You don't know Korff yet?
| Movie | |
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| Original title | You don't know Korff yet? |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Fritz Holl |
| script |
Jacob Geis Peter Francke |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Georg Bruckbauer |
| cut | Gottlieb Madl |
| occupation | |
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You don't know Korff yet? is a crime comedy by Fritz Holl from 1938.
action
Niels Korff is an innocent musician who is only interested in playing the flute and his dachshund Peterle. Little does he know that the private detective van Gaalen and his girlfriend Philippine Schimmelpenninck are misappropriating their identity for a daring plan to lure a gang of criminals around the cunning Monsieur Dufour into a trap. Philippine writes detective novels under Korff's name, in which the crimes of the Dufour gang are discussed. The books are also published with Korff's picture on the book cover. As expected, the gang becomes aware of Korff and wants to eliminate him as a supposedly dangerous opponent.
Van Gaalen, who constantly monitors Korff and thus hopes to be able to catch the gangsters, gives Korff, who is supposed to be a theater agent, a role as a music clown at the “Trocadero” revue theater. Dufour's gang promptly launches the killer Kelly in the same revue, namely as a knife thrower, since he has mastered this art quite well. An unfortunate accident is said to occur during the performance. In the premiere, the killer as Indian chief and Korff as hero on the torture stake face each other according to their roles. Already impatient with thirst for murder, Kelly at first pulls out his automatic pistol in a rather non-Indian manner, which Korff cannot harm, however, because van Gaalen, disguised as a firefighter, had already noticed the weapon behind the stage and exchanged its magazine for one with blank cartridges. Now comes the knife thrower number, which van Gaalen unfortunately didn't know about, and Korff would have had a tragic end if Kelly hadn't become so insecure with anger that all the knives just miss Korff's head. Both the audience and the director are absolutely thrilled with the performance, and the unsuspecting Korff bows with the gritting killer to roaring applause.
Korff has meanwhile also fallen in love with the lovely Dortje, daughter of the art dealer Vermeylen. Since the art dealer, and especially a valuable Rubens painting from his possession, are the next target of the Dufour gang, the Schimmelpenninck lures Korff to his villa in Egmond aan Zee with a letter allegedly from Dortje. A first attempt at theft by Morton, who appears as an art dealer, another member of the Dufour gang, and Dufour's other accomplices fails because the tricky Philippine is able to exchange the painting for a forgery. Now there is a showdown in the art dealer's villa, in which Korff lands in the cellar with a cobra, but can keep the snake at bay with his flute. Dufour, Morton and Kelly are arrested with the help of the police brought in by van Gaalen. After van Gaalen and his girlfriend explained the whole story to poor Niels Korff, Korff and Miss Dortje can marry happily ever after.
production
The film was produced and distributed by Berlin's Terra Film . The German premiere took place on December 21, 1938.
See also
Web links
- You don't know Korff yet? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You don't know Korff yet? at filmportal.de
- You don't know Korff yet? at murnau-stiftung.de
swell
- Illustrierter Film-Kurier - No. 2903, program booklet for Nanu, you don't know Korff yet? , ed. from the United Publishing Companies Franke & Co., Berlin