Lumpazivagabundus (1956)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Lumpazivagabundus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production |
Georg M. Reuther for rhombus |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Hans H. Theyer |
| cut | Arnfrid Heyne |
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Lumpazivagabundus is a German literary film adaptation by Franz Antel from 1956 . It is based on Johann Nestroy's farce The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus .
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Stellaris is dissatisfied with humanity and would like to destroy it. Goddess Fortuna asks him to reconsider his decision, because people are good. The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundu thinks humanity is bad, and so Stellaris allows the two to compete. Lumpazivagabundus is said to show Fortuna three of his most loyal followers. Fortuna can now try with her means to get the three to her side. Lumpazivagabundus and they may use all means for their own purposes. If the three people are good in the end, Lumpazivagabundus will be banished from the earth as an evil spirit. If Fortuna manages to get at least two on her side, the earth can continue to exist.
Lumpazivagabundus selects three men: Tailor Willibald Zwirn loses his job because he is too addicted to women. August Knieriem is a notorious drinker and has not been interested in working for a long time. Carpenter Johann Leim works diligently and loves the carpenter's daughter Pepi Hobelmann, but she is wooed by Mayor Stranzl, who makes it clear to Johann that he will marry Pepi. Johann leaves the village of Auental disappointed. Stranzl then secretly sets fire to Johann's workshop, whereupon Hobelmann's house burns down.
Knee belt, glue and thread meet on their wanderings and move on together. One day they come to Weinstadt, where a big wine festival is taking place. With Lumpazivagabundus' help, they are let into town. Zwirn befriends the waitress Traudl and dances with her. Fortuna helps so that the friendship becomes a first love. The next day there is to be a big drawing of lots with the main prize being 100,000 thalers. Fortuna lets all three men dream the same number and with a little luck, knee straps, thread and glue can win money the next day with which they can buy a ticket. That lot wins and all three share the money. They go out into the world and promise to meet again in Weinstadt in a year.
Leim actually wants to lead a scandalous life in Vienna, but learns in the coach that his Pepi is supposed to marry Mayor Stranzl the next day, even though she actually loves someone else. Leim is now going to Auental and getting his Pepi. He pays out the mayor, who wanted to blackmail Pepi and her father because he had lent them 30,000 thalers to rebuild the burned down house. Over time, however, Leim becomes dissatisfied because Stranzl repeatedly reports that Leim once committed arson. He wants to emigrate to America, but Pepi holds him back. You are now planning to get married in Weinstadt on the anniversary and then to emigrate. Zwirn ends up in Paris, where he falls for the seedy Signora Palpiti as a womanizer. He buys a false title of nobility at a high price, leads a luxurious life and only realizes at a lavish celebration that he has no more money. In his tailor-made things he leaves Paris. Traudl, who had followed him to Paris as Signora Palpiti's maid, is now following him back to Weinstadt. Knieriem has remained true to himself and the alcohol and has settled with a crowd of like-minded people in a castle, where he eats and drinks excessively and reads signs of the end of the world from the empty wine bottles. When his money ran out, he too returned to Weinstadt.
Knieriem and Zwirn meet on the way not far from Auental and are arrested by a gendarme. Mayor Stranzl promises to release them if they set fire to Stranzl's barn the next morning - the day of Leim's wedding - and then come to Weinstadt and name Leim as the arsonist. Knieriem enthusiastically agrees. The next day both arrive in Weinstadt, where Leim is already waiting. Stranzl puts the words in their mouths that his barn was set on fire, and Knieriem and Zwirn deny and expose Stranzl as a liar. In addition, they elicit the confession from Stranzl that it was he who once set Pepi's house on fire. He now has to repay the 30,000 thalers to Pepi and her father Hobelmann. Leim Zwirn donates the money to a tailor's workshop and Zwirn, who has long since found his way to Traudl, agrees. Only Knieriem decides in favor of alcohol and against a shoemaker's workshop. Fortuna has now proven that people are largely good and Lumpazivagabundus is happy not to have to disappear from the earth.
production
Lumpazivagabundus was shot in the Atelier Sievering, among other places, and had its film premiere on August 16, 1956. Paul Hörbiger had already played the role of Knieriem in the film adaptation of the same name from 1936. He repeated the role in the 1962 film Dance with Me in the Morning . Here he played an aging smear actor who also appeared on his stage as a knee strap in Nestroy's play.
Gerdago created the costumes for the film and Otto Pischinger designed the buildings .
Numerous songs are sung in the film:
- What is the street for?
- I smell wine
- Carelessness is my companion
- A day as beautiful as today
criticism
On the occasion of the film premiere, Der Spiegel found that Lumpazivagabundus "suffered considerably under the direction that Franz Antel carried out on him". Paul Hörbiger appears to be "mainly disguised in the new, thinner, but agfacolorized infusion". Gunther Philipp and Joachim Fuchsberger do not reach their predecessors Heinz Rühmann and Hans Holt in the “honestly glued scenes”[ Rudi Godden is incorrectly criticized].
For film-dienst , the film was “far removed from the fantastic atmosphere and the ironic naivety of the original […]; cozy, popular and entertainingly staged in an honest way. "
Even for the Protestant film observer , the work was at best mediocre: "Nestroy's stage play [...] as a not particularly peppy colored comedy film."
Web links
- The Vagabond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lumpazivagabundus at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in Germany: Lumpazivagabundus . In: Der Spiegel , No. 36, 1956, p. 38 ( online ).
- ↑ Lumpazivagabundus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 613/1956