Everything goes better with raspberry spirit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Everything goes better with raspberry spirit |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Marischka |
| script |
Hans Jacoby Willibald Eser based on a template by Johannes Mario Simmel |
| production | Herbert Gruber |
| music | Johannes Fehring |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Herma Sandtner |
| occupation | |
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Everything goes better with raspberry spirit is a satirical, Austrian comedy film from 1960 about the construction and economic miracle in post-war Germany, based on a template by Johannes Mario Simmel . Directed by Georg Marischka played O. W. Fischer and Marianne Koch , the lead roles.
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Federal Republic of Germany 1960, at the height of the economic miracle. The successful businessman Philip Kalder is to be made an honorary citizen of his city. But first he wants to tell a reporter the story of his extremely varied life. And so it begins. Flashback: During the Second World War, the clever and agile Kalder was captured by the Allies. With a little luck and his own audacity, he will manage to escape from it. Since the Americans are now in charge in his hometown, he quickly slips into the costumes of a US captain and acts as a pusher. There is a gold rush atmosphere everywhere in the western occupation zones, and Kalder is always in the thick of it. His sought-after property, which he sells with the help of Hilde von Hessenlohe, who comes from the impoverished aristocracy and who has found accommodation with the Army administration in Frankfurt am Main, is initially metal scrap in every form. Once he got down to the funnel, Philipp soon began to grow his fortune with dubious arms deals. Here, too, his business conduct is close to fraud, because with the help of the handsome dancer Chou-Chou he rips the former Colonel Helmut Niederberger and earns a million marks in the process.
Kalder knows how to skim off those who have profited from the upswing, those who have benefited from the economic boom. He crosses the military, old Nazis and gamblers as well as the satiated war profiteers, such as the fat Sepp Reber. The former art expert of the Nazis, who had transferred 20 million dollars to Lisbon in time to retire there, leads the astonished Kalder through his collection, whereby the subject of Nazi loot comes up. Standing in front of a painting of the Three Graces, Kalder expertly states: “By Rubens”. “But no”, Reber counters, “from the Rothschild”. With his last idea, however, Kalder himself becomes a victim. The soldier of fortune promises an art lover to organize a famous, but not for sale, masterpiece of art history: the Venus de Milo . But he has to get hold of it first. To do this, Kalder needs the help of the seductive, but, like him, not too moral Suzie, a little femme fatale. This young girl helps Philip with this deal, but eventually takes all of his fortune back from him. Remorseful, Kalder returns to the decent Hilde in Frankfurt and from now on only wants to get rich honestly. And so the whole round starts all over again, but this time Philips' cleaner business practices not only bring him new money, but even the honorary citizenship of the city of Frankfurt.
Production notes
Everything goes better with raspberry spirit was first shown in cinemas in Hamburg on November 1, 1960. In her native Austria, this Sascha film production only started on November 18 of the same year. It was the second (after Mein Schulfreund with Heinz Rühmann ) adaptation of a Simmel template in German-language films. In the following year, Fischer shot two more Simmel adaptations, with which he achieved an even greater success: It doesn't always have to be caviar and this time it has to be caviar .
The production line had Conrad von Molo , the Production Manager Karl Schwetter . The buildings were designed by Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and executed by Alexander Sawczynski . The costumes came from Gerdago . Herbert Janeczka , Alfred Norkus and two other colleagues ensured the good tone. Franz Josef Gottlieb was one of two assistant directors.
Reviews
“Otto Wilhelm Fischer, once Germany's most highly endowed film pinner, threw himself from his self-made Kothurn into the lowlands of the flat swank. As a disguise comedian, with underwear sex appeal, he now apparently finally works in the role of Willy Millowitsch, Oskar Sima and Heinz Erhardt. "
“A man is ... made an honorary citizen of his city and tells ... a reporter about his great life. He was successively a liquor dealer, soldier, escapee from the prisoner-of-war camp, wearing an American officer's uniform, black marketeer in scrap metal, slicer in works of art and is finally a manufacturer of paper towels for toilet supplies. There is comedy in there, and O. W. Fischer plays it with such verve that it becomes a farce for the poor in spirit. (...) His bad thesis that he has to keep himself harmless for six years of war ... is justified here. Many phrases are re-threshed. Even in the beds. You see this crook and his like-minded people in it so and so often. Such a wild and indiscriminate sensual pleasure is pre-exerted - even the Chinese woman is not absent - that in the end one is not even shocked, but merely bored. "
“ Everything goes better with raspberry spirit is a comedy that, fifteen years after the end of the war, was already making jokes about aspects of the Nazi era - and its consequences. Many a Nazi bigwig, it is suggested, by no means disappeared at the end of the war. They're still around, they're fine, they've just made a little business change, but they still make a living with blood money. For example, the former captain Niederberger, now in the service of Egypt as an arms dealer, knows confidently: 'There's always war somewhere!' "
“What the title, borrowed from the hero's profession of peace, does not lead to expectation: a witty, imaginative strip, charmingly interpreted by Fischer and a new side, Marianne Koch in an atmospheric setting, brightly music-backed and photographically clean, which also entertains discerning viewers. "
"Comedy with a slightly ironic color."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The mirror. No. 46, November 9, 1960, p. 85.
- ↑ Time. November 11, 1960.
- ↑ Everything goes better with raspberry spirit. At: film.at.
- ↑ Everything goes better with raspberry spirit. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: Paimann's film lists .
- ↑ Everything goes better with raspberry spirit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2015 .
Web links
- With Himbeergeist everything goes better in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everything works better with raspberry spirit at filmportal.de