The funny four from the gas station
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The funny four from the gas station |
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| Country of production |
Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Heinz Bothe-Pelzer |
| production | New Delta Filmproduktion, Divina-Film, Malory Productions |
| music |
Gerhard Heinz , Toni Sulzböck |
| camera | Hanns Matula |
| cut | Studio Heyne |
| occupation | |
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The funny four from the gas station is a German-Austrian musical comedy by Franz Antel from 1972.
content
Michael and Gaby are not looking positively into the future: their part-time job at the owner Nesslauer's gas station is in jeopardy since a new section of the motorway was opened not far and the cars no longer have to drive on the street at the gas station. The customers stay away and Nesslauer plans to sell the gas station to a new tenant. Whether Michael and Gaby could continue to work under a new tenant is questionable, but Gaby needs the money for her studies. One night, the young Tommy pulls up his car at the gas station, the damage cannot be repaired immediately and when Gaby sees him the next morning, Tommy decides to stay. The fourth in the group is little Nicki. He has just got a new nanny from his father, the company director Andreas Lorenz, with the nasty Agnes Babinski and trouble with his chauffeur Arthur Scholz. Since the father does not keep his promise to go on vacation with the boy, these are enough reasons for Nicki to run away from home again. He comes to the gas station and stays.
Gaby, Tommy and Michael decide to lease the gas station. Despite a cozy bowling evening and several bottles of hard liquor, Nesslauer insists on a lease of 70,000 DM, which the three of them cannot afford. But Nesslauer gets involved in a deal: If you manage to increase sales by 30 percent within two weeks, the gas station is yours. Now good advice is expensive, but Nicki starts to trade with his school friends. They put up diversion signs on the section of the motorway that has just opened, which will lead the cars past the gas station again. They organize and distribute advertising flyers for the gas station and the cars from Father Lorenz's business are now sent to the gas station for inspection at Nicki's instigation . While the politicians are still wondering why the motorway is closed and everyone is congratulating the next higher level on an apparently approved construction process, which the closure indicates, things are becoming more complicated at the gas station. Although the four of them suddenly make a lot of money, Tommy has fallen in love with Gaby and Michael with the customer Eva. However, Gaby thinks that Tommy has a girlfriend who is just a colleague from television where Tommy actually works. Michael, on the other hand, believes through a cheat by Nickis that Eva is Nicki's mother and feels lied to by her.
Nicki can only resolve everything and brings both couples together. The fact that a little boy is supposed to have tricked the big politics by a simple diversion sign lets the politicians actually start construction work on the motorway because of the lesser damage, so that the cars have to be driven past the gas station for several years - the survival of the The petrol station is now secured. And Nicki also comes to his happy ending: After his father even had the police look for him and finally found him with Gaby, Tommy and Michael, he decided to go on vacation with his son as promised. Gaby and Tommy also go on vacation and Eva and Michael take care of the gas station as a couple during this time.
production
The premiere of the film took place on August 4, 1972.
Child actor and pop singer Nicki Doff sings the songs I catch the sun in the film , Even little people have their worries and oh how nice a school trip is like that . He sings with Alfred Böhm But the holidays are here tomorrow .
criticism
The lexicon of international film called The Merry Four of the petrol station as "Franz Antel-comedy." The online version saw in the comedy a "unpretentious comedy with untalented, nonetheless, the creation time popular performers whose weak approaches to satire to go down in silliness."
Web links
- The Merry Four of the petrol station in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The funny four from the gas station at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brühne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2345.
- ↑ The funny four from the gas station. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2018 .