The frog intrigue

Movie
Original title	The frog intrigue
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1990
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Hartmut Griesmayr
script	Klaus Schlesinger after Erich Loest
production	Berlin Games / ZDF
camera	Jörg Seidl
occupation
Beate Jensen : Angelika Kohlbrand Alexander May : Headmaster Stapelmann Rainer Hunold : politician Müller-Mahrenburg Helmut Zierl : Journalist Sawadski Gert Haucke : Building contractor Huschbert Wilfried Baasner : Mayor Wutte Diana Körner : Politician Billbach Buddy Elias : Policeman Allenfeld Felix von Manteuffel : von Loden Marcel Kügler: Reini student

Die Frosch-Intrige is a German television film by director Hartmut Griesmayr from 1990. The novel Froschkonzert by Erich Loest from 1987 served as the template for this literary film adaptation . The comedy was first broadcast on February 18, 1991 by ZDF .

action

In the fictional Westphalian city ​​of Hermeskirchen , the young, attractive Angelika Kohlbrand is completing her legal clerkship at the Herder-Gymnasium. Its director, Stapelmann, is an enthusiastic local researcher and is convinced that he can excavate a camp from the Roman era at the gates of the city that is connected to the battle of the Teutoburg Forest . Around this suspected discovery and its commercial and ideological exploitation, a provincial farce is flaring up with local politicians addicted to authority, corrupting entrepreneurs and helpless journalists. At the center of it all is Miss Kohlbrand, who will soon be wooed by her old love of Loden, a Greens, as well as the social worker Müller-Mahrenburg and the local reporter Sawadski, but at the same time is supposed to serve as a pawn sacrifice to overthrow the director and the conservative mayor Wutte . To this end, she is threatened with an inspection complaint because a student of hers who is in love with her swallowed a live frog on a school trip. She initially defends herself with satirical works of art, but is ultimately abandoned by everyone after it turns out that the alleged Roman camp is actually a slave labor camp from the Nazi era . She eventually leaves town.

Trivia

Much of the film was shot in Detmold , including at the Hermannsdenkmal , in the old town, in the town hall and in the Leopoldinum grammar school . Interestingly enough , Detmold is also mentioned in the film - as the city from which Hermeskirchen wants to snatch the title of the scene of the Varus Battle.

The spelling The Frog Intrigue is often encountered, but does not correspond to the original opening credits .

Web links

• The Frog intrigue in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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