Shots in 3/4 time
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| Original title | Shots in 3/4 time |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Alfred Weidenmann |
| script | Herbert Reinecker |
| production | Wiener Stadthalle |
| music | Charly Niessen |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Hermione Diethelm |
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Shots in 3/4 Time is an Austrian agent film by Alfred Weidenmann with a star cast from 1965 . Pierre Brice , Heinz Drache and Daliah Lavi play the leading roles .
content
The film starts in Paris . A man, a certain Bérard, flees from his pursuers with a metal suitcase. He follows the instructions on a walkie-talkie and takes a chairlift. At a certain point he throws the suitcase down. Then he is shot by a sniper who remains undetected. This is how the story begins of a closely guarded NATO missile control device - the so-called B 501 - which was stolen and thus fell into enemy hands. There is only one model, and there is a lot of excitement at NATO's Paris headquarters. The commanding officer, the colonel, is given eight days to retrieve the device. So he puts his best man, secret agent Philippe Tissot, on this case. Tissot is to remain undetected in this secret mission and therefore operates under the code name "Caesar". He quickly picks up the trail of the missing device.
This trail leads to Vienna . Tissot takes the night train and already meets some opaque characters there who are acting suspiciously and strangely. Once in the Austrian capital, Tissot went to the "Palladium", a variety theater with a very dubious reputation. This establishment is considered to be a transshipment point for stolen secret goods and a dangerous playground for enemy agents and professional killers. Behind the scenes of this seemingly harmless amusement facility, the threads finally come together, murders are prepared and information exchanged. Soon Tissot is also in great danger, and there are the first corpses. Another trail leads him into a wax museum. In an exciting chase through Vienna, Tissot can finally recover the control unit.
Remarks
The shooting took place in November / December 1964 in Vienna and Paris . The circus revue artists, animals, attractions in the Wiener Stadthalle were included in the action. The premiere took place on April 9, 1965 in several German cities.
Shots in 3/4 time was the attempt with two prominent representatives of the most popular film series of the 1960s in Germany, Heinz Drache ( Edgar Wallace films ) and Pierre Brice ( Karl May films ) in the wake of the internationally most successful film series of that decade to set up the James Bond films, a German-language product of the agent film.
Herta Hareiter and Ferry Windberger created the film structures. Helmut Meewes designed the opening credits . Jerzy Macc was an assistant director.
criticism
In its May 12, 1965 edition, Der Spiegel wrote: “Although director Weidenmann ('Die Buddenbrooks') has put a lot of effort into practice, there was only a weak copy: his replacement Bond, Winnetou's permanent actor Pierre Brice, pales next to 007- Actor Sean Connery, and substitute author Herbert Reinecker ('The Trapp Family in America') can certainly not compete with the Bond inventor Ian Fleming. "
The lexicon of international films found: "Routine suspense film in the small James Bond format."
The evangelical film observer drew the following conclusion: “Tamed spy film in the artist milieu. Possible from 14! "
Web links
- Shots in 3/4 time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shots every 3/4 at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film: Shots in 3/4 time (Austria) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1965, p. 130 ( online ).
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 7, p. 3332. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 160/1965, p. 297