Professor Columbus
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Professor Columbus |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 91, 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Erler |
| script |
Guido Baumann Rainer Erler |
| production | Rob Houwer |
| music | Eugene Thomass |
| camera | Fred Tammes |
| occupation | |
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Professor Columbus is a German feature film from 1968 with Rudolf Platte in the leading role of an old dropout .
action
The old, orderly librarian Reinhold Colbus has inherited a bundle of shares and receives 12,000 DM for the sale, for which the old whale lover buys a whaling ship that is anchored in Holland. With him he plans to sail to the whale grounds in Antarctica. Colbus leaves his job to finally say goodbye to his old life, to say goodbye to the daily grind and to make this crazy dream come true. He wants to name the ship "Walburga VII". When he arrives in Amsterdam, Colbus realizes that his “dream ship” is more like a rusty, rickety boat.
In this rotten soul seller, a number of Dutch hippies have also spread out and built their very own pothead paradise. Hash parties, black masses and lively games between the young men and girls who change trees determine the everyday life of the flower power hippies. But soon the old man is no longer horrified, but lets himself be infected by the intoxicating attitude to life of his lodgers. Together, Colbus and the flower children want to make the rotten pot seaworthy again. Colbus finally becomes “Prof. Columbus ”, a dreamer on a voyage of discovery. Although the Dutch police quickly put an end to the drug swamp, the old man can finally realize his dream and set sail with his cutter. On distant shores, he finally breaks new ground and dances loosely in the sand.
Production notes
Professor Columbus was created at the end of 1967 in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands. On May 20, 1968, the strip passed the FSK test, the premiere was on May 23, 1968.
criticism
“The TV director Rainer Erler, 35, made his cinema debut with a staid war comedy (" Almost a Held "); his second film is a staid, honest comedy. "
"... zeitgeist (r) hippie comedy and dropout ..."
"A narrow-chested dropout story in the spirit of the restless 60s, forcibly brought to the length of a feature film, with a few mild satirical approaches."
"German cinema for young filmmakers that offers everything that Papa's cinema already had: lack of imagination, incompetence and boredom."
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor Columbus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 252/1968
Web links
- Professor Columbus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Professor Columbus at filmportal.de