Hot potatoes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hot potatoes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sigi Rothemund |
| script |
Ralf Gregan Sigi Rothemund |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Bernie Paul |
| camera | Franz X. Lederle |
| cut | Angela Hilner |
| occupation | |
and Horst Pinnow , Rudi Block , Imke Barnstedt , Peter Schlesinger | |
Hot Potatoes is a 1979 German comedy film by Sigi Rothemund with the French Stéphane Hillel and the Israeli Zachi Noy in the leading roles.
action
Gynecologist Dr. Pröll is broke, which can no longer be overlooked in view of the cuckoo seals on his furniture and all other furnishings. Pröll's friend Angela has a “brilliant” idea. Since her ex-lover Leo is trying to earn his living as an art forger and is currently working on a copy of a Piccini painting, one could exchange this for a real Piccini, which, as the coincidence of the film would have it, in Dr. Pröll's four walls hang. So that the original does not go under the hammer anytime soon, the reluctant Leo is supposed to break into Pröll and exchange the paintings so that the fake as an alleged original brings in a lot of money, while the real original is not lost.
The time is pressing for the break, because the following day, Pröll's successor, the young Dr. Knievel, expects and should take over his practice and villa. The young doctor, on the other hand, is currently suffering from amnesia and has neither identification nor money. And so it is not surprising that Knievel suddenly ends up in bed with Nina, Leo's current girlfriend. He, in turn, catches the two in a precarious situation and (wrongly) assumes that his lover is cheating on him. Angry, Leo leaves his apartment and ends up with Waruschke, a Berlin crook with whom he wants to enter Pröll's villa. This is what the pretty Nina is planning to do too, because she doesn't believe Johannes Knievel, whom she thinks is a dodger and impostor, his confusing story about the doctor's office and the villa to be moved into.
When Johannes Knievel cannot enter the Pröllsche villa with his key, the annoyed Nina calls the police without further ado, who is carrying a pregnant woman in the police car as part of an emergency. Since you meet the breaking-in Leo in a white coat in Proell's villa, he is supposed to carry out the delivery, which of course he has no idea about. But why is Waruschke still lying in bed, in women's clothes and a blonde wig? When the office hours help that Leo had for the new doctor Dr. Keep your knee level and the first patients of the day into the practice, the general confusion is total. Johannes Knievel cannot contribute anything to the clarification, as he is stuck at the police station without papers and with only moderate memories. Finally there is an over-the-top chase all over Berlin, in which many wounds are left. In the end, when everything has been cleared up, the three heavily damaged and in plastered protagonists Leo, Waruschke and Nina have themselves become cases for comprehensive medical treatments.
Production notes
Hot Potatoes was shot on 19 days between November 22 and December 19, 1979 in Berlin and premiered on July 10, 1980 in the Prinzess- Kino in Mainz . The film was later re-released on video as Raspberry Ice Cream and Hot Girls . Interesting is the fact that Zachi Noy not in this film from his Popsicle -Stammsprecher Joachim Tennstedt , but by Ulrich Gressieker was synchronized. Rolf Albrecht provided the costumes , Wolf Brauner was in charge of production.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films called the film a “crude German comedy, unassuming and unimportant”.
Cinema called this publicity a “crazy mistake comedy”.
Web links
- Hot potatoes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot potatoes at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Hentschel : Lemon Ice Cream, Sex & Rock'n Roll: The German-Israeli film series "Eis am Stiel" (1978–1988). Verlag für Video + Filmschrift, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-1-5395-7872-7 , page 275.
- ↑ Hot potatoes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Cinema No. 7, July 1980 (issue 26), p. 4