Mikosch moves in (1952)

Movie
Original title	Mikosch moves in
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1952
length	101 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	YES Hübler-Kahla
script	Bobby E. Lüthge
production	Kurt Ulrich
music	Michael Jary
camera	Kurt Schulz
cut	Margarete Steinborn
occupation
Georg Thomalla : Janos Nawratil Willy Fritsch : Colonel von Körömsbös Paul Hörbiger : Dr. Paliwec Oskar Sima : Baron Mikosch Heli Finkenzeller : Claire from Ferency Paul Klinger : Tibor von Köröd Christiane Jansen : Margit von Ferency Bruno Fritz : Major von Itzenblitz Wolfgang Dohnberg : First Lieutenant von Bredow Gerd Frickhöffer : Lieutenant von Kitzewitz Lucie English : Erzy, Pig Maid Ludwig Schmitz : tower root, head waiter Franz-Otto Krüger : photographer Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann : Sergeant Janos Walter Gross : Fritz Pickelmann, lad Franz Arzdorf : First Lieutenant Count Bobby Joe Furtner : Village Pastor Wolfgang Neuss : Franzek Peter Paul Richter : Karoli, lad Bruno W. Pantel : Eugene Friedl Hardt : dancer

Mikosch einrückt is a German military amusement game from 1952 by JA Hübler-Kahla based on an idea by Paul Löwinger with Georg Thomalla in the lead role. Willy Fritsch , Paul Hörbiger and Oskar Sima play other central roles as Baron Mikosch.

action

Austria-Hungary before the First World War. The simple but kind-hearted Hungarian swineherd Janos Nawratil is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. All attempts by his superiors to turn the simple country man into a capable and smart soldier are doomed to failure because Janos lacks the discipline and understanding of everything military. Soon the pure fool causes even more confusion when he forces himself into a sergeant's uniform for a photograph meant for his bride Erzy. When his loved one wants to visit him in the barracks, Janos has no choice but to slip into this uniform again for this moment. At the same time, the three Prussian officers Major von Itzenblitz, Oberleutnant von Bredow and Lieutenant von Kitzewitz arrive on site, who once had a friendly Austrian regiment at the Battle of Königgrätz (1866), the last battle in the Prussians (Germans) and Austrians fought against each other, want to return captured flag.

Janos is taken by them for a sergeant and is therefore considered by the German emissaries as high enough for an official handover of the standard. Janos also receives the accompanying document, but immediately disappears with him. All sorts of cheerful incidents occur that only add to the mess that the wrong Hungarian officer has created. Janos soon reappears with the document. So that the whole hoax does not get exposed and the Austrian officers do not look like provincial idiots in front of their German counterparts, Janos is promoted to sergeant-major by Colonel von Körömsbös, the highest-ranking officer in the regiment. Baron Mikosch is now ready to recognize the swineherd as his son so that he can lead his bride to the altar.

Production notes

The comedy was filmed in mid-1952 in the Berolina studios in Berlin-Tempelhof and in the Berlin area. The premiere took place on October 9, 1952 in Stuttgart, the (West) Berlin premiere was on October 21 of the same year.

Producer Kurt Ulrich also took over the production management, Heinz Willeg the production management. The film structures were made by Willi A. Herrmann , Heinrich Weidemann and Peter Schlewski, the costumes were designed by Walter Kraatz. Hans Löhner set the tone.

Trivia

The Hamburg film journalists rated Mikosch indent in a survey as the worst film of 1952. For this, the author Bobby E. Lüthge was “rewarded” with the negative “black radish” prize. According to Der Spiegel, Lüthge reacted as follows: "I would very much like to come into possession of this valuable prize personally, in order to place it in a particularly excellent place in a showcase in my apartment next to the two 'Bambis' that I used for the most popular German films in 1951 and received in 1952 after a vote by the 4,500 German theater owners. "

Reviews

Der Spiegel stated in 1952: “The barracks courtyard is just the backdrop for a chain of rolled out jokes - so noisy and foolish that they couldn't have been better located. Half a dozen of the lavishly mobilized film celebrities line up as couples for the tattoo. "

The film service ruled: “Before the First World War, a military stunt with stale jokes; individual parodic elements prove to be completely ineffective. "

The author Wolfgang Schmidt located in the chapter “Barras Today” of the book War and the Military in the Film of the 20th Century (R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, p. 509 f.) In the Mikosch films of the 1950s a “string of hackneyed jokes as swing entertainment at the lowest level ”. As Schmidt also notes, the CDU-led federal government of Konrad Adenauer and there in particular the Blank Office , the predecessor institution of the Federal Ministry of Defense, is said to have been anything but happy about such films, since it was "the worst possible method of popularizing the idea of ​​defense." close".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal details in Der Spiegel 9/1953
2. ↑ Mikosch moves into Der Spiegel 43/1952
3. ↑ Mikosch moves in. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Two more Mikosch canvas clothes followed at the end of the decade with Gunther Philipp
5. ↑ Wolfgang Schmidt: “Barras today” in: “War and the military in the film of the 20th century”, on books.google.de
6. ↑ ibid.

Web links

• Mikosch engages in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mikosch engages in filmportal.de