Einmal ist keinmal
- Horst Drinda: Peter Veselin
- Brigitte Krause: Anna Hunzele
- Paul Schulz- Wernburg: Edeltanne
- Annemone Haase: Elvira
- Christoph Engel: Erwin
- Friedrich Gnass: Hunzele
- Georg Niemann: Düdelit - Düdelat
- Lotte Loebinger: aunt
- Hilmar Thate: Buhlemann
- Fritz Decho: Fibrament
- Horst Gentzen: Gack
- Edgar Engelmann: Gwirz
- Erich Brauer: wreath
- John Siegert: Dr. Scherb
- Inge Huber: Marie Alvert
- John Arpe: doctor
- Gertrud Paulun: housekeeper
- Norbert Christian: Pinco
- Gustav Müller: Wade warmer
- Liska Merbach: Luise
- Paul Pentecost: Driver
- Jutta Beetz: Red-haired lady
- Maika Joseph: 1 Beer woman
- Lotte Meyer: 2 Beer woman
- Rolf Barth Olsen: Postman
- Jutta Zoff: accordion soloist
One for the Money is a German musical comedy by Konrad Wolf from the year 1955. The film is one of the few home movies which produced the DEFA.
Action
Composer Peter Veselin comes from Dusseldorf in the Saxon town of Klingenberg valley where he wants to do with his uncle fir holiday. After years of boogie piano accompaniment Peter does finally rest from the entertainment and music is even haunted during the train ride into nightmares of boogie music. He still falls asleep from the moving train, crashing into a hay bale and sends a car driver thereof that would take him to Berlin. Asleep In short, he is discovered by the Klingenthaler girls Anna and Elvira and kissed cocky. Peter loses track of the two young women.
Klingenthal proves to be a musical Location: The Klingenthaler music days are imminent and soon Peter has to compose several commissioned works. Uncle Edeltanne wants a piece for its traditional House Music Club Aeolian harp, the harmonica work asks him for a classical composition for the factory Symphony Orchestra and the dance band recently founded the plant absolutely needs a hit, with which it can occur to the music days. The fact that Peter is strictly refuses to write a hit, outraged, especially Anna, who is the singer of the band and also occurs as a classical singer in the orchestra. She now refuses Peters recomposing to sing, especially since they must get the impression due to various accidents that Peter is after her. Also Edeltanne believes that Peter is having an affair and sent his nephew back home.
However, Peter is among the music-loving Erwin, who happens to live next door to Anna. The believes that Peter is actually gone, but Erwin arranged a meeting between the two and they finally confess their love. Secretly Peter, meanwhile, has a hit for the dance band composed, he auditions for the first time Anna the day before the Music Festival. The is enthusiastic. Less pleased she is when he shows her his Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra. He wrote it for his great love - the name " Marie Alvert " stands above the sheet, however, written a well-known accordion player, for which is provided in a solo piece. While Peter Anna can convince them that he is Marie never met and he has the name never written on the sheet music, but Marie proves to end up being the woman take the Peter shortly after his bumpy arrival in the hay bales to Berlin wanted. When she tells Anna opposite a funny encounter in the hay, Anna misunderstands the situation and leaves Peter on the day before the Music Festival.
On the day of the performance finally lack both Anna and Marie and Peter sees the performance of his Rhapsody fail. Suddenly both women who have used the meantime the debate appear on the stage and the piece will be a great success. Anna returns to the meadow where she saw Peter for the first time. Peter runs after her and they kiss.
Production
One for the Money is one of the few home movies which produced the DEFA. Forests and mountains found the pivot team in 1954 in Klingenthal and environment in the Vogtland Erzgebirge, where large parts of the film developed. Another location was people mountain in Thuringia. The working title of the film was The sound of blades in Thal. Once is not enough experienced on 25 March 1955 at the Berlin cinema Babylon and the DEFA film theater chestnut avenue its premiere.
The film music by Günter Kochan, who at the time was only 25 years old. One for the Money was the film debut of director Konrad Wolf. The film is considered to be the Wolf homage to the Soviet director Grigori Aleksandrov musical, in which Wolf had learned at WGIK.
Criticism
The contemporary criticism of the GDR gave the movie to remain superficial and not to make any social statement: "The film is not a bit leitartikelhaft " wrote the world stage, and other critics demanded that " any work of art a real human, ie explicit social experience [ s ] " should, but the film does not do this.
For the filmdienst One for the Money was a " moderately entertaining comedy with propagandistic undertones. "