Coconuts (1985)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Coconuts - Always trouble with the coal |
| Original title | Coconuts |
| Country of production | FRG , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Novotny |
| script | Franz Novotny |
| production |
Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs ) Roxy Film ( Luggi Waldleitner ) Epo-Film ( Dieter Pochlatko ) |
| music | Rainhard Fendrich |
| camera | Frank Bruhne |
| cut | Michou Hutter |
| occupation | |
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Coconuts - Always Trouble with Coal (Austrian original title: Coconuts ) is a German-Austrian action adventure comedy from 1985. In addition to Olivia Pascal , Mario Adorf and Hanno Pöschl, the musician Rainhard Fendrich appeared in a feature film for the first time and provided the theme song.
action
The truck driver Grein removes worthless boxes from his load on the way. He is the henchman of the big fraudster Siemann, who cheats insurance and logistics companies. When the police arrested and took Siemann away from his property in Austria , he managed to get his hands on a weapon, set two police cars on fire and outsmarted the majority of officers. Grein appears, takes advantage of the confusion and seizes two plastic bags full of money that Siemann has hidden. He falls into a pool where the beautiful Vera is bathing. They come through the police line where Vera harpooned a tanker truck with a burning arrow and detonated it. Then Grein calls his friend Bosch, an unemployed actor who is currently fighting a law enforcement officer. Bosch picks them up.
Grein and Bosch immediately put the investigators into the net and end up in prison. After being released, Grein discovered photos of Vera in a men's magazine, which Bosch knows lives in Italy. To get there, they mislead an orchestra at the train station and get their tickets. The gay Bosch hopes to conquer Grein, who rejects his advances. In Sicily they search in vain for Vera for months until the landlord throws them out because of outstanding payments. By chance they recognize Vera in a car. She lives with Siemann on an estate. Grein wants to demand the money he is claiming from Siemann, but Siemann persuades the two of them to take part in a bank robbery. The fact that Grein and Vera deal with each other makes Bosch desperate because he wants to win Grein over. Vera manages to seduce Bosch, who likes her. The two men find out that Vera is Siemann's daughter and now live with her in a ménage à trois . The robbery on a bank and minutes later on a money transporter is followed by a curse and shooting with the Carabinieri. To distract them from his daughter, Siemann races into a canal with the car. Grein, Bosch and Vera escape to Paraguay . In the military dictatorship they are mistaken for communists and put in a torture prison. After a sham execution they have to fly with the commandant, who drops them with parachutes over the jungle so that they can plant coconuts there.
Production notes
The jungle sequences were shot in Lobau , the sea sequences in Yugoslavia near Pula . The German premiere was on February 1, 1985.
Reviews
The cinema was the film "noisy, chaotic, filthy", but said that there were worse. For the Fischer Film Almanach , the "undemanding story" was meant to be "shrill and weird - but just a trace off the mark". According to film-dienst , the film has nothing to tell, lacks originality and uses common genre elements. You find "all imaginable cynical jokes and stale nonsense".
Web links
- Coconuts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Coconuts at filmportal.de