The Haunted Castle (1960 film)
- Liselotte Pulver: Countess Charlotte of Sandau
- Hanne Re: Ghost Katrin
- Heinz Baumann: Martin Hartog
- Hubert von Meyerinck: Major of dachshunds, catcher of the Spessart Robbers / Senior Government of dachshunds, Federal Commissioner for the maintenance and promotion of foreign relations in the context of the economic interests of the Federal Republic of
- Hans Clarin: Prince Kalaka
- Georg Thomalla: Spirit Max
- Curt Bois: Ghost Hugo
- Hans Richter: Spirit Jockel
- Paul Esser: Ghost Toni
- Elsa Wagner: Aunt Yvonne
- Ernst Waldow: Uncle Ernst August
- Herbert Hübner: Hartog
- Veronika Fitz: Sophie
The haunted castle in the Spessart is a German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann from the year 1960. Rental equipment in the film was called " Grusical ". 13 songs in the movie are sung by the actors, including the most famous " For you, we do everything."
Background
The plot builds loosely on the movie The Haunted Castle, the Hoffmann also turned in 1958. As an assistant director who later became a television director Rainer Erler worked on the film. Due to its picturesque appearance served as a castle backdrop, the castle Oelber in Oelber on white trails in Lower Saxony.
Action
The robbers in the Spessart it's fared badly. They were walled up alive in the basement of the Haunted Castle. It was only in the Federal Republic of the economic boom the tavern ruins will be demolished because a highway to be built through the Spessart. Ironically, arises exactly at the place of the inn a new " tavern for travelers "; the roadhouse " Spessart ". The spirits of the robber succeeds to escape that way, and they seek refuge in a castle in the vicinity in which the young Countess Charlotte of Sandau lives. The ghosts can only be saved, if they have committed any good deeds.
The economic situation of the palace is desolate, and the Comtesse is on the verge of bankruptcy, as a descendant of the police majors of dachshunds, who once captured the robbers, as Senior Government in Bonn, the Comtesse making the proposal to accommodate a foreign state guest at the castle, the Prince kalaka from Celebresien. At the same time spying around in Martin Hartog castle, the son of a contractor who wants to rebuild the castle into a luxury hotel.
When the spirits steal the jewelry of the prince, the countess was arrested as a thief and the spirits need, to get them free, to convince the authorities of their existence. This succeeds, and in the end help the spirits of the Comtesse still out of their financial terminal, by participating to a considerable amount of money as astronauts for the Americans against the Soviets in the race to the moon.
Others
During filming, the actor Wolfgang Müller died as a student pilot in a plane crash in Switzerland. His team- player Wolfgang Neuss (the two Wolfgangs ) was "Now we no longer need you also " dismissed with the words of the filming of this movie. The two had in The Haunted Castle played the Raiders team Knoll and Funzel.
A sequel turned Kurt Hoffmann in 1967 under the title Wonderful Times in the Spessart. 2010 television movie was the Boys Love Mandy are going shown which is thematically similar to The haunted castle in the Spessart.
Reviews
" Original horror comedy with satirical undertones. "
" A Grusical: enchanting ghost story and bold, but charming contemporary criticism with cabaret highlights. "
" The inventively staged " Grusical " is above the average West German comedies of those years and sometimes vibrates even on satire: a cabaret ". " Is " Bonn- parody "
Awards
- Filmbewertungsstelle predicate: valuable
- 1961 - Prize of the German Film Critics Kurt Hoffmann ( Best Director ), Günther Anders (Best Camera ) Hubert von Meyerinck ( Best Male Supporting Actor )
- 1961 - International Film Festival Moscow - Silver Medal (Best Comedy )
- 1961 - International Film Festival Karlovy Vary - Prices of national judges to Kurt Hoffmann ( Director ), Günter Neumann and Heinz Pauck (writer)
- 1961 - Bambi for the artistically most valuable German film business and the successful German film of 1961