Titre anglais : The Most Beautiful Titre original : Die Schönste
Drame – RDA Année de production : 1957 Durée du film : 81 minutes
Réalisateur : Ernesto Remania Livre : Ernesto Remania, Arthur Kuhnert Caméra : Robert Baberske Musique : Manfred Nitschke
Description du film :
Mid-1950s in West Berlin: 13-year-old Thomas Berndorf, son of a businessman, makes friends with Hannes Wille who is the son of a clerk of the works. While Hannes polishes the Mercedes 300 of Thomas’s father, the boys get into a heated discussion about Thomas’s mother Yvonne who appeared in a glossy. While Thomas is enthused about nobody as beautiful as his mother, Hannes thinks the effect is only the expensive neckless she wears. Thomas cannot swallow that. To proof his opinion about the beauty of his mother, he wants to steal the neckless. He talks Hannes into stealing a golden brooch from his mother. A boyish prank and a test of courage as well. On the evening there are celebrations at the two families. Father Wille celebrates his 25th jubilee in his firm, and Alexander Berndorf has invited to a great party with a potential financer. Of course, mother Wille wants to adorn herself with her brooch, but doesn’t mind when it cannot be found. Mister Wiedemann asks his wife to put on her necklace – anyhow an impression of his financial power. A feverish search starts to which the police is called in the end. Thomas cannot put back the necklace. In his desperation, he flees to Hannes and throws the neckless into a parking car. It belongs to fish merchant Krüger who shortly after starts direction Hamburg. In the meantime a scandal threatens at the Berndorfs. The movie was never released, but garbled and still forbidden in 1959 (the wealthy family was ran down, the status of the working class family was enhanced), but reconstructed and first released in 2002. Both versions were aired one after another on TV.