Professor moth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Professor moth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Meyer |
| script |
Per Schwenzen Kurt E. Walter Joachim Wedekind |
| production | Rolf Meyer for Junge Film-Union, Hamburg |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Georg Bruckbauer |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Professor Nachtfalter is a German comedy film by Rolf Meyer from 1951. It was also shown again and again under the title Something men do with pleasure .
action
Joachim Wendler, son of an Italian tenor and an enthusiastic singer himself, is a music teacher at a boarding school for girls that can only be reached from the mainland by ferry. Most of the girls who are about to graduate from high school are almost all enthusiastic about him and their parents therefore regularly complain to the headmistress Ms. von Weinsberg, Joachim's aunt. The new student Inez from Rio de Janeiro has also fallen in love with Joachim and paints corresponding pictures in her exercise books. Frau von Weinsberg fears for the boarding school's reputation and advises Joachim to look for a wife. Exasperated, Joachim drives with his colleague and friend Dr. Obermann into town. Because of a drinking game they got drunk on the ferry into town, then they wander through the bars and end up in the night club Nachtfalter , which is run by the singer Stefanie Walden. Stefanie is also swarmed by admirers and finds it exhausting to turn all men away every night when she actually has to take care of the bookkeeping. Joachim ends up at Stefanie's bar late in the evening and they both complain because they have so many admirers. They decide to pretend to be married to each other, thus keeping their suitors at a distance. Joachim puts a corresponding advertisement on the back of a drink menu of the moth and gives the sheet to Obermann, who takes the last ferry back to the boarding school. Joachim stays with Stefanie and helps her to draft an appropriate text for her guests.
The next morning he is the first guest on the ferry, half sober, and is greeted by numerous crying girls at the boarding house for the wedding with a welcoming song, even if he can hardly remember having made this plan the evening before. Now that he is married, he has to move from boarding school to the mainland. He goes to Stefanie, who is also disillusioned. The guests have stayed away since their wedding. Joachim begins to perform in the moth at night and new guests appear soon. Joachim is now often overtired at school. The girls have also become suspicious of Inez's instigation, as Inez saw the back of the marriage notice and found a moth badge on Joachim's clothes. You suspect that Joachim leads a double life. Inez sneaks out of the boarding school that evening with two other girls. The three of them visit the moth and see Joachim perform with a musical number. The next day the whole boarding school hums the number and Inez suggests a provocative interpretation of the piece even for the director's birthday celebrations. Joachim, who is only called “Professor Nachtfalter” by the students, goes to Stefanie and tells her that he will no longer be able to perform in the moth in the future .
A little later a new student is introduced to Joachim. It is about Stefanie, who applied under the name "Leonie Mertens" as a student at the boarding school and was accepted. Joachim is horrified, but his aunt does not want to reverse her decision. She secretly sees in Leonie the perfect wife for Joachim. Inez soon notices that something is wrong and secretly goes to the moth , where she only learns that the owner of the bar, which is closed for renovation, is on her honeymoon. However, a poster shows Leonie as Stefanie Walden and so Inez sends Joachim a ransom note in which she implies that she knows everything and wants to see him in her room at night. He goes to her, but just wants to remind her of the house rules: teachers have their office hours when the students can come to them. Inez, however, has got it into her head to seduce him, and when she tries to wake up the staff with a scream to expose him, Joachim kisses her. Then he goes to Stefanie and explains that Inez knows everything. Meanwhile, she has woken up the entire staff. When everyone knocks on Stefanie's door, Joachim appears and Stefanie admits that she is actually a bar owner. While the hastily convened teachers' conference decides whether Joachim will stay at the boarding school, Inez is chased through the school by the other girls.
At the end everyone comes to the Nachtfalter , where Joachim and Stefanie are now performing together. A little later both of them really get married.
production
Professor Nachtfalter was created based on an idea by Adolf Schütz and Paul Baudisch. It was shot in the Bendestorf studio , in Meersburg and Konstanz on Lake Constance. Franz Schroedter created the buildings, Helmuth Volmer took over the production management. The production costs amounted to 900,000 DM. The film had its premiere on February 23, 1951 in Essen's Lichtburg .
The film was the screen debut of numerous actresses, including Helga Feddersen , Ingrid Andree , Christiane Jansen and Carla Hagen , who played schoolgirls in the film.
Several songs can be heard in the film; the music comes from Friedrich Schröder, the lyrics were written by Willy Dehmel .
- Today it must be spring
- So what do the lords do
- The first song in the world
- Adam sat in paradise feeling alone (canon)
criticism
The film service called Professor Nachtfalter a "German post-war comedy with dance and music."
Web links
- Professor moths in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Professor Nachtfalter at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946–1955 , pp. 209 f.
- ^ Letters: Film (Nos. 42/51 and 45/51) . In: Der Spiegel , No. 50, December 12, 1951.
- ↑ Professor Nachtfalter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .