Lots of lies
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Lots of lies |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Heinz Rühmann |
| script | Bernd Hofmann |
| production | Hans Conradi |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Carl Drews |
| cut | Gottlieb Madl |
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Lauter Lügen is a German feature film from 1938, the first film direction by Heinz Rühmann . His future wife Hertha Feiler played the main female role here, with Albert Matterstock at her side as her husband. The film is based on the play of the same name (1937) by Hans Schweikart .
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The successful racing car driver Andreas von Doerr had a serious accident some time ago and had to undergo a long convalescence in a sanatorium in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Over the next eight months, he met the extravagant and “man-murdering” Joan Bennet, who had her eye on him. He also fell in love with the brisk American. Joan desperately wants Andreas to herself, and since he still has not explained himself to her shortly before his return to Germany, Joan decides to take the amorous affair into her own hands. Joan announces that she is leaving for Rome, but actually goes to Berlin to “check out” Andreas' wife Garda, a press photographer, and to steal her husband from her. She claims (not entirely untruthfully) that she has had a relationship with her recovering husband in the past few months.
Garda is currently busy making preparations for a vacation trip that she will take with her soon-to-be-home husband. It should go to the Mediterranean. The photographer has been working like crazy lately, also to be able to keep both apartments as the current sole breadwinner. Originally she wanted to pick up Andreas from the train station when Joan appears and lets us know that Andreas is actually her husband and that she should let him go. Shocked but willing to fight, Garda sits down with the pushy American and instead sends her best friend Elisabeth Lindpeitner to the train station to meet Andreas and drive him home. Garda is very angry with her apparently faithless husband and resolves to get back at him. She invites Joan to an evening reception at Elisabeth's on the occasion of Andreas' return home and plans to put on a big show there.
As soon as Andreas has returned home, Garda begins to tie him one bear after the other. She swindles from lie to lie (as the film title suggests) and claims that she has not been left alone for a few months. Garda claims that she even fell in love with one of her various male acquaintances. Jealousy boils in Andreas, but no matter how hard he tries, Garda is not ready to give him the name of the rival. Joan also appears at Elisabeth's party, accompanied by her latest conquest, Dr. Richard Algys. Things will boil up soon. Andreas now plays his own game and quickly disappears with Joan into the evening garden. This in turn annoys Garda so excessively that she now turns to the left-behind Dr. Throws Algys on the neck. Garda is deeply shocked to see her husband and Joan kiss. She wants to leave immediately, but Algys, who can certainly imagine an affair with Garda, does not let her go and holds Garda. This in turn sees Andreas, who promptly believes that Algys must be the newcomer in Garda's life. Angry, he approaches the prominent surgeon and challenges him to a duel, just like in the “good old days”.
The next morning, the disappointed Garda packs her suitcase. Since she believes that she has lost her husband to the American "snake" Joan, she wants to travel to the Mediterranean on her own. Dr. Algys appears and tells Garda about the upcoming duel with her Andreas. Since Garda is afraid for her husband, despite everything, she persuades her alleged lover to accompany her on the trip to the south in order to prevent the upcoming duel. The doctor gladly agrees, mistakenly believing that he should come because Garda fell in love with him. When entering the ship, Joan, who has followed, suddenly stands in the way of the two. She quickly lost interest in Andreas and wants her "Ricky" Algys back again. Andreas observed the scene from a hiding place. When Garda discovers her husband, she falls around his neck and they both embark on their Mediterranean voyage together.
Production notes
Filming on Lauter Lügen began on October 17, 1938 and was completed towards the end of the following month. The film was shot in Innsbruck and the surrounding area and in the Upper Inn Valley as well as around Potsdam and in Hagenbeck's zoo in Hamburg. The film premiered on December 23, 1938 in Hamburg's Schauburg at the main train station; the Berlin premiere was on January 14, 1939 in the Capitol. The film cost only 532,000 Reichsmarks.
Producer Hans Conradi also took over the manufacturing and production management. Willi A. Herrmann designed the film structures. Bruno Suckau set the tone. Kurt Hoffmann was an assistant director. Erich Ebermayer was involved in the script without being named.
The two music numbers were called Lauter Lügen and Oui, Madame .
Rühmann and Feiler met while filming and married a year later (on July 1, 1939). For Hertha Feiler, this film was her breakthrough to a big screen star. When the largely film-inexperienced signed the contract for Lauter Lügen on October 4, 1938 , she was paid a flat fee of 2000 RM.
useful information
The Swedish actor Rolf von Nauckhoff played here in his first German film production. For director Rühmann, who was married to the Jewish ex-actress Maria Bernheim at the time of shooting in 1938, Nauckhoff was soon to be of great use in private. Only a few months later, Rühmann made the neutral Swede a lucrative offer: After Rühmann's divorce from Maria, which Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had urged the film star to agree, he should marry the now defenseless German Jew and, if necessary, take her to safe Sweden. For this friendship service, Rühmann gave the young colleague a sports car as a thank you.
Reviews
Boguslaw Drewniak called the film a “nicely played, amusing comedy” and summed it up: “The material, the good game, Heinz Rühmann's successful directorial debut and Michael Jary's music, tuned to modern dance rhythms, gave the film entertaining values”.
"Moderately entertaining marriage comedy and mix-up comedy with common situation comedy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 9th year 1938. P. 118 (059.38), Berlin 1998
- ↑ Feiler had previously only appeared in two films (and there only with supporting roles)
- ↑ Herta Feiler in Franz Josef Görtz / Hans Sarkowicz: Heinz Rühmann (1902-1994). The actor and his century, p. 200. Munich 2001
- ↑ See foreword in Kay Less : Between the stage and the barrack , p. 13 f. Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 246
- ↑ ibid., P. 537
- ↑ Loud lies in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on March 17, 2020
Web links
- All lies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lots of lies at filmportal.de