Hot plaster Cologne
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hot plaster Cologne |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Ernst Hofbauer |
| script | Claus Tinney |
| production | Karl Spiehs for Lisa-Film (Munich) |
| music | Claudius Alzner |
| camera | Hans Jura |
| cut | Use Wilken |
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Hot Plaster Cologne is a German feature film from 1967 by Ernst Hofbauer with Richard Münch in the lead role of an upright public prosecutor in the fight against crime and Walter Kohut , Klaus Löwitsch and Art Brauss as his gangster opponents.
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A gang war raged in Cologne in the 1960s. Two rival gangs - the "Kölner" and the "Wiener" - have been fighting each other to the knife, ever since the Austrian shop and brothel owner Poldi wanted to enter Cologne's red-light district. That doesn't fit his long-established opponents at all, because the districts are already firmly divided among the local pimps. When it comes to a solid fight between the Cologne and the Viennese in a Cologne backyard, a man dies. He was beaten to death. The police blame a city-known crook and arrest him. As a result, his brother Paul "Paule" Keil is furious and starts the guerrilla war with his cronies against the investigating public prosecutor Dr. Stauffer to expand. In broad daylight he was attacked by several bad guys in the middle of passers-by, his son Ernst was kidnapped.
While the police are feverishly investigating, the gang war continues. People are beaten and kicked, whipped and shot. In between, however, scenes repeatedly show that, viewed superficially, the prostitution trade goes on its daily routine. There is, for example, the honest Cologne man Alfons Schulz, who always portrays himself as a virtuous model citizen, but who regularly likes to be pampered in secret by joy girls. But the "Cologne swamp" with its alleged "amorality" is also evident elsewhere: there are, for example, two girls who regularly blackmail an old woman for her money, drink unrestrained alcohol in public and abuse passers-by. On the hunt for the kidnappers of Ernst Stauffer, there is a showdown between the police and gangsters in the Cologne exhibition halls, and some of them are killed during the exchange of fire. Prosecutor Stauffer's son can be freed from the clutches of the criminals at the last minute.
Production notes, backgrounds and interesting facts
Hot Plaster Cologne was filmed on location in Cologne in the spring of 1967. The premiere was on August 31, 1967. Dieter Schönemann was in charge of production, Karl Schneider designed the film construction, and Nikola Hoeltz the costumes .
The material was inspired by the events (1965/66) surrounding the real Cologne gangster Anton "Toni" Dumm , commonly known as "Dummse Tünn". After the murder of a pensioner by two very young girls, he threatened the investigating public prosecutor with an assassination attempt.
For producer Karl Spiehs , who the year before (1966) had produced the Kolportagest strip In Frankfurt are the nights hot for an Austrian company , Hot Plaster Cologne was a variation on this topic around prostitution, big city crime and gang crimes, only this time he was the plot from Main moved to the Rhine. Spiehs also hired a few Frankfurt protagonists for his new film - Richard Münch, Walter Kohut, Angelika Ott and Claus Ringer - and had the actors play characters similar to those in 1966.
The line of text spoken by Dirk Dautzenberg in the film “We'll talk about that in the church council” was a running gag in Stefan Raab's TV show TV total in the early 2010s .
Reviews
“A new detective film frightens tourist advertisers and makes police officers angry. For two years now, Cologne's policemen have had time to yawn again: the club cliques that terrorized the city center have been tamed; the local whipping boy number one, Anton Dumm, is behind bars; and the crime statistics, once just reading for the strong nerves, no longer give convent students goose bumps today. Cologne is again what it was before the start of his flail years: pretty. Calm. A little provincial. Millions of German cinema-goers, however, will be taught better from the weekend: Starting Friday, a grusical will be running in 30 cities between the Isar and Elbe, which will make them believe that the devil is still going on in Cologne: Hot plaster Cologne. "
With its portrayal of vice, malice and philistinism, “Hot Plaster Cologne” is an example of a certain area of entertainment films of the sixties. The dramaturgy is rather simple, but the film entertains with its typical mix of "sex and crime" as well as wild chases, brawls and its special blend of Cologne milieu and Viennese abuse. "
“Inexpensive colortage film that misleadingly pretends to“ trace the portrait of Cologne's underworld in a documentary and time-critical manner ”, but with little use of tabloid reports, it allows to unroll well-tried templates of relevant gangster and pimp dramas. The sloppy design affects neither milieu nor types and time situations. - We advise against it. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a version that had been cleaned of incriminated violence and scenes with naked female breasts reduced the age rating to 16 years
- ↑ Water for the strongest in spiegel.de
- ↑ The Cologne Lotter Lord in zeit.de
- ^ Hot plaster Cologne in Cologne in the film