Long legs - long fingers

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Movie
Original title Long legs - long fingers
Long legs - Long Finger Logo 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Alfred Vohrer
script Peter Lambda ,
Eberhard Keindorff ,
Johanna Sibelius
production CCC Filmkunst GmbH ( Artur Brauner )
music Martin Böttcher
camera Karl Löb
cut Jutta Hering
occupation

Long legs - long fingers is a German comedy film by director Alfred Vohrer . The film between society and crook comedy , shot in West Berlin and Israel in the winter of 1965/66 , was produced by Artur Brauner . The world premiere took place on August 28, 1966 in the Gloria Palast in West Berlin.

action

Baron Holberg looks back proudly on a long family tradition in the art of theft. His preferred objects are the necklaces of wealthy women. Since the death of his wife, he has been running the business with his daughter Doris, whom he has instructed in the technique of stealing jewelry unnoticed from the victims' necks. During a successful robbery in an oriental holiday resort, Doris meets the lawyer Robert Hammond from London, falls in love with him and wants to start an honest life with him. The father fears a "shame" and flees with her to Vienna on the pretext that the police are after them.

After admitting his lie, she digs out and accepts the eccentric fashion designer Emilio Gavin's offer to work for him as a mannequin in order to get to London. She has to get off the plane in a revealing dress in front of press photographers. Robert, who is by now not idle as a philanderer, takes them in at the country house of his recently ennobled family, there are: his father, the arms manufacturer Hammond, his mother and his smart sister Sarah. Doris' father came after her to prevent the liaison - he would rather see her connected with the art thief Sammy, a childhood friend of hers, who shows no interest in her. Even for father Hammond, Doris is out of the question as a wife for Robert, since Doris appearance in the press. Nevertheless, Robert makes her a marriage proposal.

Expecting that the father will deny Robert any financial support, the couple are £ 10,000 short of a life together. Without letting her groom know, Doris and her father set out for a coup at a gala in the French embassy. She hastily escapes with a stolen necklace and is arrested. In court, she chooses Robert as defense attorney. In a rousing speech, Robert was able to convince the jury that she only acted out of love and obtained her acquittal. Father Hammond offers Baron Holberg to work as a representative for bogus companies that serve his arms trade in Asia. The Baron enthusiastically discovers that the successful people are honestly dishonest.

History of origin

prehistory

The film producer Artur Brauner had been preparing the film project Long Legs - Long Fingers since the early 1960s. The first concrete plans from 1962 envisaged Dietrich Haugk as the director and Johanna von Koczian , Jerome Courtland , Susi Nicoletti and Theo Lingen as the main actors . Already announced by Europa-Filmverleih, the screenplay by Peter Lambda received a bonus of 200,000 DM from the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1963 . For the 1963/64 cinema season, Gloria Filmverleih announced the comedy with the planned main actors Liselotte Pulver , Martin Held , Boy Gobert and Gunther Philipp . Terence Young was supposed to direct. This time, however, it did not come to fruition either. Instead, the project continued to be rescheduled, with Kurt Hoffmann also being named as a possible director .

Pre-production and script

Since they were not entirely satisfied with Lambda's script, Brauner commissioned the experienced writer couple Eberhard Keindorff and Johanna Sibelius to carry out a fundamental revision. In the meantime, director Alfred Vohrer , who was just at the height of his career, was also available. Finally, with the exception of Martin Held, the cast list was also renewed. Instead of the Gloria Filmverleih, the film should now appear at the Nora Filmverleih.

production

The Dan Caesarea golf and beach hotel in Israel served as the backdrop for the luxury hotel.
The Jägerhof in the Klein-Glienicke park can be seen in the film as Villa Hammond.

The shooting took place from December 8, 1965 to February 22, 1966 in West Berlin and in Caesarea and the surrounding area in Israel. The studio recordings were made in the CCC studios in Berlin-Haselhorst . In addition, the following locations can be seen in the film (in the order of the film plot):

Isabella and Werner Schlichting were hired as film architects . Ina Stein designed the costumes . Film editor was Jutta Hering . Director Vohrer's permanent team included cameraman Karl Löb and assistant director Eva Ebner . The latter also had a brief cameo as a prostitute at the police station. Alfred Vohrer, on the other hand, can be heard in the film as the dubbing voice of a chauffeur.

Film music

The comparatively elaborate film music was written by Martin Böttcher . The title song Long Legs - Long Fingers (Text: Ingeborg Esterer) was sung by Tanja Berg . It was released as a single on the Ariola label . This and an instrumental version appearing in the film have now been released on CDs.

reception

After post-production , the film was released on May 12, 1966 by the FSK for ages 16 and up. The premiere took place on August 26, 1966 in the Gloria Palast in West Berlin. Long legs - long fingers was first broadcast on television on December 24, 1986 on DFF 2 . The first broadcast in Germany took place on April 18, 1989 on ZDF . For the only DVD release so far, in the wrong picture format and without rental fanfare, the age rating has been reduced to 12 years.

Reviews

The lexicon of the international film called Long Legs - Long Fingers "an all in all funny and not without irony staged crook comedy".

For Cinema , the film was “entertaining 1960s fun from 'Edgar Wallace' director Alfred Vohrer. Conclusion: Nice entertainment for nostalgic people ”.

The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “Entertaining parody with polished dialogues and a good cast. Thanks to the successful and clearly transparent shape for adults, a witty diversion. "

Awards

media

DVD

  • DVD box set: Senta Berger anniversary edition. Universum Film GmbH . 2006. Order no. 82876 76707 9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oh, Papili . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1967, p. 86-96 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Daily report of February 11, 1966 (PDF; 210 kB), CCC Filmkunst
  3. ↑ Daily report from January 20, 1966 (PDF; 259 kB), CCC Filmkunst
  4. ↑ Daily report of February 1, 1966 (PDF; 163 kB), CCC Filmkunst
  5. ↑ Daily report of February 16, 1966 (PDF; 148 kB), CCC Filmkunst
  6. ↑ Criminal Tango - Rogues, Sultry & Dunkers . Bear Family Records . 2006. Order no. BCD 16562 AH
  7. ↑ Martin Böttcher: German Film Composers, Part 1 . Bear Family Records . 2000. Order no. BCD 16481 AR
  8. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2159.
  9. ↑ See cinema.de
  10. ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , published by the Evangelical Press Association in Munich, Volume 18, Review No. 329/1966, p. 618