Paprika (1959)
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| Original title | paprika |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Kurt Wilhelm |
| script | Johannes Enghel |
| production | Günther Stapenhorst |
| music | Peter Igelhoff |
| camera | Dieter Wedekind |
| cut | Use Wilken |
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Paprika is a German musical film comedy from 1959 by Kurt Wilhelm with Violetta Ferrari , Willy Hagara , Waltraud Haas and Georg Thomalla in the leading roles. The film is based on the play The Leap Into the Marriage of Max Reimann and Otto Schwartz.
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There's a lot going on in the Moll recording studio. While Anita Moll-Kaiser takes over the management, her husband Bert Kaiser is a sought-after pop star and on the upper floor her weird brother Paul pursues his bizarre hobby, frog research. Suddenly, the pretty Ilona von Bokacs snows into the house, immediately after the previous housemaid quit. Ilona is a good friend of Anita. Ilona fell in love because her father wanted to marry her off to a rich South American, which Ilona has absolutely no desire to do. When Paul and Ilona meet, he thinks she is a housemaid he does not yet know. Anita arrives and is just about to clear up the mistake, when Ilona indicates that she should play the game. And so the spirited Ilona, who not only has plenty of paprika in her blood, but has also found a perfect hiding place in the Moll-Kaiser house, starts her new career as a supposed new service worker. Due to a mix-up, Ilona is mistaken for a certain Rosie Brandstätter, the daughter of the domestic servant Josef, who, however, does not personally know his real flesh and blood. Ilona's actual father, Tokasz, owns the paprika bar, which is very popular with young people.
In her clumsiness as the new maid, Ilona soon turns out to be the perfect complement to the no less twisted Paul, and the two young people quickly begin to understand each other. But while Ilona is very enthusiastic about Paul, whom she knows from before, but who can no longer remember her, the latter is completely focused on his frogs. One day, the two of them go to Ilona's father's paprika bar to have fun. The director of the dance hall, who is waiting for a new alleged vocal talent, who is now the real Rosie Brandstätter of all people, receives a visit from two gentlemen who are looking for the daughter who has gone underground on behalf of Ilona's father. With a lot of luck, Ilona and Paul won't be discovered by the two detectives. When the couple returns home, they are both pretty tipsy. Josef hears her and believes, since he still thinks Ilona is his daughter Rosie, that the two of them have been doing something “immoral” with each other. The paternal protective instinct boils up in him and he enters the room. Because of this misunderstanding, Ilona runs outside crying. When the bar manager calls Anita the next morning and thanks him with lewd words for the new girl Rosie singing to him, Anita believes that her husband might be cheating.
Now Anita is crying out at Ilona, and the pretty Hungarian gives her best friend tips on how to make herself attractive to Bert (who of course knows nothing about all these mix-ups and misunderstandings). The doorbell rings at the Moll-Kaiser house, and the two detectives stand in front of it. Ilona in her role as a maid opens the door and is pushed into a delivery truck and kidnapped by the two men in the black coats. Meanwhile, Paul asks Josef for the hand of his supposed daughter Rosie (alias Ilona). In order to put things back in order, Josef visits his wife and Rosie's mother Erna after decades of absence. She is completely surprised at the return of the fickle husband, but forgives him. Erna is amazed when Josef tells her about Rosie's (i.e. Ilona's) intention to marry. Ilona is meanwhile delivered by the two detectives in the office of the director of the father's dance hall. When Erna and Josef Brandstätter's real daughter Rosie finally turns up to be able to sing in the paprika bar for the first time, there is initially some confusion, but this soon clears up. Finally, Rosie is allowed to perform on stage at Bert's side, while Ilona and Paul finally get together.
Production notes
The film, made in the Geiselgasteig Studios near Munich at the beginning of 1959, premiered on March 28, 1959 in the Victoria Theater in Hagen.
Rudolf Wischert took over the production management, Klaus Stapenhorst the production management. Wolf Englert and Ernst Richter designed the film structures. Teddy Rossi-Turai designed the costumes. Walter Rühland set the tone. Franz Baur-Pantoulier took over the choreography, Fred Rauch wrote the lyrics to the music by Peter Igelhoff . Willy Hagara sings the hits that are played. The Tielman Brothers and the Delle Haensch Orchestra play , John Schapar dances.
Eddie Arent , named in some sources as the actor, could not be identified in the present version.
criticism
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Difficult musical mix-up comedy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paprika. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Paprika in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paprika at filmportal.de