If we were all angels (1936)
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| Original title | If we were all angels |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Carl Froelich |
| script | Heinrich Spoerl |
| production | Carl Froelich-Film GmbH |
| music | Hansom Milde-Meissner |
| camera | Reimar Kuntze |
| cut | Gustav Lohse |
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If we were all angels is a comedy film by director Carl Froelich from 1936. Heinrich Spoerl wrote the novel on which the literary film adaptation is based. In the main role , Heinz Rühmann embodies the small-minded head of the law firm, Christian Kempenich.
action
The city-famous, pedantic head of the office, Christian Kempenich, is at the beginning of the film on his way to Cologne for a baptism, to which he was invited. Once there, the solemn event takes a happy course, at the end of which there is a boozy get-together.
On the way home he stayed in a hotel. Kempenich, who had given the alcohol a little too much that evening, then falls into the bed of a woman he does not know and wakes up in surprise the next morning. When the hotel filed a complaint against him with the local police department, the confusion was complete. The reason for the complaint is allegedly stolen bed linen from the room in which Kempenich stayed.
His wife Hedwig was not a child of the purest innocence during his absence: she had a little love affair while her husband was in Cologne, which she naturally wants to keep a secret from him.
When Hedwig learns that Christian has been attached to a complaint for theft, he becomes entangled in contradictions when he tries to explain how he got into the room of a woman he did not know. In the course of the discussion, however, Hedwig also gets tangled and recklessly expresses that she had a (in her eyes) harmless affair .
After a mutual discussion, the two realize that they both have to make an effort, because after all, their own marriage is now at stake.
Production notes
The film was released in German cinemas on October 9, 1936 . Other publication dates (abroad) were October 8, 1937 in the USA (there under the title If We All Were Angels ), August 7, 1938 in Finland (under the title Oltaisko enkeleitä ), and January 25, 1940 in Hungary (there under the title Nem vagyunk angyalok ), April 4, 1941 in Denmark (there under the title Hvis vi alle var Engle ) and even in the GDR the film was shown for the first time in 1955.
Reviews
"One of the best pre-war German comedies."
See also
Web links
- If we all were angels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ If We Were All Angels (1936) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 22, 2015 .
- ↑ If we were all angels - Film - Cinema.de. In: cinema.de. Retrieved June 22, 2015 .