This is obligatory movie for German media during Festive Season.
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ranc1 — 2 years ago(December 10, 2023 07:37 PM)
This is obligatory movie for German media during Festive Season.
This year it will be shown on German state tv first channel ARD on Christmas Eve, so I am here - to finally see what is big deal about it.
It is also shown on Austrian TV, too.
This is how the movie is announced in tv guide:
Die Feuerzangenbowle
Filme im Ersten
Automatic translation:
Running time: 93 mins.
A young but already very successful writer is persuaded by some tipsy older men to make up for the school life he has never experienced. So the senior of a small town high school comes across a new student who turns the school upside down with his pranks. At the same time, he manages to win the director's pretty daughter as his wife for life before he unmasks himself with a big bang. The high-spirited film comedy based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Spoerl was made in 1944. In addition to Heinz Rühmann in his star role as the student Pfeiffer ("with three fs"), popular actors from back then such as Erich Ponto and Paul Henckels amuse in delicious roles as the "teacher" and Hans Richter and Lutz Götz.
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Four old gentlemen happily recall the pranks of their school days over a steaming Feuerzangenbowle. The younger of their cheerful group, Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer (Heinz Rühmann), their snorting cheerfulness is incomprehensible: the poor guy never went to school, but only had a tutor. In order to show him afterwards what he was missing out on, they hatch a crazy plan together. A few days later, a "new kid" shows up at the high school in a dreamy small town. The other seniors are very amused by his strange student hat. Professor Gray (Erich Ponto), called Schnauz, finds him a bit silly, but it soon becomes clear that this Pfeiffer is Schnauz in particular feels this when he wants to demonstrate alcoholic fermentation in chemistry class with home-brewed blueberry wine. One prank follows another, and only Professor Bömmel (Paul Henckels) sometimes finds ways and means to get around Pfeiffer However, Pfeiffer has certain problems with Eva (Karin Himboldt), the school director's pretty daughter, with whom he has now fallen in love. She simply doesn't believe him about who he really is - one more reason to put an end to his school career set that has it all again.
Like the memories of school days that the film conjures up with a wink, “Die Feuerzangenbowle” itself has a nostalgic appeal, which does not diminish the continued enjoyment of this imaginatively prepared school world, on the contrary. And what is assured at the beginning still applies: “ This film is a homage to the school, but it's possible the school doesn't realize it."