A cactus is not a lolly

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Movie
Original title A cactus is not a lolly
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1981
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rolf Olsen
script Rolf Olsen
production Karl Spiehs
for Lisa Film
music Gerhard Heinz
camera Vlada Majic
Rainer Teumer
cut Jutta Hering
occupation

A cactus is not a lolly is a German erotic comedy by Rolf Olsen from 1981 . An alternative title of the film is When the Tyroleans still had tails .

action

Axel Adam earns his living as a cartoonist for the adult magazine Play-Me . His comic book When Bayern still had tails appears regularly , which is now to be discontinued. Axel is outraged. When preparing for the next comic, in which his friend Bruno was his model as a disguised caveman, he again completely forgot about the advertising contract for a travel agency, for which he was supposed to make posters. The blonde travel agent Gaby Frey therefore visits Axel to pick up the drafts for the posters. He puts her off for the next morning. That morning Gaby picked up a lottery prize of 6500 DM for her boss and the money in an envelope with her. Axel persuades her to take part in an advertising campaign to prevent the comic series from being discontinued. Gaby places a copy of Play-Me in a public phone booth and Axel photographs the reactions of people entering the phone booth. After a young man and a woman who are visibly stimulating to read, Pastor Strauss enters the telephone booth and unceremoniously puts the magazine into his pocket. Gaby secretly follows him until he disappears in a bus to Bad Tölz . A short time later she notices that she has lost the envelope with the money. She thinks he slipped between the pages of the magazine. She sets out with Axel to find the pastor and thus the magazine.

Pastor Strauss is disturbed by biology teacher Louisa Hopf while reading the magazine and hides the magazine in an open bag that belongs to Ms. Hoft. She had an accident with her bicycle, the magazine slipped out of her pocket and was taken away by one of Frau Hopf's adolescent students. The magazine soon causes debauchery in the class, condoms are converted into balloons and the young Heide suddenly sees herself being followed by a classmate. At home she throws the notebook out the window, where Turk Akhmed catches it, who then promptly experiences difficulties with his potency and his wife. In the end, there is a strike by the guest workers' women who complain about the moral decline in the Bavarian village and paralyze the entire infrastructure by refusing to work. To find out the reason for the strike, the mayor and the morally strict Louisa Hopf go to the guest workers' quarter of the village and return with the cause of all the dispute, the issue of Play-Me . Mrs. Hopf wants to pass the booklet on to the pastor, who is supposed to take care of the strike. Pastor Strauss, who has already told Axel and Gaby that he no longer has the notebook but that there was no envelope in him, suddenly finds Frau Hopf's bag in his room, in which he once put the notebook. As if in a miraculous way, there is also the notebook that Strauss takes in his pocket. God's voice himself instructs him to finally bring the notebook back to where he stole it. Strauss obeyed and found Gaby's envelope in the phone booth that had slipped between the telephone books. Gaby is getting her money back and has also found a lover in Axel, who accompanied her on her search and even saved her life from bank robbers. For Axel, on the other hand, there is a double happy ending: After his return to Munich, Bruno informs him that the comic will not be discontinued.

production

A cactus is not a lolly was filmed in Munich , among other places . Ferdinand Zimmermann created the costumes and Ingo Tögel created the production . The film was released in German cinemas on January 30, 1981. The film has been released on both video and DVD.

Jürgen Drews sings the song We'll meet again in the film .

criticism

For the film service , A cactus is not a lolly was "stupid, prejudiced sex joke." Der Spiegel called the film "scrap".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A cactus is not a lolly. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Fourth program . In: Der Spiegel , No. 31, 1982.