Triplets on board

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Movie
Original title Triplets on board
Triplets on board Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans Müller
script Gustav Kampendonk
production Otto Meissner
music Heino Gaze
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Martha Dübber
occupation

Triplets on board is a German comedy film from 1959 by Deutsche Film Hansa with Heinz Erhardt and Trude Herr . The film shines with a recording method that was extremely complex for the possibilities at the time, through which it was possible to let all three characters played by Heinz Erhardt appear in one scene at the same time.

action

Heinz Bollmann wins with the song Charming Boy , sung by Paul Kuhn , in a hit competition. His triplet brothers Eduard and Otto are angry because Heinz used a melody by Eduard (according to Otto, however, it sounds a lot like a polka by Johann Strauss ) and a perfume advertisement by Otto as text. Heinz receives a cruise that his brothers also want to take part in. Heinz goes on board, as he believes, without his brothers. These also smuggle themselves onto the ship, which leads to mix-ups on board. The detective Fred Larsen is also on board with his fiancée Rita, who is also his colleague. He is the only one who realizes that Heinz Bollmann is really a triplet, but considers them to be a sought-after gangster trio. Conversely, the real gangsters (Emilio, Mac and Bobo) consider Heinz Bollmann to be a detective who is after them, but his triple existence drives them crazy and finally arrests them in the ship's cold room. On board, Heinz met his table neighbor, Lady Zocker, and fell in love with her during the course of the film.

Reviews

  • Kurt Sieben, Film-Echo , Wiesbaden, January 6, 1960:
"Triplets on board an ocean liner, but only - and this is the highlight of the matter - the viewers in the cinema are aware of the fact that all three are on board, while the guests and crew of the ship believe it is always only one and the same to have to do - if that's not a real pleasure toy: There are confusions and embarrassing surprises incessantly, a constant game of hide-and-seek for the unsuspecting and uninitiated, in a word a great confusion that also has a criminalistic character.
Screenwriter Gustav Kampendonk added a wealth of funny gags and grotesque ideas to this fun and joke. Perhaps the direction of Hans Müller could have been even more lively and high-spirited. Heinz Erhardt is of course completely in his wake again and creates the representation of the three Bollmann brothers on his own, so to speak. Incidentally, he hands out the punch lines à la Erhardt. Special praise is due to the trick specialist, to whom it is thanks that the triplets alias Heinz Erhardt multiplied by three also appear together on the - how can it be otherwise - wide screen.
Apart from that, only Trude Herr can actually achieve the size of Heinz Erhardt in terms of size and comic talent. The other actors - Peter Carsten, Ingrid van Bergen, Paul Dahlke and Ann Smyrner - are more or less marginal characters who decently do away with their humble task. This light, musically lively entertainment meal should be a joy for young and old. "
  • " Lexicon of international films " (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997: "Comedy aimed entirely at the audience's favorite, but only in parts amusing; in terms of trick technology - measured against the time it was made - remarkably clever."
  • “ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter ” (Review No. 34/1960): Confusion about and with Heinz Erhardt in a triple role. Suitable from 14 if necessary.

Others

The exterior shots were made on board the Hanseatic . The ship itself can only be seen lying in the harbor for a few seconds at the beginning; apart from that, only one model ship can be seen in the film in overall views, which has only minor similarities to the real Hanseatic .
The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on December 22, 1959, and it was first broadcast in Germany on June 14, 1969 on ZDF .

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