My grandpa and the 13 chairs
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| Original title | My grandpa and the 13 chairs |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | about 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmuth Lohner |
| script | Erich Tomek |
| music | Ralph Siegel |
| camera | Gérard Vandenberg |
| cut | Uschi Erber |
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Mein Opa und die 13 Stühle is an Austrian film comedy from 1996. It is the continuation of the film Mein Opa ist der Beste and based on the comedy Thirteen Chairs with Heinz Rühmann from 1938 and very loosely based on the novel 12 chairs by Ilja Ilf and Jewgeni Petrow from 1928. It is a co-production of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and Wörthersee-Film.
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Franz Sedlak's granddaughter Sami receives a letter from the notary that she has become the universal heir of her great aunt Karoline Weber from Klagenfurt. When Franz and Sami enter the apartment, Franz first discovers a portrait of his deceased sister. Then the two of them see that the apartment is empty except for 13 chairs. The caretaker says that Karoline sold the expensive furniture in the rented apartment. He advises Franz and Sami to have the chairs auctioned at the auction house and receives an order from Franz to bring them there for tomorrow's auction. The next day the caretaker handed Franz a letter from Karoline, which he found on the picture. In this will, Franz reads that Karoline sewn 3,000,000 schillings (around € 218,000) in cash into one of the 13 chairs. The auction now turns out to be a big mistake and Franz rushes with Sami to the Dorotheum Klagenfurt to get the chairs back. Franz sees an employee carrying chairs and increases them to 10,000 schillings in an ongoing auction. At the checkout it turns out that Franz did not buy the chairs, but a large plaster sculpture called “Venus”. He reluctantly receives them; on the street it slips away from him and breaks in two. Franz is now looking for help from Wolfgang Ohr, who has an art shop. Through connections, Wolfgang gets the addresses of the nine new owners of the 13 chairs. For Franz and Sami a laborious and desperate search for the millions begins.
With Oskar Myrna, who later turns out to be the casino supervisor, the first chair is found. So that Sami can cut it open, Franz distracts Oskar by cooking, which leads to an explosion in the kitchen. There is no money in the chair.
The next chair is with opera singer Sebasta, who has a problem with the vocal cords. Franz distracts this by looking into his mouth and showing him the uvula. Sami cuts open the upholstery and finds nothing in it either. But unwittingly they help the singer to get the high B by sitting on the spring of the broken chair.
The search continues in a striptease bar where Franz meets Wolfgang. Franz is involuntarily called onto the stage and helps the striptease lady while sitting, at the same time he cuts open the chair. This is without content.
Wolfgang and Franz find the next two chairs at Countess Wetterstein's, who is mourning her dead cat. They express their condolences to the Countess and believe that her husband has passed away. However, the countess tells of the last days of her cat's life. Again there is nothing in the chairs.
Now they come to a married couple who are looking for a male cast for a theater role. When Franz and Wolfgang show up there, the man of the house thinks they are applicants and his wife Wolfgang is someone who would be very suitable for the role. She immediately rehearses the piece with him, which Wolfgang has no idea about. Meanwhile, Franz cuts open the two chairs there without result.
The new search leads to Porcia Castle . In a baroque room, mannequins sit on the chairs. When Wolfgang and Franz want to cut them open, a tour of the castle crosses the room. Two young women who are stragglers think Wolfgang and Franz are baroque dolls. One of the young women changes in this room, whereupon Wolfgang “looks” and Franz gets hiccups and the two are mistaken for moveable dolls. When the truth is revealed, the two women flee. There's nothing in the chairs again.
The next two chairs can be found in an ORF television studio. Franz and Sami pretend to be the expected guests, a deep-sea diver and his assistant. But in the interview, Franz cannot give any professional answers. Simulating a resistance to a shark attack, the two cut open the chairs in front of the camera. The gloomy direction switches off. The grandpa-granddaughter couple hands the broken chairs over to the real divers in front of the door.
Franz finds the next chair in the Casino Klagenfurt in the area of the machines. There he meets Oskar again. Frightened, Franz throws coins into a machine to disguise himself, cracks the jackpot, but doesn't notice anything and runs away with the chair, in which again nothing is found.
The last chair is in the ordination of a psychiatric doctor. Franz fakes a chair phobia . When she tries to give him an injection, he simulates an anxiety attack and throws the already cut chair out of the window. This falls onto the loading area of a passing truck with a collection for the children's home.
The abbot of the spiritually led children's home discovers the money and a note from the deceased (“May this money bring happiness and blessings”) in the chair, calls all the children to him and announces that he can expand the home with the millions. Franz and Sami observe this scene. Franz is disturbed, but Sami claims that such a home is more important than a bicycle factory, with which Franz Sami initially declared his fortune. As they are waiting at the end of the platform at Klagenfurt train station, Wolfgang and Oskar come to them and tell Franz that he cracked the casino jackpot and won 4,000,000 schillings. Franz gives Sami the millions, the two buy two racing bikes and ride them on Praterhauptallee in Vienna.
criticism
"Turbulent, undemanding entertainment film based on a" classic "comedy drama."
Web links
- My grandpa and the 13 chairs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief review of My Grandpa and the 13 chairs . In: film service . Online in cinOmat (access only for subscribers). Retrieved March 10, 2015.