The great luck
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The great luck |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production | New Delta |
| music | Johannes Fehring |
| camera | Siegfried Hold |
| cut |
Paula Dworak , Elfriede Pröll , Annemarie Reisebauer |
| occupation | |
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The big luck is an Austrian ice revue film by Franz Antel from 1967.
action
Marika Kilius gets married and the press is watching her figure skating partner Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , who is now without a partner. Even more: he swears that he will never be on the ice again and makes a bet with manager Wallace that he will be able to get a job in a short time in which he earns more than with an ice revue. There they would like to have him as a star. If he loses the bet, he has to sign Wallace's ice revue contract, if he wins, he receives an annual salary from Wallace.
Manager Wallace is now doing everything possible to dissuade Hans-Jürgen from his work plans. He hires the beautiful but simple-minded Molly Pink, who would like to become famous as an actress. It is supposed to sabotage Hans-Jürgen's work. He tries first to gain a foothold as a singer. A bar owner lets him test sing and since his employees are enthusiastic, he wants to call him randomly in front of an audience on stage and sing in the evening. Molly Pink, on the other hand, is supposed to pretend she is his girlfriend in front of the press she has brought with her and thus not only upset him, but also annoy his female fans. Wallace's employee, Lilo, overheard everything and prevents the plan by faking a fainting fit in front of the stage that evening. Hans-Jürgen takes her to the rest room, worried, but before he can find out her name, Lilo has already disappeared. Lilo can also prevent a second act of sabotage by Wallace in a shop where Hans-Jürgen wants to gain a foothold as a salesman.
Hans-Jürgen has since made friends with journalist Teddy, who is secretly in love with Molly. He suggests that Hans-Jürgen and Molly mime a couple in front of the press, as Hans-Jürgen is repeatedly portrayed in the newspapers as a desperate lover of Marika Kilius. Both agree. At the same time, Marika takes the initiative and secretly gets Hans-Jürgen a job in an advertising agency, of which Ronald she is known as the director. Hans-Jürgen is so successful there that Wallace sees his chances of victory dwindling. He persuades Ronald to entrust Hans-Jürgen with a lucrative job: at a party, he is supposed to sign a contract with shipowner and millionaire Nic Parnassis, who is allergic to cut necklines . Wallace, in turn, engages the revealing Adelaide, who pretends to be Hans-Jürgen's companion unnoticed. Wallace's plan does not work, however, as Adelaide appears to be deeply decollete, but she and Nic come from the same Greek village and therefore get on very well.
Nevertheless, Hans-Jürgen thinks that he has not received the job and accepts Ronald's dismissal, especially since Ronald reveals that he only got the job because of Marika's protection. When Hans-Jürgen also has to believe that Lilo has in reality passed himself off as his lover at the instigation of Wallace, he goes into hiding. Only Marika has a clue where he is: he went to his best friend Toni Sailer in the mountains to forget while skiing. Marika goes to him and convinces him to appear at the ice revue. For his sake, she wanted to go out on the ice with him.
During the appearances at the revue, the problems finally solve: Hans-Jürgen finds out that it was not Lilo but Molly who was the wrong friend. Teddy wants to marry her and Lilo will marry Hans-Jürgen. He, in turn, did not lose the bet against Wallace despite his appearance in the revue, as Ronald also offered him a lucrative contract in the advertising company: In the meantime, it has been shown that many customers want to be served only by Hans-Jürgen.
production
Despite the marriage of Marika Kilius, Franz Antel planned a sequel to his successful ice revue film The Great Freestyle , and he was able to persuade not only Hans-Jürgen Bäumler but also his former skating partner to play himself again. The film was shot in Rome, among other places. The Wiener Eisrevue with Eva Pawlik was involved in the film, whereby individual choreographies were underlaid with music by Robert Stolz . The figure skating number of Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler dubbed Ted Shuffle.
Willy Dirtl from the Vienna State Opera , the ballet Fred Mastaire, Mark Martin, the three rascals and the Alexandrow Ensemble , which sang the Russian title Kalinka, also sing and dance in the film .
The film had its world premiere on September 15, 1967.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film saw in the film “Numbers of an ice revue with Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, built into a sweet story.” The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “Poetry and truth about the world champion couple Kilius / Bäumler at magazine level. The ice revue scenes generally lack a sense of style, but are still a class better than the poor and confused plot. "
Web links
- The great fortune in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The great luck at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 164 ff.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1420.
- ↑ The great luck. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 398/1967