Quax in Africa
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Quax in Africa |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 95 (cinema) 91 (PAL-DVD) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmut Weiss |
| script | Wolf Neumeister |
| production | Heinz Rühmann |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Ewald Daub |
| cut | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
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Quax in Afrika is a German feature film , shot in 1943/44 during the National Socialist era . Under the title Quax in motion (also: Quax on trip ) turned Nazi-propaganda -scale comedy with Heinz Rühmann in the lead role is a continuation of the film Quax, the Crash Pilot from 1941, based on motifs of the narrative poem of the same name Hermann Grote . The film was shot from July 1943 to January 1944. After the end of the war, the performance in Germany was banned by the Allied military government . It was first shown in Sweden in 1947 and hit German cinemas on May 22, 1953.
action
Bavaria, circa 1932: The flight student Otto Groschenbügel, nicknamed Quax, became a professional flight instructor at the Bergried Aviation School. Despite being a personable person by nature, he decides to adopt a stern facade when he learns how his students used the planes to cut open women. His strict sermons that women have no business at an airfield are immediately undermined when his girlfriend Marianne unexpectedly visits him, and especially when he is assigned two female flight students. Soon the head of the flight school announced that the “Europaflug” competition (an air rally from Germany via Spain to Africa and back) would start from Bergried and that Quax would take part in it together with some male and two female flight students. Quax is now convinced by the flying talents of women. While out and about in Spain, they indulge in local dances and exhilarations, and Quax shed his superficial disciplinary personality. In Africa, the planes suffer two crash landings and are discovered by locals. Quax is forced to marry the beautiful daughter Banani of the tribal chief Aruba, and Europeans and Africans celebrate in an African ritual dance. The medicine man of the tribe, however, soon becomes jealous and incites the tribe against Quax. Finally, a rescue plane arrives and brings the planes back to their homeland.
Humor is created by the opposing development of the protagonists Quax and flight student Renate. The authoritarian and celibate Quax turns into a childish rogue via Spain and Africa, who uses the language barrier to make derogatory jokes with impunity about her African hosts ( “An armadillo fried, with Dortmund stock beer!” ) And sexually suggestive remarks, and leaves the marriage to Banani without hesitation and curiosity. Renate, on the other hand, initially plays the submissive girl, then in Spain she fishes Quax in dance, and in Africa she shines with her African language skills, disciplines Quax's borderline jokes ( "Behave yourself!" ), And confidently rejects the medicine man's advances.
backgrounds
The airfield scenes were recorded at the Kempten-Durach airfield . The scenes of the film, which take place in Africa, were shot in Brandenburg , as actress Bruni Löbel later recalls:
“The scenes in Africa were shot in Brandenburg, where it was rather boring. And then a few palm trees from the botanical garden were set up there. Yes, and the blacks, they came from everywhere, I don't even know where they were all brought here. The Saxon blacks, of course, spoke a particularly beautiful Saxon. "
The black extras had to show their bare breasts in the film to reinforce the German colonial image of Africans as uncivilized savages. The actress Juliette Hillerkus, who had previously appeared in the German Africa Show , defied the requirement and can be seen fully clothed.
Reviews
In the lexicon of international films it is judged that the film is a “unsuccessful sequel” to Quax, the rupture pilot , the comedy would “crash” and the film is a “slapstick with racist undertones”.
Web links
- Quax in Africa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Video interview (2016) with Marie Nejar, actress of the chief daughter Banani
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Perspektiven für Afrika: Die Ewige Safari ; Spiegel Special Geschichte 2/2007 of May 22, 2007; pp. 142–145. )
- ↑ Quoted from: Quax in Afrika . Heidecker Post; accessed on January 22, 2014.
- ↑ Annette von Wangenheim. (2001). Pages in the dream factory - black extras in German feature films [documentation]. WDR.
- ↑ Quax in Africa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 16, 2017 .