Pension Lampel

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Movie
Original title Pension Lampel
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length approx. 74 minutes
Rod
Director Max Mack
script Artur Landsberger
production Paul Davidson for PAGU
occupation

Pension Lampel is a German silent film amusement from 1915 by Max Mack with Hanni Weisse and Albert Paulig in the leading roles.

action

Mr. Winter is a very sought-after and popular tenor . In order to finally get some rest and relaxation, he rented a room in the quiet Pension Lampel by telephone. The other boarders are mixed: there are two young ladies as well as the broker Meier and the doctor Prof. Bonebruch, whose short-sightedness and absent-mindedness give the others all sorts of reasons for pleasure. Already when winter arrives at the train station in pouring rain, the rest is over: the entire world of women at Pension Lampel has gathered and showered the singer in need of relaxation with eulogies of admiration. In order to keep the shock-loving female followers at a distance, Winter devises a plan: he pretends to be already married and from then on repeatedly disguises himself as his own wife Ada. From now on he has to constantly change roles and clothes: no sooner has the tenor disappeared than Charly's aunt Ada Winter appears.

Since Mr. Winter has his eye on young Hilde, who in turn is being harassed by the broker Meier, he sends himself up as Ada Winter to outdo Meier. As Ada, he jokes around with him, and they finally agree to run off to Bozen together . Meier should go ahead and Ada wants to come. For winter this means “two birds on one stone”. Firstly, he is rid of his nonexistent wife, who is increasingly threatening to stand between him and sweet Hilde, and secondly, he now finally has his beloved to himself. Since apparently neither Meier nor Ada paid their bill before they left, the landlady instructs detective Habebald to trace the two fugitives. In fact, the detective believes to have tracked them down in Bolzano, especially since Mr. Meier is there under the surname of his beloved Ada, namely: Winter, is staying.

Meanwhile, Winter is turtling Hilde as if there was no tomorrow. But Hilde is a decent girl, and rejects his request, because she believes the bachelor Winter is married. Hilde doesn't believe a word of him when he asserts that he is really a bachelor, and so the singer has to slip into the role of Ada Winter again in order to transform himself back into a man before Hilde's eyes. This is followed by the appearance of “Ada Winter” in full costume - Mr. Meier, who has come home from Bolzano, storms in and violently reproaches the false Ada that “she” did not travel to the south of Tyrol as promised. “Ada” first sits down in shock, and a pair of men's trousers peeks out from under her skirt. Furiously, you tear the wig off the head of the disguised tenor, and Hilde, delighted that the winter wife really doesn't exist, falls around her lover's neck.

Production notes

Pension Lampel was probably created in the summer of 1915 in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof , was censored in September of the same year and was premiered in December 1915 at the latest. Evidence must be given of performances on December 4, 1915 in Karlsruhe and on New Year's Eve of the same year in Vienna. The three-acter, which was subject to a youth ban, was around 1,350 meters long.

criticism

“In this comedy, in addition to the great plot, the brilliant performance of Albert Parelig [sic!], Whose comedy can hardly be surpassed, should be emphasized. (...) Direction and actors make this comedy a real hit. (...) The scenes in which Paulig appears in quick succession once as Mr. and once as Mrs. Winter are downright diaphragmatic. "

- Cinematographische Rundschau of October 3, 1915. P. 48 u. 50

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