The chocolate snoopers

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Movie
Original title The chocolate snoopers
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 85, 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jiří Menzel
script Eva Pavliková
production Karl Spiehs
Luggi Waldleitner
music Gerhard Heinz
camera Franz X. Lederle
cut Claudia Wutz
occupation

and Franz Marischka , Siegfried Naber , Daniel König

The Chocolate Sniffer is a German crime comedy from 1986 by the Czech director Jiří Menzel with the Swiss circus artist Rolf Knie in one of the leading roles. The story is based on templates by Edgar Wallace .

action

The Zurich canton police officer Max Rüttli, a well-trained Swiss civil servant who is blessed with artistic control, is entrusted with a case of international proportions. He and his friend and subordinate Inspector Gaston are supposed to support Scotland Yard in London , because a series of murders that have already killed four women makes England unsafe. Their chief of police, Sir Archibald, does not make any headway in this matter, because the series of murders, like an epidemic, only ever brings beautiful young women from an English aristocratic clan. The perpetrator, whose long arm, covered with a shaggy fur, grabs the girl and strangles himself, is soon referred to within the yard as the “tiger's claw”. However, Sir Archibald is not at all enthusiastic that "two continental Europeans", as he disrespectfully put it, are coming to his country and interfering in England's affairs.

Rüttli and Gaston seek out Lord and Lady Denver, who represent the noble board of directors of the threatened family. It quickly turns out that, as once in " Nobility obliged ", someone must be behind it who must act as a perpetrator committed to the property and title of nobility. He is extremely brutal and effective in his approach and appears in constantly changing mask, even once as a woman. When he found out about Rüttli's interference in this “English matter”, Max's twin brother had to believe in it too. Diana Brington, nee Lady Denver, appears to be next on the death list of the "Tiger Claw Murderer", and Inspector Max has his hands full, this lively and headstrong young lady who also has a lot of fun with the danger seems to protect. But then the two “chocolate snoopers” get in the way of a second case: It's about a gang of counterfeiters ...

Production notes

The Chocolate Sniffer was created with a budget of 2.5 million marks on 31 days of shooting between November 23, 1985 and January 17, 1986 in London and the surrounding area, Salzburg, Zurich, Las Palmas, Munich, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Erich Tomek was the production manager, Otto W. Retzer was the production manager. Rolf Albrecht designed the costumes, Claus Kottmann the film structures. Willi Neuner was responsible for the special effects. Bob Lockwood , who plays the killer, can be seen in multiple disguises and masquerades. Producer Karl Spiehs made a cameo in the desert with a tropical hat .

The film premiered on April 15, 1986, but flopped at the box office. Seven months later the film was released on VHS video.

criticism

Cinema found: "There is no lack of fun and slapstick next to the crime thrill ..." and "Sir Edgar, the old English master of the milieu thriller, should be happy about the winking homage."

The lexicon of international films saw the film as "an unequivocal criminal grotesque that is intended as a satire for James Bond films, but which does not succeed in reconciling tension and serenity" and was also quite disappointed by the staging performance of the talented director Menzel, who "can lose his qualities under changed production conditions."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 165
  2. ↑ Cinema, 4/1986 (issue 95), p. 80
  3. ↑ The Chocolate Snoopers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used