Robert and Bertram (1961)

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Movie
Original title Robert and Bertram
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Deppe
script Gustav Kampendonk
Janne Furch
production Artur Brauner
for Alfa Spielfilm Produktion
music Gert Wilden
camera Siegfried Hold
cut Ilse Voigt
occupation

Robert and Bertram is a German hit film by Hans Deppe from 1961. It was also shown under the titles Willy auf Sondermission and Zwei Knallköpfe auf Sondermission . The title roles are occupied by Willy Millowitsch and Vico Torriani . Trude Herr , Marlies Behrens and Helen Vita can be seen in leading roles .

action

Shortly before his birthday, Robert Ziegel once again fled to his cone brothers from his energetic wife Klara . Klara has kept his money for years and feeds him off with a little pocket money, so that he even has to have the donated rounds recorded in the bowling center. Since Klara also likes to check him out and even had a doorbell put on the door to be able to check his coming home, he prefers to enter the apartment via the balcony after bowling in the evening. He takes some money from Klara's guarded cash register and is ultimately mistaken for a burglar by the police who were called by Klara. Robert doesn't know that Klara has saved up all these years for a house that she wants to give him on his birthday. The police operation has brought the barrel to overflow with him and Robert leaves Klara.

At the sausage stand, he meets Ivonne Berger, who is looking for volunteers for a 500-kilometer hike on behalf of the Malina shoe company. He has her work address given. The next morning - Robert has slept on the park bench and made friends with a dog he calls " Tünnes " - Robert goes to the Malina company and volunteers for the hike. His companion is the reporter and draftsman Bertram, who lives separately from Ivonne. Both should cover the distance on foot in shoes from the company Malina and will be paid for the kilometers covered as part of this promotion. You are now hiking through Germany and enjoying nature.

Meanwhile, Klara tries to find out Robert's whereabouts. When the police refuse to help her find it, Klara's friend Mieze says that both men are dangerous marriage swindlers. Suddenly Robert and Bertram see their wanted posters in the cities and are arrested a short time later. Klara and Mieze appear at the police station and Ivonne also joins them. They explain that both men are innocent, but they have already fled with Tünnes. After small chases, Robert, Bertram, Ivonne, Klara and Mieze find themselves at a village festival. The whole time Klara carried the model of the house with her that she symbolically wanted to give Robert for his birthday. Now she has lost any desire to please him. Nevertheless, she explains the background of the house model when she meets Robert at the party. For the first time he reacts enthusiastically to his wife and looks forward to spending time together in the little house. Bertram and Ivonne also get back together: Although they were never divorced, they are now planning a second wedding.

production

Robert and Bertram was shot from August to September 1961 in the CCC film studios in Berlin and in Eichstätt in Middle Franconia . Paul Markwitz and Wilhelm Vorwerg were responsible for the film construction.

The film is loosely based on the folk play Robert and Bertram by Gustav Raeder .

publication

Robert and Bertram had its premiere on September 29, 1961 in the Alhambra in Düsseldorf . The film first ran on television on February 3, 1968 on ZDF .

The film was made by Pidax Film Media Ltd. (Alive AG) published on October 18, 2013 as part of their "Pidax Film-Klassiker" series.

criticism

The lexicon of international film called Robert and Bertram a "folk piece for Millowitsch and Torriani", which both also lead to comedy fields. “The remake of the eponymous stage swing has hardly anything to do with the original. A leisurely and unimportant comedy with elements of Heimatfilm, ”wrote Filmdienst .

For Cinema , Robert and Bertram were "a mess of nonsense".

The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “Undemanding, yet enjoyable comedy about two pedestrians with friendly landscape and music elements. Possible from 16. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert & Bertram Fig. DVD case Pidax film classics
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 6. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3135.
  3. ↑ Robert and Bertram. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 20, 2012 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Robert and Bertram. In: Cinema , Hubert Burda Media , accessed on July 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Robert and Bertram , Review No. 594/1961