Breakfast in a double bed
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| Original title | Breakfast in a double bed |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Axel von Ambesser |
| script | Ladislas Fodor based on an idea by S. Fischer-Fabian |
| production | Artur Brauner for CCC-Filmkunst, Berlin |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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Breakfast in bed is a German comedy film from 1963. Directed by Axel von Ambesser played Liselotte Pulver , OW Fischer and Lex Barker the leading roles.
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The newspaper publisher Henry Clausen married the young, attractive Liane on March 17, 1960 and immediately made a big splash about the marriage in one of his own newspapers, the Morgen-Kurier. After only three years, the initially stormy wedlock has visibly calmed down: Husband Henry has forgotten the wedding day, and the two married couples don't have much to say to each other. Everything threatens to suffocate in the usual routine. During a relaxation and headstand exercise as part of a yoga class with her husband and another employee of the publishing house, Liane met the yoga teacher Victor H. Armstrong, who lives in the same building as the Clausens three floors below them. To the delight of his wife, Henry wants to celebrate the wedding anniversary the next day, but then an unforeseen interview in Moscow with Khrushchev intervenes, and Liane is deeply saddened to be alone again. In order to feel attractive to her husband again, she wants to be refreshed by Victor. Soon more will come of it, in the elevator there is a first kiss between the two.
Armstrong turns out to be a stormy lover and shows Liane exactly the interest that Liane has missed so painfully in her husband recently. There are stormy caresses in the Clausen apartment when Liane suddenly hears a noise from the bedroom. It is her husband of the gods, who has returned from Moscow overnight, who has noticed the intimate togetherness of the lovers word for word. This is followed by mocking remarks from Henry, which leave Victor and Liane uncomfortable. Liane only gets really angry when her husband does not show the hoped-for jealousy. That same evening, the couple spoke of divorce. One day a blonde temptation snows into Henry's life in the form of the young Danish writer Claudia Westorp. She sneaks into his office to tell him her erotic debut novel “Umschlinge mich, Nacht. Concessions from a seventeen year old ”. The work turns out to be soft pornography trash, but Clausen comes up with another idea, namely to start an affair with Claudia. Laying her bare leg lasciviously over Henry's shoulder, Claudia begins to read all of her books to him while the words "Do not disturb" lights up in front of the door of his office. They kiss for the first time during the lecture.
When Henry paints lipstick on his cheek to make his still-wife at home jealous, she reacts completely differently than expected. She runs to Victor and tells him that she is now free for him. This is unexpectedly reserved. Liane soon realizes that Victor's robust, fresh-air life does not necessarily correspond to the luxury life that the publisher's wife was used to up to now. While she was taking a morning warm-up bath in her marital apartment, she met Claudia in the company of her husband. There is a skirmish in the course of which it turns out that Henry and Liane are still lying together. Finally Victor is brought out of his apartment. After a few weeks they divorced, but the ex-couple Clausen decided, for purely practical reasons, to continue to live together in the spacious apartment. All that is needed is a second (white) telephone that is now owned by Liane, who has taken her maiden name Kolmar again. Over the course of the weeks, however, both new couples must discover that they do not match. When Claudia and Victor briefly leave the house, Liane rushes up to Henry immediately. Both romp around the apartment like freshly in love and end up in bed. The moving movers are sent away again.
Production notes
The film produced by Artur Brauner's CCC-Filmkunst was made between February 4 and March 18, 1963. The premiere took place on April 26, 1963. The few outdoor shots were taken a. in the Berlin zoo .
Hans-Otto Schröder was in charge of production. The buildings were by Hans-Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer , the costumes by Ilse Dubois and Trude Ulrich . Kurt Witte took care of the sound. Director Axel von Ambesser acted as off-screen narrator in this film, as he often does in his productions. As always, Lex Barker was dubbed by Gert Günther Hoffmann .
In one scene, Ambesser had the fun of letting Liselotte Pulver look at her own still or advertising photo from the film Kohlhiesels Töchter . Both had shot this together in the previous year ( 1962 film year ). Seconds later, the director "Verleger" Fischer made an allusion to the Spiegel affair that also took place in 1962 around Franz Josef Strauss , whose photo was also published shortly before, and Rudolf Augstein . At a later point, when a mirror breaks, Fischer points out the Spiegel affair again.
Loni Heuser, Ralf Wolter and Walter Gross, alleged contributors according to some sources, do not appear in the present version.
Reviews
"Bringed the intended effect through clumsy coarseness and numerous personalities."
"Mainly chalking married comedy with two main actors who didn't necessarily have their best day here."
“This aseptic comedy from 1963 (directed by Axel von Ambesser) features old-timers from the once popular cinema: Old Shatterhand Lex Barker, OW Fischer (photo, with Lilo Pulver) and Ann Smyrner. One critic said of Ann that she spreads erotic drought even when she is under the shower. "
"Jokeless series of unoriginal scenes with typical film erotic and flat dialogues."
Web links
- Breakfast in bed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breakfast in a double bed at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breakfast in a double bed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Breakfast in a double bed in Der Spiegel
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 236/1963.