The day the fish came

Movie
German title	The day the fish came
Original title	The Day the Fish Came Out
Country of production	United Kingdom , United States , Greece
original language	English , Greek
Publishing year	1967
length	109 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Michael Cacoyannis
script	Michael Cacoyannis
production	Michael Cacoyannis
music	Mikis Theodorakis
camera	Walter Lassally
cut	Vasilis Syropoulos
occupation
Tom Courtenay : Navigator Colin Blakely : Pilot Sam Wanamaker : Elias Candice Bergen : Electra Brown Ian Ogilvy : Peter Dimitris Nikolaidis : Dentist Nicolas Alexios : Goatherd Patricia Burke : Mrs. Mavroyannis Paris Alexander : Fred Arthur Mitchell : Frank Marlena Carrer : Goatherd's wife Tom Klunis : Mr. French William Berger : Man in Bed Kostas Papakonstantinou : Manolios Dora Stratou : Head of the Travel Agency

The day the fish came out (original title: The Day the Fish Came Out ) is an American - British - Greek comedy film with science fiction elements from 1967 by Michael Cacoyannis , who also wrote the screenplay. The leading roles are starring Tom Courtenay , Colin Blakely , Sam Wanamaker and Candice Bergen . The film was first released on September 27, 1967 in France. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on October 26, 1967.

action

The pilots of a crashed bomber who are able to save themselves stark naked on a Greek island are instructed not to identify themselves and therefore do not know how to eke out their lives. A search team of the NATO forces - disguised as the vanguard of a hotel group - comes to the island, which is completely unknown to tourists, and searches for the bombs and a hermetically sealed box, the contents of which it is not even aware of, which is kept secret. The excessive secrecy, which is considered inevitable by the highest command staff to calm the population on the island and world opinion, leads to all kinds of misunderstandings and entanglements. The wandering pilots cannot even identify themselves to their comrades. The supposedly agents of a hotel group attract the attention of the tourist offices, and an immense amount of tourism sets in.

A simple-minded shepherd finally finds the box and believes there is a gold treasure hidden in it. He succeeds in welding the box open. He then throws the contents, which are of no interest to him, into a drinking water cistern. But with this he brings about the misfortune that should have been avoided. They are highly radioactive substances. Dead fish washed ashore and warning loudspeaker voices are the content of the last picture.

Reviews

The Protestant film observer comes to a rather mediocre verdict: “Unfortunately, the director fails to combine the comedic plot and the gloomy ending into a warning that convincing the majority of the audience about the consequences of nuclear politics. Therefore only suitable for very open-minded viewers from 14. "The Catholic Film Service comes to a similar assessment :" A macabre doomsday comedy, inspired by an actual incident off the Spanish coast in 1966. Enriched with swipes at cultural imperialism, Greek provincial mentality and naive belief in progress, the film is ultimately only moderately entertaining because it relies on old-fashioned punchlines. "

Web links

• The day on which the fish came in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Five pictures from the film at Cinema.de
• Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 464/1967, pp. 588-589.
2. ↑ Film Service