The drivers, of course
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| Original title | The drivers, of course |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Erich Engels |
| script | Gustav Kampendonk |
| production | German film Hansa |
| music | Peter Igelhoff |
| camera | Albert Benitz |
| cut | Ingrid Wacker |
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Of course the motorists is a German film with Heinz Erhardt in the leading role. Directed by Erich Engels . The film premiered on August 20, 1959 in West German cinemas.
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Police sergeant major Eberhard Dobermann is a pedant . Dobermann performs his service at a traffic intersection in a lovable but consistent manner. Not even the police chief is spared his correctness. In his private life, Eberhard Dobermann is an honest citizen with a newly built home in a typical 1950s new-build district, a widower with two children who is on friendly terms with the florist and widow Jutta Schmalbach.
Jutta would like to marry Eberhard, but Eberhard makes no move to propose a marriage. His daughter is in love with Walter Schliewen, a racing driver and the son of a car dealer who does test drives with pretty women. Walter has already attracted Dobermann negatively twice, which is why the latter wants to keep him away from his daughter Karin.
Jutta Schmalbach is now trying to make Eberhard Dobermann jealous by allowing Dobermann's neighbor, the engineer Karl Bierbaum, to invite her on a trip to Mallorca , while Walter and Karin are spinning a little intrigue . A car that Walter happened to receive as a prize was given to Karin, who slipped the prize on her father.
Eberhard Dobermann, who is an avowed non-driver and does not have a driver's license , is forced to get the driver's license in order to get possession of the car. So he secretly takes driving lessons. To make matters worse, engineer Bierbaum, of all people, is his rival, also his driving examiner . Doberman masters the situation by pursuing alleged bank robbers.
Dobermann appears highly loaded at Jutta's and confronts her about the planned trip. He makes her an unplanned marriage proposal: “And do you know what I'll do then? Then I'll marry you and then I'll forbid you to travel. ”With that, Jutta has reached her destination, for the happy ending Dobermann also gets his driver's license, gets the car, and Karin gets her Walter. The film closes with a police check during a joint test drive, in which the policeman played by Ralf Wolter kindly notes that Dobermann drove 60 km / h instead of 30 km / h, and for this he gets a fine of 5 marks from Dobermann.
Remarks
Naturally Die Automobiler was the second film that Heinz Erhardt made in 1959, after The House Tyrant , and again contains a kind of “generation conflict”. Peter Igelhoff's theme song was “Be nice to each other in the future” and was sung by Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys . After the successful interaction with Trude Herr , she was immediately engaged for the next Heinz Erhardt film triplets on board .
The Schlagerduo Franco and Maria Duval sang the song Cowboy Mambo (Bravo Bravo) . Franco is the later very famous Frank Duval .
The television pictures of a car race shown in the film show a race on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring , recognizable by the carousel section . The pictures of the start are from the 1957 German Grand Prix .
Locations
The film was shot in Göttingen and Kassel .
In Göttingen you can see the Theaterplatz, the Maschmühlenweg, the Weender Tor and the Weender Landstrasse 6 to 10 - formerly Opel car dealerships - which is why the Heinz-Erhardt-Platz at the Weender Tor was named after Erhardt. The Dobermanns' home is in the south-east of Göttingen on Guldenhagen Street . The house of the engineer Bierbaum is diagonally opposite in Käthe-Kollwitz-Weg .
Filming locations in Kassel were Goethestrasse, Goethestern, Wilhelmshöher Allee , Pestalozzi, Lassalle and Herkulesstrasse.
reception
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "Good-natured little 50s comedy."
- Rheinische Post : "A smiley film that humorously holds up a mirror to us."
Television broadcast
The film was first broadcast on television in 1969. The broadcast of the film on ZDF in 1984 brought the station another 20.67 million viewers.
Web links
- Of course, the drivers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The drivers at Filmportal.de, of course
Individual evidence
- ↑ The drivers, of course. In: City portal Kassel. May 4, 2010, accessed December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ The drivers, of course. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 13, 2016 .
- ^ Program from Monday, February 20, 1984. In: retro-media-tv.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
- ^ The ZDF in the 50-year quota check , meedia.de, accessed on September 17, 2017