Holidays like never before (1963)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Holidays like never before |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Schleif |
| script | Heinz Oskar Wuttig based on the novel Percy on the wrong track by Hans Thomas |
| production |
Gero Wecker Kurt Ulrich for Arca-Film and Kurt Ulrich-Film |
| music | Heino Gaze |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| occupation | |
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Holidays like never before is a German love and crime comedy from 1963 with Carlos Thompson and Eva Bartok in the leading roles.
action
Bank director John Valera is a man of the world, a great looking man from head to toe. Tired of his business, one day he abandons everything, leaves his place of work in Berlin and travels incognito to Italy, where he wants to relax and spend holidays like never before. As his travel budget begins to shrink more and more, Valera is not too bad to take on various jobs and earn his living as a jazz trumpeter, house servant, chauffeur and assistant to a gang of thieves.
Meanwhile, at home in Berlin, you're in a state of excitement. John Valera is accused of fraud on a large scale, he is said to have embezzled several million DM. In distant Italy he has no inkling that he was the victim of clever deceivers. Rather, Valera enjoys the southern sun and also gets to know the woman of his heart with the sophisticated Kristina Bajonova. Things get rolling when Valera's sister Gaby travels to Italy. It soon becomes clear why John actually left his bank. In this way he wanted to track down the people behind the large-scale fraud, with whom Kristina, who also turns out to be penniless in the end, was connected - his authorized officer turns out to be a thief. As John's future, she emerges from this affair purified.
Production notes
Holidays like never before took place in autumn 1962 and passed the FSK exam on March 5, 1963. The premiere took place on March 8, 1963.
Ernst H. Albrecht created the film structures, Ingrid Zoré created the costumes.
The same material was filmed in 1939 by Herbert Selpin under the title A man on the wrong track with Hans Albers in the lead role.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Based on a commercial literature template, a strip was created under conventional direction that only distinguishes the better cast from the Legion more similarly and ... makes it reasonably entertaining for the general public."
"A piece of dream factory with lots of colorful postcard images."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holidays like never before in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Holidays like never before. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Holiday as never before in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Holidays like never before at filmportal.de