The Miracle of Father Malachia
- Horst Bollmann: Father Malachy
- Richard Münch: Dr. Erwin Glass
- Christiane Nielsen: Helga Glass
- Günter Pfitzmann: Rudolf Reuschel
- Brigitte Grothum: Gussy et al
- Karin Hübner: Nelly Moorbach
- Pinkas Braun: Christian Krüger
- Kurt Ehrhardt: Bishop Reuschel
- Curt Lauer man: Canon Kleinrath
- Günter Strack: Kaplan Merz
- Loriot: cranky professor
- Senta Berger: Yvonne Krüger
- Charlotte Kerr: Dr. Renate Kellinghus
- Wolfgang Spier: Mr. Littmann
- Joachim Teege: cinema owners
- Walter Busch Hoff: CID officer
- Günter Meisner: Crazy preacher
- Friedrich Schütter: Photographer
- Heinz Lieven: Police Officer
- Ludwig Thiesen, Romuald Pekny, Willy Maertens, Paul Edwin Roth, Hans Helmut Dickow, Ellen circulation, Günter Gräwert, Renate bay and many others, as well as
- Many Gelsenkirchen citizens: pilgrim
The Miracle of Malachi is a black-and-white film by German director Bernhard Wicki, was partly filmed in Gelsenkirchen and premiered on July 3, 1961 in Berlin. The feature film based on the novel The Miracle of Malachi ( Original title: Father Malachyas ' Miracle ) by Bruce Marshall.
Action
In addition to a church in a thriving industrial city is the Eden bar, entertainment establishment, in the Entertainment Ladies come and go. The unworldly monk Father Malachi sees in the local a den of iniquity, and pray to God that he would hinfortnehmen the Eden Bar. This answered him promptly and treated the building along with a bar and the people therein to an island in the North Sea. This apparent miracle soon attracts more and more attention. In the media, various people from politics and science make attempts at explanation, however, the inexplicable of events not ultimately deny. Everything indicates that actually God, the building has been taken away. The Catholic Church is against this interpretation is critical since it fears a massive loss of control in matters of faith or even an embarrassment when it should all turn out to be fake.
Meanwhile, a pilgrimage faithful from all over the world to the former location of the bar To the miracle plant around arises gradually a fairground, on the use of many citizens of the city seized the opportunity resourceful in order to make money, alleged about by selling miracle water, Malachi - studs and models of Eden Bar. At the same time business and advertising people start with to the thorough marketing of miracle. The story is the media exploited and commercialized. A young woman who was in the night in question in the bar, is a star overnight.
Father Malachy is the growing hype about the wonders and his person helpless. Throngs of journalists urge with requests for interviews on him, the church is besieged by believers in miracles, a blessing or touched by the Father hoping for. The unworldly man who lived in the monastery long, is not done these excesses of modern decadent society and repent soon to have asked God for the miracle. Resourceful investors buy the island on which the Eden Bar now stands, and built around the building a modern casino for the rich and famous. While a noisy party and Father Malachy goes to the island and asks at the beach desperate to re wonders to make the frenzied bustle finally over. In fact, God puts the Eden bar back to its old location.
Formation
The Miracle of Malachi was by far not as big a success as Wicki's film The Bridge and is now almost forgotten. The film paints a poignant picture of manners of modern society and in particular the advertising and market economy. Naive belief in miracles on the one hand and unscrupulous profiteering are presented with partially schwarzhumorigem puns.
Well-known and important is the movie today, especially in Gelsenkirchen, where many key scenes were filmed. Even today there are in the population some vivid memories of the filming, especially since many Gelsenkirchen participated as extras. The film is become something like a home movie for Gelsenkirchen and is often shown here on special occasions. The church in the film is the Protestant Old Church. The land of Eden - Bar was one of the last remnants of the city land on which the bar was only built as a backdrop. We used the nearby and had just opened musical theater in the area, which provided the perfect backdrop to the extraordinary architecture of Werner Ruhnau and wall works by Yves Klein For the modern casino on the North Sea island. Also, the Hans -Sachs -Haus, another formative construction of Gelsenkirchen city center, is seen in the film. There are also several shots from Gelsenkirchen industrial establishments and street shots. The work, of which there is only one poorly preserved film role in Gelsenkirchen, will be broadcast on June 8 2013 at 23:05 clock on bibel.tv.
Reviews
- Friedrich Luft wrote to the world on July 5, 1961: The film was a thunderstorm. He wanted to provide a place of silence - and I know myself not the silence. He wanted to teach breathe - and is itself constantly out of breath. He stands up, in our zeal in the final perfection itself in the way. It 'll take at the end tragically itself
- Lexicon of international film: " After his sensational film debut " The Bridge " 1959, Bernhard Wicki tried with only limited success in the genre of social satire, the novel is staged as tumultuous spectacle, which contains many swipes at profiteering, Pharisaism and hypocrisy economic miracle mentality that cinematic. dramaturgy by the abundance of ideas and punchlines but overwhelmed.