Powder snow overseas

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title Powder snow overseas
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hermann Leitner
script Martin Morlock
production Melody film, production group Bamberger
music Friedrich Schröder
camera Václav Vich
cut Liesgret Schmitt-Klink
occupation

Powder Snow to Overseas is a German homeland film comedy by Hermann Leitner from 1956. The script is based on an original story by Hannes Obermaier and Peter Bamberger. The main roles are cast with Adrian Hoven as Bertl ski instructor, Marianne Hold as the landlord's daughter Franzi and Mara Lane as the Texas millionaire heiress Helen Jones.

content

Winter in the Bavarian Alps : Ski instructor Sepp Kapfinger is good friends with the heartthrob, ski instructor and mountaineer Bertl Unteraigner, but secretly jealous because he teaches the beautiful women while he has to teach all the rest. In addition, Bertl is still together with Sepp's former great love Franzi and that also annoys him, although he is now newly engaged. When one day the American millionaire daughter Helen Jones announced a visit to the winter sports resort, Sepp tried to bribe her to teach her. However, after a first look, Helen decides in favor of Bertl, who should give her private lessons. Both spend more and more time together - much to Franzi's displeasure, who is now supposed to make Bertl jealous with a pretended affair between her and Vinzenz. The attempt fails because Bertl now thinks that he no longer means anything to Franzi. He therefore also agrees to go to the Italian Riviera with Helen .

Here he lives in a posh hotel and goes from one party to the next with Helen. It bothers him increasingly that Helen spends much more time with her friends than with him. When Helen announces her engagement to him at a big party , he is amazed. When she can't spare a minute after a short interview, even after several requests, Bertl drives back to his hometown. Bob Webster, who has been courting Helen for years, realizes that she absolutely wants a skier and mountaineer as a husband and gives her edelweiss in a mountaineering suit . Then she immediately closes it in her heart. When Bertl comes to his hometown, Sepp's wedding is being celebrated here. At first Bertl thinks that Sepp married Franzi, but he finally said yes to his fiancée. Bertl carries the bridesmaid Franzi away in his arms.

Production, publication

Fred Rauch and Fred Bertelmann appear in guest roles in the film . Rauch sings Grüß 'mir die Franzi from Tyrol (song text: Aldo von Pinelli ) and Bertelmann the Schlager Riviera - dreamland of love (music: Hugo Strasser , text: Klaus Ritter). The RIAS dance orchestra will play under the direction of Werner Müller . Felix Smetana and Mirko Lipuzić were responsible for the buildings .

The title of the film is derived from a line of song sung in the film, which alludes to a marriage between Bertl and Helen in America: “And if you get married in there, what are the benefits of the marriage? Well she brings the powder and he brings the snow. "

The premiere of Powder Snow to Übersee took place on July 20, 1956 in several Berlin cinemas. The film opened in Austria in September 1956.

criticism

The lexicon of international films described powder snow overseas as a "homeland film comedy that does not even reach the modest mediocrity of its genre."

Cinema drew the conclusion: "Shameful in the beautifully photographed snow" and was of the opinion that "the gags" were also "yesterday's news" in the 1950s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 6. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3010.
  2. Powder snow to overseas see cinema.de