The man in the pajamas
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The man in the pajamas |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director |
Christian Rateuke , Hartmann Schmige |
| script | Christian Rateuke, Hartmann Schmige |
| production | Horst Wendlandt |
| music | Wilhelm Dieter Siebert |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Sybille Windt |
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The man in pajamas is a German comedy film from 1981 with Otto Sander and Elke Sommer in the leading roles.
action
Berlin, on May 18th at 9:47 pm. Night is gradually falling. A muezzin loudly calls out to night prayer, and only the screams of a woman and subsequent shots that howl from the television set in the apartment room into the street canyons drown out the noise. The normal madness in a German city in 1981. To make matters worse, the bearded Rudi ran out of cigarettes, so he went out into the street in his bathrobe to pull a box from the machine. He is almost run over by an ambulance on duty. Rudi then helps a VW driver whose car does not start, and when he drives on without thanks, Rudi throws a stone at him, but only hits the side window of a parked luxury car. Immediately afterwards, a police VW bus appears next to him. Two policemen get out and want to see Rudi's ID, which of course he doesn't have with him. When an officer discovers the cobblestone in the car with the window thrown in, everything is clear to the two officers, and Rudi is supposed to come to the station first. The door of the van cannot be closed, however, and so Rudi manages to escape. He leaves his bathrobe in the police vehicle, so he now runs through the streets of Berlin in pajamas, while Bruno and Hans-Christian, the two police officers, stay behind in astonishment.
On his escape, pursued by the green Minna, Rudi jumps over a balcony and ends up in the apartment of the pretty Bärbel Lachmann. Frau Lachmann begins to scream, whereupon Rudi throws her on the bed and tries in his naive way to explain to the frightened blonde all the processes that led to his predicament. Ms. Lachmann is married and the doorbell immediately rings. Your husband, of all people, a detective inspector, obviously doesn't have his key with him. Rudi cannot escape via the balcony back into the open, because that's where Mrs. Lachmann's neighbor is walking his white poodle. So the classic, the bedroom closet, has to serve as a hiding place. That goes wrong, of course, and together Rudi and Bärbel Lachmann try to explain the crazy story of Rudi's nocturnal excursion to their husband Harry. Of course, he feels ridiculed and believes the obvious: Wife Bärbel has a lover! Immediately there is a solid fight between the two men, in which the entire bedroom furniture is dismantled. Then the neighbor with the dog, who was hit by a vase from the Lachmann apartment, calls the police to report the assault. The two police officers who have been roaming the streets of Berlin in search of Rudi for some time now come by. They are arresting Mr Lachmann of all people because he is also bearded and is now wearing exactly the same pajamas as Rudi. But he swears stone and bone that he is not the man in pajamas he is looking for and has a solid fight with police officer Bruno.
Bärbel Lachmann has had enough of her husband's behavior and packs her belongings in silence. Bruno and Hans-Christian transport Lachmann with the green Minna to the police station, but thanks to a wrong diversion that three bank robbers have made during their “work”, they crash into a side street, where they collide with their green Minna in a backyard make a red Minna with a barrel of paint. The bank robbers, disguised as construction workers, who had already been disturbed twice before by the police vehicle while breaking through the sewer system, calmly repack their large booty in an aluminum case. Meanwhile, Rudi dresses in a new suit from the arrested and evacuated Detective Inspector Lachmann. He and Frau Lachmann get a little closer over a cigarette. Together they leave the devastated apartment with a taxi driver, a youngster who doesn't know Berlin at all. This now also happens to the confused two police officers, who got completely lost during their drive to the station. Coincidence would have it that the red Minna steps on the taxi and Bruno and Hans-Christian drive the taxi driver for the way. Meanwhile, Rudi and Bärbel Lachmann are kissing lovers in the back seat, as Rudi fears that the two officers will recognize him as the "man in pajamas". Mr. Lachmann, looking out of the side window, immediately recognizes his wife, but cannot do anything because he has been handcuffed and his mouth taped shut.
Bärbel and Rudi sneak out of the taxi and want to run away. Rudi's coat slips down just as police officer Hans-Christian turns around. Now he has discovered the wanted man in his pajamas, and both officers run after him and Bärbel Lachmann, who is also fleeing. The two fugitives gain access to an apartment populated by several Turks, where promptly a number of other bearded men are walking around in exactly the same pajamas. Therefore, Bruno and Hans-Christian transport all the men present in pajamas, including Bärbel Lachmann, who has been redesigned as a veiled Turkish woman, into her red Minna and drive to her guard with blue lights. In doing so, they ram the van of the bank robbers who were about to break into the house after the break-in. The aluminum case with the money falls out of the back and the cash lands on the street. Bruno allows himself to be fobbed off with a rather stupid explanation from the bank robber boss.
Bruno and Hans-Christian soon reach the police station with their chaotic and loudly confused, human cargo, where the district manager is recording the protocol from Consul Becker, the man of the vehicle whose side window Rudi had smashed a few hours ago. There everyone begins to explain how this total mess could come about. To make Commissioner Lachmann's annoyance, his wife made him a coram publico and asked for a divorce. After his identity as a detective inspector was clarified by the narcotics department, Harry Lachmann usurped the investigation in the police station. But soon there are reasons for Revierleiter Kaiser to believe that Rudi is the real Inspector Lachmann and not Harry. Now Rudi takes over the interrogation at the station. As a final joke, Rudi allowed himself a call to his coke supplier, who promptly filled the entire police station with the black fuel.
Rudi and Bärbel have long since left. Rudi returns to his wife Helga and tries to explain his long absence to her. But she doesn't want to know anything about it and without further ado throws Rudi and Bärbel accompanying him out of the apartment. Together you go to the Berlin-Wannsee train station to board the train to Paris.
Production notes
The man in pajamas , a slapstick comedy with heavily clothing-like features, was created in the spring of 1981 in Berlin (West) and was premiered on December 11, 1981.
Konstantin M. Thoeren was in charge of production, Werner Achmann and Harry Freude took care of the equipment .
Otto Sander won the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1982 for his acting .
The same team (Christian Rateuke, Hartmann Schmige, Otto Sander, Peter Fitz, Jochen Schroeder and Wilhelm Dieter Siebert) shot the comedy Who is crazy, Herr Doktor? .
Reviews
"'The man in pajamas' by Christian Rateuke and Hartmann Schmige (with Otto Sander and Elke Sommer) is a hectic, over-the-top, often coarse swank about a clumsy man who is being chased by the even more stupid police in Berlin at night.
"Christian Rateuke and Hartmann Schmigge staged a lively 'little tree-change-yourself' game with world star Elke Sommer."
“Starting with a nice idea, the film lapses into a melancholy hectic pace that is increasingly replacing humor with slapstick. Incomplete in terms of writing and direction, he also has considerable deficiencies in the way the actors are guided. "
Web links
- The man in pajamas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The man in pajamas at filmportal.de