My sister and me (1954)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | My sister and I |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Martin |
| script |
Jacques Companéez Josef Than |
| production |
CCC-Film , Berlin ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Ralph Benatzky |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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My sister and I is a German film by Paul Martin from 1954 . The plot is based on the musical comedy of the same name from 1930.
action
Due to a small traffic accident, Princess Maria Christine von Esch-Königsborn has an involuntary stay in the beautiful city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. She is on her way back from Argentina to marry the King of Slobenia at her father's castle at his father's request. She finds a nice wine bar where she meets the young engineer Rudi Becker. She falls in love immediately, but pretends to be a little shoe seller so as not to scare him off. Since her father is a quiet, withdrawn scholar who only lives for his science, she first wants to have the entire property polished up so as not to make a bad impression on the king. But he is still sitting in a hotel in Switzerland, which he serves as a showcase guest. He attracts foreign guests with his name and the hotel does good business. However, he only feeds his suppliers with Slovenian medals. To prepare for the wedding, he sends one of his ministers, Count Kollinoff, ahead.
Rudi Becker searches in vain for the saleswoman he cannot find. But the castle pond, which he leased as a passionate fisherman, should disappear. A lavish swimming pool is planned to be built in its place. By many unclean means one tries to drive Rudi away so that he goes to the castle to complain to the princess. Since he has grown a beard in the meantime, Maria Christine does not recognize it. But he pulls a watch from his pocket that she had pawned in the wine bar and angrily tears up the lease. Sad about Rudi's departure, Maria Christine packs her bags and looks for a job as a shoe seller in Rothenburg. She is employed in the Huber shoe store and becomes friends with her colleague Irma. When she discovers Rudi in the wine bar, she demands her colleague's watch back. Rudi only wants to hand over the watch to Maria Christine himself because he doesn't want to believe that the haughty princess works as a shoe seller. The two girls lie to him, however, that Christel is the outcast twin sister of the princess and has worked in the business for a long time.
Christel brings her friend to the rendezvous, which Rudi doesn't like at all. But after several attempts he succeeds in getting rid of them. At around 3 a.m., the two of them go to the waiting room of the train station to spend the rest of the night there. They are torn from their dreams by the music of a band and Christel recognizes Count Kollinoff on the platform, who is duly preparing the arrival of the king. Now of course she is pushing for a quick departure. The engagement is to be announced at the castle that same evening. Rudi goes there with Christel and Irma to attend the celebration. On this occasion he wants to ask the professor for the hand of his second daughter, the shoe seller. But the princess quickly let her father in on it and so he took part in the fraud. Now the excitement is huge, because the princess cannot be found and the king is supposed to get a shoe seller as his sister-in-law. But everything will be fine: Christel gets her Rudi and the king receives an annual contract from Metro-Goldstein-Geier and will rule as a partner of Marilyn Monroe in the future.
production
The same material was filmed in 1929 under the direction of Manfred Noa and then in 1933 by director Karl Hartl under the title Your Highness, the Saleswoman . The CCC film was shot in the studio in Berlin-Spandau as well as in Ansbach and Rothenburg ob der Tauber . Ernst Neubach's dialogues were created using the comedy of the same name based on Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. Gabriel Pellon created the buildings, Léon Canel was production manager.
My sister and I had the premiere in Mainz on July 15, 1954 .
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as a dusty musical comedy based on a stage model that was filmed by Karl Hartl in 1933 under the title "Your Highness, the Saleswoman".
Web links
- My sister and I in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My sister and I at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 449
- ↑ My sister and me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .