Three cheers to Corporal Neumann
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Three cheers to Corporal Neumann |
| Country of production | Germany Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 92, 85, 82 (DVD) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (1969), 16 (today) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Marischka |
| script |
Erwin Klein Franz Marischka |
| production |
Theo Maria Werner for Parnassus, Munich Italo Martinenghi for Cinesecolo, Rome |
| music | Peter Kreuder |
| camera | Bob Sticky |
| cut | Vincenzo Vanni |
| occupation | |
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A triple cheers to the medical corporal Neumann is a 1968 German-Italian military and erotic fun game by Franz Marischka with Siegfried Rauch in the title role.
action
Austria-Hungary, in the "good old days". Neumann, a paramedic who is mainly female, is transferred to the provincial town of Krems by his superiors . During the train ride there, he meets the lovely Klara (called "Klärchen") Strauss, who quickly gives him her heart. When Neumann arrives in Krems, a large train station is already waiting for him, because Archduke Rudolf has also traveled by train. Neumann had initially assumed that the happy reception was for him, but soon much more pleasant things happened to him. The ladies of the garrison town are extremely fond of him; the young, pretty girls hardly miss an opportunity for an allegedly urgently needed medical consultation, only to finally take Neumann to themselves for a lunchtime. The women almost storm Neumann's office and can hardly wait for him to ask them to free themselves “upstairs” or to completely undress right away. The paramedic is the temporary substitute for the old, creaky senior medical officer Dr. Treppwitz, a jagged, gnarled bald man with a Prussian attitude.
With his arrival in Krems, Neumann has another responsibility that he did not expect: this is called Julia and is his orphaned niece. The newly appointed guardian Neumann assumes that it must be a little girl, but Julia already has all the advantages of a well-formed young woman of 18 years. When, in her youthful naivety, she confuses the street names of her future accommodation, the educational institution for higher daughters, in which the matronly head of Treptow runs a strict regiment, with an address for very light ladies, Julia promptly ends up in a luxury brothel. A distinguished guest is expected there, and Julia is asked to dedicate himself to this gentleman with all his physical strength. It is about Archduke Rudolf himself. But His Highness has no intention of climbing the alleged virgin, rather he is only concerned with cultivating and cherishing his well-known reputation as a "whole man".
Julia's uncle also goes unintentionally astray due to the address mix-up. He actually wanted to treat the whores with medication, but now ends up in the Admiral's widow's daughters again. Since he doesn't meet Julia here, he finds her a little later in the Nobel Puff and ensures that the perky little fruit is shipped to the right address soon. There Julia Neumann met the handsome lieutenant Romeo, a nephew of the Archduke, whom Juliet had already got to know elsewhere in the Séparée. Prince Romeo is quickly hooked on seductive innocence and would like to marry Juliet on the spot. The medical corporal, on the other hand, is preoccupied with completely different things: he wants to put on a play he has written himself. Since you are in a military environment and you are also following the will of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Treppwitz and the Shakespeare tradition, according to which “women” have no place on the stage, all roles, including women, are played by men. After further turbulence, Neumann and the lady of his heart, with whom the paramedic also lends a professional hand, finally come together. Last but not least, the announced marriage between Neumann's ward Juliet and “Prince Romeo”, approved by the Archduke, also promotes him to the very highest aristocratic circles.
Production notes
A triple cheer to Corporal Neumann was filmed in Austria in 1968, passed the FSK on January 21, 1969 and was premiered in Germany on March 14, 1969. The film title is based on an old mocking and drinking song.
The production line had Heinz Pollak . The film structures were designed by Herta Hareiter , the costumes by Lilo Nöbauer.
For the veteran among film composers, Peter Kreuder ( " Glückskinder " ), this strip was one of his last commissions from the cinema. The TV assistant Alexandra Marischka , who married the director of this film shortly before shooting started, made her debut here.
In addition to various nude appearances by young actresses, the film also contains a lot of silliness. For example, Rauch's Neumann embraces the bare breasts of his beloved Klara (Christiane Rücker) from behind and claims to be the inventor of the “brassiere”.
An 82 minute DVD version was released in 2010.
In November 1977, Jürgen Enz shot a largely unnoticed sequel to sex in just seven days under the title New Adventures of Corporal Neumann . Wolfgang Jung took over the title role from Siegfried Rauch.
Reviews
“A good reputation obliges. If this corporal (Siegfried Rauch) gets a little smile instead of straining his diaphragm, it's not his fault. He is certainly not a child of sadness. But under the direction of Franz Marischka, there is little more of his best nonsense than a tired stage nerd, in which a lot is talked past each other and even more at the humor. A far too Prussian 'lower body doctor' (Hubert von Meyerinck) and a senile Archduke (Rudolf Prack) together with lively ladies deliver an kuk Kremser Kaiserschnulze instead of a parody. "
In Films 1965-70 the following can be read: “Topless show with mostly silly gags and crude indecentities in the absurd directorial style of cheap entertainment. - We advise against it. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Sanitätsgefreiter Neumann, the hero of countless stanzas of a well-known song, as the title character of strung together episodes in a sex-trimmed milieu with mostly silly gags and personalities."
cinema.online found: "The ambiguous joke is clearly out of date."
Even the evangelical film observer does not believe in the film : “So far, the last and thinnest infusion of already stale military clothes. Annoying and completely unnecessary. "
Individual evidence
- ^ German films 1977, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. Ed. v. German Institute for Film Studies (Wiesbaden) 1978, p. 45
- ^ Films 1965/70. Handbook VIII of the Catholic film criticism. Volume 1. Cologne 1971, p. 68
- ↑ Three cheers to Corporal Neumann. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Three cheers to the medical corporal Neumann on cinema.de
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 151/1969