Café Oriental

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Movie
Original title Café Oriental
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Rudolf Schündler
script Janne Furch
production Artur Brauner for Alfa-Film
music Gert Wilden
camera Siegfried Hold
cut Waltraut Wischniewsky
occupation

Café Oriental is a German musical pleasure game created in 1961 with Elke Sommer and the American Jerome Courtland in the leading roles and Trude Herr , Bill Ramsey and Walter Gross in leading roles.

action

Several students from a music college as well as a waiter and a housekeeper have benefited from an unusual inheritance, the Café Allotria. The legacy has only one catch: the café is hopelessly over-indebted. Only the bailiff is a permanent guest at the somewhat shabby and boring club.

The community of heirs has an idea: Why not spice up and renovate the café by offering a music combo that really stirs up the dance-loving audience? The café is being thoroughly renovated and changed, given a Middle Eastern touch and is now called "Café Oriental". The bailiff, an enthusiastic jazz trumpeter, is also involved. Soon the shop will be a hot meeting place for music lovers and dance fans.

After all, the love that develops between the protagonists Sylvia, a classical music student, and Michael, a pop star, as well as Sylvia's housekeeper Valentine and the manager Bill, is not neglected.

production

Filming, production notes

The shooting of Café Oriental took place from November 20 to December 19, 1961 in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau . The buildings come from the hands of Wilhelm Vorwerg (drafts) and Paul Markwitz (execution), Hans Raspotnik was in charge of production. Rudolf Nussgruber assisted director Rudolf Schündler . Lilo Herbeth supervised the choreography .

Gottfried John made his film debut here.

Music track

In addition to Gert Wilden's music , the following tracks were played:

The lyrics are by Ralph Maria Siegel , Peter Ström , Hans-Arno Simon , Aldo von Pinelli .

publication

The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 16, 1962, and in Finland under the same title on June 15, 1962. It was also released under the title Tragoudia, erotas kai neiata (Τραγούδια, έρωτας και νειάτα) in Greece.

Reviews

“Really too 'funny' how fat Trude Herr plops into the bubble bath in a ball gown. To 'scream' like Walter Gross bites into the cigar instead of the sausage. Really a 'joke' what the uncharming Elke Sommer and her tree-long partner Jerome Courtland offer as vocals. The only bright spot in the long, cheap show: Gus Backus. Rudolf Schündler staged the potpourri as striking evidence of the disrepute of German entertainment films. "

- Hamburger Abendblatt from July 28, 1962

In Films 1962/64 the following can be read: "The colored pictures are the only thing worth mentioning about this German production, which is more boring than refreshing."

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Undemanding musical pleasure game, whose shallow plot is only supposed to bring the hits of the season to the man."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Films 1962/64. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 30
  2. ^ Café Oriental. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used