Always the cyclists
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Always the cyclists |
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| Country of production |
Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script | Wolf Neumeister |
| production |
Alfred Stöger Kurt Ulrich |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Elio Carniel |
| cut | Renate Jelinek |
| occupation | |
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Always the Cyclists is a German-Austrian comedy film from 1958. Directed by Hans Deppe , the screenplay was written by Wolf Neumeister based on an idea by Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff. The main roles were played by Heinz Erhardt , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Wolf Albach-Retty .
action
It has been twenty years since school friends Fritz Eilers, Ulrich Salandt and Johannes Büttner came as high school graduates on a bike tour through Carinthia to the town of Burgsteinach, where the young men each fell in love with one of the girls who lived there.
Ulrich, a heartthrob who remained unmarried, later made a name for himself as a film actor, Fritz married and became a successful eggnog manufacturer, and Johannes found Tilla as the woman for life and his calling as a high school professor. On a whim, the friends decide to take this bike ride again, of course without a girlfriend or wives and under the conditions they had back then, i.e. with very little money.
They run into numerous difficulties on their journey. Katinka, the friend of Fritzen's son Robby, who has temporarily left him, joins the three men. Even more, however, their loyalty is tested by encounters with old love affairs. But Fritz and Johannes' wives and Ulrich's girlfriend follow the cyclists. Everyone meets at the premiere of the operetta The Bird Trader , and all misunderstandings can be cleared up over dinner.
production
Filming, background
The shooting of the Wiener Mundus film Dr. Alfred Stöger (Vienna), Kurt Ulrich-Film GmbH (Berlin), took place in the studios of the Wien-Film Gesellschaft mbH Atelier Rosenhügel and in Carinthia. The city of Gmünd in Carinthia was responsible for the fictional town of Burgsteinach, the destination of the two bike tours . At the beginning of the trip, the three cyclists can be seen in front of the panorama of the Heiligenkreuzkirche Villach , on the opposite bank of the Drau .
Songs in the movie
- By bike, comrade
- At seventeen and just singing , sung by Peter Kraus
- Songs from the operetta The Bird Seller
( As my Ahn'l twenty years (with the refrain No amal, amal no, no amal, sing just sing, nightingale ) Bless you God, one and all! , I am the Christl from the post office , If you give yourself roses in Tyrol ...)
publication
The film premiered on September 11, 1958 in the Bieberbau in Frankfurt am Main .
Immer die Radfahrer first appeared on DVD in 2003, provider: Kinowelt Home Entertainment. It is also included in the Heinz Erhardt rogue edition , together with eight other films by Erhardt, as well as in a Heinz Erhardt 3-edition edition from May 10, 2005. In 2009 and 2010, further editions with the film were released by Kinowelt. On February 17th, 2011 Kinowelt Immer die Radfahrer released a single DVD. The film was released on Blu-ray on August 4, 2017 as part of the “Jewels of Film History” series on Alive .
criticism
"A Heinz Erhardt comedy that turned out a little too loud, not very funny, but often all the more silly."
"Romantic restorative comedy with thoroughbred actors"
The critic Falk Schwarz said that the film was “inexperienced, naive and simple-minded”, but the initial idea was “not that bad: three old friends remember their youth together and set off again to the place where they were so happy as boys were". From the “beautiful initial idea”, which is actually very promising, “nothing” remains - Erhardt stirs, Kulenkampff moderates, Albach-Retty is at least an actor. Conclusion: "Grandpa's cinema could be pretty boring."
Web links
- Always the cyclists in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Always the cyclists at filmportal.de
- Always the cyclists - “A piece of home to collect” at Kinowelt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Georg Bauer at salzburg.com
- ↑ Always the cyclists DVD cover at filmportal.de
- ↑ Always the cyclists Fig. DVD case film jewels (in the picture: Heinz Erhard, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Wolf Albach-Retty)
- ↑ Always the cyclists. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Falk Schwarz: Three in the hard saddle, see review on the film portal page, April 25, 2014. Accessed June 9, 2019.
