The crocodile and his hippo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The crocodile and his hippo |
| Original title | Io sto con gli ippopotami |
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| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Italo Zingarelli |
| script |
Barbara Alberti Amedeo Pagani |
| production |
Roberto Palaggi Denver Film Productions |
| music | Walter Rizzati |
| camera | Aiace Parolin |
| cut | Claudio M. Cutry |
| occupation | |
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The crocodile and his hippopotamus (original title: Io sto con gli ippopotami ) is a comedy film from 1979 with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the leading roles. The film is set in Rhodesia , today's Zimbabwe , and shows how the two heroes, despite mutual animosity , prevent a businessman ( Joe Bugner ) from using unscrupulous methods to build a game reserve for safaris . The film opened in German cinemas on December 13, 1979.
action
The main characters of the film are the two cousins "Crocodile" Slim (Terence Hill) and "Hippo" Tom (Bud Spencer). Slim is a globetrotter and bon vivant who campaigns for animals, while Tom, as an entrepreneur, offers safaris for tourists. Slim returns to his hometown after a long absence, where he shoots the car tires on one of his hunting safaris as a "welcome present" to his cousin, whereupon the jeep falls into the water. Upon surfacing, Tom discovers Slim. Tom's joy in seeing each other again is low, he wants to throw Slim out of Mama Leone's house until Slim leads him to believe that he has a greater amount of cash.
Tom immediately senses a shop and tries to persuade Krokodil to buy a safari bus to start a tourist business. Slim agrees, but only on condition that Tom abandons the hunting safaris. Tom organizes a safari trip for Japanese tourists after arrangement with Slim, but distributes rifles with blank cartridges beforehand . During this, Slim shoots the tires of the used bus in order to get paid for new ones by the insurance company. But since Tom did not have the bus insured, the two fight again.
Meanwhile, the speculator Mr. Ormond plans to evict the people of the village in order to build a safari enclosure and have the native animals shipped overseas. He and his gang of thugs act unscrupulously until they meet a crocodile and a hippopotamus . After initial arguments ( very painful for Ormond's lackeys ), Ormond decides to bribe the two of them, but to no avail. So he has them arrested by the state authorities, but here, too, the two know how to free themselves: Slim frees Tom by tearing off the bars in front of the prison with a bulldozer .
In the end, Tom and Slim manage to free the animals as well as to drive away Ormond and his men.
production
Locations
The Denver Film Productions was shot in South Africa . The film was shot near Johannesburg and the animal scenes in a park near Pretoria .
Film music
The music for the film comes from Walter Rizzati . The title song Grau, Grau, Grau was written by Bud Spencer. He sings the song in one version alone and in another with Oliver Onions , who had also sung the title song Flying Through The Air for the film Two Heavenly Dogs on the Way to Hell .
At the end the song Shosholoza is sung, a traditional Rhodesian song.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film says: “New thrashing experiences of the adventure duo Hill / Spencer, this time in the committed fight for nature and big game protection in Africa. Mainly entertainment consisting of fistfighting slapstick. "
The film lexicon of TV-Spielfilm describes the film as a “beating ulcer”, which leaves a “bland aftertaste”.
Awards
The film won the golden screen in 1980 .
DVD and Blu-ray releases
The film was first released on DVD in 2001 by ems new media .
In 2008 a new version with improved image quality was published. ems also used the original version for the first time. Some scenes are therefore in Italian with subtitles. After ems went bankrupt , the DVD was released unchanged by 3L .
The first Blu-ray release on 3L followed in 2014 . The German version was published again and therefore had to fall back on a German cinema copy, which leads to a loss of quality compared to scanning an original negative.
Web links
- I'm for the Hippopotamus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 DVD - It. TV , FSK 6 Marketing - TV Uncut by Das Krokodil und seine Hippopotamus at Schnittberichte.com
- The crocodile and his hippopotamus in the spencer-hill.de database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The crocodile and his hippopotamus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ TV feature film