My God, Willi!

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Movie
Original title My God Willi
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1980
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
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Director Ralf Gregan
script Ralf Gregan,
Dieter Hallervorden
production UFA
music Kai Rautenberg
camera Norbert Stern
cut Eva-Maria Rintel,
Helga Liefke
occupation

Mein Gott Willi - Willi Gimmel's Strange Career is the title of a German television comedy produced by UFA for ZDF in 1980 . Ralf Gregan directed the film .

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Willi Gimmel has been working as an actor at the Städtisches Theater for almost ten years . Once traded as a promising talent by the artistic director von Söllow and finally taken under contract, he has since been demoted to prompter - a circumstance from which the trained actor suffers greatly. Otherwise Gimmel, now a mature man, has everything but easy in life. He still lives with his strict mother, from whom he simply cannot break free and who still sees in him the little boy who needs her attention.

Since his labor at the theater is being used less and less, Gimmel applies to a department store . There they are looking for a man who will appear in different disguises in all departments in order to receive complaints from angry customers. However, this is pure show, the department store management really only needs one man who acts as a lightning rod. Fortunately, Gimmel got the job, because only a short time later he was dismissed from the theater without notice. The star actor Melchior had once again complained about his work performance and urged the director to resign.

He cannot confess this personal defeat to his authoritarian mother and decides to remain silent. Every evening he now goes to the theater performances instead of rehearsals. Armed with his prompter book, he is completely the actor in the auditorium, enthusiastically accompanies every piece and unintentionally disturbs the audience. The director of Söllow finally banned him from the house . Now Willi Gimmel wanders around town for three hours every evening so that his mother continues to believe that he is going to work.

Meanwhile, the department store management is very satisfied with Gimmel and decides to hire additional staff for the “Complaints and Complaints Special Department”, of which Willi Gimmel is to become the head. But new problems soon emerged: Gimmel was at war with his new colleague Baumbauer from the first moment. Baumbauer bullies his department head wherever he can, but above all he likes to embarrass him in front of customers. This is how Gimmel met the barmaid Rosi Binder, with whom he fell in love, much to the displeasure of his jealous mother. On the other hand, there is a momentous argument with his former colleague Melchior after tree farmer Gimmel has once again put Gimmel in an embarrassing situation and both can no longer contain themselves with laughter.

Gimmel pursues Melchior furiously and stupidly tells in his anger that stupid customers like him fell for the department store's trick of taking the complaints seriously. Melchior reacts immediately, informing the radio and the press. The department store management also got wind of it and fired Gimmel immediately, as he was obliged to absolute discretion .

That’s the end of the game. The mother also learns of her son's lies to her. Willi Gimmel decides to go to his new girlfriend Rosi to get some distance from all the hustle and bustle.

One day later another catastrophe follows: An article about the "would-be actor" Willi Gimmel appears in the local newspaper, including an interview with the director of Söllow, who does not leave his former actor happy. Without hesitation, Gimmel storms in the direction of the theater, bursts into a rehearsal without warning, attacks von Söllow verbally and, surprisingly, after this convincing performance is engaged by the director and the artistic director for the latest play.

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In this film, Dieter Hallervorden does not play the idiot on duty. Otherwise, the comedy does not fit into the series of "Didi" films. Rather, Hallervorden represents a fate-stricken loser type that everyone likes to pick on. In the course of the film, however, there is a positive development with the character of Willi Gimmel, which finally culminates in the fact that on the one hand he meets a woman and separates from his mother and on the other hand receives an engagement as a leading actor in a play.

DVD release

The film was released on DVD on September 4, 2006 by Turbine-Medien .

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