Karl Valentins Hochzeit
About Karl Valentins Hochzeit
Thin, unmarried Valentin answers a newspaper ad and calls on Frau Walzenberger, played in padding by Georg Rückert. She nearly crushes him, then lifts him onto a sofa with one hand, and he signs. At the wedding dance she falls, and he disappears under her.
Cast & crew
More about Karl Valentins Hochzeit
Ansfelder directed. Martin Kopp produced it in Munich. The camera credit is Palatz, also spelled Pallatz. Liesl Karlstadt plays a wedding guest, not the bride. filmportal.de lists a one-reel negative of 183 meters under the title Valentins Hochzeit, dated 1913, and a censorship length of 198 meters passed on February 7, 1929. German Wikipedia dates the farce to 1912 and calls it Valentin's first film. The surviving copy runs about 10 minutes. One scene was shot in the cheese warehouse of the merchant Bernbichler on Pfisterstraße.
Themes
Making
The cheese warehouse on Pfisterstraße stood in for part of the farce. Rückert was padded out to play the bride.
Look
Palatz photographed the farce, including the scene in the cheese warehouse on Pfisterstraße in Munich.
Preservation
A copy of about 10 minutes survives. German Wikipedia calls that length the surviving torso.
Notes
- The bride is played by a man, Georg Rückert, as Frau Walzenberger.
- Karlstadt, Valentin's stage partner, is a guest at the wedding, not the wife.
- filmportal also lists Karl Valentins Hochzeit as a 1911/1912 short with the same two leads.
- A 1929 censorship card gives 198 meters. The surviving copy is about 10 minutes.
Scenes
- Walzenberger picks Valentin up with one hand and sets him on the sofa.
- At the wedding dance she falls and he vanishes under her.