Oberstadtgass
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Oberstadtgass |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Früh |
| script | Kurt Früh, Schaggi Streuli |
| production | Max Dora , Gloria film |
| music | Walter Baumgartner |
| camera | Georges C. Stilly |
| cut | René Martinet |
| occupation | |
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Oberstadtgass (in Germany also: happiness lives in all streets ) is a Swiss feature film production from 1956.
action
The postman Albert Jucker and his wife live on Oberstadtgass in the old town of Zurich. MENI, the child of a single toilet woman, often fights with the other boys in the neighborhood. Especially Herbert, the spoiled son of the authorized signatory Winterswiler, teases him a lot. MENI defends himself and beats Herbert up. His father wants to ensure that Mäni has a strict guardian.
Man and the postman Jucker are hit by a car and have to go to the hospital. Since they are in the same room, Jucker gets to know the boy better and notices that the boy has his heart in the right place. He offers Manni to help him look after his rabbits, which Manni gladly accepts.
After Manni's mother dies, Jucker becomes Manni's guardian and takes him home. His wife does not accept the boy and accuses Jucker of having forgotten his own deceased child. Together with the neighbors she tries to make sure that Mann comes out of the house. After an argument, Ms. Jucker moves in with her sister.
Authorized signatory Winterswiler falls over a taut cord and injures himself. Everyone blames Manni. Desperate, the boy runs away. Soon afterwards Jucker finds the real culprit, Winterswiler's son Herbert. Jucker lets Mann call out on the radio. Frieda his wife hears this and hurries home to her husband. In the evening they wait for Manni in the garden. In fact, the boy comes to feed the rabbits. The Juckers are reconciled with Mäni and take him back in.
criticism
This idyllic, prudish and slightly melodramatic film corresponds exactly to what the audience wanted to see in the cinema in 1956, namely a pleasantly embellished reflection of their everyday life. Streuli received an avalanche of letters in which viewers from all social classes expressed their gratitude and presented their own problems.
Emergence
The film is based on the ten-part radio play of the same name by Radio Beromünster from 1955. As in the film, Schaggi Streuli is the main actor and wrote the dialogues.
Web links
- Oberstadtgass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oberstadtgass 1956 film portrait on cyranos.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberstadtgass at artfilm.ch