Father Needs a Wife (1952)

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Movie
Original title Father needs a wife
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Braun
script Herbert Reinecker
Christian Bock
Herbert Witt
production Harald Braun
music Franz Grothe
camera Richard fear
cut Claus from Boro
occupation

Father Needs a Woman is a German feature film by Harald Braun from 1952 with Dieter Borsche and Ruth Leuwerik in the leading roles. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film comedy, shot in black and white , was first shown in cinemas on October 17, 1952.

action

The widowed head of the women's department in the employment office, Government Councilor Dr. Hans Neumeister is overwhelmed with raising his four children and running the household. Therefore, he is dependent on domestic help. His only bad luck is that it doesn't last long with him because they quickly feel annoyed by the children's temperament and their imagination. This is more than uncomfortable for a man in Neumeister's position. When another woman quit, he decides to give it a try with the help of a job advertisement. But the children also think about how to help their father. Martin has the idea: "Father needs a woman!" Together they formulate a newspaper advertisement in which they not only describe their father, but also themselves in the most beautiful colors.

After failures that the children have to cope with, there is still success with Susanne Meissner, a young, elegant photo model. Susanne has been tired of her job for some time and is worried about her future. Hans Neumeister, however, thinks the lady is an applicant for his job advertisement. So it happens that the two talk past each other and everyone has the feeling: This is probably nothing for the intended purpose! Neumeister's secretary, Mrs. Nickel, also wants to help her boss and plays fate. She makes sure that the head of the children's radio, Lotti Hellwig, who is only known to most by the name "Kuckuck" and would like to work with children during the holidays, auditions to him. However, this is initially mistaken for a candidate for marriage by the host, who has since learned about his children's plan. It quickly turns out that Lotti is very good with children and is generally very nice. However, the fact that she falls in love with Neumeister complicates the matter.

Neumeister has caught fire and meets with Susanne, to whom he reveals, albeit not immediately, that he has four children. However, Ulla Neumeister noticed by chance that the great Mercedes in which Susanne can be seen in the picture that she sent to her father does not belong to her, as well as the furs and the villa. She now believes that Susanne is a con man and a marriage fraud. All of a sudden, Dr. Neumeister between the woman he loves and his children. However, Ulla thinks about it, looks for Susanne and realizes that she is the right person not only for her father, but also for her and her brothers. And so it happens that Hans Neumeister, true to his children's opinion that father needs a wife, leads his Susanne to the altar.

production

Production notes

The film was produced by the NDF Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft mbH (Munich-Geiselgasteig). The outdoor shots were taken in July 1952 at Lautersee , in Mittenwald and Munich , the indoor shots in the Bavaria Film studios in Geiselgasteig. The script came from Herbert Reinecker and Christian Bock with the help of Herbert Witt . The buildings were created by the film architects Hans Sohnle and Fritz Lück . Ursula Maes contributed the costumes. The film was first distributed by Schorcht Filmgesellschaft mbH (Munich).

background

For Dieter Borsche and Ruth Leuwerik it was their first collaboration in a film, which was followed in the same year by the collaboration in the medical drama The Great Temptation . Ruth Leuwerik said in 2008 in an interview with the filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt , which was broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk under the title Ruth Leuwerik… that she was about to give up the role in this film because she was told by the behavior of her mother in the film starring Angelika Voelkner (she spoke of the girl who starred in the film, a "child who already had a certain success back then") was so annoyed that she did not want to expose herself to it. For example, the mother was always "running around in the studio and screaming: 'My daughter plays the main role here'". This also had an impact on the daughter's behavior. Only when the mother was banned from the studio was she able to continue her work.

publication

After an FSK test, number 04894, on October 2, 1952, the film was released for children aged 12 and over with the addition “holiday-free” and had its premiere on October 17, 1952. He was first seen on television on July 13, 1963 on ZDF . It started operating in Austria in May 1953. It was published in 1954 in Finland (title Isä tarvitsee vaimon ), Sweden ( Pappa behöver en fru ), Denmark ( Gift dig med far ) and Portugal ( Esposa Precisa-se ).

criticism

According to the lexicon of international films , the strip is “a predominantly humorous, friendly German family comedy”.

Cinema wrote: "The post-war comedy made Borsche and Leuwerik a dream cinema couple" and drew the conclusion: "Cheerful, friendly and now also quite dusty."

Award

  • Ruth Leuwerik was awarded the Bambi in 1953 for her performance in this film and the 1952 film The Great Temptation .
  • Dieter Borsche was also nominated for the Bambi in the category “Best Actor National” for three of his films from last year.

source

Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Leuwerik tells ... Interview with the actress (from 4:38)
  2. ↑ Ruth Leuwerik on Bavarian TV adS focus.de, January 15, 2016. Accessed October 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4032
  4. ↑ Father needs a woman adS cinema.de (with 15 film images)