Sommer i Tyrol (1964)
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Cast
Dirch Passer, Susse Wold, Ove Sprogøe, Karl Stegger, Lone Hertz, Peter Malberg
At an Alpine hotel, a head waiter’s unspoken love for its proprietor becomes tangled with a visiting manufacturer and a string of misunderstandings.
The story
At the Alpine hotel “The White Horse” by Lake Wolfgang, proprietor Josepha is loved by her head waiter, Leopold, who feels unable to act because of their employment relationship. Josepha, meanwhile, is in love with regular guest Sigismund, an elegant manufacturer and self-described charmer. She believes the roses she receives each day are from him, though Leopold is their real source. The arrival of Julius Müller, a rival manufacturer, and his daughter Klärchen disrupts the hotel’s usual routine when they are assigned Sigismund’s customary room. Their presence and the romantic misunderstandings that follow threaten to make Leopold’s already difficult feelings even harder to manage.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
It takes place at the Alpine hotel “The White Horse” by Lake Wolfgang. The hotel’s proprietor is Josepha Maria Gabriela Vogelhuber (Susse Wold). The head waiter, Leopold Ulrich Joachim Brandmeyer (Dirch Passer), is in love with Josepha, but because of their employment relationship, he cannot act on his feelings. The elegant manufacturer Sigismund Sülzheimer (Ove Sprogøe), whom Josepha is in love with, is a regular guest. He is quite a ladies’ man (“You can’t help having charm”). Josepha thinks the roses she receives every day are from Sigismund, but they are from Leopold. Meanwhile, the manufacturer Julius Müller (Karl Stegger) and his daughter Klara/Klärchen (Lone Hertz) also arrive, and are given the room Sigismund usually occupies. Since the two manufacturers are bitter rivals in the men’s underwear market, this causes problems, which are only resolved when Sigismund sees the beautiful Klärchen. A series of misunderstandings makes things worse for Leopold, who is fired. He trudges dejectedly down to the village, where he discovers that Emperor Franz Joseph (Peter Malberg) is on his way and will be staying at “The White Horse.” Leopold returns to tell them, whereupon Josepha has to beg him to be rehired, which she succeeds in doing. The Emperor tells Josepha that many years ago he was in love with her grandmother, and gives her some good advice that opens her eyes. At the same time, she realizes that Sigismund is in love with Klärchen, and she sees Leopold in a new light. Leopold once again misunderstands the situation and gets ready to leave. He asks for an entry to be written in his employment reference book, and when he reads Josepha’s recommendation, he realizes it is a proposal of marriage.
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