Hit it, kid
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hit it, kid |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | May Spils |
| script | Peter Schlieper |
| production | Hans Fries |
| music | Kristian Schultze |
| camera | Gernot Roll |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
| occupation | |
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Hau drauf, Kleiner is a German comedy film made in the summer of 1973 by the successful duo May Spils (director) and Werner Enke (leading role).
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The life artist and professional, because he was deeply convinced of this, Charly who refused to work has set himself up comfortably in his small, private world and, like Diogenes in ancient Greece, lives secluded in a bin that was parked in a Munich backyard. Only the fear of getting old prematurely and gradually losing his head of hair drives him seriously. As a declared pacifist, as expected, he does not believe in weapon service and refuses to participate in a scheduled reserve exercise by the Bundeswehr . But when his total refusal to act falls on deaf ears, the no-go apologist has no choice but to move out of his comfort zone and disappear.
Two Bundeswehr police officers are henceforth constantly on the heels of Charly in order to still be able to put him in a uniform. But since Charly soon needs money to at least meet his basic needs, he comes up with the idea of trying his hand at a hair restorer with his friend Henry. Soon the two men get into some hair-raising situations, which they master more badly than well as usual calmly. On a sales tour they get to know a sausage seller and cross the path of a detective who is just about to hunt down a gum-chewing phantom. Eventually the police caught up with Charly, took him with them and booked the total objector into a holding cell. But Charly can escape and meets Henry and the detective again, because the phantom is still running around freely ...
Production notes
Hau drauf, Kleiner was created between July 22nd and September 2nd, 1973 in Munich and the surrounding area and had its world premiere on January 25th, 1974.
Werner Enke wrote the script under a pseudonym. Hans-Jürgen Tögel was an assistant director. Hau drauf, Kleiner was the third of five full-length comedies that Spils and Enke shot together between 1967 and 1982.
Reviews
"Werner Enke and May Spils, the dozing handicraft chaot and his alert driver, have a monopoly in German comedy films: apart from them there is nothing far and wide. But that's not the only reason why her third film is a hit again [...] It turns out that this kind of individual bizarre film is a genre of its own: Enke's comical word scrubbing brush, variable depending on advanced age. Enke's panic is the terrible time that overtakes him at the whirlwind: He already imagines himself to be an old man and early retiree without a pension, surrounded by nothing but bad boys. If you then add the horror that everyone has their expectations of Enke, the professional spinner, that he has to prove over and over again that he is still capable of spinning in the old quality, then he has a dog's life so much from film to film. But the pressure to perform has not yet overwhelmed him. As a lateral thinker and work-shy Heimgarten-Diogenes, as a truant from the Bundeswehr and fluttering fleeing from bad boys, he plows his way through his 'philosophical shit', nourishes himself 'drained and worn out' by scrounger tricks and hair growth advertising. A TV scene in which he is interviewing a hairdresser as a reporter shows how good he can be: He's unbeatable when it comes to hair-splitting nonsense. The film looks like a gag sketchbook: Brooding clothes with speech-poop [...] Nice hit, little one! "
“Enke, the forever sleepy one, has matured and yet he continues to suffer. To yourself and this time to the so-called age-youth weakness ... "
“After 'To the point, darling' and 'Don't fumble, darling', the Werner Enke / May Spils team unleashed a whole collection of bizarre gags and crazy idiots on the screen ... A film for young people and for those who are against the establishment to have."
“After 'down to business, darling' and 'don't fumble, darling' it is now 'hit it, little one'. Werner Enke and May Spils, the inseparable film duo from Munich, opened a barrel again after three years and let loose new slogans. "
“The second attempt by May Spils and Werner Enke after 'Don't fumble, darling' to follow up on their successful film 'To the point, sweetheart'. Once again, the focus is on a bumbling squadron who turns his back on the competitive society without escaping its constraints. As a conscript he brings a Bundeswehr sergeant to a frenzy, sits down, is caught and in between does all sorts of nonsense. The film lacks the format for true satire. The direction is content with stringing together more or less amusing number gags. "
Web links
- Hau it, kid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hit it, little one at filmportal.de