Men of Dangerous Age (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Men of dangerous age |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl-Heinz Schroth |
| script |
Per Schwenzen Karin Jacobsen based on an idea by Eberhard Keindorff and Johanna Sibelius |
| production | Friedrich A. Mainz |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Franz Weihmayr |
| cut | Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
| |
Men in Dangerous Age is a German film game from 1954 by Carl-Heinz Schroth with Hans Söhnker and Liselotte Pulver in the lead roles.
action
Franz Volker is a celebrated but no longer very young actor, a man, as they say, in his prime. Young Anna is responsible for his protection, and since Franz is a careful gentleman, he wants only the best for his ward and therefore takes the young woman into his home. Since he has to assume for various reasons that Anna is in fact his illegitimate daughter, he does not run the risk of developing more than just fatherly feelings for the boyish girl. However, the young woman has the rogue on her neck and has been messing up the Volker household since her arrival. And since she has long since cast an eye on the much older charmer and bon vivant, she also tries to torpedo many a flirtation of her patron saint, including the one with the tournament rider Lil Dewohl.
When Anna and Franz then had a serious discussion, the young woman ran away and ran headlong from Franz's house. She finds protection and shelter with Adam Kassner, Volker's best friend and a poet by trade. It is also he who, in the tradition of Prof. Higgins and with some success, is now trying to turn the unpolished tomboy into a young lady with decent manners. Only after the possibility of a blood relationship has been ruled out does Bonvivant Franz, a man of dangerous age, as the film title suggests, show himself ready to allow feelings for Anna, with whom he had long fallen in love, and both enter into the state of marriage.
Production notes
The film was made in 1953 in Hamburg (Studio Wandsbek) and the surrounding area and was premiered on March 2, 1954 in Cologne and Berlin. On July 6, 1963, the German television premiere took place on ARD .
Helmut Ungerland was the production manager. The film structures were designed by Mathias Matthies and his wife Ellen Schmidt . Herbert Grieser was a make-up artist.
Reviews
In Der Spiegel you can read: "Moderately cheerful, but nicely accelerated by director Carl-Heinz Schroth, at the end of which the fabulous actor Volker (Hans Söhnker) marries his ward (Liselotte Pulver), whom he only suspected temporarily, to be his illegitimate daughter. After the biological facts have been satisfactorily clarified, only the considerable age difference of the couple remains to be considered, of which the film takes no notice of - except for the title. "
The lexicon of the international film says: "Well-played comedy with partly original ideas, but an all too thin story."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Men of dangerous age in Der Spiegel 12/1954
- ^ Men of dangerous age. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Men in the dangerous age in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Men of dangerous age at filmportal.de