Lemke's Blessed Widow (1957)

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Movie
Original title Lemke's blessed widow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 86, 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Helmut Weiss
script Heinz Pauck
Heinz Oskar Wuttig
production Standard film, Hamburg
music Martin Böttcher
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation

Lemkes sel. Witwe is a German film game from 1957 by Helmut Weiss with Grethe Weiser in the title role. The story is based on the novel of the same name (1907/08) by Erdmann Graeser .

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Greengrocer widow Else Lemke is a smart business woman who has her heart on her tongue and knows how to assert herself with her cheeky mouth. If something does not suit the solid woman, for example, at the Hamburg fruit and vegetable wholesaler Gutsche demands prices that seem too high to her, such as his cherries, then she likes to iron the other person down with her Kodderschnauze. This doesn't make them popular with everyone. When Lore Lemke, Else's daughter, was elected “Queen” at the Krötensteiner Kirschenfest, some of the audience cheered about this election result. Lore escapes this event at night and has to avoid several horses in the dark, whereupon she ends up with her car in the ditch. A little later, a real prince named Eduard von Krötenstein, who fights his way through as a pump agent, crosses the path of the beauty queen and helps her break down the car. They both quickly fall in love. Since the impoverished prince was dismissed by his boss, Mr. Butensack, for persistent failure, he was allowed to start at Lemke.

Together with Lore Lemke, he spices up the more badly running vegetable business of Lemke's blessed widow with his ideas. After Else Lemke caused a real mass fight at the Hamburg fruit and vegetable wholesale market with her Schandmaul, Eduard turned the vegetable trade into a juice shop that sells squeezed cucumber, tomatoes and kohlrabi. Edward's grandfather, Prince Krötenstein, now resides in his castle and preferred to play the battle of Belle Alliance (Waterloo). His manager, Baron Nassen, takes care of his business. He's a pretty weird greyhound and, out of sheer calculation, hooks up with Edith Gutsche, the daughter of the not exactly poor fruit wholesaler Otto Gutsche from the beginning of the film. Edith lets herself be blinded by the baron's title of nobility, because she thinks she is something better, and the baron hopes to be able to marry into a wealthy family. In the meantime, Else has left the worst-running Lemke shop to her future son-in-law and her daughter, which she does not want to shut down for sentimental reasons. Here the two should prove themselves as business people. The idea with the fruit and vegetable juices is going really well, and soon the small business in the sub-parterre is making a profit again.

Meanwhile, Baron Nassen intrigues against the Lemkes and tries to convince the old Prince Krötenstein that the old Lemke, with the planned marriage of her daughter to the prince's grandson, is only after titles and looks. He also persuades the old Gutsche to invest 100,000 DM in Krötenstein in order to finally steal the castle from the old prince. Finally Nassen persuades the naked prince to issue him with a general power of attorney and to disinherit his grandson Eduard. Else Lemke, meanwhile, travels to Schloss Krötenstein with anger to put things in perspective in front of the old man. There she meets the scheming Baron and her favorite enemy, Otto Gutsche. A brief battle of words ensues. Later a Fraulein Heinke appears in the juice shop, and later a Trudi Nelke too. Both and four other women arriving in the newspaper recognize in a newspaper photo, in which Baron Nassen was also photographed, in the slippery asset manager of Castle Krötenstein a cunning crook and marriage swindler who in the past had promised marriage to the women present under different names. Else and the betrayed women approach Krötenstein just as the fake baron is holding his engagement party with Edith Gutsche. Nassen alias Schierwitz alias Nusskämper alias Holstein is taken away with great bohei and in the presence of a detective inspector. Now nothing stands in the way of the engagement of Prince Eduard and Lore Lemke. Gutsche's marriage proposal to Else, however, refuses: Else prefers to remain Lemke's blessed widow.

Production notes

Lemke's Sel. Widow was created in the spring of 1957 in Hamburg-Wandsbek (studio recordings), in the Hamburg port area and at Ahrensburg Castle and was premiered on July 19, 1957 at the Hanover World Games.

Helmut Ungerland took over the production management. Erich Kettelhut designed the film structures realized by Johannes Ott , Dascha Rowinskaja the costumes. Hans Ebel provided the sound.

The 23-year-old Uwe Friedrichsen made his film debut here with a student part.

Reviews

In the lexicon of the international film it says succinctly: "Only here and there a funny, mostly dull comedy, which only Grethe Weiser in the main role helps to achieve some entertainment value."

Cinema said: "Only the heroine gives the movie stew some pepper."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lemke's blessed widow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Brief review

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