Love game in the snow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love game in the snow |
| Original title | Love game in the snow Ski Fever |
| Country of production |
United States Austria Czechoslovakia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curt Siodmak |
| script |
Robert L. Joseph Curt Siodmark |
| production |
Wolfgang Schmidt Mark Cooper |
| music |
Jerry Styner Guy Hemric |
| camera |
Jan Stallich Ernst Wild |
| cut | Antonín Zelenka |
| occupation | |
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Liebesspiel im Schnee is an Austrian-American-Czech winter sports film comedy from 1966. In addition to the two Americans Claudia Martin and Martin Milner , the three-time Austrian Olympic champion of the 1956 Winter Games, Toni Sailer , and the couple Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach also play other leading roles.
action
Winter season in an Austrian ski area. Ski instructors from all over the world take care of the willing ski bunnies from near and far who have come here for their vacation on the slopes. The hotelier would like his employed instructors to “teach” female customers beyond their working hours and, if so desired, also make them sexually happy. Not everyone is happy with that, and certainly not with the American ski instructor Brian Davis, a good little philistine who came here to finance his training. He reacts a little indignantly to this demand placed on him and also notes with astonishment that in “sinful” Europe it is obviously common practice among his colleagues to even place bets on who will be the prettiest schoolgirl (and most of them) gets into bed.
Soon the US provincial, with his honesty, stands apart among his own. He prefers to concentrate on the purely technical and teaches, for example, the young, pretty Karen Sloan, who has a crush on the ski instructor Toni, who, to her annoyance, shows no interest in her and - just as unsuccessfully - prefers to attend the pretty, brunette American ski tourist Susan Halsey. At après-ski, however, there is a rendezvous for everyone, which for some of the protagonists ends up in the hotel's own Lotterbett or in the chalet. And finally, the two modest Americans Brian and Susan are also made for each other ...
Production notes
Love play in the snow was created in Czechoslovakia in early 1966 and was premiered in Austria on December 23, 1966. The German premiere took place on March 28, 1972.
The main actress Claudia Martin was the daughter of Dean Martin . Some of the participants, including Dietmar Schönherr, sing several hits (some of which are in English).
Reviews
The film received consistently bad to disastrous reviews:
Kay Less found in Curt Siodmak's biography that this film marked "its artistic low point", and for the lexicon of international films , lovemaking in the snow was simply a "swing with hits."
US critic Leonard Maltin took the cinematic disaster with gallows humor and wrote: "Why should one complain when there are mostly pretty girls to see?"
Awards
At the Golden Globe Awards in 1968 , the song Please Don't Gamble With Love was nominated for Best Movie Song . The award went to If I Ever Should Leave You from the film Camelot - At the Court of King Arthur .
Web links
- Love in the snow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love game in the snow at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 458.
- ↑ Love play in the snow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ^ Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1196