Three Chinese with the double bass (film)

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Movie
Original title Three Chinese with the double bass
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Klaus Krämer
script Kaspar von Erffa
Klaus Krämer
production Hermann Florin , new German film company
music Torsten Sense
camera Ralph Netzer
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation

Three Chinese with the Double Bass is a film comedy by Klaus Krämer from 1999, a variation on the theme “The corpse must go”. The children's song of the same name appears in the film and gives the film its name. The film was produced by the new German film company (ndF). At the start of the film (March 16, 2000) Heyne published a book on the film with storyboard drawings. The film was released on DVD in October 2006 .

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After a night of partying with friend Max, the architect Paul wakes up in the morning with a total film tear. He finds his fiancée , the journalist Gabi, dead in the living room and suspects that he must have killed her accidentally (or in an argument?) During his blackout. In fact, during a violent love game with her boss Heribert, she fell so on the edge of a dresser that she broke her neck.

Paul calls Max for help, they decide: the corpse has to go! The first removal attempt fails because of the intrusive neighbors Rüdiger who wants the dresser like, into which one Gabi's corpse has stowed and supposedly on the bulky waste should. The two can just get rid of Rüdiger and return to the apartment with the chest of drawers and corpse. Here, in his desperation, Paul succeeds in persuading Max to chop up the corpse with a mixer and flour mill and then dispose of the remains in the toilet. While Max gets to work, Paul brings Gabi's last article to Heribert's office to avoid any suspicion. Heribert is completely confused when Paul puts Gabi's article in his hand and goes back home.

Hours later: Max needs a break and has to get out of the apartment, he goes to the kebab stand with Paul . Meanwhile, neighbor Rüdiger, who has suspected something, tries to break into Paul's apartment, but only inadvertently allows Paul's mother Cordula to enter. This in turn lets Paul's friend and colleague Rike in, who finally finds the partially disposed corpse in the bathroom, just as the two come back. Caught up, hung up! In the absence of alternatives, Rike climbs aboard the daring disposal maneuver, and so the three “Chinese” grind Gabi's bones neatly into a burlap sack, singing the children's song. The trio then distributes the flour at night in Berlin, wherever Gabi liked to be.

Now you just have to explain Gabi's disappearance. Despite violent contradictions, Max and Paul manage to persuade Rike to do a daring role-play: Gabi was supposed to conduct an interview at the Berlin radio tower that day . Since the interviewees do not know Gabi, Rike should now pretend to be her and disappear during the meeting so that Gabi's last sighting cannot be associated with Paul. Unscheduled, Heribert suddenly appears, who for his part thinks Gabi survived the fall and wants to apologize to her. He misses Rike, only sees her from afar and follows her by taxi to Paul's apartment.

Everyone now meets there: Paul, Max, Rike as the fake Gabi, Heribert, Paul's mother Cordula and neighbor Rüdiger. From Heribert you will find out what actually happened. Heribert offers hush money, but when he learns that the corpse has already been disposed of, he is off the hook: Paul will certainly not report him! Neighbor Rüdiger, however, who wants to see the real people in charge in prison , can testify that he saw Heribert in the stairwell on the day of Gabi's death . The recently triumphant Heribert tries meekly to explain that the whole thing was just an accident and reconstructs him as Gabi with the help of the neighbor. He succeeds so well that Heribert hits the chest of drawers and is instantly dead! Is Rüdiger innocent or not?

In the last scene, the “3 Chinese” Paul, Max and Rike bring a couple of reconciling donuts to the neighbor, who had complained the day before about the nocturnal noise of the flour mill . They announce that they will have to "bake" again the next night ...

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