在德皇威廉二世统治时期的科佩尼科小镇，一个名叫福克特的人，为了出国谋生，涂改、偷窃护照入狱。出狱后为了找到工作他不得不挺而走险，冒充上尉并带领士兵包围了市政府，还绑架了市长官员，希望能得到一张护照，结果他的希望落空了，又一次入狱。当他从监狱出来时却成了赫赫有名的“科佩尼克上尉”。

在德国的的确确能感受到他们对一些传统文化，或者说传统习俗的维护（也难怪，社会体制n年延续的必然结果），比如下面要介绍的这部电影Die Feuerzangenbowle（火钳酒）。看时是被同学拖去的，出来后发现确实体验到了德国的文化。据说每年圣诞前学校都会放映这部片子，学生宿舍也有，甚至电视台也不例外。（具体情况请看此帖第５７楼：
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在网上看到有人这样评价：“一部超过５０年的电影有如此魔力让学生们看上一遍又一遍。电影成功的秘密在于，任何人都会怀念校园时光——除了那辛苦的学习。回忆那段时光无疑让我们感到快乐，看这部电影也会。撇开这些因素，电影中的幽默是不会过时的，当然还有演员们出色的演出。许多人看了一遍又一遍，几乎能说出每句台词，大家一起看时，简直就象一出Rocky Horror Picture Show。所有人一起跟着角色念对白，还带着闹钟，蜡烛，手电筒，并在适当的时候拿出它们。”“如果要找一部真正关于德国文化的电影（culture movie），它就是了。”电影火钳酒的介绍
火钳酒一名出自１９３３年的同名小说，由集评论家、剧作家和歌舞剧作家一身的Hans Reimann与Heinrich Spoerl一同发表。其后被翻拍过多次，其中又以这部１９４４年的版本最为人所知。
电影以同名小说的引言作为开头：“Dieser Film ist ein Loblied auf die Schule, aber es ist möglich, daß die Schule es nicht merkt。”——本片是一曲赞美学校的颂歌，但可能学校不知道这是赞颂他们的。（突然让我想到了看Producer介绍，某人说，这个不是贬Bway，相反是赞颂Bway的制作人）
关于电影
正如名字一样，在小说和电影的开头都是朋友们围坐在火钳酒前，讲述过去校园时光。年轻有为的作家Johannes Pfeiffer很嫉妒朋友们能在学校经历那么多有趣的事情。而他自己是受家庭教师辅导，从未上过学。于是，他决定打扮成一个学生，体验一下几周“真正的”校园生活。在学校他把老师们， Crey，Schnauz，Bömmel和校长Knauer耍的团团转。女朋友Marion 来劝他回去。起初他答应了，但是最终还是决定留下。他还爱上了校长的女儿Eva。在最后，他故意让自己被开除，而老师和同学也知道了他的真实身份。
Heinrich Spoerl的儿子Alexander在回忆录中写到了关于此书的由来，可能是由于因为他的捣蛋，所以父亲要经常给学校写信。因此，Alexander必须如实报告在学校的那些恶作剧。这部回忆录混合了自传和虚构，尽管在时间上与书出版年代吻合，但还是无法确定是否这就是该书的由来。
电影版本
1934年版，最初的版本，后来的男主角Heinz Rühmann也参演了，但是演的确实Pfeiffer的弟弟，故事情节也有稍许不同。
1944年版，目前为止公认最好的一版，据说是在二战期间，冒着盟军轰炸在柏林附近完成。
1970年版，反响不大，笑料也不及前两部的出众。
戏剧
2004年，舞台版的火钳酒在Düsseldorf-Bilk演出。接下来在Neu-Isenburg还会有音乐剧版本的首演。
2006年秋起，火钳酒在Coburg的Landestheater演出

This old austrian-czech stories provided the story for the 'honest' soldier Schwejk, who arranges life to his own, not honest, but 'honest'. This movie gives an insight of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy with its many ethnies and attitudes before WW 1. Rühmann starres charming and smiling, like in other movies.

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lived above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Had some unfavourable reviews, but it's a movie, it's make believe and it's fun. (Bamboo)

Wealthy inn proprietor Adlgasser supports his daughter Hansi and her husband Paul who is a composer with a loan, so he would be able to earn his living with a "real" profession. But instead investing in a big farm, the young couple decided to spend the money for the production of a new operetta he is writing. The husband's friend Peter helps them pretending that Paul is the owner by sending farm products to the inn. But when the quality of the products are becoming low-grade, their father gets suspicious and decides to visit the estate to have a look upon of what is going on there. At the same time Peter's aunt Adele is going to visit her nephew the farm owner to look after the progress he has made to marry his sweetheart. After arrival Paul is introduced as the custodian and Hansi as just married wife of Peter to aunt Adele and vice versa Peter as custodian the the father-in-law. How will this mess end up?

Professional race driver David and the owner of a plantation on island Java Filip – bosom friends. For the sake of strong friendship they have sworn each other that will never fall in love and look after the same girl. Once, during the next transatlantic swimming, Filip gets acquainted with blond Violoj who thirsts to marry and tries to receive from it a declaration of love. But Filip is afraid of marriage and evades the question. Having stepped into a land, the planter unexpectedly learns that its friend David in spite of the fact that it is betrothed with beauty Gabi, has taken notice of Violu and periodically visits its smart apartment. After serious conversation guys decide that they should stop all meetings with the maiden differently to their friendship “kaput”, but Viola adheres to other sights at the future and does everything to arrange the happiness…

Als naiver aber stets korrekter Buchhalter plagt Pipin die Eifersucht. Seine Frau hat offenbar ein Verhältnis mit einem Sänger, der zur Untermiete bei ihnen wohnt. So bleibt es nicht aus, dass er in seiner Nervosität einem Geldboten 300 Mark zuviel auszahlt. Als er den Fehler bemerkt, ist es zu spät. Pipin fürchtet um seinen gutbürgerlichen Ruf und seinen Arbeitsplatz und setzt alle Hebel in Bewegung, um das Geld zurückzubekommen. Unbeholfen und planlos, wie er dabei vorgeht, steht er schon bald im Mittelpunkt eines inszenierten öffentlichen Skandals um eine prominente Sängerin und hat nun alle Hände voll zu tun auch noch seine von seiner Unschuld überzeugen zu müssen. Denn die erfährt von der vermeidlichen Affäre ihres Mannes aus der Zeitung...

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.