Fine company - limited liability

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Movie
Original title Fine company - limited liability
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1982
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ottokar Runze
script Richard Hey
production Ottokar Runze
music Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Michael Epp
cut Marlies Dux
occupation

and Henning Gissel , Carlheinz Heitmann , Arnfried Lerche , Aras Ören , Claus-Dieter Reents

Feine Gesellschaft - limited liability is a German feature film made by Ottokar Runze in Hamburg in 1981 starring three of the most important German-speaking stars of international film, comprising three generations of cinema, in the lead roles: Elisabeth Bergner , Lilli Palmer and Hardy Krüger .

action

Hamburg in the early 1980s, at the time of the rampant squatting in the alternative scene. Even the very elderly city tramp Else, a real original, should, according to the will of the Senate, leave the house with the other residents of an occupied house immediately. The police arrive and carry one of the illegal residents out of the walls. Only the old, resolute Else stands across and protests loudly. What nobody knows: Else is the older sister of Hilde, the owner of the house and at the same time the head of a global corporation. The grande dame resides appropriately in a noble villa on the Elbchaussee . Else has always been suspicious of this display of wealth and belonging to the supposedly “better society”, and she has renounced all of this. She left her share of the inheritance to starving orphans in India. Instead, the stubborn old woman with the big heart now walks through Hamburg and watches her surroundings with a keen eye.

Almost at the same time, crooks Raimund and Hinrich attacked and robbed a bank branch in the Hanseatic city. But a lot goes wrong with the break, and the money only stays in her possession for a short time. Else, who is now homeless on the way to her sister's villa, observes these events and is dragged along as a hostage and unpleasant witness by the stupid narrow-gauge thugs. Since Else is on her way to see Hilde, the crooks consider her wealthy, since she has a sister with Hilde on Elbchaussee and she seems to promise even more money, the two bank robbers want to keep Hilde's fortune harmless - as compensation for that Bank robbery money gone through the rags. When they arrive in front of the villa, the Tippel brother Kolbe joins them.

But Raimund and Hinrich's streak of bad luck does not end: Since the group representative had taken his own life the day before in order not to have to answer for the now unmistakable bankruptcy of the company, there is nothing left for the bankrupt bank robbers on Elbchaussee either pick up. The creditors struck immediately beforehand and took everything that was not nailed down. The gangsters try to get hold of "their" money by negotiating with the representatives of the creditors - in vain. They flee from the police through the Elbe ... while the stolen banknotes were washed ashore on the other bank, unfortunately completely unusable in this condition. In the end, everyone is duped, and Else and Hilde have no choice but to look for shelter in the dilapidated house that once belonged to the sisters.

Production notes

Feine Gesellschaft - limited liability , produced in cooperation with ZDF , was created in Hamburg in mid-1981 and premiered on February 23, 1982 at the Berlinale . The film's mass launch was on March 12, 1982.

For theater and film legend Elisabeth Bergner, this was the last appearance in a movie.

With only 22,562 paying visitors until mid-1983, the film was considered a downright box-office flop.

Reviews

The ratings for this film were poor to poor. Below is a small selection:

Die Zeit found that the action “still had speed and wit” until the second change of location. However, the siege of the villa is "lengthy, the interaction of the actors without tension. There is hardly anything to laugh about. "

The lexicon of international films saw the film as an "attempt at a satirical comedy that lacks wit and originality."

For the large Personenlexikon the film produced High society - limited liability despite prominent cast "primary yawning boredom."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel of October 24, 1983, p. 231
  2. ^ The time of May 21, 1982
  3. ↑ Fine company - limited liability. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 680.