Woe to when let go

Movie
Original title	Woe to when let go
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1958
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Géza from Cziffra
script	Géza von Cziffra as Peter Trenck
production	Artur Brauner Horst Wendlandt
music	Heinz Gietz
camera	Willi Sohm Fritz Arno Wagner
cut	Jutta Hering Kurt Zeunert
occupation
Peter Alexander : Peter Holunder Bibi Johns : Dagmar Thomas Ruth Stephan : Christa Knax Brigitte Mira : Mrs. Knax Joseph Egger : Uncle Tobias Gerold Wanke : Willi Peter Garden : Oskar Hans von Borsody : Jupp Lucie Englisch : Landlady of the "Red Ox" Helga Martin : Rosl, her niece Karl Hellmer : Country Doctor Sonja Sorell : Helen Lou Seitz : Josefa, housekeeper Franz Otto Krüger : Erichsen, conductor Walter Feuchtenberg : Adelbert, servant Hans Schwarz : Head of the choral society

Woe to you when you let go is a German comedy film from 1958 directed by Géza von Cziffra with the leading actors Peter Alexander and Bibi Johns .

action

Peter Holunder wants to practice with his friends Willi, Oskar and Jupp for an upcoming jazz competition. His uncle Tobias, on whose farm Peter lives, should not find out about it. The young men meet the attractive Dagmar, a relative of Willi's, in the inn at the “Red Ox”, where Peter accommodates his friends. They begin to make music together and are promptly involved in a fight with the members of the local choral society "Happy Boys".

When she meets Christa Knax, Peter is mistakenly mistaken for the well-known show jumper Robert "Bubi" Bender. Peter and his band receive an invitation to a party in the Knax family's villa. Peter and Dagmar, who work for the Knax family, meet several times and fall in love.

The festival turns into a catastrophe when the animals from the surrounding farms, attracted by Peter's harmonica playing, appear uninvited and destroy the cold buffet. It also comes out that he is not Bubi Benda, but Peter Holunder. When the music competition finally takes place in the Konzerthaus, there is another mix-up there. Peter Holunder is mistaken for the conductor Erichsen. So it happens that Peter unexpectedly appears on stage with a classical orchestra. The audience is quite impressed by his performance.

background

Woe to you if you let go of it is based on motifs from the Russian film Funny Lads (1934) by Grigory Alexandrow . The working title of the film was then funny guys . The film was shot in Füssen in the Allgäu.

Several songs can be heard in the film. The text is by Kurt Feltz , the music by Heinz Gietz.

• The most beautiful thing in the world , Foxtrot, sung by Peter Alexander
• Give me something nice , Foxtrot, sung by Bibi Johns
• The friendly Franz , Foxtrot, sung by Peter Alexander
• You stole my heart from me today , Laughing Calypso, sung by Peter Alexander and Bibi Johns
• We'll meet again , sung by Peter Alexander and Bibi Johns

criticism

"The meager plot serves only as a hook for a series of musical clowneries and only offers undemanding amusement."

- Lexicon of international film

"Between burlesque and musical, the hit-filled plot rages off."

- film sheets

Trivia

The title Woe, when it is released is a line from Friedrich Schiller's poem Das Lied von der Glocke .

Web links

• Alas, when released in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Woe if you let go of filmportal.de
• Woe to you if you let go Illustrated film stage No. 4488

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Woe to you when let go. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Berlin 1998, p. 148.
3. ^ The song of the bell in the Gutenberg-DE project