Otto is keen on women
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Otto is keen on women |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Carl Szokoll |
| music | Johannes Fehring |
| camera | Hanns Matula |
| cut |
Anneliese Artelt Annemarie Reisebauer |
| occupation | |
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Otto is keen on women is a German-Austrian mix-up comedy by Franz Antel from 1968 .
action
Procurator Otto Zander is a bureaucrat and philistine, as it is in the book. He doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't date women, and lives for the job. His workplace has remained unchanged for decades and he maintains his fitness by not using the elevator. The new secretary Annabelle brings a first mess in his life. When an auditor from the American parent company signs up to check the finances of the subsidiary, Otto is in trouble. His boss Christian Bongert is a bon vivant and womanizer and has set up an expensive love nest in camp 6 of the company at company expense. At the same time, he regularly siphons off funds from the company to finance his lavish lifestyle. The majority owner of the company, his aunt Bertha, pays him significantly less than a boss deserves.
The auditor turns out to be the attractive Gloria Anden, who, in accordance with her professional regulations, begins examining the balance sheets. It quickly becomes clear that all the money is seeping away in camp 6. When Otto told Christian that he would do anything to save the company, Christian pretended that Otto owned the warehouse. He is manically obsessed with sex, but knows too well about tax matters to be fired. Otto is obliged by Christian to move out of his apartment and to camp 6. Since Christian's love affairs continue to appear there, Otto soon finds himself in precarious situations. Gloria, who was initially skeptical, eventually believes that Otto is actually who Christian says he is.
The police are looking for Otto, who is to receive a commendation for 25 years of accident-free driving. Since nobody knows what he looks like, Annabelle identifies him in a photo. The photo, in turn, by mistake does not end up on the certificate of commendation, but on a wanted poster with which a fraudster of millions is to be caught. Otto's portrait will soon be hanging all over town. 10,000 marks are exposed to his capture. Shortly before she leaves, Gloria finally wants to see Otto's balance sheets. Since it would come out that the company is bankrupt due to Christian's lifestyle, Otto goes into hiding and lets Annabelle testify that he had taken the books with him. Otto wants to spend the time Gloria is still in the company with his former school friend Wackernagel, who does not recognize him and thinks he is crazy. Wackernagel, on the other hand, is thought to be crazy himself and both end up in the psychiatry, from which Otto can escape after some chaos.
Otto unintentionally gets into the show Was bin ich , which is directed by the moderator Klemke, who in turn spontaneously tries to guess the job of a man from the street. When Otto is brought in and the audience shouts that he is the millionaire fraudster, Otto flees again. Christian also saw the broadcast in camp 6 - Gloria wanted to test him and had tried to seduce him, whereupon he pretended to want to see what I always do - and now confesses the truth to Gloria. Otto is in reality an exemplary employee and everything is just his, Christian's, fault. Via a hippie club, a ladies sauna and finally a police swim, Otto ends up in a police uniform and hijacks a police car, with which he drives to his office and finally back to camp 6 with secretary Annabelle. Meanwhile, Aunt Bertha has arrived here, who has long known that the company is bankrupt. She hopes that this will enable the company to break away from the American parent company with which Christian had connected them without Bertha's knowledge. It turns out, however, that Gloria, who is in love with Christian, will withhold the company's problems from the parent company and will be able to get this through because the head of the parent company is her father. Otto also appears with Annabelle. The police officers who are on his heels are stopped after the real millionaire fraudster was arrested in Paris. Christian and Gloria become a couple and Otto and Annabelle also find each other in the end.
production
Otto is keen on women was shot from January 8th to February 17th, 1968 in Budapest , Vienna and in the Hamburg studio in Hamburg-Tonndorf . The film premiered on June 28, 1968.
Bill Ramsey sings the theme song Otto is keen on women , while Rex Gildo appears as a singer and sings Like a Symphony . Heinz Erhardt parodies Robert Lembke in the film as Herr Klemke and his program Was bin ich? . Vivi Bach has a cameo of a few seconds as a traveler at the airport; she bumps into "Christian Bongert" at the airport and peeks out from under her sunglasses for a moment.
The film has no connection with the comedy Otto and the Naked Wave, which appeared in the same year .
criticism
The film-dienst called Otto is keen on women a “simple-minded mistake-off comedy.” Cinema found that “even Heinz Erhardt [...] with his small but witty parody of the popular What am I? -TV advice show [cannot] lighten up this gloom. Conclusion: an odyssey into the lowlands of the Klamauks. "
Web links
- Otto is keen on women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto is keen on women at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto is keen on women. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de