Piefke, the horror of the company
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Piefke, the horror of the company |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| script |
Hannes H. Fischer , Heinz Fiedler |
| production | Arca-Filmproduktion ( Gero Wecker ) |
| music | Peter Igelhoff |
| camera | Otto Baecker |
| cut | Lieselotte Schumacher |
| occupation | |
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Piefke, the horror of the company is a German mix-up film by Wolfgang Wehrum from 1958.
action
Because Hereditary Prince Johann August Friedrich von Krakelsburg-Kummerstein has nothing but women on his mind and only stays in Paris all the time , he is taken over by his father, Prince Paul XIII. obliged to do military service in the barracks in the small town of Wummsen. However, since the Hereditary Prince has never thought of his father's opinion, he immediately travels back to Paris.
The hairdresser Johann August Friedrich happened to arrive at Wummsen's barracks with friends who were also drafted. He is cut out of the face of the Hereditary Prince, but he turns out to be an exceptional fool who is too stupid to shoot and ride himself. In the barracks he was soon disparagingly called Piefke by everyone . When Count Seefels and the confidante of the Hereditary Prince Oberleutnant Lutz von Witzenhausen paid a surprise visit to the company, Piefke shot a swan with a Sunday shot , even if he was otherwise not even able to even aim at the target that was actually to be hit. Count Seefels reports to the prince that his son is an excellent shooter and that he is planning to officially hold a military maneuver in the barracks in order to find out about his son's progress incognito .
In the barracks, meanwhile, only an initiated circle knows that Piefke is supposed to be the Hereditary Prince, so that he receives some comforts from high places that are incomprehensible to him, while the ignorant lower superiors continue to harass him. The Hereditary Prince, in turn, is still in Paris, but is ordered back to Wummsen by Lieutenant Lutz von Witzenhausen, since the Prince would in any case guess the hoax about Piefke.
During the maneuver, Piefke is as ignorant as ever, overruns the enemy lines with his horse and finally destroys a hornet's nest , which forces him to gallop quickly and makes him look like a daring rider from a distance. At the last second the Hereditary Prince and von Witzenhausen manage to lock Piefke in, take off his clothes and have the Hereditary Prince appear in his place. For his riding skills he is appointed Rittmeister by his father . However, since he wants to return to Paris immediately, Piefke slips into the role of the Hereditary Prince again at the military parade that takes place the next day . He helps an unhappy pair of lovers to a happy ending: The daughter of Colonel Stiefels, Luise, has long loved First Lieutenant Joachim Jordan. Since her father absolutely wants a title of nobility in the family, Luise should actually marry Captain Tilo von Weihrauch. Piefke now raises Colonel Stiefel to the nobility as Hereditary Prince and Oberleutnant Joachim Jordan to captain. Since he also asks Luise and Joachim to kiss publicly, nothing stands in the way of the connection. He, too, finds his great love: the young Annemarie, who had already given up on him as hereditary prince, now learns that Piefke is actually a hairdresser and that they become a couple.
production
Piefke, the horror of the company was produced in the Arca film studio in Berlin. The premiere took place on October 30, 1958 in the Palast Theater in Hanover .
The film was also shown on television under the alternative title Harald Juhnke, the horror of the company .
criticism
The lexicon of international film stated that the film was "a mix-up fluctuation on a very low barrack yard level". The online version of the lexicon saw the film as "a comedy of confusion, set around 1910, with a lot of gossip and crude rubbish ."
Cinema found: “Nothing against the double Harald - but the jokes are pathetic. Conclusion: Wasn't funny in the 50s. "
Web links
- Piefke, the terror of the company in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Piefke, the horror of the company at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 6. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2945.
- ↑ Piefke, the horror of the company. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de