Hats off if you kiss!

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Movie
Original title Hats off if you kiss!
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Rolf Losansky
script Rolf Losansky
production DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal"
music Klaus Hugo
camera Wolfgang Braumann
cut Christa Helwig
occupation

Hats off if you kiss! is a DEFA German feature film directed by Rolf Losansky in 1971.

action

Fred is an engineer at VEB Fahrzeugwerk Waltershausen , was involved in the development of a new commercial vehicle for the Multicar brand and will be available as a consultant and test driver during the Leipzig trade fair . His girlfriend Petra is a car mechanic who is supposed to strengthen the staff of a car repair shop in Leipzig during the fair. When Fred wants to pick her up in her workshop with the truck on which the exhibition vehicles are loaded to take her away, she is still busy repairing a large road cruiser. The owner is a consul from “Pyronia”, whose driver and nephew Juan is very impressed by the female auto mechanic, who also speaks fluent Spanish. The two are on their way to the Leipzig trade fair to do business with the GDR's vehicle industry. But then Fred and Petra finally want to go to Leipzig, but not before Petra has put on the beautiful white dress, including hat, which Fred bought her. This is immediately soiled again by a passing car, but a mobile cleaning company takes care of the problem. But first of all, Petra has to wear her locksmith's outfit again.

Fred is a man of old views. A woman does not have to take on a “man's job” and always has to look beautiful. That is simply not possible with work clothes and hands smeared with oil. That's why there are always arguments between the two of them, including while driving. This increases when Petra leaves the car angrily when it stops. However, it is not possible to hitchhike on to her elevator because no one stops. That only changes when the well-known mobile cleaning company arrives and she can put on her beautiful dress again. Of course, the first car that stops afterwards is the road cruiser with the two already known gentlemen. Only Petra is not recognized by them in her dress. Arrived in Leipzig, they check into the Hotel Deutschland and get a single room for them too. After her identity has been clarified, she is hired as an interpreter. Of course, also because Juan has his eye on her.

During the negotiations at the fair, Petra wins more and more admirers with her charm, including Fred's colleague Dr. Schramm and Director Waltershausen. Fred is foaming with jealousy and almost bursts a test drive. It becomes even more problematic when she is invited individually to various meetings by the men involved. But Petra masters the situations because she only loves her Fred, who finally notices it and the story ends happily.

production

Hats off if you kiss! was filmed by the artistic working group "Johannisthal" under the working title Des Shrewd Taming on ORWO color and had its world premiere on September 30, 1971 in the Berlin Colosseum cinema . The film was shown on December 27, 1972 in the second program of GDR television .

Most of the recordings were shot in Leipzig , including on and in front of the old trade fair , in front of and in the Hotel Germany on Augustusplatz and within the inner city ring with the market and the old town hall .

The scenario comes from Maurycy Janowski and Dieter Scharfenberg was responsible for the dramaturgy .

criticism

In New Germany , Horst Knietzsch found that the whole piece of cinema lacks, above all, a closeness to reality, its cheerful reflection and a workable fable with appropriate conflicts. The critics don't want to spoil this film for the viewer. It would be good if many see this comedy. But not just to get to the question of why it was produced.

Helmut Ullrich writes in the Neue Zeit that the humor shown, despite the grateful topic, is actually just joke about clothes, which mostly appear rather poor, tired and cramped.

The lexicon of international films calls the film a boring comedy without charm or esprit.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 2, 1971, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 1, 1971, p. 4
  3. ↑ Hats off if you kiss! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used