North Pole - Ahoy!

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Movie
Original title North Pole - Ahoy!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Andrew Marton
script Charlie Roellinghoff based
on an idea by Arnold Fanck
production Carl Laemmle
music Paul Dessau
camera Richard fear
occupation

as well as Walter Gross , Louis Adlon , Charly Berger , Nora Nord

North Pole - Ahoy! is a German comedy film set in snow and ice. The film directed by Andrew Marton was created at the same time, in 1932/33, during Arnold Fanck's film expedition to Greenland for the adventure film SOS Iceberg .

action

The general manager of a film company intends to make a North Pole film. That's why he's chartered a ship with which the crew wants to go on an expedition. The goal is not only to produce the planned adventure film in snow and ice - they also want to try to find the lost polar explorer Professor Pierson. The two carpenters from Hamburg, Tietje and Fietje, actually have nothing to do with Christian seafaring, but one day they find themselves on board the ship because the harassed mate literally forced them to make this trip. In the young film diva Rita Nora, the star of the big screen epic, Tietje and Fietje find someone on board who understands their plight. You make friends with each other. As the sea travelers approach Greenland , the two forced sailors decide to break away as quickly as possible. Tietje and Fietje hijack a dinghy and cast off, but quickly go under. Rita Nora hears their cries for help and ensures that the two ordinary sailors are rescued against their will. Since then, there has been a real competition between the two Hamburg boys for the hearts of the beautiful.

The filming begins the following day, and Tietje and Fietje turn out to be downright stunners and troublemakers who seriously hinder the work of the film team, whereupon the director is soon very annoyed by them. The two carpenters can finally come in handy, because two polar bears are urgently needed for the recordings. However, the white robbers are not easy to find, and so the Hamburg would-be fur seals are condemned to squeeze into polar bear skins and stomp through the scenery as wild animals, creating dramatic moments. Since Tietje and Fietje do not know that the other also has to give a polar bear, the two landlubbers soon mistake each other for a real polar bear. Things start moving when suddenly a real polar bear appears and creates all sorts of turbulence ...

The chaos is perfect and the recordings would be in the can if the two awkward friends Tietje and Fietje hadn't accidentally set the warehouse on fire and also torched the exposed film negatives. The director now orders the film expedition to be canceled. You set out and leave the inhospitable landscape. Unfortunately, Tietje and Fietje have been forgotten. With sheer horror, the two have to state that they were left alone in the ice. You now make your own way back and on the way through the white hell you find the polar explorer Pierson who was believed to be lost and who has set up in an igloo. At his side, the two Hamburgers manage to reconnect with the film crew. Tietje and Fietje, who take the missing Arctic explorer with them, are then greeted with great joy by the expedition team and celebrated as heroes.

Production notes

North Pole - Ahoy! was from June 1932 to May 1933 on the west coast of Greenland during Arnold Fanck recording of " SOS Iceberg " and was on January 6, 1934 in Vienna under the title "Oops - we both!" premiered. The German premiere took place on April 18, 1934 in Berlin.

Fritz Maurischat designed the film structures.

Reviews

Paimann's film lists summed up: “The two weird guys, this time without skis, in an even thinner plot, which wins through the grandiose nature images (Greenland). Nevertheless, the direction could not blur the impression of the improvised. Even some very excellent comic situations appear not to be fully exhausted. (...) In purely plot terms, a passable medium film that wins thanks to its leading actors. "

The Österreichische Film-Zeitung stated: “There is a lot of laughter at this funny Universal film; except for the two carpenters, especially Senta Söneland. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oops - both of us! (North Pole - ahoy!) In Paimann's film lists
  2. ↑ Oops - both of us! (North Pole - ahoy!) In Austrian Film Newspaper

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