Shards bring luck (film)

Movie
Original title	Shards bring luck
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Ernst Marischka
script	Ernst Marischka
production	Karl Ehrlich
music	Anton Profes
camera	Georg Bruckbauer
cut	Alfred Srp
occupation
Adrian Hoven : Heinz Kersten, composer Gudula Blau : Gerti, Dr. Teisinger's niece Gunther Philipp : Paul Liebling, instrumentator Ellen Kessler : Flora Fleuron, dancer Alice Kessler : Margit, secretary at Apollo-Verlag Richard Romanowsky : Dr. August Teisinger, veterinarian Annie Rosar : Karoline, his wife Peter Carsten : Toni Carla Hagen : Dr. Teisinger's cook Chariklia Baxevanos : Else, Gerti's friend Klaus Knuth : Richard Fröhlich Helmut Qualtinger : Wollner, Revue Theater Director Richard Eybner : registrar Ernst Waldbrunn : Waiter in the Parkhotel Franz Böheim : Stage manager Fritz Heller : Gentleman with a newspaper Kurt Hubala : Lord with a dog Ernst Nadherny : Uncle Heinrich Klaus Löwitsch : Hans Fröhlich Jenny Liese : Mrs. Kugler Ellen Umlauf : Mrs. Gebhart Walter Regelsberger : Fritz, Margit's brother

Shards bring luck is an Austrian fictional film by Ernst Marischka from 1957. It is the remake of his successful film swank Sieben Jahre Pech from 1940. The main roles are starring Adrian Hoven , Gudula Blau and Gunther Philipp . The script and the lyrics to be heard in the film are from the director. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was released for the first time on August 16, 1957.

action

The composer Heinz Kersten and his instrumentator Paul Liebling get to know the girls Gerti and Margit on the trip to Vienna, where their new revue will come on stage for the first time. Heinz falls in love with one and Paul with the other. Because Gerti is still with her uncle, the vet Dr. Teisinger, who lives, asks Heinz his friend Paul to take up the position of a factotum at Teisinger so that he can keep Gerti under control for him. While Heinz is in the process of composing the last few songs for his revue, he keeps receiving messages from Paul that everything is going well with Gerti. But this seems to change suddenly when the girl gives in to the urging of her fiancé Richard Fröhlich to marry soon. However, Paul succeeds in preventing the marriage by smuggling an ether bottle into the bridal bouquet, which means that Gerti falls into a deep sleep at the registry office before she says I do.

Heinz falls behind with composing. With a powder from the veterinarian, Paul ensures that a few singers get hoarse and therefore the premiere has to be postponed. He also uses this fact to replace his beloved Margit in the place of the adored revue star Flora Fleuron. The two girls look very similar anyway.

At the first performance, a quarrel breaks out behind the scenes between Margit and the recovered dancer Flora Fleuron. Finally the rivals agree to dance together. The audience acknowledges this unexpected gag with stormy applause. In the end there are three couples: Heinz and Gerti, Paul and Margit, their ex-fiancé Richard Fröhlich and Else, Gerti's best friend.

additions

The buildings were designed by the production designer Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff . Gerdago and Leo Bei created the costumes. In the film, the Kessler twins, Mario del Marius , Hubert Hendrik , Josef Berber and the ballet of the Vienna Volksoper dance to a choreography by Dia Luca . The following songs can be heard, all composed by Anton Profes and written by Ernst Marischka:

• the slow waltz "Don't you have a word for me?", sung by Olive Moorefield ,
• the Musette-Valse "You are only so in love in Paris!", sung by Alice Kessler and Gudula Blau, as well
• the foxtrot “You dance!” sung by Olive Moorefield.

criticism

"Intrusive, often tasteless stupidities without funny highlights."

- Lexicon of international film

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaft Franke & Co. KG, Munich, No. 3780

Web links

• Shards bring luck in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 3174 (1988), p. 3258