Pension Schöller (1930 film)

Pension Schöller
Film poster
Directed byGeorg Jacoby
Written byWalter Schlee
Walter Wassermann
Based onPension Schöller
by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs
Produced byLiddy Hegewald
StarringPaul Henckels
Elga Brink
Jakob Tiedtke
CinematographyGeorg Muschner
Willy Winterstein
Music byWerner Schmidt-Boelcke
Production
company
Hegewald Film
Distributed byHegewald Film
Release date
  • 21 October 1930 (1930-10-21)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Pension Schöller is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Paul Henckels, Elga Brink and Jakob Tiedtke.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1890 play Pension Schöller by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs. Georg Jacoby was Wilhem's son, and made three film adaptations of his father's best known play in 1930, 1952 and 1960.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner.

Plot

Landowner and bachelor Philipp Klapproth, who is funding his nephew Peter Klapproth's medical studies, receives a letter from him asking for 20,000 marks which he wants to invest into the acquisition of a mental asylum.

In actuality, his nephew has completely different plans. Peter has an aversion to blood and has never studied medicine at all. Instead, he and his music-loving friend Tommy dedicate themselves to their band with heart and soul. Peter wants to invest the 20,000 marks into a bar with a rehearsal room.

However, his uncle wants to take a look at the asylum before dishing out the money, and soon Peter finds himself face to face with him. Unable to give his uncle a tour of a genuine asylum, he follows Tommy's advice and takes him to the Pension Schöller, a local boarding house whose guests always include some slightly eccentric people.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 223. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.