Order for the child prodigies

Movie
Original title	Order for the child prodigies
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1963
length	77 minutes
Rod
Director	Rainer Erler
script	Rainer Erler, Werner P. Zibaso
production	Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
music	Eugene Thomass
camera	Werner Kurz
cut	Johannes Nikel
occupation
Carl-Heinz Schroth : Ferdinand Ziegler Edith Heerdegen : The Countess Hans Jürgen Diedrich : Higges Robert Meyn : Ministerial Director Senftenauer Herta Konrad : Dolores Sabine Eggerth : Roswitha Kloschke Max Strecker : Director Wägele Hans Fitz : Alois Tischlinger Otto Stern : Grotzinger Hermann Lenschau : prison director Hans Epskamp : Dr. Honold Alexander May : 2nd Mayor Willy Semmelrogge : 1st chauffeur Wolfgang Völz : 2nd chauffeur Lisa Helwig : cleaning lady Harry Hertzsch : printer Adolf Ziegler Kathe Itter

Orden für die Wunderkinder is a German television film from 1963 in which Rainer Erler caricatured the obsession with religious orders in the young Federal Republic .

action

Upper Government Council a. D. Ferdinand Ziegler is enjoying his old age in the senior citizens' home. When a roommate asks him about his Federal Cross of Merit, he tells her about his strange career. Actually a marriage swindler by profession, he can no longer succeed at the age of 60 after his release from prison. But he makes use of the longing for the order of the fellow citizens who came to wealth and prestige during the economic miracle . Ziegler procures false stamps, papers and certificates, opens a secret account as an alleged councilor and informs numerous beneficiaries of the economic miracle that they have "been awarded the First Class Cross of Merit for their selfless work for the people and the state". The contribution towards expenses of DM 750 for the award ceremony requested in the same letter enables Ziegler to live a comfortable life. Ziegler established himself in the ministerial bureaucracy, and when he was finally discovered, he was not only appointed a real senior councilor (with immediate retirement), in order to avoid the scandal, but also confirmed all of his medals.

criticism

“Amusing parody of the vanity of affluent society and the narrow-mindedness of the bureaucrats; In parts too overdriven, the film still makes you think. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• Golden nymph for best director at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo 1964
• Prix ​​Italia , Genoa 1964
• First prize: MIFED-Anica, Milan 1994

literature

• Werner P. Zibaso : Order for the child prodigies. Novel . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1973, 158 pages, ISBN 3-404-05021-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Order for the child prodigies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 20, 2017 .  

Web links

• Orders for the child prodigies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Order for the child prodigies at filmportal.de