Pipin the short one

This article covers the feature film. For the Franconian ruler with a similar name, see Pippin the Younger .

Movie
Original title	Pipin the short one
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1934
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Carl Heinz Wolff
script	Georg Zoch Karl Farkas
production	Carl Heinz Wolff for Alpha-Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)
music	Franz Doelle
camera	Willy Hameister
cut	Rudolf Schaad
occupation
Heinz Rühmann : August Pipin Charlotte Serda : Adele, Pipin's wife Hilde Hildebrand : Rita Marbach, actress Walter von Lennep : Winkler, tenor Hans Junkermann : Borchardt, General Director Paul Heidemann : Naumann, department store owner Arthur Reppert : Caraway, accountant Tomy Bonsch : First salesman in Naumann's department store Edith Wolff : running girl Otti Dietze : a customer Ernst Behmer : Cornelius, editor Günther Ballier : Timm, reporter Paul Ceblin : Theater Director Hermann Picha : cloakroom Hansi Dege : cloakroom Bert Schmidt-Maris : Apprentice

Pipin the Short is a comedy film by director Carl Heinz Wolff from 1934. In the main role , Heinz Rühmann plays the cashier August Pipin, who has lost his concentration due to his jealousy . Pipin's wife is played by Charlotte Serda , the woman who gets into trouble by Hilde Hildebrand .

action

August Pipin is a loyal , very reliable cashier through body and soul . Usually nothing and nobody can upset him; he is always very prudent. At least it had always been like that in his life. Until he has a well-founded suspicion that his wife Adele, a very attractive woman, is having a relationship with the lodger Winkler. This is a gifted and attractive actor.

Since this suspicion meant that Pipin was not quite at the point during his checkout processes, he inadvertently paid a messenger 300 marks too much. Although he notices his mistake, he can no longer correct it: the messenger is long gone.

Pipin is doing everything possible to get the money back too much. However, every idea that occurs to him either leads to no result at all or ends in a fiasco . In the end, his attempts even get him into an imbalance, which forces him to explain himself to his wife, since she now suspects him of having an affair with the dancer Rita .

Production notes and publication

The film structures were in the hands of Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. The lyrics to Pipin, nobody will imitate you and oh, it would be nice if you could love me , contributed Bruno Balz . After the film had been tested on March 21, 1934, it premiered on March 31, 1934 in the Mozart Hall in Berlin. The distribution title in Austria at the time was: The cowardly hero or August Pipin's strange adventure .

The film was first released by Koch Media GmbH on June 8, 2012 on "Heinz Rühmann Edition 2" with two other films. On August 24, 2012, he appeared in the series “Treasures of German sound film” at Koch Media GmbH. On August 5, 2016, it was released by WVG Medien GmbH along with five other films under the title "Heinz Rühmann - His Most Beautiful Films".

criticism

For the author and critic Karlheinz Wendtland, Pipin the Short was "a comfortable and cheerful Rühmann film".

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Web links

• Pepin the Short in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pipin the Short full movie
• The films with and by Heinz Rühmann at heidecker.eu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregor Ball: Heinz Rühmann his films - his life , Wilhelm Heyne-Verlag, 3rd edition, 1981, p. 178.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pipin the Short on the page filmportal.de
3. ^ Pipin the short series DVD treasures of German sound film
4. ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1933 and 1934, edited by the author Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, Chapter: Films 1934, Film No. 45.