Storm in a Glass of Water (1960)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Storm in a glass of water |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Josef von Báky |
| script | Gregory of Rezzori |
| production | Hans Abich and Rolf Thiele for Film construction GmbH (Göttingen) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Caspar van den Berg |
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Sturm im Wasserglas is a German comedy film and a love story by the Hungarian director Josef von Báky from 1960. The literary film adaptation is based on a play by the writer Bruno Frank . In the main role , Peter Lühr embodies the extremely correct city councilor Dr. Thoss.
action
Dr. Thoss, a particularly ambitious civil servant, does not allow a poor flower woman to no longer be able to pay the tax for her dog. In order to show the public that taxes have to be paid and also to distinguish himself for the next mayoral election, he decides to make an example of the flower woman: He is determined to take her dog away from the woman and kill him ex officio allow.
The journalist Hans Burdach becomes aware of this fact, who is in love with Thoss' attractive daughter Viktoria, but still decides to bring this, in his eyes, outrageous abuse of office to the public. As a result, the population is so outraged about the planned action of the official Thoss that it comes to a court hearing in which in the end the life of the dog is spared, whose impoverished owner is financially rehabilitated and the lovers Hans and Viktoria from now on into a joint Can see the future.
Production notes
Filming began in February 1960 and ended the following month. The film was shot in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau. Wolfgang Brünjes and Karl-Heinz Vogelmann were the still photographers , Erich Kettelhut and Johannes Ott were responsible for the film construction.
Sturm im Wasserglas was premiered on May 3, 1960 in the Munich City Hall Lichtspiele. The later distribution took over the Europa-Filmverleih GmbH in Hamburg . The film was first broadcast on German television on December 4, 1966 on ARD .
Reviews
The lexicon of international film certifies that the film has brought Bruno Frank's original into the present and spiced it up with a pinch of cabaret for the time.
Web links
- Storm in a teacup in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Storm in a glass of water at Der Spiegel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Storm in a glass of water. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved September 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Storm in a glass of water. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .