It doesn't always have to be caviar (series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | It doesn't always have to be caviar |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 1977 |
| Production company |
CCC Television ZDF |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 ( list ) |
| genre |
Drama romance |
| Director | Thomas Engel |
| script |
Ladislas Fodor Horst Pillau Johannes Mario Simmel |
| production |
Artur Brauner Reiner Schmalisch Joachim Tettenborn |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| First broadcast | May 11, 1977 on ZDF |
It doesn't always have to be caviar is a ZDF television series from 1977. It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel from 1961.
action
The wealthy businessman Thomas Lieven ( Siegfried Rauch ), woman lover and hobby cook, meets the attractive Helén de Couville on a business trip. He soon finds out that she belongs to the American secret service and would like to advertise him for them. He then tells her about his eventful past, which began in 1939.
At that time he was lured from London to Berlin and there fell into the clutches of the Gestapo , who wanted to force him to spy on Great Britain . He fled back to London in the hope of being able to shake off the Gestapo. However, the British Secret Service was of the opinion that Lieven would be the ideal double agent. When he refused, he was expelled to France, where the Deuxième Bureau was waiting for him ...
Lieven hopes to have left his past behind, but Helén makes sure that the game begins again ...
Actors and roles
The following table shows the actors with more than three appearances and their roles. In addition, other well-known actors such as Louise Martini , Diana Körner , Simone Rethel , Horst Keitel , Peter Bongartz and Dieter Borsche had short appearances. The narrative voice in the background came from Claus Biederstaedt .
| actor | role | consequences |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich W. Building School | Colonel Schüttler | 8th |
| Günter Bothur | François | 4th |
| Herbert Fleischmann | Major Loos | 9 |
| Gert Günther Hoffmann | SS-Sturmbannführer Eicher | 7th |
| Günther Kaufmann | Ali | 4th |
| Hildegard Krekel | Carmen | 4th |
| Marisa Mell | Chantal | 6th |
| Rainer Penkert | Lovejoy | 6th |
| Siegfried Rauch | Thomas Lieven | 13 |
| Heinz Reincke | Bastian Fabre | 11 |
| Christian Rode | Debras | 4th |
| Rolf Schimpf | Captain Brenner | 4th |
| Erik Schumann | Captain Simeon | 6th |
| Günther Stoll | Colonel Werthe | 4th |
| Nadja Tiller | Estrella | 4th |
| Berno from Cramm | SS-Untersturmführer Winter | 7th |
| Edgar Wenzel | Frederic | 4th |
Episodes
| episode | title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | How it all started | May 11, 1977 |
| 2 | French kitchen | May 25, 1977 |
| 3 | When the polar bears fledge | June 8, 1977 |
| 4th | My name is mabel | June 22, 1977 |
| 5 | You can't shoot the dead | July 6, 1977 |
| 6th | Grid square 135 Z | 20th July 1977 |
| 7th | Shakespeare lets ask | 3rd August 1977 |
| 8th | Lazarus | 17th August 1977 |
| 9 | Chantal | August 31, 1977 |
| 10 | The very fine tour | September 14, 1977 |
| 11 | Number seven | September 28, 1977 |
| 12 | Nightingale 17 is calling | October 12, 1977 |
| 13 | Black market businesses | 19th October 1977 |
DVD release
The series was released on November 28, 2014 in a complete box (five DVDs) with all 13 episodes by Studio Hamburg Enterprises.
Web links
- It may not always be caviar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It doesn't always have to be caviar in the online film database
- It doesn't always have to be caviar at Fernsehserien.de