Detectives
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Detectives |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Thome |
| script | Max Zihlmann |
| production |
Carol Hellman Rudolf Thome |
| music | Kristian Schultze |
| camera |
Hubertus Hagen Niklaus Schilling |
| cut | Jutta Brandstaedter |
| occupation | |
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Detectives is a German black and white film by Rudolf Thome from 1968. The screenplay was written by Max Zihlmann . The main roles are cast with Ulli Lommel , Marquard Bohm , Uschi Obermaier (under the name Chrissi Malberg) and Elke Haltaufderheide . The outdoor shots were taken in Munich and on Lake Ammersee. The film came to the cinema for the first time on May 23, 1969 in Munich.
action
The focus is on two really brash Schwabing guys who work as "private detectives" and have the strange working method of keeping both sides up to date on an assignment in order to earn double income in an unfair way. Their first case, however, in the course of which they have to protect a girl from her overly intrusive lover, they finish together, and successfully. Then, however, when it comes to shadowing the girlfriend and the young son of an industrialist, they not only work separately, but already against each other, not knowing that they themselves are being screwed up by the industrialist. You must therefore understand that - knowing about their unusual professional views - they both have been tricked. Everything was a set game. But in the end the author loses it: one of the bought figures turns the simulated murder into a real poisoning!
criticism
- The Lexicon of International Films judges: “Thome's debut feature film, which is concerned with character and milieu drawing, uses quotations and behavioral patterns from a cinematic experience that is aware of the laws of the entertainment industry. Not a big, but an honest film. "
- The Protestant Film Observer received two very contradicting reviews. Both were published. The first summary says: “A fictional, rather complex story about two self-distrusting business partners […] is the starting point for an astonishingly reliable observation of today's behavior. Worth considering for adults. ”The second EFB critic, on the other hand, does not think much of the work:“ A really carefree and wacky film by youthful producers and actors who lives from the fact that everyone cheats and everyone sleeps with everyone. Superfluous for everyone. "
- The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency gave the strip the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- Detectives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer: Detectives - Her First Case Was A Woman (1969)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Reviews No. 224 and 245/1969, pp. 227 to 228 and 242
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 636