Model boy

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Movie
Original title Model boy
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 71 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Johannes Knittel
script Gerhard Bengsch ,
Johannes Knittel
production DEFA
music Günter Hörig
camera Ernst W. Fiedler
cut Wally cucumber
occupation

Musterknaben is a German DEFA film comedy directed by Johannes Knittel in 1959 .

action

The construction workers Bassi and Edwin are the black sheep of their brigade : The two of them are regularly late for work and even keep records of the excuses they have already used during the week. To do this, they stop before work to watch the women. They are particularly interested in Thea and Susi, whom they regularly see from their construction site .

Susi is the daughter of Arthur, the head of the house community , whose godparent brigade is in turn the operation of Bassi and Edwin. The company no longer cares about the household in which the blessing hangs crooked. Arthur has long been demanding that the attic be turned into a club room, but after a while the project fell asleep and the club room gradually became a storage room and laundry floor. As a result, Arthur put the television in the unused room in his apartment, which the house community, led by Thea, reclaimed and which finally broke when Arthur's apartment was stormed. At the house assembly that was then scheduled for the next day, the topics of television and club room should finally be discussed. Arthur has asked an advisor from the sponsor company to assist him, but the manager, Kaiser, prefers to go fishing. Weber from the city committee of the National Front , in turn, sees the sponsorship business as an obligation.

Bassi and Edwin, who tracked down Thea and Susi in their house after some turbulence, are taken to be the appointed speakers of the National Front and Bassi actually manages spontaneously to motivate the members of the house community to work together on the club room. Both also take the television with them to repair it. The next day Arthur makes his way to Kaiser, but he suspects that Bassi and Edwin were not who they pretended to be. In turn, Bassis and Edwin's colleague Scholz appears in the house, telling Thea and Susi the truth about the two men, but asks everyone not to reveal anything: Bassi and Edwin should rather be taken at their word. So it happens that both men finally not only have to return the television repaired, but also have to actively help with the redesign of the club room. The whole house lends a hand and in the evening the inauguration can already be celebrated. At that time, Arthur also found Kaiser, who should confront Bassi and Edwin about their behavior. In the end, however, Scholz and Weber appear and soothe Arthur and Kaiser. The women in turn forgive Bassi and Edwin and everything comes to a happy end.

Production and publication

The black and white film Musterknaben , filmed under the working titles The Book of Complaints and All Out of Love , had its world premiere on November 27, 1959 in the Berlin Filmtheater am Friedrichshain . It was the film debut of the later popular comedian Rolf Herricht .

criticism

Contemporary criticism found that Musterknaben was “exaggerated in a funny way and a delightful family of comical types come together.” The “somewhat meager story” is enhanced by “a wealth of comical situations that target the diaphragm”.

For film-dienst , the film was a "comedy with a thin plot that dresses ancient gags in a modern guise."

Cinema said: “Unfortunately, the whole thing is no more exciting than a do-it-yourself program on commercial television. [...] Conclusion: Even in the 50s it wasn't funny. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Funke in: Tomorrow , November 28, 1959.
  2. ↑ Rosemarie Rehahn in: Wochenpost , No. 50, 1959.
  3. ↑ Model boys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ See cinema.de