Lemonade Joe

Movie
German title	Lemonade Joe
Original title	Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera
Country of production	Czechoslovakia
original language	Czech
Publishing year	1964
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Oldřich Lipský
script	Jiří Brdečka Oldřich Lipský
music	Vladimír Hála Jan Rychlík
camera	Vladimír Novotný (b / w)
cut	Miroslav Hájek Jitka Sulcová
occupation
Karel Fiala : Lemonade Joe Rudolf Deyl junior : Doug Badman Miloš Kopecký : Horc Badman Květa Fialová : Tornado Lou Olga Schoberová : Winifred Goodman Bohuš Záhorský : Ezra Goodman Karel Effa : Pancho Kid Waldemar Matuška : Banjo Vlastimil Bedrna : photographer Lubomir Bryg : Cashier Antonín Šůra : Old Pistol Vladimír Menšík : bartender

Lemonade Joe (original title: Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera ) is a parody of western films produced in Czechoslovakia in 1964 . Oldřich Lipský directed; the film was shown for the first time in theaters in the GDR on August 28, 1964 and was also shown in West Germany in January 1966. The script is based on the novel and play of the same name by Jiří Brdečka .

action

Lemonade Joe, dressed all in white, comes to Stetson City and makes sure that the constantly beating and whiskey-drinking population gets to know the drink Kolaloka, which he keeps drinking. When Mr. Goodman, another newcomer with missionary intentions, opens a Kolaloka saloon, it is a complete success. Mr. Goodman's daughter, who likes to sing, also ensures that the old saloon is only inhabited by spiders. When a villain arrives, he kills the sheriff, bans Kolaloka and lets morals go to waste. But lemonade Joe makes sure that everything is back in order and that the Kolaloka Group is guaranteed good sales.

criticism

“Entertaining parody of the Wild West, its films and capitalist ways of life. Imaginative and versatile musical grotesques with some current allusions at the time of production, ”is the verdict of the lexicon of international film . The New York Times particularly praised the clever structure of the film, which the director created with remarkable skill.

Lemonade Joe won the Golden Clam at the 1964 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Remarks

The figure of Limonadovný Joe was created around 1940; he appeared in a few short stories for the magazine Ahoj . Later, the author Brdečka developed a play from this, which in turn inspired a puppet film. Some of the trick effects in this film, Arie prerie , were adapted for this real- life version .

The film is a parody of silent Wild West films interspersed with pieces of music, inked in color and with subverted fight scenes. Several songs can be heard in the film: "When the Smoke Thickens in the Bar, Do You See My Moist Lips" sings Květa Fialová , "Whiskey to je moje gusto Když v báru houstne dým Mé zvlhlé rty což nevidíš" Yvetta Roubalova , "Arizona "Where All the Good Men Come From" interprets Olga Schoberová and "Oh Ye Gods, What a Dime Drink" Karel Gott . The German-language dubbing was done by the Porcupine Ensemble under the dialogue direction of the boss Wolfgang Gruner .

After the film, some clubs, a radio station, etc. a. named.

In the episode mixed doubles in the series Der Alte , the murderer uses a video from the film to drown out a shot.

Web links

• Lemonade Joe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lemonade Joe in the Czech film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lemonade Joe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ^ Bosley Crowther , Nov. 21, 1967
3. ↑ http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=49
4. ↑ http://limonadovyjoe.cz/