And that on Monday morning
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | And that on Monday morning |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luigi Comencini |
| script |
Peter Goldbaum Franz Hoellering Luigi Comencini based on the play " The Scandalous Affairs of Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon " by JB Priestley |
| production |
Artur Brauner Henry Sokal Peter Goldbaum |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
| occupation | |
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And that on Monday morning is a German comedy film from 1959 . Directed by Luigi Comencini played OW Fischer and Ulla Jacobsson the leading roles.
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Alois Kessel is extremely diligent in his job; To do perfect and precise work is most important to him. Even on weekends, the bespectacled bank branch manager is by no means a privateer; rather, he takes work home with him and prepares annual balance sheets and does tax returns. Again he brooded over numbers and developments for a whole Sunday night. It is now Monday morning and he has to go back to the office. But when he is stuck in a traffic jam on the way and then finds his usual parking space occupied, Kessel begins to ask himself "What is all this for?" He feels like a hamster on a wheel, a deeper, inner need tells him to break out. Right now. And so it is like an inner stitch that tempts him to drive to the nearest toy store the moment he passes a school and to buy it almost empty. With a good alcoholic drop and the toy, Alois tries to regain his lost childhood and his impartiality, and he plays like he did forty years ago.
The otherwise meticulous and orderly model employee soon leaves everyone else, the employees and even the police, with the impression that he must have gone crazy somehow. You look through Kessel's Vita, check the balance sheets drawn up by him to see whether money from the bank has not been embezzled. Finally, his state of mind should also be checked. A pretty expert, Dr. Delia Mond, on. Kessel already knows them and has always liked them. Kessel thinks it is time to change his life completely. Delia states that Kessel suffers from the compulsion to only have to tell the truth. And so he does it when he confesses his love to Delia. An even more accomplished expert is called in. Prof. Groß hypnotizes Alois in the firm belief that he can put everything back to the beginning and turn the supposedly “crazy” Alois Kessel back into the meticulous bank spit. On a Tuesday morning he is actually completely the "old man" again - only a wedding ring on his finger and a wicked smile on his face prove that the man who is now married to Delia must have gone through a change.
Production notes
The shooting of And das on Monday morning took place in March and April 1959 in Berlin film studios. The premiere took place on June 26, 1959 as the German opening contribution to the Berlinale , the mass start was on July 14, 1959.
Hollywood returnees Lotte Stein played her last film role in it. 19-year-old Vera Chekhova makes a brief nude appearance in a bathtub.
For Luigi Comencini, this was the only purely German film director. Eva Ebner and editor Walter Wischniewsky were among his assistant directors. Co-producer Henry Sokal was also the line producer for this film. The buildings were designed by Helmut Nentwig and Ernst Schomer . The costumes came from Helmut Holger .
Reviews
"The English playwright John Priestley's anemic stage joke" The Scandalous Affair of Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon "was turned into a moderately cheerful, mostly comical consumer film by the Italian director Luigi Comencini (" Bread, Love and Fantasy ") , in which the Austrian OW Fischer and the Swede Ulla Jacobsson talk about the employee yoke in a fresher way. However, the management of the Berlin Film Festival felt it was justified to invite the unfortunate film piece as a (German) opening contribution to this year's festival. "
“JB Priestley provided the material for this lovely comedy, a breviary for the manager-sick people who are familiar from the stage at the Thalia Theater. Even if OW Fischer sometimes gets a lot "theatrical" ..., the whole thing is still a great smile. A compliment from the enchanting Ulla Jacobson, who asserts herself perfectly alongside OW Fischer, while Vera Chekhova mainly relies on her undisguised charms in the bathtub. "
“Director Comencini was confronted with an apparently too contrived script. Not he, but a number of well-known comedians make the film comparatively lively; it's a shame that real humor wasn't used anymore. The nude scenes look put on. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "At first lively and at times even charming and humorous, the star comedy after a (weaker) comedy by Priestley becomes increasingly unimaginative and at the end flat and gaudy."
Individual evidence
- ↑ And that on Monday morning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 9, 2015 .
Web links
- And on Monday morning at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- And that on Monday morning at filmportal.de