It doesn't always have to be caviar (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | It doesn't always have to be caviar |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Radványi |
| script |
Henri Jeanson , Paul Andréota , Jean Ferry |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Rolf Wilhelm |
| camera |
Friedl Behn-Grund , Göran Strindberg |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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It doesn't always have to be caviar is a German - French film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel from 1961 with OW Fischer in the lead role.
action
London 1939: Thomas Lieven, son of a German and an Englishwoman, works as an employee in a bank. He has a weakness for cooking - and a weakness for women, which his fiancée Nancy doesn't like. On his birthday, Nancy takes him to a political rally where, at her urging, he speaks out in favor of peace in Europe in view of the threat from Nazi Germany. Shortly afterwards, his boss sends him to Berlin , where he is supposed to hand over important documents to the bank branch there. He is picked up at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport by a man named Loos, who does not work for his bank, but for counter-espionage under Admiral Canaris . Loos, who thinks the unsuspecting Thomas is an agent, wants to employ him as a double agent. The Gestapo man Hofbauer, with whom Thomas subsequently ends up, also wants to employ him as a double agent. With a forged French passport, Thomas is finally sent to Paris , where he is supposed to contact an agent as a room waiter in a hotel.
But instead Thomas flies to London, where the Secret Service makes him a triple agent and also sends him to Paris. There he meets the chambermaid Chantal in said hotel, with whom he starts dating shortly afterwards. A woman named Vera turns out to be the agent he is supposed to contact and instructs him, a Swiss chemist who is also staying at the hotel, to steal a poison gas formula. Meanwhile, Chantal, who is actually a professional thief, is planning with her accomplice Bastian to steal the jewelry of a rich American woman. The following night, Thomas and Bastian get in each other's way, so that Thomas does not give Vera the bag with the poison gas formula, but the one with the jewelry. While she escapes with the jewels, Thomas is arrested. The French Colonel Siméon, to whom Thomas protests his innocence, unceremoniously turns him into a quadruple agent and releases him again. Thomas then meets Chantal, who uses a pistol to claim the jewelry back. He overpowers them and goes on his way again, hoping to finally be able to escape the various secret services. In a café, he keeps an eye on a young woman named Mimi, who invites him to her apartment. However, she is a French agent who Colonel Siméon put on him to teach him a lesson. Thomas then takes part in a training course for agents and has to undergo subconscious training for months.
The Second World War has broken out in the meantime and Thomas meets Vera again after a parachute jump. He should get her a list of the names of the French secret agents. When the Germans march on Paris, Thomas, who is now supposed to pretend to be an American, drives to Toulouse with Siméon and Mimi . There Siméon wants to bring the list of French secret agents to safety. On the way they meet the Wehrmacht , which takes them to General von Felseneck. Thomas can convince him that he is an American diplomat. General von Felseneck apologizes to him for the bad treatment by the soldier Zumbusch. While they are having lunch together, Zumbusch calls the US embassy in Paris and Thomas is found out. However, he manages to convince the general to be an agent of the Gestapo, which Hofbauer confirms on a phone call. As Thomas, Siméon and Mimi are preparing to continue with their passes, a car arrives with Chantal and Bastian, who were arrested by German soldiers. Thomas makes sure that he can interrogate Chantal. After some initial hesitation, she agrees to share her latest prey with him. They get closer again and Chantal agrees to wait for him in Nice . Thomas issues her and Bastian passes and says goodbye to her.
background
The film, together with its sequel This time it must be caviar, was shot from June 21 to September 13, 1961 at original locations in Berlin , London , Lisbon , Nice and Paris as well as in the Spandau film studios of CCC-Film . During the shooting there was a serious accident, whereupon the cameraman Göran Strindberg, injured by a wall collapse, had to be replaced by his colleague Friedl Behn-Grund . Director Géza von Radványi was also injured. Until his recovery, Helmut Käutner and Georg Marischka took over the directorship for a time. Otto Pischinger and Herta Hareiter were responsible for the film construction. Claudia Herberg designed the costumes .
On October 18, 1961, the film was premiered at the World Games film theater in Hanover . In December of the same year, this time it must be caviar came into German cinemas. Simmel's novel was also staged in 1977 as a 13-part television series with Siegfried Rauch in the role of Thomas Lieven. On May 30, 1986, It doesn't always have to be caviar was shown by ARD for the first time on German television.
Reviews
“The relaxed sequence of scenes, which is tailored to the star, entertains mainly with typical military clothing comedy,” said the lexicon of international films . Cinema described the film as a “good but entertaining farce of agents”.
Web links
- It may not always be caviar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It doesn't always have to be caviar at filmportal.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for It doesn't always have to be caviar . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 26 437 DVD).
- ↑ cf. filmportal.de
- ↑ It doesn't always have to be caviar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de