Rascal Stories (1964)

Movie
Original title	Rascal stories
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1964
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Helmut Käutner
script	Franz Seitz as "Georg Laforet" Kurt Heuser
production	Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Munich
music	Rolf Wilhelm
camera	Heinz Pehlke
cut	Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation
Hansi Kraus : Ludwig Thoma Michl Lang : Filser Heidelinde Weis : Cora Käthe Braun : Theres Thoma Renate Kasche: Ännchen Friedrich von Thun : Franz Carl Wery : Semmelmaier Hilli Wildenhain (in the opening credits as Hilli Wildenhayn): Mrs. Semmelmaier Franz Muxeneder : Pedell Georg Thomalla : Privy Councilor Michael Verhoeven : Karl Schultheiss Elisabeth Flickenschildt : Aunt Frieda Harald Juhnke : Stuewe Rudolf Rhomberg : Pastor Falkenberg Rosl Mayr : Innocentia Willy Rösner : Dominikus Pfanzelter Beppo Brem : Farmer Rafenauer Ilse Pagé : daughter of the privy councilor Ernst Fritz Fürbringer : Rector Balduin Baas : private teacher Else Quecke : Emilie, privy councilor's wife Pierre Franckh : Arthur Oliver Hassencamp : Professor Bindinger Hans Terofal : Pharmacist Seitz
chronology
Successor  → Aunt Frieda - New rascal stories

The film Lausbubengeschichten (1964) is the first of five parts of a series of film adaptations of the stories of the same name by the Bavarian native writer Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921) (subtitle of the novel: "From my youth"). Helmut Käutner directed the film .

action

The film begins with a framework story : At the beginning of the 20th century (1911) in Bavaria, a Catholic priest and religion teacher confiscated the book Lausbubengeschichten by Ludwig Thoma from one of his students during his lessons , because it was on the school index . However, this does not prevent the clergy from reading the book in the rectory and laughing heartily at the stories it contains. In the evening he reads from it to his housekeeper:

At the time of the death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, around 1886: Much to the sadness of his mother Therese, the rascal Ludwig Thoma keeps his Bavarian home village in suspense with his pranks. He drives snooty Prussians like the privy councilor Bishop, the pious pastor and religion teacher Falkenberg alias Kindlein, as well as nagging relatives like Aunt Frieda to despair. He actually only finds understanding from his godfather, member of the state parliament, Josef Filser.

Others

The film was produced in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The shooting lasted from June 22nd to August 14th, 1964. The shooting locations were Tegernsee and Beuerberg . The world premiere took place on October 15, 1964 in Tegernsee and Munich (Sendlinger Tor, City Hall Lichtspiele).

In all parts of the film series - but especially in the first - the station facilities of the Isar Valley Railway, which was shut down in this section in 1972, can be seen in Eurasburg and Beuerberg. These recordings are the only known color film evidence of the operation of this former railway line. At the time of shooting, Beuerberg was already the terminus of the line that originally ran to Bichl . The shot of a train traveling in the direction of the mountains in front of the Beuerberg backdrop at the beginning of the first film is interesting in that the track shown at the time of shooting already ran into space and ended only a few hundred meters away.

Almost the entire guard of leading German cinema and folk actors played in the film, with its authentic local color , such as Beppo Brem, Franz Muxeneder, Carl Wery, Harald Juhnke, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Rosl Mayr, Michael Verhoeven and, last but not least, Elisabeth Flickenschildt.

After the Thoma novels had been dealt with, main actor Hansi Kraus played Pepe Nietnagel in all seven parts of the so-called Lümmelfilme .

Reviews

“Helmut Käutner relies primarily on the carefully reconstructed old Bavarian costumes and milieus; satirical tips stay cozy. "

- Lexicon of international film

DVD

• Rascal stories. (5 films on 3 DVDs). EuroVideo, 2008.
• Rascal stories. (5 films on 5 DVDs). Anniversary Edition. StudioCanal, 2014.

literature

• Ludwig Thoma : Rascal stories . With illustrations by Olaf Gulbransson and an afterword by Birgit Dankert . Dressler classics. Dressler, Hamburg 1998, 139 pages, ISBN 3-7915-3560-9 .
• Andreas Beck: Our future lies on the water? Impotent anti-Wilhelminism in Ludwig Thomas Lausbubengeschichte "The noble boy" , in: Sprachkunst 39 (2008,2), pp. 207-217 [there further references].

Web links

• Lausbubengeschichten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rascal stories at Filmportal.de
• Rascal stories at Seitz film production
• Review at TV-KULT.COM The audio book, presented by Hansi Kraus.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner
2. ↑ Rascal stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2016 .