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Arms and the Man
A delicious parody on misunderstood heroism is represented by this picture based on George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Man and Superman. The comical captain Bluntschli, dressed up as a Serbian mercenary, conquers for himself his adversary’s fiancée.
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Credits
| Director: | Franz Peter Wirth |
| Screenplay: | Johanna Sibelius, Eberhard Keindorff |
| Director of photography: | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| Editing: | Claus von Boro |
| Music: | Franz Grothe |
| Cast: | |
| O. W. Fischer | Hauptmann Bluntschli |
| Liselotte Pulver | Raina Petkoff |
| Ellen Schwiers | Zofe Louka |
| Jan Hendriks | Leutnant Sergius Saranoff |
| Ljuba Welitsch | Mutter Katharina Petkoff |
| Kurt Kasznar | Major Petkoff |
| Manfred Inger | Nicola |
| Horst Tappert | Bulgarischer Leutnant |
| Hans Clarin | |
| Production company: | Bavaria Filmkunst AG (München-Geiselgasteig) |
| Producer: | Henry Sokal, Peter Goldbaum |
All Credits
| Director: | Franz Peter Wirth |
| Assistant director: | Rainer Erler |
| Screenplay: | Johanna Sibelius, Eberhard Keindorff |
| based on: | George Bernard Shaw (Komödie "Arms and the Man") |
| Director of photography: | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| Camera operator: | Rolf Kästel |
| Assistant camera: | Knut Seedorf |
| Still photography: | Gabriele Du Vinage, Lars Looschen |
| Production design: | Hermann Warm, Bruno Monden |
| Costume design: | Herbert Ploberger |
| Make-up artist: | Raimund Stangl, Ilse Siebert |
| Editing: | Claus von Boro |
| Sound: | Friedrich Wilhelm Dustmann |
| Music: | Franz Grothe |
| Cast: | |
| O. W. Fischer | Hauptmann Bluntschli |
| Liselotte Pulver | Raina Petkoff |
| Ellen Schwiers | Zofe Louka |
| Jan Hendriks | Leutnant Sergius Saranoff |
| Ljuba Welitsch | Mutter Katharina Petkoff |
| Kurt Kasznar | Major Petkoff |
| Manfred Inger | Nicola |
| Horst Tappert | Bulgarischer Leutnant |
| Hans Clarin | |
| Production company: | Bavaria Filmkunst AG (München-Geiselgasteig) |
| Producer: | Henry Sokal, Peter Goldbaum |
| Line producer: | Henry Sokal |
| Unit production manager: | Dietrich von Theobald |
| Location manager: | Peter Hahne, Rudolf Kley |
| Shoot: | 06.1958-08.1958: |
| Original distributor: | Bavaria Filmverleih GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig) |
| Length: | 2628 m, 96 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Agfacolor |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 10.05.1995, 18131, ab 6 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei [3. FSK-Prüfung]; FSK-Prüfung (DE): 14.10.1958, 18131, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (AT): 12.1958, Wien; Erstaufführung (DE): 16.12.1958, Hamburg, Ufa-Palast |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Helden |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 2628 m, 96 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Agfacolor |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 10.05.1995, 18131, ab 6 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei [3. FSK-Prüfung]; FSK-Prüfung (DE): 14.10.1958, 18131, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (AT): 12.1958, Wien; Erstaufführung (DE): 16.12.1958, Hamburg, Ufa-Palast |
Awards
| Deutscher Filmpreis 1959 |
| Filmband in Gold, Bester Hauptdarsteller |
| Wanderpreis Goldene Schale, Bester abendfüllender Spielfilm |
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