Otto - The love film

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Movie
Original title Otto - The love film
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1992
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Otto Waalkes ,
Bernd Eilert
script Bernd Eilert ,
Robert Gernhardt ,
Peter Knorr ,
Otto Waalkes
production Horst Wendlandt
music Otto Waalkes ,
Okko Bekker ,
Lonzo Westphal
camera Wolfgang Treu
cut Annette Dorn
occupation

Otto - The Love Film is the fourth feature film by Otto Waalkes and was released in 1992 .

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God of love Amor is caught playing video games and given the task of bringing two people together. Meanwhile on earth, Otto makes himself an embarrassing number as a street musician when his guitar breaks. When buying a new string, his hand gets stuck in Tina's handbag, which is in Dr. Beierle's beauty farm works. When she gets on the subway, the bag tears off and Otto is hit by Cupid's arrow. To Otto's mishap, the bag ends up under a cleaning machine. But the invitation to a medical congress remains intact, and he wants to give her back the bag and confess his love. While he is thinking about how to dress up in a photo booth, Tina comes by with her dog. Amor uses the chance to shoot, but meets her dog Seppi.

At the medical congress Otto is initially mistaken for a doctor and then mistaken for the entertainment comedian for the appearance. Disguised as bubonic plague , he promptly turns the doctors into enemies by claiming that they are greedy bunglers. But Beierle, Tina's boss, suddenly has the real entertainer in front of him and orders Otto to be thrown out. When Otto is taken away, he sees Tina at Beierle's and shows the bag. Tina and Beierle want to have Otto arrested, but he is able to escape the security guards at a parallel fashion show . When Beierle wants to talk to Tina in the billiard room in his own way (he should solve her father's nose problem), Otto hides, disguised as a floor lamp, and overhears the conversation. He realizes that Beierle only wants to seduce her instead of helping her, and presents himself as an “avenger with the cup”. A fight ensues, during which Otto passes out. Amor uses the chance and shoots a love arrow in Tina with a "golden shot" in the heart. When Otto wakes up, she immediately falls in love with him. A kiss between the two causes lamps to burst.

Otto and Tina make plans for the future. Otto immediately went looking for an apartment and studied the newspaper's apartment advertisements in order to scour all providers. Because of his clumsy behavior, he initially fails every attempt, but then he seems to be lucky when he comes to Villa Lodenwald, which is looking for an artistically talented resident. He must pass the test with a musical performance and must establish that Beierle is one of the examiners. Beierle and the director of television, Gutmann, do not want the villa to fall into other hands, so they make a contract to give him a foundation (of which they are the owners). Frau Lodenwald takes a liking to Otto, and he can even play the "original lute". But Beierle and Gutmann are also prepared for this case: They suggest that Otto perform her grandfather's piece on the next folk music show.

Otto is introduced to Tina's father, who has suffered a swollen nose from a sea voyage. Otto is strongly advised not to mention them. However, he cannot control himself, which makes his father his enemy.

When the show was broadcast, Beierle and Gutmann came up with something really mean to embarrass Otto: Beierle pours some of his love potion into the "Tugendhorn" to make Otto lustful and the show an embarrassment. Obviously it works, and Tina tries to get Beierle's contract out of his vault. When this fails and Otto is found exhausted by Tina, he uses a ruse with his red cups and pretends Beierle to have the contract. Both move into the property. But Tina's father, disappointed with the show, shows up to get his daughter. The kisses from Otto and Tina cause his nose to burst like the light bulbs before, giving it a normal appearance.

Reviews

According to critics, the fourth feature film by Otto Waalkes continued the downward trend in his films.

"The gasoline engine is running out of fuel."

- Cinema

"A film for fans, but by no means a big hit."

- Leipziger Volkszeitung

"Fourth movie by the comedian Otto Waalkes, which, in addition to some highlights, offers a lot of idle time, lousy actors and a television aesthetic suitable for the cinema."

- Lexicon of international film

"Linking a majority of jokes, the substance of which proves to be sometimes more and more often also less successful."

- Berliner Zeitung

Trivia

  • Markus Majowski , who later played the cookie with Otto Waalkes in 7 Zwerge - Men alone in the forest , appears in a supporting role as a department store thief. Oliver Bootz makes his film debut here in a small role.
  • Ingolf Lück appears in a supporting role as a fashion designer.
  • Cupid's video game machine was the then popular Sega Mega Drive . Sega also produced the Ottifanten video games a year later.
  • God was spoken by the memorable speaker Hans Paetsch , who was also the narrator in the Hui-Buh radio plays.
  • In one scene, the singer of the Scorpions , Klaus Meine , whistling and singing the beginning of Wind of Change , leans against a lamppost, lost in thought. Otto gives him a coin because he thinks he's a beggar. He later takes it away from him in another scene.
  • In this film there is some parodies: At the very beginning of the film Otto parodies the start scene from the music video Black Or White by Michael Jackson . When Otto is supposed to audition for the Lodenwald Foundation, he parodies the Coca-Cola advertising with the band casting from the early 1990s.
  • The American actor and singer Al Corley has a supporting role as landlord in the film. He was married to the leading actress Jessika Cardinahl for many years.
  • The film was shot in Berlin and in the Babelsberg film studios .
  • The castle in which Otto and his girlfriend live is the Britz Castle in Berlin-Neukölln .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Critique of Cinema
  2. ↑ Otto - The love film. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 22, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used