Money or liver!

Movie
Original title	Money or liver!
Country of production	Germany , Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1986
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Dieter Pröttel
script	Mike Krüger , Christoph Treutwein
production	Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs ) Roxy Film ( Ludwig Waldleitner ) Bayerischer Rundfunk
music	Gerhard Heinz , First General Insecurity , Falco
camera	Atze Glanert
cut	Karin Albrecht , Claudia Wutz
occupation
Mike Krüger : Mike Ursela Monn : Susanne Raimund Harmstorf : Captain Klaus Büchner : Steward Werner Kreindl : Commissioner Hans Clarin : Professor Flinkmann Alexander Grill : surgeon Corinna Genest : prison director Barbara Valentin : Countess Barbara von Schlemmer Ossy Kolmann : Count Adalbert von Schlemmer Falco : himself Simone Brahmann : Little Red Riding Hood Lotti Krekel : Mrs. Müller Christine Schuberth : nurse Renate Muhri : nurse Jochen Busse : Man with a hat Ernst H. Hilbich : Mr. Müller Bernd Stephan : Sergeant Basedow Kurt Weinzierl : prison guard Otto Retzer : Policeman Andreas Kovac-Zemen : Executor

Money or liver! is a German film comedy from 1986 with a large cast of German and Austrian actors. In 1986 the film drew around one million viewers in German cinemas.

Falco and Ursela Monn at the film premiere of Money or Liver! 1986 in Essen

action

Mike and Susanne are lovers who keep afloat by robbing banks. When they are followed by the police after a robbery on a jewelry store, they seek refuge in a butcher's shop, where they hide their prey inside a goose. When the butcher sells her geese, Mike and Susanne are desperately looking for the buyer who now owns the jewels. In spite of all efforts, her search remains unsuccessful. Ultimately, they discover that the nuns of a monastery acquired the goose and appropriated the jewelry hidden in it. Mike and Susanne forego the booty and continue to flee from the police.

background

The film is a production by Karl Spiehs , which is why it was mainly shot in Austria and around the Wörthersee . The Finkenstein castle arena on Lake Faak served as the backdrop for the Falco concert .

Reviews

"Film without a plot, but the flick can feature loads of high-class music, actors and gags."

- sk : deutsche-filme.com

"Something between clothes and music film with flat puns"

- Cologne, Rundschau

"Comedy with superficial subplots and fashionable trends that offers nothing more than situational comedy ."

- Lexicon of international film

Songs

• Falco: The Sound of Musik - Der Kommissar - Jeanny, Part I - Rock Me Amadeus
• First general uncertainty : Ba-Ba bank robbery - Prince Charming - money or life - kiss the hand, Mr. K. (jailer)
• Mike Krüger: Susanne

Trivia

• The title “Geld oder Leber!” Is a play on words with the title of the album Geld oder Leben , which the first general uncertainty published in 1985. The film music consists mainly of titles from this album.
• The film's VHS video cassette, which was available in the late 1980s , advertised with the slogan "[...] a gag at least every thirty seconds!"

Web links

• Money or liver! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Money or liver! at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ deutsche-filme.com (link no longer available)
2. ↑ Money or Liver! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 27, 2017 .