The sweetest fruits
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The sweetest fruits |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script |
Karl Farkas , Karl Georg Külb |
| production | Ariston-Film GmbH, Munich ( Franz Seitz junior ) |
| music |
Friedrich Meyer , Rudi Revil |
| camera | Hans Heinz Theyer |
| cut | Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz |
| occupation | |
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The Sweetest Fruits is a German comedy film by Franz Antel from 1954 .
action
The state Fantasias consists of the countries Perlonien in the north and Banania in the south. Both countries are separated by a strict customs barrier. It prevents perlonia from receiving tropical fruits, while bananas cannot buy perlon stockings . The men in Perlonien go to the barricades. While the obese Carfioli wants to overthrow the Prime Minister by force, Beppone, known as "Banana Beppo", calls for prudence. The two supporters fight, in which Beppo Carfioli injures his nose. Carfioli's daughter Eva, who happened to be passing by, also fell victim to the unrest: She was thrown into the sea by demonstrators and Beppo jumped after to save her. It doesn't help the prime minister. He was dropped at the cabinet meeting and properly slipped on a banana peel on his last way to the taxi. The new minister Roberto di Caramello is to push the negotiations with Banania forward. Beppo, who brought the unconscious Eva into his house and falls in love with her, wants to present himself to the Prime Minister as the spokesman for the Perlonier. He is amazed that he can get into the closely guarded ministerial palace without any problems. He is even more surprised when he faces the minister: He is exactly like him, except that Roberto has no tattoos. It turns out that Beppo and Roberto are stepbrothers.
Roberto wants to go to Banania for negotiations, but his advisor Tomato holds him back. He learned that Prime Minister Alvarez Petitez and his brother, Propaganda Minister Domingo Petitez, had prepared an attack on Roberto in Banania. They want to finally get the power in the country that has been in the hands of President Irina. Roberto decides not to go to Banania. Beppo, on the other hand, knows how important an agreement with the neighboring country would be and is ready to go into the country as Roberto to conclude the trade agreement. Roberto agrees and during this time moves into his apartment as Beppo.
Alvarez and Domingo meanwhile organize the assassination of the Perlon Prime Minister. They release the killers Brezo and Rigo, who are supposed to murder Beppo on the way to the president's palace. An inoperative pistol leads to the failure of this plan. Beppo is introduced to Irina and her niece Juanita. He falls in love with Juanita and subsequently escapes several attacks. Tomato has also come to Banania in the meantime, pretending to be Charly Fly. He wants to take care of Beppo. In fact, it is he who is ultimately chosen by Alvarez and Domingo as the murderer of the alleged Perlon Prime Minister. He receives a hell machine that he should deposit in the Prime Minister's room. The prime minister is said to be killed in the explosion. Since the treaty would not come about in this way, the people of Banania would become even more dissatisfied and demand that the president be dismissed. This would pave the way for Alvarez as the new president of the country. With Tomato, Beppo manages to get rid of the infernal machine in time. In the explosion, only the statue of the mother of the country is destroyed. Nevertheless, Alvarez and Domingo believe that Roberto alias Beppo is dead. They triumph in front of the president, who now sees through the wrong game between the two men. When Beppo appears, she has Alvarez and Domingo arrested. A short time later, Irina and Beppo sign the contract that seals the customs union of Banania and Perlonia. Beppo drives with Juanita to the border, where he wants to exchange her first pair of Perlons. Roberto has meanwhile come to the border with Eva to get her the first bunch of bananas. Both men meet in the customs house. Beppo confesses to his brother that he never really loved Eva, but sees his future at Juanita's side. Roberto, on the other hand, is happy that he has not taken away his lover from his brother. The two women appear and realize that they each believed the other before them. The mix-up is only half as bad: Irina wants to abdicate as president in favor of her niece, so that Beppo himself becomes president of Banania; Eva, on the other hand, is also happy with a Prime Minister at her side.
production
The sweetest fruits were shot from October to December 1953 in Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda, Taormina and the surrounding area and in the Bavaria Ateliers in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The assistant director was Arnd Heyne , the film construction was done by Arne Flekstad and Sepp Rothauer . The film premiered on February 5, 1954. The film was released on DVD in 2011.
Performed Erwin Lehn and his orchestra, it dance The three Bajoratis. The then little known Peter Alexander and Leila Negra sing the song The sweetest fruits . Record producer Gerhard Mendelson sold Franz Antel the tape with the finished, originally not planned title song for 5,000 Schillings. The song became a great success and marked the breakthrough in their singing careers for the two performers who were not mentioned in the film.
While filming in Sicily, director Antel and main actress Bollmann fell in love and got married before the film premiere in December 1953. During the wedding party, a banana tree hung over the dance floor - symbolic of the film that was just being shot - and Gunther Philipp gave the bride and groom “a laboriously custom-made product Five-horn car horn that croaks out the first bars of the title hit 'The sweetest fruits ...' in 28 tones. "
criticism
For the film service , The Sweetest Fruits was an "operetta-like comedy with moderate humor and touches of political satire."
Web links
- The sweetest fruits in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The sweetest fruits at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 87 f.
- ↑ Marriage before the end of shooting . In: Der Spiegel , No. 52, 1953, December 23, 1953, p. 29.
- ↑ The sweetest fruits. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .