Conny and Peter make music

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Movie
Original title Conny and Peter make music
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Werner Jacobs
script Karl Georg Külb
Werner Jacobs
production Luggi Waldleitner
for melody film
music Werner Scharfenberger
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Heinz Haber
occupation

Conny and Peter Make Music is a German hit film by Werner Jacobs from 1960.

action

Summer on Lake Maggiore : after a bicycle accident, young Conny is taken a bit by the likeable convertible driver Peter because she has to go to the classy Splendide Hotel. Conny thinks Peter is wealthy, while Peter suspects her to be a hotel guest. In reality, Peter is only a waiter in the Osteria run by Wirt Grossi , where Baroness Sandberg, among others, is a frequent guest. Conny, on the other hand, is the niece of Hotel Director Trautmann, but is currently training as a chambermaid. Trautmann doesn't want their relatives to be known, because Conny should be treated like any other employee.

Conny and Peter soon discover each other's true identity. When Peter von Grossi is fired because he cares too much about his female guests, Conny wants to put in a good word for Peter with Uncle Trautmann. However, he has completely different worries than hiring another waiter: The Miss Europe election is due to be held in his hotel shortly and the preparations are chaotic. In addition, the guests' valuable jewelry has been disappearing for a short time and the thief has not yet been exposed. Hotel detective Mägerli proves to be incompetent and so Trautmann calls on a professional from Zurich . Conny reverses the request and instead introduces her uncle to the enthusiastic hobby detective Peter as the Swiss specialist. For the sake of simplicity, Peter should go to the investigation disguised as a waiter.

Initially, the research was unsuccessful. Since Peter and Mägerli don't know each other, they suspect each other of stealing. When Mägerli is transported in the trunk into the room of the chubby ex-Miss North Sea through several unfortunate circumstances, she gets a screaming fit. Mägerli is arrested by Peter, which in the end leads Trautmann to believe in Peter's inability.

Together with Conny, Peter is finally on the right track. In front of the hotel they heard the characteristic whistling whistle, to which the baroness Ingrid Sandberg, who lives in the hotel, reacted. In order to convict the Baroness and Grossi of theft, they both develop a sophisticated surveillance system and Conny actually sees Grossi in front of the hotel and Peter catches the Baroness secretly rummaging through someone else's hotel room. When he wants to pose, she hides the jewelry in a flower vase and accuses Peter of robbery when he takes her jewelry as supposedly stolen. Peter is arrested and interrogated by the police. Conny acts alone. She watches over the baroness, who hides the jewelry in her jewelry box and wants to leave the hotel. When Conny opens the box, the baroness escapes with the jewelry bag and secretly mingles with the beauty queens. The released Peter can attract Grossi with the characteristic whistle and overwhelm them together with Conny. The baroness, fleeing from her pursuers and carrying the stolen jewelry, also falls into the trap of the two whistling youths. The case is solved. As a thank you, Peter receives a three-year contract as a waiter at the Splendide, while Conny is finally given a convertible.

production

Conny and Peter make music was shot in Lugano - so the lake where Froboess sings her Lago Maggiore is by no means this, but Lago di Lugano . The Hotel Splendide Royal served as the backdrop. The film had its world premiere on August 11, 1960 in the Gloria-Palast in Stuttgart . After Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter , it was the second film collaboration between Cornelia Froboess and Peter Kraus .

Various hits are sung in the film, some of them repeated. The music comes from Werner Scharfenberger, with the "Conny" songs being written by Charly Niessen and Gerhard Froboess .

  • Cornelia Froboess: Lake Maggiore
  • Cornelia Froboess: Boy, make music
  • Cornelia Froboess and Peter Kraus : Tell me what you think
  • Peter Kraus: Va Bene
  • Peter Kraus: Cowboy Jenny
  • Trude Herr : I'm always tired in the morning

For the first time, Cornelia Froboess and Peter Kraus could not only be heard in a film in a duet, but also on record. For their first film, Wenn die Conny and Peter, the record companies Electrola (Froboess) and Polydor (Kraus) could not agree on a release of the duets and therefore had them sing for the record with new duet partners, Tell me what you think now for the first time distributed by both record companies in the same recording in parallel.

criticism

The film papers wrote in 1960 that "the joyful singing comedy [...] arranged by the director to be undemanding but playful [...] a light comedy, harmless-nice."

The lexicon of international films called Conny and Peter making music a "slapstick film for teenagers".

For Cinema , the film was “easy warbling fun with the hit dream couple”.

literature

  • Conny and Peter make music . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , pp. 154-155.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duet duel . In: Der Spiegel , No. 39, 1960, pp. 91-92.
  2. ↑ HC in: Filmblätter , 1960. quoted. after Conny and Peter make music . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 155.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 573.
  4. ↑ See cinema.de