Two heavenly thick skulls
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| Original title | Two heavenly thick skulls |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Werner Jacobs |
| script | Johannes Weiss |
| production | Horst Hächler |
| music | Ernst Brandner |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
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Two heavenly thick skulls is a German comedy film based on the novel Der Herrgott der Pferde by Arthur Heinz Lehmann , which was filmed in 1974 by Werner Jacobs , whose last production was this. The two titular opponents play Klaus Löwitsch and Reiner Schöne .
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The often a little quick-tempered chaplain and horse lover Vilmos is transferred by his bishop to the parish of Wöllrain as a punishment because the prospective clergyman was last involved in a brawl. In the small town he should report to the local pastor Dominik Schäftle and, if it proves its worth there, he should succeed him. Wöllrain is ruled by the arrogant and despotic mayor and horse breeder Georg Kamberger. He has a liaison with the pretty Marei Lechner, whose father is downright bullied by Kamberger. Vilmos and Kamberger's first meeting is not a lucky star. When it rains, Kamberger and his girlfriend Marei Lenz find shelter in a barn and enjoy themselves there in the hay. Vilmos, who was picked up from the train station by the local farmhand Wastl, a Bavarian man made from real shot and grain, got caught in the storm and entered the barn at that very moment to also shelter. He discovers Kamberger and Marei half-naked in the hay. The new man of God of the place withdraws discreetly.
In Wöllrain, Pastor Schäftle made it clear to him that Kamberger, an all-powerful man, was not to be trifled with. Vilmos wants to freshen up a lot in town, including the dingy church facade. Kamberger is also against how he is against everything that does not serve him but the general public: for example, he redirects the local source for his benefit, refuses the urgently needed renovation of the school and controls and manages the place as he likes. When Vilmos wants to go on a bathing excursion with the students, it is Kamberger who rushes up like a gentleman rider, Vilmos forbids swimming in the pond and drives away the chaplain and the children. When a sack of oats is stolen from Kamberger, his mood completely darkens. Three children stole this sack in order to give the old mare Amanda, who is supposed to go to the slaughterhouse, a bread of grace and to feed her. After Vilmos has written his first sermon for tomorrow, he becomes aware of a baby crying on the doorstep. He goes out into the night and there is actually a swaddled baby lying in front of the rectory. With the help of Schäftle, the toddler receives first aid.
The next morning, Vilmos wants to give his first sermon. He had previously assured Schäftle that he would avoid any tip against Mayor Kamberger in his sermon. However, Kamberger is furious even beforehand because he has received a church letter in which it is announced that if necessary he will be forced to collect the more than DM 2000 church money he still owes from him. When Vilmos starts to speak, he lets himself be provoked by Kamberger, and there is a scandal in the middle of the service. Furious, Kamberger stomps out of the church with his faithful and announces in the tavern that he will now build his own church, with a pastor according to his taste. Vilmos does not reveal Marei Lechner's dealings with Kamberger to her father so as not to get the young woman into trouble. Besides that, he also takes care of the foundling. In fact, with the help of Luggi Lenz, who runs a construction company, Kamberger begins work on the new church. When the mayor really quit when he lifted a boulder, it is Kaplan Vilmos of all people who adjusts him again. Vilmos finally puts Kamberger to shame by personally clearing the boulder out of the excavation before his eyes.
Marei Lechner is mad at Kamberger because he wasn't standing by her in the pub and tells her lover that she doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore. Meanwhile, Vilmos is playing cards with Lenz in the tavern. The mission: if he wins, Lenz and his people will start renovating his church facade on Monday. And in fact the pastor beats him. In a drunk state, Vilmos goes to the construction site late at night and unceremoniously knocks over a facade of Kamberger's new church with an iron bar. While he is pondering a plan of revenge, Vilmos holds a conversation with God in his own church, in which he asks for indulgence for his crime of the previous night. Kamberger has the collapsed church wall erect again and drapes two buckets of black paint on it to identify the culprit in the event of another attack. But Pastor Vilmos is also lucky with his next nightly action, the falling paint bucket doesn't hit him. Kamberger now wants to ensure in a different way that Vilmos has nothing to laugh about at his following church service and at this point in time he is planning a fire brigade exercise right next to the church. The service is severely disturbed by the noise of the action and must first be broken off. But here too the chaplain has advice. A well-known, piebald horse, which basically attacks men in uniforms, is released by him, attacks the uniformed firefighters and thus blows up the exercise. Pastor Vilmos watches the chaos from the roof and is delighted with it.
In his next address, Vilmos talks about the foundling he had adopted because he believed that the mother of the little boy whom he calls “Moses” is among the believers. In fact, the mother, Vroni, is a little later in his parish room. Meanwhile, Kamberger tries in vain to stop Luggi's construction work on the church. A reconciliation attempt between Mareis and Kamberger fails a little later. He also has other worries, because another sack of horse feed was stolen. But this time he can catch the food thief. It's Peter, one of Vilmos' students. Against all expectations, Kamberger shows his heart and promises the boy that he will take the rickety, sick mare that was destined for the slaughterhouse and have it examined by a veterinarian. As the local veterinarian has just left, Vilmos is called, who is known as an outspoken horse connoisseur and horse lover. He does his job successfully and then offers Kamberger a truce. He should stop the construction of the new church, which Kamberger does not agree to.
Since Kamberger has promised Vilmos that he will be able to ride his best horse in the stable, "Vesuvius", the chaplain would like to do this as part of a horse race in which 50,000 DM is offered in prize money. This money is urgently needed to finance the church renovation carried out by Lenz. Kamberger keeps his promise, but is obviously up to something. He wants to compete himself. Kamberger wins the race with a lousy trick. But at the award ceremony he was duped when he was told in front of the camera that he would certainly donate the money to the Red Cross, as usual. Kamberger's intervention with the bishop regarding the building of a new church does not lead him any further. A little later, Vilmos Vroni married Luggi Lenz, the baby's father. Then Kamberger bursts into the wedding ceremony and claims that the bishop intends to bless his new church and, moreover, that he, Kamberger, has done it with Marei in the hay. The Lechner daughter, who was among the groomsmen, ran out of the house of God.
Vilmos is fed up now, he feels betrayed and abandoned by his own bishop. Marei has retired to the hay barn again during a thunderstorm, Kamberger follows her there. There he confesses that the only reason he exposed her in church was to keep her from marrying a man she did not love at all. The building is inaugurated the next day. But Kamberger has fooled the Wöllrainer, because of course the bishop did not give his blessing for a new competing church, but the urgently needed new school is being built here. Kamberger even declares coram publico that he finally wants to marry Marei, but absolutely wants to be married by Kaplan Vilmos. But he left Wöllrain disappointed and now wants to completely withdraw from his previous work. Just at the moment when Vilmus humbly asks to be transferred to a registry, Kamberger bursts into this meeting and cries out loudly: “We won't let our chaplain take us!”. The mayor has brought along several Wöllrainers for his moral support. Now there is finally a handshake between Vilmos and Kamberger, and peace in Wöllrain with the new pastor is established.
Production notes
Two Heavenly Thick Skulls , later occasionally referred to as Two Bavarian Thick Skulls , was created in the summer of 1974 and had its world premiere on December 20, 1974.
Erwin Gitt took over the production management, Konstantin Thoeren took over the production management . Peter Rothe designed the film structures with the help of Herwig Pollak, and Ina Stein designed the costumes .
criticism
“The argument between a daredevil chaplain and the arrogant mayor of a Bavarian village. Shallow comedy in Heimatfilm style. "
Web links
- Two heavenly stubborn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two heavenly thick skulls at filmportal.de