Heaven, sheik and cloudburst

Movie
Original title	Heaven, sheik and cloudburst
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1979
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Dieter Boettger
script	Felix Dvorak
production	Lothar H. Krischer , Günther Köpf
music	Joachim Ludwig , Teddy Windholz
camera	Siegfried Hold
cut	Maria Tomschik
occupation
Felix Dvorak: Franz Xaver Oberholzer Alfons Haider : Franzl, his son Peter Wyngarde : Sheikh Al-Abdullah Marlène Charell : La Szchana Eddi Arent : Professor Ewald Ziebitz Petra Drechsler : Barbara "Babsi" Ziebitz, his daughter Mohamed El Basri : Sheikh Al-Salem Sepp Löwinger : Grandpa Pinkus Oberholzer Sissy Löwinger : Resi, waitress Herbert Fux : crook number 1 Josef Loibl : crook number 2 Werner Ploner : crook number 3 Walter Sedlmayr : Conductor Guido Baumann : ship officer Maxi Böhm : Gilbert Ampère Heinz Eckner : the fat one Jacques Herlin : Monsieur Blum Peter Rapp : Pastor Lance Lumsden : Haradin

Himmel, Scheich und Wolkenbruch is a German comedy film from 1978 with the British Peter Wyngarde ( Department S ) in a leading role.

action

Franz Xaver Oberholzer, a Tyrolean innkeeper and family man from the Stubai Valley , wants to embark on a dream trip to the Orient on the SS Calypso passenger ship after winning the “Rosa Blatt” competition. The destination is supposed to be an oil sheikdom in the middle of the desert. Since Ms. Oberholzer doesn't really trust her husband, an established hallodri, she sends his son, Franz Xaver, called "Franzl", on the trip so that he can keep a watchful eye on Mr. Papa. Right on the ship, however, it is not the old man who falls in love, but Franzl with a young lady, namely Barbara Ziebitz, known by everyone as "Babsi", the daughter of an ethnologist.

A romance develops between the two of them on board, which they continue on site when they arrive in Arabia. Oberholzer senior, on the other hand, like his filius, soon stumbles from one adventure to the next on site, in which three finely dressed, murderous crooks as well as two genuine sheikhs have their share. There are all kinds of mix-ups and an appearance in a bizarre costume ball. In the end, Sheikh Al-Abdullah Oberholzer junior even suggested, over a water pipe, that he be his successor. But it turns out very differently. For Franzl and Babsi, the whole excitement ends in great happiness, and at the end you find yourself back in Tyrol, where the two get married.

Production notes

Heaven, Sheik and Cloudburst was shot on 39 days between September 2 and October 10, 1978 at the locations Rotterdam, Casablanca, Lisbon, the Stubai Valley and on the SS Calypso . After its completion in December 1978, the film ran on January 26, 1979 in three southern German cities. The strip was later given the new title Traumschiff nach Casablanca .

Reviews

"Of course this is nothing more than a little joke film in which you can forget the content."

- cinema , No. 9/1979, p. 72

"Dull, primitive sway."

- Lexicon of International Films

"Unspeakable German comedy attempt in which humor is shipwrecked on an Orient cruise."

- kino.de

Web links

• Sky, Sheikh and cloudburst in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heaven, sheik and cloudburst at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2016-12-28 in the Lexicon of International Films
2. ↑ Criticism on kino.de