Star with strange feathers

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Movie
Original title Star with strange feathers
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Harald Mannl
script Heino Brandes
Richard Nicolas
production DEFA
music Gerd Natschinski
camera Erwin Anders
Karl Puth
cut Friedel Welsandt
occupation

Star with strange feathers is a German comedy of confusion by DEFA by Harald Mannl from 1955 .

action

The leader of an HO -Verkaufsstelle for women's clothing in the small town Trutzen Isolde storm, receives an invitation to submission of spring models of 1955 in Leipzig. Since she only wants to offer her customers the most modern and beautiful hats, she is immediately ready to attend this important appointment in the coming week. Although she actually wants to go on vacation to Wiesenburg with her fiancé , master hairdresser Franz Blume, she is convinced that he will not mind postponing the trip for a week. In order to talk to him about it immediately, she picks him up from the cinema, in which he watches the film Love in the Snow with the famous actor Günther Kolmin in the lead role, with whom he bears a striking resemblance, of which he is very proud. But on the way to Isolde's mother, with whom they both want to have dinner together, they get into an argument because Franz is not ready to postpone the vacation and so their ways separate for the evening. The next morning the head of the cinema, Mrs. Hermanns, appears in the hairdressing salon and talks to Franz Blume about her vacation, which she cannot take because a new sound system is being delivered for the cinema. When Mr. Blume tells her that the trip with his bride has also come to an end, she offers him the accommodation she had already booked in Feuerstein, which he gratefully acknowledges. When, after talking to Isolde, he is still not ready to travel with her a week later, he finally decides to go to the Harz Mountains alone .

During a break in filming Günther Kolmin blows his top and he complains to the film director on the meaningless scenes of the film and emphasized that he has no desire permanently the buffoon to play. When the production manager Richter wanted to offer him a comic lead in a new comedy film, he consistently refused and expressed the wish to finally play a serious role. The director Kessel happened to witness the conversation and offers Kolmin a strong role in a film with serious conflicts and exciting, dramatic plots. The hero is a forest worker who is not taken seriously and teased, but who can ultimately prevail. Since Kolmin is interested, he agrees to go to Feuerstein in the Harz Mountains for a few days for milieu studies . The secretary messed up the dates when ordering the overnight stays in the Heinrich Zille holiday home , but emphasized that Mr. Kolmin would definitely like to be accommodated incognito .

Franz Blume arrives at the Pension Waldhof reserved for Ms. Hermanns and is greeted warmly by the landlady Ms. Moosbach, she also explains to him how to get to Heim Heinrich Zille, where he can have lunch and dinner she only has breakfast. Franz sets off immediately and when he arrives at the home he is mistaken for the actor Kolmin by the manager Frey, who was accidentally registered for the day before due to the secretary's mistake. His efforts to make it clear to Mr. Frey and the head waiter Busske that he is the hairdresser Franz Blume fall on deaf ears and he is assigned a table where he can sit undisturbed. The laboratory assistant Gisela, who also spends her vacation with her friend Dore in Feuerstein, also believes she recognizes him as the actor she has long admired. The pianist of the home's music band is of the opinion that it is Kolmin and they play a song in his honor from his last film Love in the Snow . Then almost all the guests of the restaurant gather at his table and give him applause, whereupon he spontaneously leaves the restaurant.

The hairdresser is slowly beginning to like being adored and he even takes advantage of the mix-up to order a horse-drawn sleigh for the next day at Miss Gisela's request , even though these are always fully booked. Since Gisela's girlfriend has an ice skating meeting with the pianist Kurt Seidel, Gisela and Franz drive together through the winter forest until Gisela wants to walk a bit through the snow. Since Franz only wears low shoes, he chooses a different route through the snow to get back to the sled that has already come up. On the way there, despite warnings from the woodcutters working there , he is almost killed by a tree that is being felled. He then accuses the forest workers of having created the dangerous situation on purpose, which he then knows to report in detail to Fraulein Gisela.

In the meantime, the film director arrives at the Heinrich Heine holiday home, but realizes that something went wrong with the reservation of the room, but still gets a replacement room at the FDGB Sonnenlust holiday home . Only the manager is surprised because Kessel announces the arrival of the actor Kolmin for the evening, although Frey is sure that he has already moved into quarters in the village . After moving into the room, Kessel goes to the forester's house to look for his old friend Karl Köhler, who is supposed to show the actor Kolmin with his woodcutters how people work in the forest. Of course, the woodcutter thought the next day that Kolmin with the man identical is that was hit yesterday in his arrogant way almost from the falling tree and could not be taught, despite prior warning. They let him feel that and only after a long time does the actual facts clear up.

In the evening Isolde Sturm also arrives in Feuerstein and on the search for her fiancé she meets Mr. Kolmin with his friend in the Pension Waldhof. Shortly before, she found out from Ms. Mosbach that Mr. Blume, whom she, like everyone else, believed to be Mr. Kolmin, had made a small conquest with Fraulein Gisela, which is why Isolde is immediately ready to help decorate her Franz with the two men from the film to drive out foreign feathers. Under the pretext of using him as a hit for an event, Kessel seduces Franz Blume into a bar, talks to him the entire time with Günther Kolmin and gives him one schnapps after the other to drink. Franz Blume then suddenly sees his fiancée in the mirror, then himself there twice, and finally Isolde and his likeness, whom he thinks is himself. After his sobering up on the evening of the next day, he clears up his true identity in the presence of the disguised Kolmin and Fraulein Giselas, gets along with Isolde again and drives back to Trutzen with her.

Production and publication

The comedy Star with Stranger Feathers was shot as a black and white film and had a double premiere on September 9, 1955 in the Babylon cinemas and DEFA-Filmtheater Kastanienallee in Berlin . It was first broadcast in the Official Test Program of the Berlin TV Center on September 25, 1955.

The scenario comes from Heino Brandes and Eva Seemann was responsible for the dramaturgy. The music was played by the DEFA symphony orchestra, which can also be seen on the stages of the Heinrich Zille and Sonnenlust homes. The composer of the film music Gerd Natschinski also portrayed the conductor of the orchestra on the stage. At the beginning, the director of the film Harald Mannl had a cameo .

criticism

-I said in the Neue Zeit about the main actor:

“Because you laugh, you laugh with full neck, Werner Peters is a great star with strange feathers, and he saves the whole film. He is so wonderfully humane and funny, with him every gag, every gesture, every facial play is right; he never gets into the grotesque, he always exaggerates just a little, because he knows about mastery in restriction. You laugh and you feel sorry for him, something of the mystery of all real comedy comes to life. "

Harald Hauser wrote in Neues Deutschland :

"The cinema audience has to laboriously yawn out the happy, heart-teasing laughs while useless, pointless episodes roll off, the platitude of which is only reflected in the platitude of the dialogue language."

The lexicon of international films writes that this is an undemanding entertainment film that, despite few new ideas, shines with a comical Werner Peters in a double role.

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  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of September 16, 1955, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 16, 1955, p. 4
  3. ↑ Star with strange feathers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used