Four girls from the Wachau

Movie
German title	Four girls from the Wachau
Original title	Four girls from the Wachau
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Franz Antel
script	Rolf Olsen , Kurt Nachmann
production	Franz Hoffmann
music	Johannes Fehring , Lotar Olias , Heinrich Strecker
camera	Hans Heinz Theyer
cut	Arnfried Heyne
occupation
Isa Günther : Christl Jutta Günther : Gretl Alice Kessler : Franzi Ellen Kessler : Hanni Michael Cramer : Peter Heinz Conrads : Webel Thomas Hörbiger : Schani Harald Dietl : Otto Held Oskar Sima : Leopold Scherzinger Rolf Olsen : Bobbek Hans Moser : Anton Zacherl Frances Martin : Rosina Kurzweg (1938) CW Fernbach : Luis Jutta Bornemann : Miss Scheibenpflug Rudi Biefer : Schani Junior Vera Complojer : Mrs. Redlich Ilse Peternell : Mrs. Thaller Jane Tilden : Rosina (1957) Cora Roberts

Four girls from the Wachau is an Austrian homeland film comedy from 1957 with the twin pairs Alice and Ellen Kessler and Isa and Jutta Günther , directed by Franz Antel . It opened in theaters in Germany on August 1, 1957.

action

In the small, dreamy Wachau village of Weineck, two pairs of twins are born in one day by the landlord's daughter Maria Thaller and the kitchen assistant Rosina. Assuming they are quadruplets, Mayor Leopold Scherzinger names a wine after them and thus creates an upswing for the village.

When the four girls grow up, the mayor fears that the young women might get married and move away. This is how a panic amusing comedy develops. Finally there is a fourfold wedding celebration.

background

Director Franz Antel had discovered the then little-known Kessler twins during a visit to the Lido , whereupon he had the idea of making them the title characters of a film together with the Günther twins , who had already been very popular since Das doppelte Lottchen .

The mayor of Krems , Franz Wilhelm, actively supported the project. The studio was in a hall in the brewery yard, an important meeting point was the Bacher landlord in Mautern . Four girls from the Wachau not only did well in the cinemas, but a year after the shooting, the mayor was also able to inform the director that the number of overnight stays had doubled. The complex referred to in the film as the Drachenburg is Kreuzenstein Castle, north of Vienna .

At the time of the birth of the four girls, Rosina is played by Jane Tilden's daughter Franziska. While the girls are grown up, Rosina is portrayed by Jane Tilden herself.

criticism

• The Münchner Merkur wrote: "A swank film that stays at the lower limit" (quoted from film.at)

• Lexicon of international film : “Comedy in the Heimatfilm milieu, which hardly uses the possibilities of the subject and which is noticeably falling apart; only Hans Moser in the role of the house servant knows how to convince. "

• In 1957, Heidi Ritter sums it up in the film papers: "All in all: The right film for an audience that wants to laugh loudly and heartily"

• Christoph Dompke remarked in his book Because what remained. Old women in bad films (1998): "As in many films of this time, a woman alone runs an inn that is slipping towards bankruptcy, a reflex of the fatherless post-war society." He also found it amusing, "that the four twins always only have lived in the Wachau, do not speak a hint of a dialect. "

Web links

• Four girls from the Wachau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Four girls from the Wachau at film.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Amalthea Vienna, Munich, 2001, pp. 121–124
2. ↑ Four girls from the Wachau. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 1, 2017 .  
3. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag Berlin 1998, p. 137