Chikita
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | When men stand in line |
| Original title | Chikita |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language |
Swiss German German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Suter |
| script | Karl Suter Hans Gmür |
| production |
René Groebli Karl Suter Hans Gmür |
| music | Hans Moeckel |
| camera | Hans-Peter Roth |
| cut | Karl Suter |
| occupation | |
and Alice Brüngger , Gretl Mathis , Sonja Buess , Kurt Brunner , Ulrich Beck | |
Chikita (in Germany: When Men Stand in Line ) is a Swiss feature film from 1961 by Karl Suter with the German Diseuse Hanne Wieder in the title role.
action
The Swiss and brothel owner Chikita Hausmann had to close her establishment in a fictional South American country when a revolution broke out there, which aims to restore alleged morality. She then returns to her old home, where she moves up a similar location in a sleepy small town. While the female population surrenders completely to their moral indignation, the men, especially the middle-aged small-town dignitaries, are in a positive mood and show a very personal interest in this new facility. Chikita, in front of whose brothel (as the German title suggests) the men are soon queuing, proves to be extremely business-minded and clever. She even knows how to reassure worried wives by creating a name for her brothel in which she calls her love bower "Circle for expanding cultural relationships". Soon the sparrows whistle from the rooftops, which “cultural” interaction takes place there, only Philip Sprüngli, a good-natured and somewhat unworldly-naive employee of a real estate company who manages this facility, is completely innocent. Sprüngli, this harmless butterfly hunter with the spirit of a "pure fool", even finds the affection of the manager of the house, because she simply finds his naivety cute.
In the meantime, young people who are enthusiastic about music have set up a jazz cellar in the neighborhood of Chikita's House of Earthly Delights . This has met with some resistance from local officials. Not because they would castigate this music as "youthful" (as officially postulated). Rather, the dignitaries, who are all well over 50 years old and are welcome guests at Madame Chikita, have considerable concern that one or the other pupil might see and recognize his own father when entering or leaving the brothel. Despite the precautionary closure of the jazz shed, it is inevitable that one day the generations will run into each other on site. The scandal would be there ... if the enterprising Chikita didn't have a solution for this too: To avoid future trouble, she offers the city council to buy her location for a decent sum. And this is how it happens: "Customs and decency" return, and Chikita's former brothel is converted into a meeting place for young people. But Chikita herself grabs her Sprüngli and goes back to South America on a butterfly hunt. A new revolution has just restored the old conditions there.
Production notes
Chikita was shot in August and September 1961 and premiered on December 15, 1961 in the Urban Cinema in Zurich. The studio recordings were made in the Salmen film studio in Schlieren, the exterior recordings were made in Locarno, Zurich, Zug, Lucerne and Küsnacht. The German premiere took place on April 27, 1962, the Austrian on February 16 of the same year.
Nino Borghi was responsible for the film construction, Mimi Grelling designed the costumes. Bruno Ganz , here in his second film role, only appears as a jazz enthusiast in a matter of seconds.
The film was banned in the canton of Schwyz in 1962 because of its core statement, which was scourged as "amoral" .
Reviews
"Anti-piquancy for philistines."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "A material that equilibrates on the cutting edge of decency, which despite occasional turbulence (love scenes at a trick pace) is staged leisurely, not presented without self-irony ... and opened."
“Even if this moral comedy, which presents itself as satire, does not slip into the clutter, on the other hand it does not exceed the level of simple pastiche and remains without real persuasive power. The caricatures are applied too thickly to really get under your skin, and the sottisans run into the bigots after the triumphant advance of La dolce vita . The authors are careful not to really scourge the obvious weaknesses of their fellow citizens. "
In the lexicon of international film it says: "What was successful in the dialog-rich mockery of the bourgeois double standards are its ironic punch lines in the satire of the Swiss way of life."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chikita in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chikita. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Chikita in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chikita at filmportal.de