Bonditis
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bonditis |
| Original title | Bonditis, or The Horrible and Terrible Adventures of an Almost Normal Person |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Suter |
| script | Karl Suter |
| production | Hans-Peter Roth |
| music | Werner Kruse |
| camera | Hans-Peter Roth Freddy Knubel Renato Faccinetto |
| cut | Herbert Egli |
| occupation | |
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Bonditis is a 1966 Swiss agent film parody by Karl Suter with Gerd Baltus in the leading role.
action
Frank Born is a small employee who is so enthusiastic about the novels and films about the British super agent James Bond that it causes a psychosis in him, the so-called "bonditis". Born in his dreams and fantasies has long seen himself as the second Bond and is therefore sent to a secluded Swiss mountain village for a cure. But there his madnesses and dreams become reality, and Born gets caught up in the mills of international secret services. Now the agent can reluctantly show what he has learned from his great role model in Great Britain. His opponents are not just Soviet and Chinese agents who are in fierce competition with one another. Many a seductive woman who crosses his path there seems to be after his wellbeing.
Soon the innocent and peaceful bachelor who is innocent and peaceful at the core of his being, whom everyone thinks is the real, one and only and true Mr. 007, no longer knows who he can actually trust if it weren't for the seductive Hata Sari, not just nominally about Mata Hari ajar, who knows how to handle her weapons and stands by his side. Of course there must also be an object of (international agent) desire, and like in many other agent films, it is also a highly secret and extremely important microfilm here, for which the international spy crowd fights down to the knife. Ironically, the somewhat dumb Born, Frank Born, seems to have managed to get hold of him.
Production notes
The film was made from July to October 1966 in Graubünden with a German-Swiss cast. The world premiere took place on April 25, 1967 in Vienna as part of the Festival of Humor. The Swiss premiere was on August 25, 1967 in the Zurich Rex cinema. Bonditis could be seen in Germany from March 1, 1968.
The film plays with the hype surrounding the James Bond films and also reflects the fears of Western societies of Soviet spies and, at the time of the Cultural Revolution (1966), the “yellow danger”, the Chinese.
The Swiss acting veteran Zarli Carigiet gave his farewell performance here with a small role in the movie.
Bonditis came about with the help of Suter's brother Gody Suter (Zurich 1919 - New York 1984), a journalist and novelist. Although it was lavishly produced with well-known actors in Technoscope and Technicolor, the film was a huge box office flop that put Karl Suter's film career to an abrupt end.
criticism
In the lexicon of international film it says: "Partly funny and imaginative, in the second part not very stylish and slipping into slapstick parody of agent films."
Cinema-Online comes to the following conclusion: "Strange fun about the Bond hype of the 60s".
Web links
- Bonditis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film. Feature films 1896–1965 . P. 541
- ↑ Bonditis. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Bonditis on cinema.de