El pecador virtuoso (Fritz Kortner, 1931) : Filmoteca de ficción

El pecador virtuoso
Der brave Sünder / The Virtuous Sinner
Fritz Kortner (Alemania, 1931) [B/N, 109 min]

Sinopsis:

A Leopold Pichler, un jefe de cajeros muy ordenado y fiable, le pide su jefe que le proporcione con urgencia una gran suma de dinero del banco para un viaje que debe hacer a Viena. Por determinadas circunstancias, conseguir ese dinero lleva un poco más de tiempo de lo esperado y el director sale para Viena sin él. Pero Pichler, que se ve a sí mismo como un hombre fiable, apenas conseguida la suma, va, junto a su asistente, a Viena con el dinero guardado en una bolsa para contactar con el director. En Viena, se ven implicados en una serie de acontecimientos que se interponen y alteran su tarea...

En Mubi se escribió:This everlasting story is about the petit bourgeois from the provinces who comes to a modern big city Babylon, where he loses his bearings and goes astray.

swgreif en User Reviews de IMDB el 5 de febrero de 2014 escribió:A German Screw-Ball Comedy
This is a funny and very clever comedy. Outstanding is Max Pallenberg, pater familias, officious head cashier, and a very confused individual whose language, facial expressions, general state of excitement carry on non-stop and in the largely stunned company of his colleague, Heinz Ruehmann, and set-upon daughter, the very wonderful Dolly Haas. Pallenberg, a Jew, was driven out of Germany in '33 and died a year later in an airplane crash in Czechoslovakia. The Jewish actor who played Kalapka died at Dachau in '41. He joins the sad ranks of Dora Gerson, Kurt Gerron, and many other. Heinz Ruehmann put in a fine performance as he always does. He prospered in Nazi Germany and even divorced his Jewish wife to further his career. I suppose he atoned for all this by his wonderful remake of the Kapitaen von Koepernick.

Ficha técnica

Fritz Kortner

Alfred Polgar

Valentin Kataev

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