De vier Mullers

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Summary

Comedy about a father-son conflict set in a family business.

Several generations of Mullers are fighting each other in this complex story about a family business whose main branch is about to go belly-up. De vier Mullers is the Dutch version of an Austrian comedy titled Alles für die Firma (1935) and is a so-called 'simultaneous production', meaning that is was shot both in Dutch and German in the Schönbrunn studios in Vienna but with different actors.

The role of the young Otto Mulder is played by the not uncontroversial Johan Heesters whose career took off in Germany during the 1930s and continued throughout the Second World War. Born in 1903, Heesters is one of the world's oldest performing artist.

Information

original title
De vier Mullers
production year
1935
censorship date
02-03-1935
release date
29-03-1935
country
Netherlands
category
Fictional
director
original distributor
production company

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Cast

Actor

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Technical notations

runtime
90 min / Archival print: 85
language
Dutch
original length
2451
censorship length
2451
sound
Sound
colour
Black & White
format
35mm
acts
4

Resources

Kathinka Dittrich, Achter het doek: Immigranten in de Nederlandse speelfilm in de jaren dertig, Houten (1987), p. 128

Centrale Commissie van de Filmkeuring (Nationaal Archief; C527)

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