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Lieschen M\u00fcller is the epitome of FRG ordinariness: She lives in small, nondescript Dingskirchen, is an orphan and single, employed by a bank, a regular at lunch in the same diner… you get the drift. One day, a dr. Schmidt appears and makes the charming young lady an offer: he invites her to travel the world with him, on business. Lieschen demurely declines, but when she falls asleep in the office, tired from doing overtime… the film turns from black and white to colour, and early FRG cinema god Helmut K\u00e4utner lets it rip \u2013 all singing, all dancing, in extravagant sets made for a tall tale turning taller and taller by the sprocket hole. Big money! The whole wide world! Wirtschaftswunderland sky high on Martini and Toast Hawaii!<\/span><\/p>\n

Being K\u00e4utner, the master has his cake and gets to eat it too, as The Dream of Lieschen Mueller<\/i> is as much a satire of the dreams and delusions of the FRG in the 50s as it is a nec plus ultra<\/i> of the era’s cinema in all its feel-good splendour. In contrast to many a critic, K\u00e4utner believed that you can delight an audience while telling it a lot of not-so-flattering, even disturbing things. In that sense, The Dream of Lieschen Mueller<\/i> is aesthetically speaking still ahead of its time… <\/span><\/p>\n

Olaf M\u00f6ller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lieschen M\u00fcller is the epitome of FRG ordinariness: She lives in small, nondescript Dingskirchen, is an orphan and single, employed by a bank, a regular at lunch in the same diner… you get the drift. One day, a dr. Schmidt appears and makes the charming young lady an offer: he invites her to travel the… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"featured_media":31078,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31080","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-olaf-moller","filters-subtitles-in-english-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Dream of Lieschen Mueller — Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lieschen M\u00fcller is the epitome of FRG ordinariness: She lives in small, nondescript Dingskirchen, is an orphan and single, employed by a bank, a regular at lunch in the same diner... you get the drift. 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