Please let the flowers live
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Please let the flowers live |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Duccio Tessari |
| script | Joachim Hammann |
| production |
Luggi Waldleitner Ilse Kubaschewski Karl Spiehs |
| music | Frank Duval |
| camera | Charly Steinberger |
| cut | Hannes Nikel |
| occupation | |
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Please let the flowers live is a German feature film from 1986 based on the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel . Under the direction of the Italian Duccio Tessari played klausjürgen wussow the lead role.
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The Parisian star attorney Charles Duhamel is as respected as he is successful, but also has quite few scruples. To make matters worse, he is also married to the abandoned ex-actress Yvonne, a quarrelsome, spent woman whose best friend has become the well-filled bottle of alcohol out of frustration. When he went on a business trip to Vienna, he only barely survived an airplane accident at the Schwechat airport. The machine breaks apart on the ground and catches fire. Many of the occupants on board are killed. Duhamel quickly sees this catastrophe as an opportunity to start a new, different and, above all, a better life: away from his quarrelsome old woman, the well-trodden paths in Paris and the hamster wheel of his strenuous job. He has enough money and his bank account in Switzerland is full. First of all, Charles Duhamel had Eisenbeiss, the experienced passport forger, prepare new papers for him.
The Frenchman Charles Duhamel is now the German Peter Kent. His path leads him from Vienna to Hamburg. There he met the amiable bookseller Andrea Rosner, a young woman who, in her modesty, straightforwardness and gentleness, is the complete opposite of his bitter, quarrelsome wife. Andrea, a truly angelic being who likes to read books to needy migrant children in her business, promises a new love, a new happiness in Duhamel's previously poor life. In the Hanseatic city, Duhamel / Kent soon looked into a single human abyss, into a social vortex of "murder and millions, ... redevelopment gangsters and Turkish children, human friends and blackmailers". But his modest, new friend Andrea, whose book business means everything to her, is plagued by two serious problems. A nasty construction speculator with a pimp past is targeting the store and is giving her hell. Only in the old grandpa Langenau did she find support in the fight against this fat Mr. Reining. And Andreas cute, little, big-eyed daughter Patty has been physically disabled since an accident that seriously injured her legs and has been stalking through life with a bulky leg brace ever since.
Duhamel, who has been transformed from Saul to Paul, promises to help wherever he can. In his new existence as Peter Kent and with Andrea at his side, who does him heartily, he went through a veritable catharsis in no time at all. With his money he first buys the book business to secure Andrea's existence and promises to enable the urgently needed and only helping operation on Patty's legs in Boston. But things are not quite as simple as expected. The building speculator continues to cause trouble, and to top it all off, an old "friend" from his Parisian days turns up at Duhamel: It is the former business partner Jean Balmont who has identified Duhamel's new existence and is now putting Charles under massive pressure. In order to get rid of the blackmailer and put an end to his past in order to build a new existence with Andrea and Patty, Duhamel decides to return to Paris and clean the table there.
In a scuffle with the armed Balmont, however, a shot is fired that kills the former friend. Now Charles is suspected of murder because he has no witnesses for his version. Yvonne, on the other hand, has in the meantime first got ground under her feet and secondly a new role as an actress. She caught herself and released Charles. Relieved and relieved of all worries, he hurries back to his Hamburg girlfriend. Luck seems perfect when Reining's speculation gangsters run over Andrea, who is unwilling to sell, and who loses her life in the process. Now all that remains for the inconsolable Charles alias Peter is little Patty, who returns from the USA cured after an operation and conjures a smile on the grief-stricken face of the inconsolable quasi-widower in the orphaned bookstore.
Production notes
Please let the flowers live was created between April 7th and June 27th 1986 in Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Munich and the surrounding area. The premiere took place on September 25, 1986. The German television first broadcast took place on May 27, 1989 on ARD .
The film structures were designed by Peter Rothe , while Karl Baumgartner provided the pyrotechnic special effects .
The criticism unanimously condemned the film (see below) and criticized the continued surreptitious advertising (including for the cigarette brand "Lord extra" and the champagne manufacturer Moët) beyond the purely craftsmanship and content .
Reviews
“There is also a worst-case scenario in the Hain der Fine Arts. Now we can say we were there. (...) The plant acts as the average of the year on its own. (...) It is reported that the director of the whole thing, the Italian Duccio Tessari, always wore a red carnation in his buttonhole when shooting. That's the good news. The bad: nothing of that can be seen in the film. Cozy and lelouchy , boutique-like and childish-heroic, the thing drags itself along; the composer Frank Duval, the sugar beet, squeezes out and dousers the misery: respected actors are dope. "Resist the beginners" is actually the motto of the old branch. Tessari is 60. "
“This film is embarrassing, to use the economically favored word. Unfortunately, it's a dull and discouraged, not a shrill embarrassment that would at least secure the film a place among the contenders for a Golden Turkey . How did it come about? The first thing that is embarrassing is the literary original. Not measured by any art of storytelling, but by the more or less solid craft on the one hand and the cultural climate on the other. (…) Duccio Tessari was brought from Italy to film this novel, which has lagged behind the zeitgeist. He has no idea how embarrassing Simmel's novel must actually be for the Germans. He took the whole thing at its word instead of taking countermeasures somewhere, and divided the Simmel cosmos into three narrative forms that he knows: an average "giallo" ..., a social fairy tale (a Hamburg bookstore that looks like something from a RAI children's program in which Strangely enough, once there is no talking dog) and finally a photo novel (which includes static images, a terrific-ridiculous make-up technique and comic dialogues). In order to hold the whole thing together, Tessari resorted to the advertising film aesthetic that nobody wants to see anymore. Not even in advertising anymore. (...) Luggi Waldleitner has made a film that once again proves the universality of the provincial. "
"Perfect colportage about love, suffering and happiness, maudlinly prepared and staged without ambition."
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel, 39/1986. P. 241
- ↑ Please let the flowers live in the Lexicon of International Films
Web links
- Please let the flowers live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Please let the flowers live at filmportal.de