Pension Schöller (1930 film)

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.

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

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

Plot

edit

The landowner and bachelor Philipp Klapproth, who finances his nephew Peter Klapproth's medical studies, receives a letter from him in which he asks his uncle for 20,000 marks which he wants to invest into construction of an insane asylum. The truth is, the nephew has completely different plans: He can neither see blood, nor has he ever studied medicine at all; instead, he and his music-loving friend Tommy dedicate themselves to their band with heart and soul. With the uncle's money, nothing would stand in the way of building a restaurant of his own. However, Philipp wants to examine the supposed institution before he gets the money out, and makes his way to Peter without further ado. In great need of explanation, he then follows Tommy's advice and leads his uncle to the Pension Schöller: "Peter's insane asylum". Their mystification fails. Peter suspects that something is not right.

Cast

edit

References

edit
  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.
edit