Fireworks

Feuerwerk

West Germany, Switzerland

1954

97 Min

Color

1.37:1

German

Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Erik Charell, Conrad Flockner

SCR Jürg Amstein, Erik Charell, Felix Lützkendorf, Günter Neumann, Herbert Witt

CAST Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck, Romy Schneider, Claus Biederstaedt, Werner Hinz, Rudolf Vogel, Margarete Haagen, Ernst Waldow, Käthe Haack, Lina Carstens, Liesl Karlstadt, Michl Lang, Charlotte Witthauer, Tatjana Sais, Willy Reichert, Peter Rühmann, Pilade Cristiani, Isolde Bräuner, Hans Clarin, Michael Cramer, Heini Göbel, Oliver Hassencamp, Christiane Maybach, Erika Nein, Klaus Pohl, Karl Schaidler

The occasion is Oberholzer’s fiftieth birthday. He is a highly-respected owner of a factory which produces figurines for the garden, little dwarves and such. Suddenly there is a surprise. His younger brother, who had run away some 20 years previously, arrives in his native town accompanied by his famous travelling circus Obolski.’ Both he and his charming, exotic wife cause confusion in the minds of all of his conventional relatives and trouble in a number of their marriages. But soon they themselves have to deal with the same type of problem, as a young niece has started showing an effusive interest in the circus and her uncle. In the end, everything returns to normal. After a magnificent final performance, the circus departs from the little town. —betafilm.com

Director

Kurt Hoffmann

Kurt Hoffmann was born in 1910 in Freiburg and died in 2001 in Munich. He began his film career as a camera assistant to Siodmak, Schuenzel and Ucicky. He had his directorial debut in 1939 with Bachelor’s Paradise (Paradies der Junggesellen), followed by popular film adaptations based on the literary works of such well-known writers as Thomas Mann, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, und Kurt Tucholsky. His films include: Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941), I Often Think of Piroschka (Ich denke oft an Piroschka, 1955), Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, 1957), The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus in Spessart, 1958), Aren’t We Wonderful? (Wir Wunderkinder, 1958), The Castle Gripsholm (Schloss Gripsholm, 1963), Praetorius (Dr. med. Hiob Praetorius, 1964), Rheinsberg (1967), and In the Morning at Seven the World Is Still in Order read more