The Hello Sisters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Hello Sisters |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ottokar Runze |
| script |
Richard Hey , Lisa Kristwaldt |
| production | Ottokar Runze |
| music | Birger Heymann |
| camera | Michael Epp |
| cut | Marlies Dux |
| occupation | |
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The Hallo-Sisters is a German feature film from 1990 by Ottokar Runze with Ilse Werner and Gisela May in the title roles. Harald Juhnke took on the male lead as the shrewd manager of two forgotten hit ladies of the 1950s.
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Babsies and Maika's fame was a long time ago. Both are seasoned Schlagerdiseusen and entertainers, New German: Entertainers who gained great popularity as "Hallo-Sisters" in the 1950s. For ages the two aging and plump older ladies have had a bad break and don't speak a word to each other. The decline followed immediately: Babsie, who lives in a shabby backyard apartment, lives from hand to mouth and, when she is not talking to her goldfish in the aquarium, prefers to hang on to the bottle; Maika, on the other hand, keeps her head above water by running a reasonably good business for musical instruments.
From this “misery” she wants, not entirely altruistically, to free the prematurely retired radio station manager Henne, once a lover of one lady and husband of the other. Following the wave of nostalgia, he plans after more than thirty years nothing less than the comeback of the Hallo-Sisters, which he wants to bring out big again on television. Babsie and Maika pull themselves together willy-nilly to fill the halls again as "Hello Sisters". But after a completely gelled TV appearance and the realization that their stage appearances are limited to old people's homes and coffee trips, all three have to realize that you can't just bring the past back and that the time of glory is finally over.
Production notes
The Hallo-Sisters was filmed in Berlin in March and April 1990 and premiered on November 29, 1990. The first television broadcast of the film-television coproduction took place on December 9, 1991 on ZDF .
Bernd Gaebler took care of the furnishings, and Gabriele Friedrich designed the costumes. Michael Beier took over the production management.
In 1991 the three main actors received the German Film Award for best ensemble performance.
Reviews
"A melancholy-resigned nostalgia comedy, designed to be media-critical, but not free from clichés and, in its forced sadness, also not from a portion of self-pity."
Cinema -online saw "memories with a touch of irony" in the film.
Web links
- The Hi-Sisters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Hallo-Sisters at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hello Sisters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Brief review