This time it has to be caviar
| Movie | |
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| Original title | This time it has to be caviar |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Géza from Radványi |
| script |
Henri Jeanson , Paul Andréota , Jean Ferry |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Rolf Wilhelm |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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This time it has to be caviar is a comedy film from 1961 . The German - French co-production is the continuation of the literary film adaptation Es muss nicht immer sein (also 1961) based on the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel .
action
Thomas Lieven actually wants to lead a completely normal life as a bank clerk in London and delight women with his excellent cooking skills . But he is still hunted as a supposed double and triple agent by the secret services of England , France and Germany during the Second World War . He finally arrives with Colonel Siméon and the French agent Mimi in Toulouse , where he is commissioned to bring the list of French secret agents to Nice and to hand it over to an agent there. A courier is supposed to take the list from there to England.
In the port of Nice, Thomas managed to escape several men from the German counterintelligence by getting into the car with Vera, a Gestapo agent disguised as a nun . When he recognizes her, he begins to kiss her and jumps out of the car. In a side street he is knocked down by two men who then put him in a hearse. He comes to in the arms of Chantal, a thief he met in Paris . She has arranged a boat trip for him to Lisbon , where she wants to meet him in a hotel. At sea, however, Thomas is picked up by the British who bring him to Gibraltar . There, as an English recruit, he meets his London fiancée Nancy, who has risen to become sergeant and, when he smiles, puts him in a detention cell in order to maintain the respect of the other recruits. After his sentence has been served, the two of them drive into nature for a picnic . However, Thomas leaves Nancy and drives on alone.
Once in Lisbon, Chantal welcomes him happily at the hotel , where they don't want to be disturbed in their room for a week. Given the high hotel bill, Chantal suggests selling the list of French secret agents. However, Thomas had torn up the list and thrown it into the sea, which is why Chantal put together a new list with the names from obituaries without further ado and also reproduced it. Thereupon Thomas sells the list to the Secret Service , the German counterintelligence and to Vera, who gives him back the jewels for the document that Chantal and her accomplice Bastian had stolen in Paris. Vera, however, whistles about Thomas and Chantal to the authorities, who are then locked in a Portuguese prison for stealing jewels . There they can persuade the prison director to be married and take the opportunity to escape. They take a boat through a minefield and Thomas ends up stranded on a remote coast. He has lost his memory and can only remember his cooking skills, which earns him work as a cook .
When, months later, he discovered a photo of Chantal in the newspaper, he suddenly had his memory back and returned to the hotel in Lisbon. From there he travels to Paris to free Chantal, who was captured by the Gestapo as a black marketeer. He poses as an SS group leader and thus gains access to the prison where Chantal is being held. He manages to get her released. But before the prison they meet Vera, who has both of them exposed and locked up. When France is liberated from German occupation , Thomas and Chantal are released. However, Thomas is arrested again and sentenced to death as a Nazi agent . The Secret Service brings him back to England, where he is to be hanged for high treason . When Chantal visits him in his cell there, Nancy also arrives. She has now married a US general and has ordered his pardon - after all, Thomas is predestined to work for the US secret service. In New York he is said to see Chantal again. But on the way there, his plane gets into turbulence and crashes. In a rubber boat he drives around for days and eventually by a submarine of the Soviets found and taken on board.
background
The shooting took place from June 21 to September 13, 1961, as with the first part It doesn't always have to be caviar , in Berlin , London , Lisbon , Nice and Paris as well as in the CCC-Film studios in Spandau . The film structures were created by Otto Pischinger and Herta Hareiter . Claudia Herberg designed the costumes .
The premiere in Germany took place on December 1, 1961. On May 30, 1986, the film was shown by ARD for the first time on German television.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film, it was a "[n] only moderately exhilarating sequel to It doesn't always have to be caviar". The result was a “star film without irony and taste”. Also Cinema came to the conclusion that this time it must be caviar "not so ironic and fast-paced as the precursor" is.
Web links
- This time it must be caviar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- This time it has to be caviar at filmportal.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ This time it has to be caviar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de