Title: Das glück wohnt nebenan
Authors: Pinelli, Aldo von, 1913-1967,; Marischka, Hubert,
Publisher: germanwarfilms.com,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ribbentrop, Joachim von,; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; DVD-Video discs.; Prisoners; World War, 1939-1945 Propaganda.; World politics; Aerial reconnaissance; Propaganda, German.; War criminals Germany; Tank warfare Germany; Nazis Germany.; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Poland.; Infantry.; Battles; Nazi propaganda.; Man-woman relationships; National socialism; Gdańsk (Poland); Germany Foreign relations
Abstract: This dvd contains two films produced in Germany during the Nazi era, a newsreel and Das Glück Wohnt Nebenan. The newsreel, is an UFA production which might have played in front of the feature film. It begins with footage of a regatta on the Rhine complete with miniature destroyers. Then to a military parade of Hungarian and Italian troops. The newsreel then moves on to the situation on the Eastern front as ethnic Germans flee the city of Danzig. Refugees are shown arriving in buses and receiving a meal from a soup kitchen. Given the history of the Holocaust, it is difficult not to compare these images of the treatment of displaced Germans with images of the treatment of Jews, Gypsies and Slavs by the German war machine. In the feature film, Das Glück Wohnt Nebenan, the seamstresses Franzi and Mizzi have opened up a small shop in a suburb of Vienna. Mizzi thinks that her friend would have a much better life if she would only marry Karl, the son of the landlord, who has been pursuing her for quite some time. One day, an excited woman bursts into their shop, tears off her clothes and begs the girls to act as if they are fitting her for a new dress. A few moments later the woman's jealous husband appears. He has been following her and is pleased to see that she is buying clothes and not meeting with her lover.