Lieutenant Galenpanna

1917 Comedy 38 minutes Directed by Georg af Klercker

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About Lieutenant Galenpanna

At a restaurant the flea expert Professor Loris (Frans Oscar Öberg) walks off in Lieutenant Juncker's coat. Juncker (Elis Ellis), drinking with two friends, finds Loris's notes for the next day and bets he can live that schedule without being caught. A barber makes him up as the professor. At a gymnastics hall he is so much springier than Loris that he knocks the other men about. At the university he lectures on the flea's role in the world war until the real Loris walks in and he bolts. Loris chases him through the rest of the list. The professor's niece Ina Floor (Agda Helin) turns suspicious when this Loris courts her with flowers. The last item is a call on the aunt (Karin Alexandersson). Juncker has the address and is thrown out of several apartments before he finds the right door.

Cast & crew

More about Lieutenant Galenpanna

Georg af Klercker directed. Hedvig Svedenborg wrote the script under the name Djinni; the script title was Professorns dubbelgångare. Gustaf Hallén was art director. It opened on 8 December 1917 at the Victoria cinema in Gothenburg, and it is the first of three films about Lieutenant Galenpanna.

Themes

  • A coat swapped in a restaurant
  • A bet to live another man's day
  • A flea lecture interrupted by the real professor
  • Lieutenant Juncker
  • Professor Loris
  • swapped coats
  • makeup disguise
  • gymnastics
  • flea lecture
  • Ina Floor
  • Gothenburg

Making

Sven Pettersson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gustav A. Gustafson shared the photography at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan, with exteriors at the Renström baths.

Look

Sven Pettersson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gustav A. Gustafson photographed the Otterhällan studio scenes and the Renström baths exteriors.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The film opens on a handwritten title card that Ellis, Agda Björkman, and Öberg burst through, smiling.
  • Agda Helin is billed as Agda Björkman. She plays Ina Floor.
  • Jean Claesson plays Professor Clasik. Gabriel Alw and Sture Baude are Juncker's cronies.
  • John Botvid is one of the men in the gymnastics scene.
  • Tekla Sjöblom plays Loris's housekeeper. Lilly Cronwin plays a flower seller.
  • In Finland the film was also released as Luutnantti Huimapää.

Scenes

  • Ellis, Björkman, and Öberg break through the opening title card.
  • Juncker, painted as Loris, lectures students on the flea and the war until Loris enters.
  • He is shoved out of the wrong apartments while hunting the aunt's address.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-ljtnant-galenpanna-aka-lieutenant-madcap)

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