Lumpacivagabundus (1936)
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| Original title | Lumpacivagabundus |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Géza from Bolváry |
| script | Max Wallner |
| production | Styria film ( Heinrich Haas ) |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Werner Brandes |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
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Lumpacivagabundus is an Austrian comedy film by Géza von Bolváry from 1936. It is based on motifs from the play Der böse Geist Lumpacivagabundus by Johann Nestroy .
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Fortuna and Amorosa , the protector of true love, make a bet with the diabolical ghost Lumpacivagabundu that will finally bring the devil down: They bet that he will not succeed in finding one of the three righteous men - the tailor Zwirn, the joiner Glue and the cobbler knee strap - to pull on his side. The three women will receive money and true love to support them. Lumpacivagabundus agrees.
First, he lets all three men leave their jobs. Zwirn is fired because he always flirts with customers. Leim leaves voluntarily when his great love Pepi is supposed to marry the unsympathetic landlord Strudl. Knieriem is on the move anyway. All three meet at an intersection and continue the rest of the way together. With a trick they get to a town where they spend the night in an inn and all three dream the same number. The next day they pool all their money and buy a ticket with that number. The lottery wins and all three receive the main prize of 100,000 thalers . They split up the money, leave a nest egg with the landlord and go their own way. They want to meet again in the tavern in a year.
Although Zwirn actually wanted to travel to Venice , Lumpacivagabundus lures him into a carriage to Paris . While still in the carriage, Zwirn made the acquaintance of Signorina Palpiti, to whom he fell for. She, in turn, lets himself be borne by him, buys expensive clothes and sneaks his money through false nobility titles, the acquisition of a ruined castle and lavish parties that he gives for her sake. He ignores the warnings from Palpitis seamstress Paula that she would only take advantage of him. When his money runs out, Palpiti drops him. Without a thaler in his pocket, Zwirn returns to the inn after a year.
Knieriem has gone on a wandering trip to drink his money, after all, the world will soon end in a meteorite anyway . He invites every journeyman who crosses his path to be his guest. In the end, he founds an inn where the best and most wines are served and waits for the meteorite that never comes. He rejects the love of waitress Traudl and prefers to hand himself over to Lumpacivagabundus. After a year he also ran out of money and returned to the pub impoverished.
Right from the start, glue resisted the devil's temptations. Although he had to believe because of a misunderstanding that his Pepi wanted to marry the landlord Strudl, he nevertheless returned to his village. The misunderstanding is cleared up and, as a rich man, Leim is now a good match in the eyes of Pepi's father. The wedding takes place, and after a year, Leim returns as a wealthy but righteous man. He tests thread and knee strap by pretending to be poor and sick in a hospital. When both of them immediately bring the nest egg that has been deposited with the landlord to him and do not want to use it for themselves, he confronts them. He wants to help both of them on their feet and offers them to open a shoemaker's workshop and a tailor's shop in his village. Both are wavering, but Zwirn immediately decides in favor of the workshop when Paula appears. She quit at Signorina Palpiti's to be with Zwirn. Only Knieriem fails: Given the choice of whether he wants a glass of wine or the workshop, he chooses the wine and walks away with the triumphant Lumpacivagabundus.
production
The film was shot in Dürnstein , Göttweig , Sievering and Weißenkirchen in Lower Austria. The interior photos were taken in the Tobis Sascha studio in Sievering, Vienna.
The film had its world premiere on December 23, 1936 in the Viennese comedy theater. The film was also shown in Austria under the title Der böse Geist Lumpacivagabundus . In Germany, the film was premiered for the first time on February 12, 1937 in the UT Kurfürstendamm, UT Friedrichstrasse and in the Titania-Palast in Berlin . The German version was 120 meters shorter than the Austrian version. The restored film in the Vienna version was released on DVD for the first time on January 29, 2010.
Various titles are sung in the film, including Li-li-li-li-li-li love and What is the street for? (Heinz Rühmann and the Metropol Vocalists ).
Heinz Rühmann had already played Zwirn before the film under Heinz Hilpert at the Deutsches Theater. Paul Hörbiger played Knieriem again in 1956 in the Lumpazivagabundus film adaptation by Franz Antel . In addition, he played an aging smear actor in the film Tanze mit mir in den Morgen 1962, who also appeared on his stage as a knee strap in Nestroy's play.
criticism
The lexicon of international films called Lumpacivagabundus "subtle entertainment".
Web links
- Lumpacivagabundus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lumpacivagabundus at filmportal.de