious fellow, was hardly interested in his greedy relatives. The most important thing in his busy life was his vineyards and thriving business.

The relatives always tried to get on well with the rich uncle, as everyone was very interested in the inheritance . The family's outrage at the opening of the will is enormous when Bockelmann's nephew Peter Frank is appointed universal heir. There is only one catch to the inheritance: the old Bockelmann decreed in his will that Frank, who is a solid drinker , may not consume alcohol for four weeks , otherwise a different will will apply.

The greedy family sees, with the energetic initiative of the pious Saxon mineral water manufacturer Justus Bockelmann and his wife Britta, their chance to get the inheritance after all. No ruse remains untried to instill alcohol in Frank. Incidentally, Frank falls in love with his travel acquaintance Gina. After a lot of confusion, jealousy and competition, the two finally find each other and thus fulfill the greatest wish of the late Bockelmann to end the race between the two companies.

Production staff

Locations

music

  • This is the magic of the green Rhine (music by Clemens Schmalstich - text by Friedrich Rotter)

Reviews

The contemporary reviews were positive:

" Heinz Rühmann plays the character as a winning brother Leichtfuß with a bubbling Suda and with unbroken cheerfulness."

- Morning Mail, 1933

"Rightly celebrated because of its cozy, cheeky, squeaky-happy and truly drinkable nature."

- BZ at noon, 1933

"Noble brand from the juice cellar of German humor."

- Filmkurier, 1933

Remarks

  • The film was banned by the film inspection agency on October 1, 1937 .
  • The director Max Ophüls came from the theater and liked to juggle with accents and intertwine nuances of language.
  • The film influenced the post-war films: "Heinz Rühmann as a wine representative from the Rhineland uses a language in Lachende Erben that was later brought to perfection for Lola Montez in Peter Ustinov 's Publicity Slogans ." (Frieda Grafe, SZ , undated)

literature

  • Karsten Witte: Laughing heirs, great day. Film comedy in the Third Reich . Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-930916-03-7 .
  • Kurt Hahne: laughing heirs. Stagger in an elevator . Dannenberg Verlag, Berlin 1911.
  • Gregor Ball, Eberhard Spiess , Joe Hembus (eds.): Heinz Rühmann and his films . Goldmann, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-442-10213-8 , p. 39

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkwUHMabCLE
  2. ↑ a b c d e cit. according to Gregor Ball, Eberhard Spiess , Joe Hembus (eds.): Heinz Rühmann and his films . Goldmann, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-442-10213-8 , p. 39
  3. ↑ Censorship decisions