Like a thief in the night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Like a thief in the night |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Thimig |
| script |
Lilian Belmont Fritz Koselka |
| production | Wien-Film GmbH, Vienna |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner (black and white) |
| camera | Yaroslav Tuzar |
| cut | Henriette Brünsch |
| occupation | |
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Like a thief in the night is an Austrian feature film in black and white by director Hans Thimig from the year 1944. His first performance was the film but only five years later.
action
Oskar Ringhofer, the son of the owner of the fashion house of the same name, has his eye on the window decorator Toni Riedel. In order to be able to hang out with her, he has come up with a crazy plan: After the shop closes in his father's fashion store, he stands next to a mannequin and pretends to be one too. When his beloved wants to start her work there, she immediately notices that she is not dealing with a doll and assumes that the stranger is a thief. But because she likes the young man, she resolves to dissuade him from his criminal acts and to "cure" him. Oskar is only too happy to get involved. But when Toni's love for her "patient" awakens, she soon finds out about her. Now she pays him back with the same coin by also faking a theft . After a lot of mix-ups, in which the police are not uninvolved, all problems are solved and Oskar is allowed to lead his beloved Toni to the registry office.
Production notes
The film based on the play The Girl in the Window by Fritz Gottwald was shot in 1944 and was synchronized with music at the end of the war. The defector was then completed by Wien-Film after the end of the war. The world premiere took place on September 23, 1949 in Vienna. In May 1950 Wie ein Dieb im Nacht was released by the FSK for West Berlin and West Germany and had its premiere in West Berlin on August 9, 1950.
criticism
The lexicon of international films gave a succinct verdict that it was a "comedy of confusion, usually thin and silly."
literature
- Alfred Bauer : German Feature Film Almanach 1929–1950 , Film Blätter-Verlag, Berlin 1950. New edition by Filmladen Christoph Winterberg, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-921612-00-4
- Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946–1955 , Filmbuchverlag Winterberg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-921612-01-2
Web link
- Like a thief in the night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like a thief in the night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .