The House in Montevideo (1963 film)
- Heinz Riihmann: Professor Traugott Hermann Nägler
- Ruth Leuwerik: Marianne Nägler
- Paul Dahlke: Pastor Riesling
- Hanne re: Carmen de la Rocco
- Viktor de Kowa: lawyer
- Ilse Pagé: Atlanta Nägler
- Michael Verhoeven: Herbert force
- Fritz Tillmann: Mayor
- Elfie Riegert: Belinda
- Doris Kiesow: Marta Nägler
- Pierre Franckh: Lohengrin Nägler
- Herbert Kroll: Pharmacist
- Georg Gütlich: Colonel
The House in Montevideo is the second screen adaptation of the stage play by Curt Goetz.
Action
The impeccable Professor Traugott Hermann Nägler lives with his wife Marianne and his twelve ( named after figures from Richard Wagner) children in a petty-bourgeois small-town idyll.
As the eldest daughter of Atlanta Näglers deceased sister inherits a house in Montevideo, the moral integrity professor is initially not built - his sister was still the black sheep of the family. Yet along with Pastor Kiessling, a family friend, succeeds Atlanta to persuade her father to travel to Montevideo, so that they can take the inheritance.
In Montevideo the morals Näglers get completely shaken when the father realizes what is hidden for an establishment in the house of the dead. However, an amount of 225,000 Silberpesos is connected to the inheritance, which reconciles the professor with the way of life of his sister. But the inheritance is a condition attached: In Näglers family the same ethical lapse must occur within a specified period, for which he had once broken over his sister's bar. In the end, it comes a chance to help.
Background
While the first film adaptation (1951 ) still Goetz himself took director, screenplay and starred, directed, twelve years later Helmut Käutner a remake with Heinz Rühmann as sittenstrengem Professor Nägler. Riihmann was initially reluctant to take on the role that had already embodies the late and esteemed by him Author Goetz. He could be retuned but by a letter from his widow Valerie von Martens, according to Goetz Riihmann had specifically requested as the main character for his pieces. In subsequent years, he still played in two further Curt Goetz remakes starring: disappear How do I let my husband ...: in MD Job Praetorius and hocus-pocus or? ( 1966). The premiere was on 17 October 1963 at the Theater am Kroepcke in Hanover.
Reviews
Although the film was a great success with the public, the critics were muted, such as
- Encyclopedia of the International Films: Complex remake of Curt Goetz comedy by Helmut Käutner which ( and the Goetz 's own film in black and white, 1951), the punch of the original coarsened or play can be: a raspberry candy was from the praline.
- The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production (as well as the first film adaptation of Curt Goetz ) valuable the predicate.