Pension Boulanka

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Movie
Original title Pension Boulanka
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Krätzig
script Kurt Bortfeldt
Helmut Krätzig
Margot Beichler (Dramaturgy)
production DEFA , KAG "Group 60"
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Hans Heinrich
cut Christel Röhl
occupation

Pension Boulanka is a German crime film of the DEFA of Helmut Krätzig from the year 1964. It is based on the novel free Artist Pension Boulanka of Fritz Erpenbeck .

action

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The action takes place in East Berlin in the 1960s. Emmi Boulanka works as a manager at the Boulanka artist pension. The artists who rehearse for a revue are the largest part of their guests. When the self-confident Belgian Jan Gruyter arrives, he is seen as a new guest whom Ms. Boulanka knows well and whom most of the roommates view with great suspicion. While the revue is having a premiere, Gruyter is found strangled in his room by Mrs. Boulanka a little later. When Captain Brückner took over the investigation, he discovered after the autopsy that Gruyter was killed with the rare poison of puffer fish and that the clothesline was just a deception.

Brückner is disappointed to find that almost none of the artists is interested in solving the murder, and thus everyone can have a motive for the crime. The young Lore Hansen, whom Gruyter knows from an engagement in Magdeburg and who wanted to take her own life, or the magician Colanta, who persecutes Gruyter and later tells the police that Gruyter was an SS spy in Paris in 1942 in the artist troop, appear suspicious of his family and has Colanta's parents and siblings on the conscience. The clown Ulf is just as suspicious because he didn't like the murdered man. There is also a suspicion with the artist Hans Wolter that Gruyter owes money and that he simply left behind with a valid contract in Magdeburg. Then there is Ms. Päschke, a former artist who had several loud arguments with Gruyter. From all the pieces of the puzzle, the dead man's unscrupulous character emerges, but there is no trace of the murderer.

An inconspicuous key print in the dead man's soap box then gives Captain Brückner the decisive clue. Frau Sievers committed the murder: she exchanged the clown's ring; she took advantage of the visit of the redheads who went to the murdered man (the visit initially prevented her from her plan); after the redhead left, Frau Sievers seized the moment and poisoned him by adding poison to the drink he had considered a reconciliation; she covered all traces, dumped the poisonous drink on the carpet and placed the glass on the blob; took the clothesline that the redhead had apparently forgotten and faked a strangulation. After the fact, she managed to go back to the bathroom.

production

Pension Boulanka had its premiere on December 3, 1964 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . The film was first broadcast on GDR television on June 16, 1976 in the first program. The outdoor shots were shot in Berlin at Rosenthaler Platz , Oranienburger Tor , Metropol-Theater and at the Berlin Schönhauser Allee underground station . Since the film was located in the revue theater, in addition to the Friedrichstadt-Palast ballet with the soloists Emöke Pöstenyi , Elke Rieckhoff and Rolf Pfannenstein, the music clown Mr. Malheur and the Dorantos with their poodle group also took part.

literature

criticism

For the lexicon of international film , Pension Boulanka was "an honorable, excellently played crime film, which, however, neglects logic in favor of tension."

"The drawing of the milieu was successful, but the tension quickly disappears." Said Cinema .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pension Boulanka. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 20, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Pension Boulanka. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed December 20, 2017 .