Around a Nose's Length (1949)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | By a nose |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | EW Emo |
| script |
Bobby E. Lüthge , Willy Prager |
| production | Berolina film production, Berlin-Munich ( Kurt Ulrich ) |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Kurt Schulz |
| cut | Hilde Grabow |
| occupation | |
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A German feature film from 1949, subtitled "A funny film about the six-day race", is about a nose's length . Directed in this comedy led the Austrian film director E. W. Emo , which especially for his comedies (preferably with the actor Hans Moser ) is known.
action
The newspaper driver Felix Rabe is unlucky . Again and again he brings himself into impossible situations. When he is almost at the end again, he meets his old friend and former colleague, the now famous racing cyclist Willy Lohmeyer. Lohmeyer has just returned from a tour abroad, and since he and Felix have been friends for many years, he gives him a little financial support.
When Felix met the nice Anni, she mistook him for the famous racing driver Lohmeyer. Felix feels flattered and does nothing to clear up the mistake. Anni is also flattered that such a famous man cares about her. Without further ado she claims to be a dancer to him.
But now the six-day race is imminent, and Felix asks Anni, who would like to visit him there, to refrain in any case. He justified his rejection by saying that their proximity would distract him so that his victory could be jeopardized. So that nothing comes out, Felix took extra vacation to spend his time with Willy in the six-day hall. Because everything is going well, Felix becomes cocky on the third day and visits Anni. This leads to an incident, which Annis former friend Teddy takes as an opportunity to check Felix more closely. The situation is getting more and more precarious. When Anni and Teddy appear in person in the hall, it looks as if Felix's double game is finally going to be exposed. A fall of his friend Lohmeyer gives him a respite. Felix switches at lightning speed, puts on Willy's jersey unnoticed and doesn't forget to make a head bandage, just like the real Willy has it.
When the last spurt of the race is called, Lohmeyer's manager, who thinks he's Lohmeyer in the hustle and bustle, ensures that Felix gets on his bike and even pushes him into the race himself. With tremendous jubilation and raving in the hall, Felix actually manages to drive the last laps and win "by a nose". And Lohmeyer's manager, who recognized Felix's potential as a racing driver, gave him a contract. And Anni is not angry with him either and admits that she cheated a little too.
background
The material was filmed in 1931 under the same title with Fred Louis Lerch , Frida Richard , Fritz Alberti and Paul Kemp under the direction of Johannes Guter . The protagonists here had other names, however.
The remake was shot in the Göttingen studio, the outdoor shots were taken in Göttingen and the surrounding area. For the scenes that take place on the racetrack, the Munich six-day racing track designed by the architect Clemens Schürmann was brought to the location where he was shooting and rebuilt a little shortened for the filming. Schürmann's son Herbert, who also built cycle racing tracks, was in charge of the project. The film started in the Federal Republic of Germany in Hanover on October 25, 1949 and in Austria on April 25, 1950. In the USA it was entitled By a Nose .
In the film, the song I would like to fall in love again , by Janheinz Jahn and Henri Iversen , is sung. The famous composer Norbert Schultze hides behind the pseudonym Henri Iversen .
Active racing cyclists such as Paul Buschenhagen also played in the film .
criticism
"After the end of the Second World War, the German film industry only gradually recovered. After the so-called rubble films like 'Die Mörder sind unter uns', comedies such as this shallow confusion by EW Emo, who played with the popular comedian duo Moser / Lingen had worked together since the 1930s (for example for 'The Man You Talk About'). In an early joint film, Rudolf Prack and Sonja Ziemann can be seen here, who in the early 1950s became the most popular audience couple in German cinema in the 1950s. "
“After numerous mix-ups, a famous racing cyclist wins the six-day race in the stadium and his lover, but also beats his rival, a married man. Undemanding entertainment about the comedian duo Moser / Lingen, enriched with the usual mix-ups. "
media
- DVD release: In 2011 Kinowelt Home Entertainment (now Studiocanal) released a DVD called “Theo Lingen Edition”. The box contains three DVDs, in addition to order a nose still seven years of bad luck and Wiener Blut .
Web links
- By a nose in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Around a nose's length at filmportal.de
- Around a nose's length kinoart.net; Cinema poster
- Around a nose's length Illustrierte Filmbühne No. 450
Individual evidence
- ↑ Around a nose's length (1931). In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 83
- ↑ Express-Verlag (ed.): Illustrated Radsportexpress . No. 35/1949 . Berlin, S. 277 .
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 12/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 15 .
- ↑ Schultze, Norbert. Entry at komponistenarchiv.de. German composers archive , accessed on April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ By a nose's length. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ By a nose's length. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Around a nose's length etc. at Studiocanal