With oak leaves and fig leaf
| Movie | |
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| Original title | With oak leaves and fig leaf |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Franz-Josef Spieker |
| script | Franz-Josef Spieker |
| production | Walter Krüttner |
| music | Erich Ferstl |
| camera | Wolfgang Fischer |
| cut | Barbara Mondry |
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Eichenlaub und Feigenblatt is a German satirical feature film by the director Franz-Josef Spieker from 1967 with Werner Enke and Birke Bruck in the leading roles. The exterior shots were taken in Detmold , the interior shots in the Bavaria Studios in Munich . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was released for the first time on January 5, 1968.
action
Jürgen has the heroic trick and absolutely wants to become a paratrooper with a lone fighter training . His reading material consists only of war books and relevant "specialist literature". But during the examination the doctor discovers a shadow on the lungs, and off it goes - not to the hand-to-hand combat school, but to a sanatorium run by devout sisters . In addition to some bizarre patients in the basement, the converted old castle contains the bacteria research laboratory of the chief doctor, who is on the trail of a terrible plague weapon with little money.
Jürgen is placed in the room of a Beatle disciple and soon finds himself in the daily routine. Through a General a. Who has been living in the sanatorium for years . D. he gets to know the Bundeswehr major Gerber and his wife. Jürgen immediately pursues his goal of getting into a hand-to-hand combat school. The officer's wife wants to initiate Jürgen into a more civil hand-to-hand combat technique at all costs. She succeeds too, and the horned major comes to terms with his fate. He also does too much maneuvering - and so he wants to pave the way for Jürgen to reach his goal, because ... "Men have to stick together".
But after this combat lesson, Jürgen realized that there are more desirable things than heroism in a tunic. At a hippie wedding, he swings from the castle tower over the parapet, lands on a jumping mat and is kidnapped from the gloomy sanatorium by the cheerful, carefree company. The doctor, already eaten by the plague, waves afterwards.
criticism
“An attempt at a cabaret satire on old and new forms of militarism, staged in the style of a casual pop revue. Shrewd ideas and accurate punch lines unfortunately usually fizzle out in tension-free slapstick. "
“A young man with heroism is cured of his complexes in a lung sanatorium through sex therapy. The cheeky little film contains satirical swipes at the Bundeswehr and the pursuit of profit, at morality and hospital practices. Color dramaturgically interesting and worth seeing as a second director by a young filmmaker. "
"Predicate 'valuable'"
Web links
- With oak leaves and fig leaf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- With oak leaves and fig leaves at filmportal.de