Alma can do it all
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Alma can do it all |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Konrad Petzold |
| script | Konrad Petzold Werner Bernhardy |
| production |
Siegfried Kabitzke for DEFA on behalf of DDR television |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Siegfried Hönicke |
| cut | Karin Kusche |
| occupation | |
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Alma creates all is a German comedy film directed by Konrad Petzold from 1980.
action
Alma and Dr. Otto Kröpelin say goodbye to nephew Heinz and his wife Jana at the airport, who are going to Africa for two years. Her son Jan stays with Alma and Otto. Jana's parents Novak are too late and only see the plane departing. The Novaks promise to go on vacation to Alma in Groß-Klückow in summer.
Summer is approaching and Jan is eagerly waiting for mail from his parents. They promised their son they would catch a lion for him. In fact, one day Otto received a telegram that a box had arrived for him from Africa that he could pick up in the port of Rostock . With Alma, who has just got her driver's license and is pushing because she would like to drive, as well as Jan and his kindergarten teacher Rosi Schröder, it's off to Rostock. In Warnemünde, Alma invites everyone to dinner at the noble Hotel Neptun , where waiter Hannes Felix lets them in despite the missing table reservation. He pretends that guests with children are always preferred, but in reality has his eye on Rosi. Both flirt after dinner while Otto and Alma receive the box from Africa: There is a boa constrictor inside and both are horrified, especially since they already have Jan in front of their eyes, who will mistake the snake for a cuddly toy. They decide not to tell Jan about the snake.
Back in Groß-Klückow, the Rostock drivers are already expected by Jan's grandparents, the Novaks. You went on vacation a week earlier than planned, because the snake is not intended for the Kröpelins, but for Mr. Novak's terrarium. Actually, they wanted to warn the Kröpelins by phone, but when no one answered the phone, they preferred to go straight away. The snake is staying with farmer Krischan Hahnemann for the time of its vacation, who is now doing everything possible not to have to feed any of his rabbits to the snake. Smaller incidents - Jan finds out about the snake and can stand unobserved at the cage before Grandpa Novak saves him - bigger ones follow, so Alma wanted to play Cupid again. She actually wants to couple Rosi with the new vet in the village, Herbert Groll, who is only interested in his doctoral thesis. She overlooks the fact that her foster daughter Ilona secretly loves Herbert. Rosi, in turn, has taken a liking to Hannes and Agnes supports love until she learns from Ilona that Hannes is a womanizer. Once he left her standing in front of the altar. With Ilona's help, Agnes tries to expose him. Ilona dresses up and looks for Hannes in the Hotel Neptun. She wants to confront him and Agnes appears as if by chance. However, Hannes manages to master the situation. First he wants to explain everything to Rosi, who has already been warned about Hannes by various villagers. But it doesn't come to that because Ilona intercepts him on the way to Rosi. They drive to Neptun, where Ilona checks in for one night. Hannes secretly steals her money and goes on vacation to Groß-Klückow. Ilona cannot pay the next day and waits for Agnes to take over from her. She forgot her money and Herbert, who was called for help, cannot help out either because he has pocketed Czech money in the excitement. Meanwhile, Hannes has gone to the village festival in Groß-Klückow to speak to Rosi, but all women in the village actively prevent him from getting to her. In the end, Hannes manages to tell at least Otto about the context at the time. He wanted to take a taxi to the registry office, but the driver turned out to be an earlier love affair who refused to drive him to his wedding and after a while simply threw him out of the car on a country road. When he returned to Ilona, she was already gone.
On Otto's advice, Hannes clears up the situation in Neptune. Alma fell asleep in the hotel and is woken up by the receptionist that Ilona's bill has been paid. In the meantime, Ilona and Herbert have gone to the beach, but it is overcrowded. Only in the evening does Alma find the two of them kissing in a beach chair in their arms. Night has also fallen in Groß-Klückow. The village festival made grandpa Novak and Krischan Hahnemann upset because their wives danced with Hannes all the time. In revenge, both men put the boa in his car. The two drunken men forget to close the door and so the boa escapes overnight. The next morning, Ms. Hahnemann found her on her doorstep. Grandpa Novak and Krischan Hahnemann believe that the boa ate Hannes and the Alma who joins them regrets it, because Hannes was the right man for Rosi. Rosi is relieved to hear that, as Hannes actually spent the whole night with her. A little later there is a double wedding: Rosi marries Hannes and Ilona marries Herbert. And Jan can be happy too, as his mother Jana came to visit from Africa for the occasion.
production
Alma creates all is after critters from 1977 and Oh, this aunt in 1978, the third film about Aunt Alma, played by Agnes Kraus. From 1979 it was shot in the DEFA studio for feature films in Berlin as well as in Rostock and Warnemünde . One of the filming locations is the Hotel Neptun , where Hannes works as a waiter. The costumes created Dorit Gründel that Filmbauten come from Klaus Winter .
The first broadcast of the film took place on May 1st, 1980 in the first program of the GDR television. In 2011 it was released on DVD as part of Icestorm's DDR TV Archive series .
criticism
The film service called Alma creates a "fun comedy with the Berlin folk actress Agnes Kraus, shot for GDR television". For TV Spielfilm , the film was a "popular series reference".
Web links
- Alma all creates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alma manages all of them at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alma can do them all. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de