The great aunts strike

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Movie
Original title The great aunts strike
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Franz Josef Gottlieb
script Erich Tomek
production Karl Spiehs
for Lisa Film
music Erwin Halletz
camera Heinz Hölscher
cut Traude Krappl-Maass
occupation

To beat the great aunts is a German film suit by Franz Josef Gottlieb from 1971.

action

Rudi and his friend Andy hitchhike in the direction of Wörthersee , where Andy is supposed to start as a cook in the Hotel Eschenhof. They are taken by the young Eva Wiedemann, who is to replace her sister Margit for a week in that very hotel, who actually wanted to start there as a manager. However, Margit is out for a week with her boyfriend, whom she - unnoticed by her strict mother - wants to marry during this time. Eva, on the other hand, actually has to go to the girls' boarding school not far from the hotel, but she sends Andy there, who is supposed to report to the director that Eva has measles and is therefore taking a rest at Hotel Eschenhof for a week. However, the director is also on the way and is represented by Vice Director Theo Schatz during this time. He thinks Andy is the girl Eva and puts him in a room with two other young women. They quickly realize that Andy is male, but think he wants to fool them. They force him to be more female, so he has to iron all of the boarding house residents' laundry.

Rudi and Eva wonder why Andy doesn't come back, but soon have other problems: Eva has to familiarize herself with Margit's office work, while Rudi is mistaken for the cook and is now desperately trying to teach herself the basics of cooking. The hotel manager Trude Moll is enthusiastic about the incompetence of the two newcomers. She has been planning for a long time to sell the hotel and the land to the American millionaire Bruno Kargel, who wants to tear the hotel down and have it searched for oil on the floor. But Trude's partner Eddy Stubenrauch strictly refuses to sell the hotel. Trude now wants to ruin it to finally change Eddy’s mind.

The band "The Tears" around Hans Müller, who Eva had already noticed negatively on the way to the hotel, is staying in the hotel. However, Hans proves to be a rescue in need: he has fallen in love with Eva, is a trained cook and also learns of Trude and Bruno's plot. Both warn Eddy. Via various detours, Rudi also learns that Andy is being locked up in the girls' boarding school. When Eva tells him that her mother Irene, worried about some strange phone calls, is on her way to the boarding school to check that everything is going well, Rudi gets ahead of her. He disguises himself as a woman and picks up 'daughter' Andy from boarding school. At the same time, the real Irene Wiedemann appears and is mistaken for a con man. Horrified, she goes to the Hotel Eschenhof. Margit and her boyfriend, who are now a married couple, also arrive there. When Irene sees her two daughters safe and sound and learns of the marriage, she gives up and a great reconciliation takes place. Eva and Hans also become a couple. Meanwhile, Trude has hired a group of thugs to beat the Hotel Eschenhof down. With the help of strengthening malt pills from the boarding school director's desk, Rudi and Andy develop superpowers and put the rowdies on the run. When the pills wear off, the thugs lie in wait for the two of them again and Rudi and Andy run away with the men on their heels.

production

Beat the great aunts was shot from June 16 to July 15, 1971 in Pörtschach am Wörther See and the surrounding area. The film had its world premiere on September 24, 1971.

Various songs can be heard in the film:

criticism

For the film service , The Great Aunts To Beat was a “dreary comedy with untalented young comedians, old-fashioned games of confusion and shallow hits in front of an alpine backdrop.” Cinema called the film “a tiring comedy with the entire range of clothes from the early seventies, including pop music. [...] Conclusion: nonsense after grades, zero quotas with zoten ".

The magazine Filmecho / Filmwoche stated with the usual benevolence, but with a slight reserve, that of course you have "seen a number of jokes somewhere", but that doesn't matter. "The main thing is that the people in the stalls are satisfied, are happy about an amusing evening and seem to feel well entertained." Rudi Carrell, this "imaginative Dutchman", "likes to kid himself and others."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The great aunts strike. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ The great aunts hit cf. cinema.de
  3. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karls Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 109