Jagger and Spaghetti

Movie
Original title	Jagger and Spaghetti
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1984
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Karsten Wichniarz
script	Peter Buchholz , Stephan Schwartz
production	Joachim Hammann
music	Alois Best, Bodo Staiger
camera	Sławomir Idziak
cut	Stefan Arnsten
occupation
Stephan Schwartz : Jagger Peter Buchholz : Spaghetti Manfred Reddemann : Krischan Gerlach Fiedler : Guru Willi Lehmann Sabine Kaack : Gabi Christa Siems : Mrs. Kruschke Gerda Gmelin : Aunt Schybulski Ulrich Wildgruber : Curry Paul Joost Siedhoff : Mr. Semper Rudolf Beiswanger : Pensioners Fiete Krugel-Hartig : Grandma Christian Mey : Policeman Joachim Richert : Mr. Frank Horst Hesslein : buddy Barbara Focke : Mrs. Schmidt Joachim Baumert : Mr. Berger Wolfgang Kaven : First buyer

Jagger and spaghetti is a German film comedy of Karsten Wichniarz that on 19 January 1984 under the title Jagger & Spaghetti - The Super bluffer its world premiere at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbruecken celebrated and came to German cinemas in the same year and on July 2 1985 was broadcast on ZDF .

action

Two young men from Hamburg cannot cope with their lives. One is called Fragetti and everyone just calls it spaghetti . In the workshop of his TV shop, Spaghetti tries to repair used radio and television sets, but he often fails. Then he throws the devices out of the window. The other man, Jagger , an apparently mentally retarded man, is unemployed and still lives with his aunt. He is lazy and prefers to read Fix and Foxi magazines.

Meanwhile, spaghetti receives stolen goods , two hundred televisions, from his old friend Krischan from the Hamburg neighborhood . Jagger also gets into trouble. His aunt throws him out of the apartment and he moves to the main train station, where he now "lives". Jagger and spaghetti get to know each other there. The two unlucky ones are planning a huge coup. But despite the big sayings that Jagger knocks, the situation for the two of them is getting worse. Jagger and spaghetti can't do anything together.

background

The cinema distributor of the film is said to have been enthusiastic about Jagger and Spaghetti , but when he was still looking for suitable marketing for the film's theatrical release, Stephan Schwartz, one of the two main actors of the film, had "a fateful idea", such as the webzine Zauberspiegel- Reported online . “He had himself photographed cross-legged on the radiator of a Rolls-Royce and launched the report that he had sent his film to the Indian guru Bhagwan , who had returned the favor with a Rolls-Royce . In fact, the photo attracted a lot of attention in the Bild newspaper . But that didn't benefit the film, it just harmed Stephan Schwartz. ”The subsequent theatrical release of the film was unsuccessful. When it was later broadcast on television, Jagger and Spaghetti received good reviews.

Reviews

“Two young men who cannot cope with life try to land a big coup, but fall for it. Large-scale, but flat and sterile staged comedy whose gags don't really ignite. "

- Film service

Awards and nominations

• 1984: Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival for Karsten Wichniarz

Trivia

• Bodo Staiger , the singer of the band Rheingold , was jointly responsible for the film music.
• Sławomir Idziak , the Polish cameraman of the film, is now internationally known and received an Oscar nomination for his camera work on Black Hawk Down from Ridley Scott .

Web links

• Jagger and spaghetti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jagger and Spaghetti at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Overview of the German television program from July 2, 1985 at retro-media-tv.de
2. ↑ List of participants in the Max Ophüls Festival from 1980 to 2009 at yumpu.com
3. ↑ Ingo Löchel: STEPHAN SCHWARTZ. In: Zauberspiegel-Online.de. 2007, accessed September 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Jagger and Spaghetti. In: Filmdienst . Film service, accessed September 28, 2019 .