Love in the tax office

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Movie
Original title Love in the tax office
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kurt Hoffmann
script Reinhold Schünzel
production Standard film, Hamburg
( Franz Tapper )
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Albert Benitz
cut Marta Dübber
occupation

Love in the Tax Office is a German feature film from 1952 directed by Kurt Hoffmann based on the play “Weekend in Paradise” by Arnold and Bach . The film also ran under the title Weekend in Paradise and had the working titles Das Finanzamt and Weekend in Paradise .

action

After the mother's death, Dittchen, the government councilor, lives alone with his two daughters Olivia and Vicky. Olivia has largely taken over the mother's duties and also looks after her younger sister Vicky. She has a weakness for the stage and writes plays on the side . She is engaged to Ewald Bach, the second dramaturge of the city theater. He would like to bring out Olivia's plays, which has so far failed because of the necessary capital. In order to be able to finance the project, the rich lemonade goulze is wooed. The rest of the family is also in love: 14-year-old Vicky likes the quiet Hubs, chairman of the "Verein der Luftgekühlten", while Dittchen loves the emancipated Dr. Wilma Linde, owner of a dental practice, fell for it. Dittchen knows that Oliva will sooner or later leave the house and would like to marry again. However, Wilma does not know about his feelings for her.

One day the officer Dittchen is passed over again during the promotion. Frustrated, he gets drunk and comes home drunk from the party of his younger colleague, Giersdorf, who is preferred to him. A blonde carries a forgotten briefcase after him, and daughter Vicky thinks she is the right woman for her father. Without Vicky noticing anything, Dittchen was finally able to establish closer contact with Wilma Linde.

Vicky secretly makes sure that Dittchen and the blonde woman meet at the air-cooled summer party, and draws hasty conclusions from the friendly greeting of her father and the blonde. Without further ado, at the end of the festival, she announces her father's engagement to the woman. Government Councilor Dittchen only manages to convince Wilma Linde that his feelings are hers. It comes to a happy ending that was unforeseeable for Vicky.

production

The same material was filmed in 1931 by director Robert Land under the title Weekend in Paradise . The production company for the remake was Standard-Film GmbH (Hamburg), Fama-Film GmbH FA Mainz (Hamburg) , production manager Helmut Ungerland, production manager Conny Carstennsen. The film was produced from May 26th to July 7th, 1952 in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio; the outdoor shots were made in Malente , Plön , Eutin and on the Dieksee . The world premiere took place on September 4, 1952 in Essen in the Lichtburg .

Reviews

“A widowed tax officer looking for a new wife. A high-spirited everyday comedy with time-critical, satirizing swipes at bureaucracy, small-town bourgeoisie and the Americanization of youth after the Second World War. "

“The widowed tax officer Dittchen lives alone with his two children, Olivia and Vicky. He is looking for a new wife, but also wants to get his older daughter Olivia under the hood. She is engaged to the city theater dramaturge Bach and writes her own plays. Bach wants to bring out one of her pieces, but he doesn't have the change. For his part, Dittchen plans to marry the dentist Wilma Linde. However, she has no idea of ​​her luck. "

- filmportal.de :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 307
  3. Love in the tax office. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Love in the tax office at Filmportal.de