Snow White and the seven jugglers
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| Original title | Snow White and the seven jugglers |
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| Country of production |
Germany Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Kurt Hoffmann |
| script | Günter Neumann |
| production | Independent Film, Munich-Berlin ( Heinz Angermeyer ) Praesens-Film, Zurich ( Max Dora ) |
| music | Heino Gaze |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
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Snow White and the Seven Jugglers is a German-Swiss musical film by Kurt Hoffmann from 1962.
action
Norbert Lang has been the owner of a hotel in the ski resort of Klostermatt for a few weeks, which he inherited from his deceased uncle. The young man, who is inexperienced in the hotel business, has several problems to cope with right from the start: Christmas is just around the corner and the old heating system in the hotel is making strange noises, so that a specialist is needed to repair it. It will be difficult to find someone over the Christmas holidays, so Norbert offers the potential plumber from the responsible company a free winter holiday in the hotel for the time of the repair. The company promises to meet the experts Dr. Send Rossi over. Since Norbert also wants to entertain the guests during New Year's Eve, he is also looking for an entertainer in town, but the good ones are already fully booked. Norbert ends with the engagement of the hydrogen-blonde striptease dancer Ines del Mar, who can also sing a little. Back at the hotel, Norbert was so disrespectful to the staff that all employees gave him notice and moved on to the next hotel. In the middle of the high season, Norbert now has not only heating but also personnel problems.
Dr. Rossi is really Miss Dr. Anita Rossi, who has just bought a car and gets stuck in the deep snow on the way to Klostermatt. Together with her dog Mr. Schmidt, she goes to the nearby circus wagons and first cleans up. A little later seven artists appear whose circus Monti is deeply in debt, so that they fled the tax investigation with their circus. The jugglers make friends with Anita, whom they call Snow White from now on. Anita is not exactly welcomed by Norbert in Klostermatt as a heating expert, but she is far too dedicated to Ines del Mar to be involved in the hotel business. With the consent of the sub-director Säuberlich, Anita brings the seven jugglers to Klostermatt as the new staff of the hotel and after a short period of familiarization they form a good team.
Anita actually only wants to do her job, but after a short time she is courted by Norbert. Ines del Mar doesn't like that and sets Anita various traps to drive her out of the hotel. Anita and Norbert have an appointment one evening, but Ines pretends that Norbert is in her bedroom. To prove this, she plays a tape behind the closed door on which she previously secretly recorded a conversation with Norbert. Anita leaves disappointed, while Norbert waits in vain for her in the restaurant. When the seven jugglers point out to Norbert Ines del Mars Trick, he dismisses his New Year's Eve star without notice. Instead, he offers the jugglers to show a circus program on New Year's Eve. He also travels to town, convinces Anita of his good intentions and brings her back to Klostermatt. Ines del Mars manager has arrived here and is enforcing her contract. Ines will sing. However, Anita and the seven jugglers set up their circus tent right in front of the hotel and bring all the hotel guests to their New Year's Eve program, so that Ines del Mar sings in front of empty chairs at the end. The next morning Anita wants to leave unrecognized and even flees from Norbert, but the seven jugglers finally bring the two together for reconciliation. The jugglers move on, but when Norbert's staff return to him, other employers have proven to be worse.
production
The film was shot from February 20 to March 31, 1962 in the Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The outdoor shots were taken in St. Moritz and Zurich .
Snow White and the Seven Jugglers had its premiere on December 14, 1962 in Berlin's Gloria Palast . On December 25, 1967, it ran for the first time on DFF 1 on GDR television. The film was advertised as “Frostical” and integrates loose motifs from the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .
Various songs can be heard in the film, some of which are varied and repeated several times in the film:
- Snow White - sung by Caterina Valente, choir
- Our world is the ring - sung by Caterina Valente
- Today is Sunday - sung by Caterina Valente
- Mr. Schmidt - sung by Caterina Valente
- Warenhaus-Song - sung by Walter Giller
- Everything for the guest - sung by Caterina Valente, Ernst Waldow, choir
- Waiter tarantella (Addio, we're moving on) - sung by the waiter choir
- Yes, yes my Joe - sung by Hanne Wieder
The music comes from Heino Gaze, the lyrics were written by Günther Neumann.
criticism
The contemporary criticism stated that "the basic idea [...] appealing and delightful [appears ...] Snow White: it was risen in 1962 in the figure of a pretty, qualified heating technician". The Berliner Morgenpost criticized the fact that the film "was set in Kalau an der Knatter at a depth of a few hundred meters under the level of director Kurt Hoffmann".
Der Spiegel wrote: “ Situation comedy in an alpine winter sports environment. However, the higher above sea level Germany's former successful director goes, the flatter his jokes get. In association with his author Günter Neumann, he leveled Grimm's fairy tales into a banal operetta subject. [...] The humor of this story culminates when batches slaughter water, dishes and eggs. "
"Lively, sentimental comedy with a musical twist," said the film service . Cinema summarized: “The Brothers Grimm laugh at each other”.
literature
- Snow White and the seven jugglers . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 163.
Web links
- Snow White and the Seven Jugglers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Snow White and the seven jugglers at filmportal.de
- Snow White and the seven jugglers on Youtube
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
- ↑ a b quote after: Snow White and the seven jugglers . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 163.
- ↑ New in Germany: Snow White and the Seven Jugglers . In: Der Spiegel , No. 3, 1963, p. 57.
- ↑ Snow White and the Seven Jugglers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de