The latest craze (1975)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The last scream |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Robert van Ackeren |
| script | Robert van Ackeren, Iris Wagner , Joy Markert |
| production | Robert van Ackeren, Wenzel Lüdecke |
| music | CAM |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut | Clarissa Ambach |
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The latest craze is a 1974 German society satire by Robert van Ackeren with the British Barry Foster, made famous in 1972 by Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Frenzy , in the male lead and the French Delphine Seyrig in the female lead.
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Leo, the owner of the hosiery and corsetry factory "Diskret", drove his company up against the wall; the company is practically bankrupt. In the lawyer Edward, an equally greedy and characterless restructuring specialist, he has found a specialist who is supposed to save what can still be saved. Edward already has some ideas. He comes to the conclusion that the company is in a dilapidated state because their products are too good, that is to say: because the stockings and bras last far too long. To change this situation, he switched production to materials that wear out much faster. Since Edward is a decided rascal and always has his own advantage in the back of his head, the lawyer joins a group of unscrupulous speculators and promises them that he will pass them the "Discreet" company as soon as he can with his famous " Rescue ideas "have finally ruined and they can be bought for an apple-and-an-egg.
Leo, who obviously doesn't seem to suspect anything bad, drives with Edward to the train station to pick up his wife Simone, who is seriously ill with heart disease, who is returning from Bad Nauheim after a six-week cure . However, Leo knows that Edward and Simone have been dating for quite some time. However, he does not want to take action against it, as he fears that this would endanger the restructuring of the company. Back home, Simone asks her family doctor Dr. Honey to talk to her husband. Leo should be more considerate of her heart condition in the future and therefore refrain from showing any overly passionate affection. Leo then satisfies his libido with erotic lace lingerie from his own production, which he has locked in his safe.
While Simone's cure was in Bad Nauheim, Edward also wanked himself to her and Leo's daughter Jella. Simone hurries to her lover on the evening of her arrival, but, to her great surprise, he insists on not handling the relationship too closely from now on. You have to give yourself freedom. The alarm bells are ringing at Simone. She threatens to expose Edward in a newspaper ad and publish that he had been her lover for twelve months. To Edward's surprise, Leo urges him to continue the affair with his wife. He is supposed to travel with her to Italy to close a corsetry factory branch there. For the upcoming trip, Dr. Treasure his patient a suitcase with essential medicines. When Simone in Venice raves to Edward about how nice it is to finally be alone with him, they meet another couple. The ladies know each other from before, when Simone was still working as a manicure. In a hurry, Simone and Edward leave the lagoon city and travel on to Genoa in order to embark on a cruise from there.
Meanwhile, Edward receives a message from his second lover, Jella, stating that she is expecting him in a hotel room in Genoa. He takes a taxi and urges the driver to hurry. There is promptly a pile-up. Wrecked cars hang in the trees and pile up on top of each other. There are dead everywhere. Edward's taxi is on the roof. It hangs in the back with its legs up. After a while the lawyer gets out and casually, unmoved, closes the car door. He walks to the agreed meeting point with Jella. Meanwhile the ambulances rush to the scene of the accident with howling sirens while Jella and Edward have sex at the same time. A little later, Simone and Edward start their cruise. But the unfaithful wife does not hold out there for long, and she has Edward and herself brought back ashore in a lifeboat. Here, however, she misses her vital medicine case and believes she forgot it on the ship.
Little does she suspect that Edward of all people threw him overboard in order to get rid of Jella's mother who was threatening to become annoying. While Simone is desperately looking for the medicine he needs in a parked Red Cross trailer, Edward literally kills Simone through hard sex: Simone dies of a heart attack. Now he's free for Jella. In the church the two future spouses stand in front of Simone's coffin. While the coffin is sunk in the floor and then disappears into the oven of the crematorium, the clergyman begins with the wedding ceremony. But then suddenly Jella ran away. In the end, tricky Edward lost everything: Simone, Jella and also the factory that he wanted to get into his own hands in such a clever way, because Leo decided to leave the ailing plant to his workers.
Production notes
The latest craze was filmed in English due to the international cast and premiered on April 25, 1975.
Reviews
“You come out of the cinema and your head is full of a torrent of very strange images, with the rudiments of a bizarre story, the vague idea of a crude deeper meaning. Comedy, thriller, satire, didactic play, melodrama, number revue, morality, cabaret: Robert Van Ackeren's film 'The Last Scream', you have to give him that, cannot be classified and can hardly be described, a strange irritation, a unique thing. Ackeren: '- an abysmally happy story in colorful pictures.' "
“Monstrous melodrama farce that deliberately falls below any level. If you like, you can filter out a parable on capitalist society. "
Web links
- The latest craze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The latest craze at filmportal.de