The moon calf

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Movie
German title The moon calf
Original title Way ... Way Out!
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gordon Douglas
script William Bowers ,
László Vadnay
production Malcolm Stuart
music Lalo Schifrin
camera William H. Clothier
cut Hugh S. Fowler
occupation
synchronization

The moon calf (Original title: Way… Way Out!) Is an American science fiction comedy from 1966 with Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens in the lead roles. The German premiere took place on December 20, 1966.

action

In 1989 there was peace on earth. A scandal on the moon shakes relations between the US and the USSR . The Soviets complain that the weather nauts of the American lunar weather station harassed the Soviet cosmonaut Anoushka, who works in the Soviet lunar station. The two Americans Hoffman and Schmidlap, who were isolated in their lunar weather station for a year, went completely nuts because of their separation from the female sex.

To avoid further incidents, Harold Quonset, head of the American space agency NAWA, wants to send a married couple to the station. When the chosen couple falls out and refuses to travel, the idiot, unmarried Peter Mattemore is selected. Mattemore, who has so far successfully avoided any real mission, is to marry a qualified colleague within three days in order to fly with her to the moon. His choice falls on the handsome Eileen Forbes, who initially refuses, especially since Peter has a very dodgy reputation. In the end she decides to marry him because she really wants to go to the moon.

After a lightning wedding in the elevator, they fly to the moon and take over from their colleagues, who have since gone completely crazy. Already on the first evening there was an argument because she refused to sleep in the same bed. This would break their agreement (a marriage of convenience). But no sooner have they laid down than the Soviet cosmonaut Anoushka Slobovna appears at the American station and asks for shelter in order to annoy her partner Igor Baklanikov. Anoushka, who is very provocative, wants to get Igor to marry so that she is no longer just a partner.

When Igor shows up at the station, a wild Russian party begins with lots of instant vodka and uninhibited trading. When the Mattemores awoke 36 hours later, completely hungover, they learned that the Russians may have sabotaged the station because the Cold War has rekindled on Earth . When Igor comes back to the station to check on the sleeping Anoushka, Peter knocks him out. When the crisis turns out to be a false alarm, the Mettemores unleash the unconscious Igor again in order to save the situation.

While Igor and Anoushka are in bed, she tells him that she is pregnant. Igor agrees to marry her after all. While the Soviet Union is celebrating, the American side is depressed as the Russians have overtaken them in this regard too. Eileen lies and says that she is pregnant too and for as long as Anoushka. When the Americans celebrate too, Peter realizes that this cannot be true. Eileen, who advised Anoushka to swindle Igor, knows, of course, that neither of them is pregnant. But since she has really fallen in love with Peter (since he was ready to fight for her at the party), she is also ready to be really with him. In the end, both couples try to outdo each other to have the first moon child.

synchronization

The synchronization took place by Berliner Synchron GmbH under the direction of Klaus von Wahl .

actor speaker role
Connie Stevens Ursula Heyer Eileen Forbes
Dennis Weaver Rolf Schult Hoffman
Dick Shawn Rainer Brandt Igor Valkleinokov
Jerry Lewis Horst Gentzen Peter Mattemore
Robert Morley Erich Fiedler Harold Quonset
Anita Ekberg Herta Kravina Anna Soblova

criticism

Kino.de summed up: “All in all, the film is pleasing with its sixties look and 'Austin Powers' -worthy humor and extremely sexy appearances by Connie Stevens and Anita Ekberg. Dick Shawn also convinces with a Russian accent as Lewis' Russian space colleague. "The lexicon of the international film judged on the other hand:" Tough space and bedroom slam set in 1994 with rather unsuccessful socio-critical approaches. " Cinema.de sees it similarly:" Full of clutter uptight sex jokes [...] is one of the weakest films by the comedian [Jerry Lewis]. ”The Protestant film observer succinctly described the flick as“ acceptable entertainment ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The moon calf. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 20, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Film review of Das Mondkalb. on kino.de, accessed on August 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ The moon calf. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 20, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ The moon calf. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on August 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 28/1967