Didi - the doppelganger
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| Original title | Didi - the doppelganger |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Reinhard Schwabenitzky |
| script |
Hartmann Schmige Christian Rateuke Dieter Hallervorden |
| production | Wolf Bauer |
| music |
Harold Faltermeyer Arthur Lauber |
| camera | Charly Steinberger |
| cut | Clarissa Ambach |
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Didi - The Doppelganger is a German comedy made up of confusion from 1984 with the actor, comedian and cabaret artist Dieter Hallervorden .
action
The multi- million dollar multi-industrialist, building contractor and real estate speculator Hans Immer is an authoritarian and rabid contemporary who wants to tear down a number of houses for a new building project - including the tenement in which Bruno Koob runs his pub (family owned). Koob does not intend to give up these:
“Dat is my pub! It already belonged to my great-grandfather, then to my stepmother, then to my half-brother, then to his sister, who then married my father, and now it's mine. And it's been twelve years - and it stays that way - someone has to show them! "
One evening, Immers employee Poldi von Pösel, accompanied by two light ladies, met Bruno Koob in a near-traffic accident who wanted to have another drink . Von Pösel is unsettled at first, but then invites his supposed boss, the unsuspecting Koob, who is almost like almost every hair, to a night bar. Two thugs who, on the instructions of the Immer company, had attached themselves to Koob's heels and were supposed to intimidate him, instead demolish this nightspot because there was "too little going on" for the alleged Immer in the pub; the owner invoices the damage of a quarter of a million DM. The morning after the scandal, the real Immer von Pösel throws out of the company and notices Koob's signature on the bill. The mix-up and subsequent encounter leads to Immer and Koob discovering that they look deceptively similar to one another. Always afraid of being kidnapped. The police can not offer him personal protection because of the US President's upcoming visit . Therefore, Immer uses Koob, who is actually his opponent, for his purposes. Koob is supposed to take on the professional and private role of the construction lion as a doppelganger for a few days , while the real Immer wants to leave with his lover for the time to Kitzbühel .
In the beginning Koob likes his role and gets by with the phrases “I need more details”, “That's just your opinion” and “Write it down, I'll deal with it later” relatively well. Even his wife Heidi , who is about to split up with her husband, can be deceived. But when the small crooks Paul , Heinrich and Otto appear and want to kidnap Immer, Koob, it dawns on Koob why Immer has hired him. He decides to take revenge: Koob has the demolition of his house stopped and agrees to divorce Heidi. When the real Hans Immer hears about it, he secretly returns to straighten things out.
A mix-up now begins with the similar Koob and Immer: on the one hand with the crooks who kidnap their target person but end up in prison, and on the other hand with the employees of Immers construction company. When Koob is ultimately even able to convince the corporate management that he is Immer and thus puts pressure on them, the real Immer decides to take revenge and blow up Koob's house with his own hands. Koob tries to stop him, but can not prevent the explosion . Due to the detonation, the real Immer loses its memory and then sticks to Bruno Koob. As a result, the real Koob can now continue his life as Hans Immer.
In the end, Immer as Bruno Koob reopened the pub and expanded it into a profitable chain: “I run my chain of bars nationwide.” Despite his memory loss, his disturbed personality is unchanged and he also seems to have instinctively taken over some details of his old life. So he still sprays his room spray from the brand Immer Grün in the ruins of the bar and yells at the smoking guests at the bar towards the end of the film: “I had given a smoking ban! Damn it! ”Meanwhile, Koob is running the group as Hans Immer. He apparently randomly redistributes the areas of responsibility of the managerial staff and appoints his deputy Poldi von Pösel as managing director, whereupon he asks: "Forever, Mr. Always?" He himself thinks about whether he should open his own bar (again).
Locations
- The house that was to be demolished, in which Bruno's worries were paused , was actually a demolition building and was located on the corner of Geneststrasse and Reichartstrasse in the now heavily modified area of the former bottleneck on Sachsendamm . The construction work on the city motorway , which was then interrupted in this area, can be clearly seen in several scenes.
- The action scenes for the presidential parade were made in front of the Olympic Stadium .
- Other outdoor shots were taken at various locations in West Berlin, such as the Eiswerder island .
- The office building of the fictional company Immer International was represented by the Steglitz roundabout , parts of the interior shots come from the ICC .
- The airport scenes were created at Berlin-Tegel Airport in the northwest of the city.
Reviews
"Crook comedy in slapstick style [...] fun for Didi fans."
"Not very imaginative and full of clichés, but of some entertainment value, which is almost exclusively due to Hallervordens."
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the rating “valuable”.
Others
- Didi - The Doppelganger was one of the 20 most successful films in Germany based on the number of viewers until the mid-1990s.
- Almost all of the film was shot in West Berlin . Thematically, it plays during a fictional state visit by the then US President Ronald Reagan . This can be seen in archive footage that was inserted into the film, while in other scenes an actor similar to Reagan stepped in as a double.
- The film also ran under the international title Non-Stop Trouble with My Double .
- In Dietmar Dath's science fiction novel Pulsarnacht (Munich 2012, p. 408), there is this allusion: “According to an ancient tradition, Shavali came with the help of less stereotypical formulations such as' I need more details', 'Load me as a file to the Tlalok, I'll deal with it later 'and' That's just your opinion 'well through their working days. "
- In the first scene of the movie Bang Boom Bang - A surefire thing , the protagonist Keek wants to borrow the movie Didi - The Doppelganger from the Franky's Video Power video library . However, the film has already been rented out, and after a conversation with the employee it turns out that Keek had rented the film himself - for three months. As a homage to the film, Didi - The Doppelganger was added to the gift box of Peter Thorwarth's Unna trilogy (which also includes Bang Boom Bang ).
- Mistake : When Bruno Koob as Hans Immer drove into the office building for the first time in his car, he was already wearing glasses at the porter's office, which Immer did not give him until later in the office.
DVD and Blu-ray publishing
The film was released on DVD on September 13, 2004 and on Blu-ray on October 17, 2010 on Turbine Medien.
literature
- Hans Borgelt: The doppelganger. It's a crazy story . (Based on an idea by Walter Kempley and motifs from a script by Christian Rateuke and Hartmann Schmige.) Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, 191 pages, ISBN 3-404-10397-1 .
Web links
- Didi - Der Doppelgänger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Didi - the doppelganger at filmportal.de
- Didi - the doppelganger in the online film database
- Screenwriter Hartmann Schmige
- The indestructible Didi (at Hartmann Schmige)
- Final versions of Didi Der Doppelgänger (by Hartmann Schmige)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 151. (Rating: 2 out of 4 possible stars = average)
- ↑ Didi - The doppelganger. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Didi - The doppelganger on fbw-filmbassy.com