Whistles, beds, lovebirds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Whistles, beds, lovebirds |
| Original title | Dýmky |
| Country of production |
Czechoslovakia Austria |
| original language |
German Czech |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vojtěch Jasný |
| script | Vojtěch Jasný |
| production | Jaroslav Jílovec |
| music | Svatopluk Havelka |
| camera | Josef Vaniš |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
| occupation | |
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Pfeifen, Betten, Turteltauben (original title: Dýmky [= pipes]) is a Czechoslovak-Austrian feature film from 1966 by director Vojtěch Jasný , who also wrote the screenplay. The plot is based on stories by the Russian writer Ilja Ehrenburg from the short story volume 13 pipes (1923). The main roles are occupied by Walter Giller , Gitte Hænning , Jana Brejchová and Richard Münch . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first hit cinemas on August 30, 1966.
action
Episode I.
This part deals with the era of the silent film.
George Randy, a miserable actor, unexpectedly gets the leading roles in one of the so-called "big films" with his wife Mary. He proudly buys a pipe. But because he is exaggerated in his role while filming, so that he constantly confuses the game with reality, he later actually shoots his rival in the film who wants to approach his wife. Randy calmly takes the subsequent trial and his execution in the electric chair as a film recording.
Episode II
The English Lord Edward is a passionate pipe smoker. He even spends his wedding night smoking his new straight grain . He would also have nothing against his young wife looking for a suitable replacement for the bed in the future. But the noble guest he intended shows interest only in pipes, so that the lady behaves terribly and visits the garden shed with its dog keeper.
Episode III
The third episode is designed as a parody of the German and Austrian Heimatfilm of the 1950s.
When her husband went to war, the blonde wife of an Alpine forester consoles herself with the Italian Marcello, for whom she finally also stuffs the long porcelain pipe that was left at home. Surprisingly, the forester comes on vacation. To explain the smoke-filled room, while Marcello escapes through the window, she puts the burning pipe in the wood-carved Saint Hubert's mouth. And he covers the adultery with a miracle: the initially suspicious forester has to convince himself that his patron saint is actually happily blowing clouds of tobacco from him!
criticism
The Protestant film observer judged: “The attempt by the Czech director Jasny to compensate for the weaknesses of the literary original by using images and parodying certain types of film must be described as a failure. For adults without any recommendation. ”The lexicon of international films does not have a particularly good opinion of the film. It draws the following conclusion: "Conventionally staged entertainment film with uncertain punchlines and rough erotic scenes."
Web links
- Pipes, beds, turtle doves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Some pictures from the film at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 350/1966, pp. 648–650
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2935