Tell the truth (1945)

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Movie
Original title Say the truth
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year none (1945 unfinished)
Rod
Director Helmut Weiss
script Ernst Marischka based on the play of the same name by Johann Vaszary
production Heinz Rühmann (production group leader) for Terra-Filmkunst, Berlin
music Werner Bochmann
camera Reimar Kuntze
cut Helmuth Schönnenbeck (planned)
occupation

and in other roles that cannot be assigned by name: Paul Bildt , Hans Brausewetter , Karl Etlinger , Erich Fiedler , Albert Florath , Lutz Götz , Ingrid Lutz , Eva Maria Meineke , Hubert von Meyerinck , Else Reval , Erika von Thellmann , Kurt Vespermann , Elsa Wagner

Tell the truth is a film amusement game from 1945 by Helmut Weiss with the couple Heinz Rühmann and Hertha Feiler in the leading roles. The film remained unfinished.

action

The architect Peter Hellmer and his still-wife Vera want to divorce tomorrow, because Vera has fallen in love with the wealthy bank director Viktor, while Peter has already become engaged to the beautiful Maria. Everything would be ideal if Maria did not have one glaring flaw: she lies incessantly and usually for no reason. After another lie, Peter has enough: he wants to part with her. Maria then makes a bet with her fiancé: She bets that he himself is not able to tell the truth for even 24 hours without a break. Peter believes that this is not a problem for him, but he soon realizes that the pure truth and nothing but the truth brings some problems with it. Soon he was offensive and even insulted by his honesty. Others take advantage of Peter's love of truth to coax professional secrets from him.

The truthfulness even leads to the fact that the divorce petition is rejected by the court, because Peter has to admit that he spent the previous night with his wife, which the court interprets as an act of reconciliation. But it gets worse. Peter has to pay off his business partner, because his love of truth let him pass internal business matters to the competition. Since he does not have the necessary money, he tries again to pump Maria's father. When Peter arrives, another lady present, besides Maria, is introduced to him as an ex-lover of Peter. The old man is very angry.

The consequences of the bet soon lead to a nervous breakdown of Peter, since everything threatens to go wrong in his life. In the end he gets a serious fit of rage and is admitted to a mental hospital. Institute director Prof. Kiekebusch takes on this strange case personally. First Peter's friend, the lawyer Dr. Klimm can, before everything gets completely out of hand, through his courageous intervention, put things back in order and clear up misunderstandings, so that Peter can properly divorce and is now finally free for Maria. Both recognize that sometimes a lie has its right to exist.

Production notes

Tell the truth has been filmed since the beginning of 1945. By the end of World War II, about 75 percent of the film had been shot.

Producer Rühmann also took over the production management. As with most Rühmann productions of the Second World War, Robert Leistenschneider was the production manager. Julius Daumann and Christian Herrmann created the film structures, Manon Hahn created the costumes.

This production is the first attempt to film this material. In the first year after the war, director Helmut Weiss shot the material under the same title with a predominantly different cast .

The basic idea of ​​the film was used again in 1996 for the Hollywood production The Dummies with Jim Carrey as a truth fanatic.

criticism

Since the film never saw a performance, there are no reviews.

literature

  • Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films 13th year 1944/45. P. 217 (060.45), Berlin 2002

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Remarks

  1. The table of contents is based on the film from 1946. Slight deviations are therefore possible.