You can only love as a couple
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | You can only love as a couple |
| Original title | Only Two Can Play |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Sidney Gilliat |
| script | Bryan Forbes |
| production | Leslie Gilliat |
| music | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| camera | John Wilcox |
| cut | Thelma Connell |
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You can only love for two is a 1961 British comedy film by Sidney Gilliat with Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling in the leading roles. The story is based on the 1955 novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis .
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John Lewis is a misanthropist as he is in the book. For him, everyday existence is a series of conspiracies: the landlady pokes her nose curiously into everything, the drain pipes are notoriously clogged, everything goes wrong in the household and deer are jumping around on the wallpaper. The cramped rooms, the overstrained wife and the two annoying children make life seem like one big nuisance. Only the sight of pretty, young girls he meets every day on the way to work in the city library brings a little shine to his day-to-day life, which is perceived as gloomy. There is nothing more than looking, because John does not dare to address the female gender. One day, the pretty Liz Gryffyd-Williams appears in his life. She is the complete opposite of John: fun-loving and blessed with the bank account of a socially established man. Liz's attempts to flirt are very reluctant, and her husband chairs the committee that could approve the promotion of Lewis that he so desperately needs for his ailing bank account.
Lewis is interested in the lady, but not so much in order to be able to achieve a professional as well as financial advancement, but rather because Liz combines in one woman everything that he secretly longed for. John fights bravely against her cautious attempts at seduction, but it is not only up to him that he remains modest and steadfast. Because sometimes said husband returns to his wife Liz early, sometimes curious cows get in his way. One day Lewis stands before the committee that has to decide on his possible promotion. He gets what he wants ... thanks to the kind influence of Liz who spun her threads. In celebration of the day, the two do a lift, and Liz now expects John Lewis to use her understanding of gratitude. But he's a better husband than expected. John knows what he's got in his little world, his wife and two children at home, and so he declines the upcoming promotion, leaves Liz confused and returns home ... to home and hearth.
Production notes
You can only love for two was premiered on January 11, 1962 in London. The film opened in Germany on June 7, 1963.
Frank Launder and director Gilliat took over the production management. Muir Mathieson was the conductor, Tony Woollard draftsman, Ivan King designed the film structures.
Awards
The film was nominated for four BAFTA awards at the British Academy Film Awards in 1963 , and Bryan Forbes received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy Screenplay.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| John Lewis | Peter Sellers | Georg Thomalla |
| Liz | May butterfly | Gisela Peltzer |
| Joan | Virginia Maskell | Ilse Kiewitt |
| Jenkins | Kenneth Griffith | Heinz Welzel |
| Probert | Richard Attenborough | Gerd Martienzen |
Peter Elsholtz was the dubbing director .
Reviews
The Movie & Video Guide said that “film strives for quick laughs rather than satire”.
Halliwell's Film Guide found the film to be "a highly characterizing and generally exhilarating" realistic "comedy that loses some momentum towards the end but has a lot of memorable sections."
"Stylistically unbalanced comedy with a prominent cast, but without humor and in some scenes quite tasteless."
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 967
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 762
- ↑ You can only love as a couple. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2018 .
Web links
- Can love you just the two in the Internet Movie Database (English)