The phone went off at night
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The phone went off at night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Viktor Papa |
| production | Eberhard Meichsner for Astra-Film |
| music |
Willi Kollo Hans-Jürgen Naumann |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| occupation | |
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At night the telephone rang is a German film comedy from the year 1962. Directed by Géza von Cziffra playing Gunther Philipp , Elke Sommer , Günter Pfitzmann and Ingrid Andree the leading roles.
action
Waldemar Meineke, an employee of a large US company whose business he represents in Hamburg, is in a state of excitement. His boss, Th. Th. Th. Meyer from the United States, has announced himself with his wife and blond daughter. But he does not intend to expose himself to the gray weather in the Hanseatic city; Instead, Meyer wants to cruise off the Côte d'Azur with his yacht and for this reason invites the branch manager Meineke and his wife to the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast in St. Tropez . Both men, who never saw each other before, got off to a very bad start when they got to know each other: there was a violent fight at a post office in the south of France, from which Meyer emerged with a black eye. But this is only the beginning of a series of turbulent entanglements, in which the capricious acquaintance of his wife Renate, Mabel Meyer, through whose intercession Meineke once received his post in the first place, and Meineke's hasty authorized signatory Robert Bullinger also have their share.
After Meineke found out who he gave the violet to, he would like to go underground and gives his friend "Bulli" Bullinger the instruction to impersonate him from now on. Meanwhile, Meyer is looking for Meineke; but not to fire him, but because he is in need of explanation to his wife Mary, who believes that he has caught the wounds of the seductive femme fatale Dolly Dobbs. Because she is a former mistress of her husband. Waldemar is supposed to confirm the fight to the jealous wife. Meanwhile, Bulli got to know the perky Meyer daughter and quickly developed a soft spot for Miss Mabel. When Meyer invites the Meinekes and Bullinger to cruise on the yacht, the chaos begins to reach its climax. Meineke has now visually changed his face in the hope that Meyer will not identify him as the thug from the office. In order not to attract attention with the role reversal, "Bulli" as Waldemar Meineke now has to share the cabin with Meineke's wife, which is not right for either the real Meineke or Bullinger, as he would much rather share the sheet with Mabel Meyer. She, in turn, has to believe that the young man who has flirted with her the whole time is an amoral and above all married bastard. After some confusion, everything finally clears up and you generally make peace with one another. Waldemar can finally go back to his Renate, and authorized signatory Bullinger now has free rein with Mabel.
Production notes
The telephone went at night was created in mid-1962, passed the FSK test on October 24, 1960 and was premiered on November 2, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main.
The film structures were made by Gabriel Pellon and Oskar Pietsch .
The film is a remake of the fake Adam , which Cziffra had also made seven years earlier. Loni Heuser played the wife of US millionaire Meyer in both versions.
criticism
In Films 1962/64 the following can be read: "Only partially entertaining situation comedy ... Obviously striving for moral cleanliness, but often speculating on the edge of the possible."
In the lexicon of international films it says: "... not very original confusion."
Web links
- At night, the telephone rang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- At night the phone went on at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1962/64. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Handbook VII of the Catholic film criticism. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 123
- ↑ The phone went off at night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .