At night in the Green Cockatoo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | At night in the Green Cockatoo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script |
Curt J. Braun Helmuth M. Backhaus |
| production |
Walter Koppel for Real-Film , Hamburg |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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Night in the Green Kakadu is a German revue film by Georg Jacoby from 1957 .
action
Irene Wagner is the director of the Wagner Institute - dance and propriety theory and disinhibition, but she herself is extremely buttoned up. To the chagrin of her younger sister Hilde, she forbids any fashionable dance in the institute, the students stay away and the inherited debts of her father eventually force Irene to mortgage all of the furniture. One day not only Aunt Henriette and Uncle Otto appear, who are with Dr. Maybach bring a possible business partner for Irene. Uncle Eduard, the brother of Irene's late father, also appears. Since he knows that the brothers were always enemies, he pretends to be an employee of Eduard. He has several nightspots, one of which he wants to give Irene as a present. The only requirement is that Irene runs the bar for a month to try it out. Since the green cockatoo promises rich income and Irene would get rid of her financial worries quickly, she simply agrees to pay the green cockatoo a visit.
The first visit turns into a disaster when a drunken guest forces Irene to dance. She escapes from the bar, but thinks about it when a little later the pawnbroker stands in the door and wants to take her furniture with her. He would waive the pledge for a down payment and Irene gives the green cockatoo a second chance. She learns that a talent show is going on in the pub. She takes part and wins the prize money of 500 DM. She has also qualified for the final show, in which 3000 DM prize money is waiting.
During her appearance, which she performed with a red wig and under a false name, Dr. Maybach seen her. She claims to be from Texas and staying at a hotel near the cockatoo . Since Dr. Maybach lives in the hotel, she finally has to flee secretly out of the window of her emergency-rented room. She is arrested and spent the night in the police station. She doesn't come home until the next morning and Hilde, Henriette and Otto are slowly beginning to doubt their state of mind, especially since they found a box full of money and jewelry in their room - Irene had taken the box with the daily income of the Green Cockatoo home with her to be on the safe side . Now she believes the money has been stolen, and instead of going to the police, Otto guides her to a psychiatric hospital. Irene is kept there as a patient and treated with cold baths, among other things. When Henriette visits her in the clinic, Irene forces her to swap clothes because she has to take part in the final round of the talent show in the evening. Since Hilde confesses to having brought the cash box to the lost and found office, which promptly closed, Irene must now absolutely win the main prize at her appearance, otherwise she cannot pay out the prize. Your competitor suddenly becomes Dr. Maybach, who has had enough of Irene always pretending to be a Texan in front of him. In the competition, both fight an exciting duel, which Irene can finally win through her pirouettes and other dance interludes. Only now does it reveal itself to him and it comes to a happy ending.
production
Marika Rökk had made her last film to date with The Divorced Woman in 1953 at the Green Cockatoo . In her biography Herz mit Paprika , she recalled that she had gone out of style in view of the wave of hit films at this time. “All authors, all composers wrote on the new scam, striving for quick success. Understandable. ”Rökk's husband Georg Jacoby had shot the feature film Me and My Sons-in-Law at Real-Film in 1956 without Rökk and the producers now showed interest in working with Marika Rökk. The basis for Night in the Green Cockatoo was the Schwank Der doppelte Mensch by Wilhelm Jacoby , the father of Georg Jacoby. "The story of papa [...] has now been rewrote for me. A female double role was constructed from the male lead, ”said Rökk looking back. According to surveys among cinema owners, the approach of creating a musical comedy was dropped. Instead, the film was tailored entirely to the lead actress Marika Rökk. Numerous dance scenes were built in and the Lido ballet was hired for the shooting.
Night in the Green Cockatoo was filmed in 1957 in the Real Film Studios in Hamburg-Wandsbek. The production design came from Albrecht Becker , the costumes were created by Erna Sander . The film premiered on November 28, 1957 in the Turm-Palast in Frankfurt am Main and in the Ufa Pavilion in Berlin . The press called Night in the Green Cockatoo as a "comeback film" Marika Rökks. She wrote in her biography: “There was another roar. The inn in the Spessart and at night in the Green Kakadu were the best sellers nose to nose. It was a premiere in the Berlin Marble House, and lo and behold, in addition to my 'old' admirers, a lot of young people had come to show me their enthusiasm. "
Various songs can be heard in the film:
- Marika Rökk: At night in the green cockatoo
- Marika Rökk: I have a feeling
- Marika Rökk: A weak hour
- Marika Rökk: Two hearts dream of love
- Christa Williams : Guitar Boogie
- Frank Forster : Manina
criticism
Marika Rökk rated the film as “young and fresh”. Georg Herzberg wrote in Film-Echo : “The film is worth seeing because of the Rökk and the lively revue scenes, which also meet all demands in musical terms. His 'plot' is on the dramaturgy's debts, which has already grown threateningly this season. ”Ingeborg Donati praised the individual actors, direction, music, camera and editing in the 1957 film papers , but at the same time saw the entire film as a“ decoration around the lively one Star ”, who still works the old magic.
The film-dienst called Nacht im Grünen Kakadu a "revue film staged without esprit with weak humorous elements, staged entirely on Marika Rökk's remarkable dance performances." Der Spiegel smugly wrote: "With one not just for her year The gymnast mother of the German film, Marika Rökk, now practices rock'n'roll, calypso or sheer floor acrobatics. "
literature
- At night in the Green Cockatoo . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , pp. 134-135.
Web links
- At night in the open Kakadu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- At night in the Green Cockatoo at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 237.
- ↑ a b Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 238.
- ↑ See Marika Rökk . In: Der Spiegel , No. 2, 1958, p. 48.
- ↑ Marika Rökk: Heart with paprika. Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 238-239.
- ^ Georg Herzberg: At night in the green cockatoo . In: Film-Echo , Wiesbaden, December 7, 1957.
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , Berlin 1998, p. 135
- ^ At night in the Green Cockatoo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ New in Germany: At night in the green cockatoo . In: Der Spiegel , No. 52, 1957, p. 61.