Holiday in St. Tropez

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Movie
Original title Holiday in St. Tropez
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1964
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ernst Hofbauer
script Hans Billian
Max Rottmann (idea)
production Karl Heinz Busse
for Music House
music Gert Wilden
camera Dieter Wedekind
cut Elisabeth Neumann
(as Lisbeth Neumann)
occupation

Holiday in St. Tropez is an Austrian hit film by Ernst Hofbauer from 1964 .

action

Carlos Fonti and his wife Marisa are building their hotel in St. Tropez on the Adriatic when suddenly all workers quit because they would rather go to Germany as guest workers . This means that the hotel remains half-finished shortly before the start of the season. This saddened Carlos all the more because his niece Vivi Sörensen, as co-owner of the hotel, was already attracting visitors back home. Vivi travels to the hotel and immediately sends a telegram that the bookings must be canceled. The telegram arrives too late, so that the entire tour company around tour guide Theo Reich is already on the way to the Adriatic. The guests include a governess with her six protégés, the journalist Michaela and Philipp Kussmaul with his two uneducated children Rups and Rita. His resolute wife Friedericke, who has to stay in bed with measles , wants to come. When everyone has reached the hotel, good advice is expensive. Without further ado, the vacationers pitch tents in the hotel garden.

Soon the group of travelers increased, as the young Carola Engelhard joined them. She originally wanted to travel with her parents, who gave her a vacation trip after she passed her Abitur. However, the wealthy parents had other plans at short notice and Carola ran away from home. When she arrives at the hotel, she calls herself Brigitte and pretends to be the homeless daughter of poor parents. On the way to the next place where she wants to apply as a waitress, she is caught up with her friend, the saleswoman Heidi Kirschmann, in a classy convertible. Heidi has made herself dressed up, hoping to catch a millionaire on the coast. Vivi, in turn, makes the acquaintance of Michaela's friend Ricki, while Michaela meets the hitchhiking singer Tommy.

In order to attract the attention of her parents, Carola sends them a telegram in Carlos' name, in which she asks for Robert and Liane Engelhard to arrive as soon as possible, as Carola is behaving impossibly. Carlos in turn asks out of sheer desperation about the naughty Kussmaul children by telegram for Friedericke's arrival. Robert and Liane Engelhard arrive at the hotel shortly afterwards and are brought to the bar by Heidi, where Carola performs regularly. She has already expected her parents, dances wildly in front of her eyes and instigates a fight. Her father Robert saves her and they spend the rest of the vacation days together in the tent at the hotel, where Carola even manages to save her mother from the clutches of a fraudster. Heidi, on the other hand, almost falls for a wrong millionaire and ends up meeting Theo Reich, who at least already has the correct surname. Vivi and Ricky get engaged, while Michaela gets together with Tommy. In the end, all holidaymakers leave satisfied.

production

Holiday in St. Tropez was filmed in Makarska , Yugoslavia . Herbert Ploberger created the costumes, and Sasa Kump designed the film . The film was released in German cinemas on August 14, 1964.

Numerous hits are sung or played in the film:

criticism

The film service called the action a mere pretext for the presentation of "sloppy hit numbers". Der Spiegel was referring Holiday in St. Tropez in an extended criticism to the current German film with one who believes the magazine after all, just do not play in Germany:

“In the case of 'Holiday in St. Tropez', the questionable internationalization took off particularly strange flowers: This German film with a half-English title was shot in Yugoslavia and is set among Yugoslavia vacationers; its plot revolves around justifying the title to a Yugoslav hotel called 'St. Tropez 'and presents the German ice skating master Manfred Schnelldorfer as a French policeman with a punch. "

- The mirror, 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holiday in St. Tropez. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Escape to Tenerife . In: Der Spiegel , No. 47, 1964, p. 139