Waiter, pay!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Waiter, pay! |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | EW Emo |
| script |
August Rieger Hugo Wiener Karl Farkas |
| production | ÖFA Schönbrunn film |
| music | Hans Lang |
| camera | Sepp Reef |
| cut | Leopoldine Pokorny |
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Waiter, pay! is an Austrian feature film by EW Emo from 1957. It was based on a film novella by Jutta Bornemann , was shot in the Atelier Sievering of Wien-Film and had its premiere on June 27, 1957 in the Stuttgart Universum .
action
The two head waiters Gustav and Franz are best friends and work together in a Viennese coffee house . Business is bad, as the modern espressos are taking away the guests from the long-established coffee houses. Only a few regular guests remain loyal to the house and not all of them can pay for their coffee promptly. The new Piccolo Fritz, nephew of the rich Berliner Frieda, is also clumsy and flippant, but stays because Gustav is in love with Frieda. Both head waiters dream of their own little coffee house.
For Franz, the dream could come true when his hated brother, to whom he once lent money, will now pay it back. Franz's wife, surprised, holds the check for $ 20,000 in her hand. Because she knows that Franz would not accept any money from his brother, she hides the money blessing from him and instead lets Gustav in, who is supposed to tell Franz about the money. However, when Gustav realizes that Franz would not take the news from his mouth with mercy, he invested the money with Franz's wife: He bought part of the badly-going coffee house for Franz and made an espresso out of it. Franz, in turn, teamed up with Frieda, who was just not married by Gustav because she had too much money. Frieda buys the coffee house. Shortly after the contract was signed, Frieda and Franz found out that Gustav was in charge of the espresso. Because Gustav should actually take over the coffee house, both want to drive the espresso into ruin. Gustav has the same plans for the coffee house, since Franz is actually supposed to become the owner of the espresso.
Franz now has not only professional problems but also family problems, as he believes that his wife is cheating on him with Gustav and that his daughter Mitzi has an illegitimate child with the architect Kurt or has become pregnant by a rich lover. The coffeehouse is doing well after a short dry spell, as Franz and Frieda have turned it into a Viennese Liederkaffee, but Franz finally breaks off a vocal performance in view of the family problems, which are only based on misunderstandings, but have already moved him to move out of the marital apartment . It turns out that Mitzi does not have a child, but instead looked after a child of her friend for a while. Meetings between Gustav and Franz's wife were exclusively business meetings because of the purchase of espresso. Both men now also know that all along they were just trying to ruin their own business. Franz is now officially head of the espresso, while Gustav takes over the coffee house. Soon they both notice that they liked the other facility better, and so they change jobs again and work for each other as head waiter as before - even on the occasion of the double wedding of Gustav and Frieda as well as Mitzi and Kurt.
criticism
For the lexicon of international film was Ober, pay! 1990 "a blissful swank for the comedian duo Hörbiger / Moser". In the updated version of the LDIF, the criticism was worded harsher: Ober, pay! was now referred to as "a cramped sway, tailored to the comedian duo Hörbiger / Moser, who laboriously manages the thin plot". Even the Protestant film observer did not leave much good in the film: "A« comedy »glued together according to all the rules of Viennese duds about the competition between a venerable Viennese café and the musicbox-equipped modern« expressos »."
Web links
- Waiter, pay! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waiter, pay! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 6. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2818.
- ↑ Waiter, pay! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 406/1957