Criminal Tango

This article covers the film from 1960. For the hit song from 1959, see Kriminal-Tango .

Movie
Original title	Criminal Tango
Country of production	Germany Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1960
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Géza from Cziffra
script	Géza of Cziffra (under the pseudonym Richard Anden)
production	Sascha film industry
music	Heinz Gietz
camera	Sepp Ketterer
cut	Arnfried Heyne (as Arnd Heyne)
occupation
Peter Alexander : Peter Martens Vivi Bach : Inge Peter Carsten : Boxer-Franz Rudolf Vogel : Servant Lorenz Günther Lüders : Uncle Albert Margarete Haagen : Aunt Agathe (as Margarethe Haagen) Susi Nicoletti : Mrs. Schleinitz Fritz Muliar : Klau-Maxe Rolf Olsen : General Director Schleinitz Frauke Sinjen : Elisa Schleinitz Sylvia Lydi : waitress Gerti Sieglinde Thomas : Lina CW Fernbach : Estate manager Huber Raoul Retzer : Lawyer Dr. Roeder Emanuel Schmied : crook Jenny Boy Gobert : Pocket August

Kriminaltango is a German-Austrian black and white film by director Géza von Cziffra from 1960 with Peter Alexander and Vivi Bach in the lead roles. The comedy is a remake of Dangerous Guests from 1949 with Wolf Albach-Retty and Käthe Haack , which Von Cziffra also directed. The title refers to the hit Kriminal-Tango of the Hazy Osterwald Sextet, which was very successful in 1959 .

action

Peter, a young bankrupt house owner, wants to sell his house and move to the country with his aunt Agathe. In the meantime, his friend Albert and his niece Inge are supposed to guard the house. When he finds out that the three crooks Boxer-Franz, Taschen-August and Klau-Maxe have already found accommodation there, he breaks into his own house, where he meets the three burglars who consider him a "professional colleague" . The crooks expect him to play the house owner and want to collect the proceeds himself.

Songs

• Criminal Tango
• Panopticon
• Street of my songs
• Mille - Mille - Baci

Reviews

• TV Spielfilm criticized the fact that director Géza von Cziffra had staged his own film “almost entirely without gag and level”.
• The lexicon of international films noted the "usual gags and entanglements", "which Geza von Cziffra has presented in this remake of his own film" Dangerous Guests "in an undemanding and boring manner".

Web links

• Kriminaltango in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Criminal tango at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , 1998, p. 157
2. ↑ Criminal Tango . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 20, 2017 .