It's tough for a millionaire
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| Original title | It's tough for a millionaire |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Géza von Cziffra as Peter Trenck |
| production | ÖFA, Vienna ( Herbert Sennewald ) |
| music | Heinz Gietz |
| camera | Walter cloth |
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It's hard for a millionaire is an Austrian comedy film from 1958 . Directed by Géza von Cziffra , he wrote the screenplay himself under his pseudonym Peter Trenck. Heinz Erhardt and Peter Alexander took on the main roles .
action
Alfons Rappert is the loyal servant of Edward Collin, a wealthy heir who lives in a luxurious villa in Cannes . But Collin has a problem - he really just wants to live a simple life and, above all, to be loved not just for his money. When he is informed by his friend, the painter Marcel, that his fiancée Alice has a lover before the wedding, he turns away from her and the jet set . Edward temporarily goes into hiding with Marcel in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and only lets his servant Alfons in on the game of hide and seek.
Edward meets the waitress Ninette and wants to play it safe with her, which is why he pretends to be very poor. But when Ninette finds him a job, things get complicated. Pretending to be a parking attendant or a floor waiter threatens a well-known millionaire to be recognized as such one day, especially since he starts his job as a floor waiter in his own hotel.
Edward is accused of theft, and of course the unfaithful ex-fiancé Alice doesn't give up easily either. Edward is forced to move from one excuse and white lie to the next. Ultimately, however, all situations and misunderstandings clear up to everyone's satisfaction. Edward and Ninette get married and gradually become happy parents of eight children, for whom Alfons is allowed to be the caregiver and family uncle.
Songs
- Peter Alexander and Heinz Erhardt sing Do not do it
- Peter Alexander sings fabulous! ' He was a musician , don't you have a nice big barrel there? and Venga, Venga Musica!
Production notes
During the shooting on the Côte d'Azur , the pregnant wife Hilde was missing for the first time in a film with Peter Alexander. On the last day of shooting, August 28, 1958, Alexander learned of the birth of his daughter Susanne. It premiered on December 18, 1958 in the Palace Theater in Hanover.
Reviews
“Comedy about a Riviera plutocrat who doesn't want to be loved for the money. A Peter Alexander film, whose little joke is mainly produced by Heinz Erhardt. "
“Unfortunately, even a Heinz Erhardt doesn't save every film. It does cause amusement every now and then, but it really can't cover up some platitudes. So 'Such a millionaire has a hard time' is certainly a good representative of the German music film of the 1950s - but you just have to like it ... "
"The freshly acting Germaine Damar puts a hearty poor Hascherl on her slender legs."
Web links
- So a millionaire's difficult in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A millionaire like that has a hard time at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudio Honsal: Peter Alexander. "Life is worth living" , Vienna 2006, p. 131 f.
- ↑ It's tough for a millionaire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Such a millionaire has a hard time Criticism of the film on Moviemaster.de, July 7, 2005; Retrieved February 5, 2010
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , Berlin 1998, p. 147