Be tender, penguin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Be tender, penguin |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Hajek |
| script |
Peter Weibel Peter Hajek Barbara Ossenkopp Fritz Müller-Scherz |
| production |
Regina Ziegler Dieter Geissler Hans H. Kaden Günther Köpf |
| music | Christian Kolonovits |
| camera |
Jacques Steyn Walter Kindler |
| cut | Ingrid Koller |
| occupation | |
and André Heller , Richy Müller , Herb Andress , Dan van Husen , Andreas Mannkopff , Nina Franoszek , Viola Sauer , Gottfried Vollmer , Olga Demetriescu | |
Be tender, Pinguin is a 1981 Austrian-German fictional film directed by Peter Hajek with Marie Colbin in the leading role.
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As the head of the marriage initiation institute "Lonely Hearts", Nina brings lonely hearts together by means of video presentations and is quite successful with it. Only in his own relationship it doesn't really work out: Your friend Mick works as a well-trained sports teacher and is therefore constantly under steam physically: He sees his relationship and sex primarily as constant physical exercise with a melee character, in which his sporty fun, but not Nina's Focus on feelings. She is just frustrated, orgasm has become a foreign word in her love life. After all, the gentle brunette is fed up and tells her lover that she doesn't want to be jumped or jumped by him in the future. A heated argument ensues, and Nina imitates her neighbor one floor below, the blonde bombshell and singer Debbie, who recently separated from her no less insensitive boyfriend Tommy. Nina reveals to Mick what she feels during sex with him: absolutely nothing! Mick is stunned, he considers himself the greatest lover since Casanova and no longer understands the world. What may suddenly have got into his girlfriend? Hasn't she always moaned lustfully during sex?
When the waves have smoothed out again after a few days, Nina and Mick go on vacation by train. They want to try to repair their badly battered relationship in the coming days. As they want to get closer to each other in the sleeping car compartment, a vibrator falls out of Nina's handbag . Mick is now at 180 because he believes that with a well-trained and potent image of a man like him, no woman in the world would need such a tool for her own happiness. Again the couple clashes violently, but this time Nina unceremoniously (figuratively) pulls the emergency brake. She returns, leaves the apartment and disappears to the no less annoyed Debbie. Both young women decide to distance themselves from their insensitive types and move into a room in a country hotel, where, out of desperation about Mick and Tommy's lack of sensitivity, they first indulge in lesbian love.
At the same time, her (ex) husbands are sitting at home in their orphaned apartments, licking their wounds full of self-pity and perplexity. While Nina finally experiences an intoxicating orgasm again in a physical hand-to-hand fight with Debbie in a swimming pool, Mick gradually begins to rethink his attitude towards Nina. He wants to get relevant literature in a women's bookstore ... and is promptly shown in front of the door by the feminist operators. Men are not allowed here! After he got hold of the guidebook with the help of a friendly, older lady, macho Mick takes the first steps: He redesigns his and Nina's apartment according to their wishes and now wants to become the empathetic lover that Nina is already looking for longs for so long.
Production notes
Be tender, Pinguin ran into Germany on February 25, 1982.
The 15-year-old Berliner Helga Uhlig, who was also seen here in the eponymous penguin costume, played her first film role with her nude appearance. After just one more role, her film and television career was over.
Reviews
The specialist magazine Cinema called Be Tender, Pinguin a "film that is as amusing as it is frivolous".
“An attempt at comedy as a parodic successor to the educational and soft sex genre, which aims to promote openness and tenderness. Formally more humorous and pleasant, but just as clichéd as most of the films in the genre. "
On film.at it says: "In a pointed mixture of satire and gentle sex, the film tells of machos, emancies and supposed gender clichés."
In an ARD program info it says: "" Be tender, penguin "is a German-Austrian erotic comedy about manhood madness and women's frustration. Director Peter Hajek and his authors give an ironic commentary on the sex discussions of the "postmodern" 1980s. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinema, No. 3, March 1982 (issue 46), p. 77
- ↑ Be tender, penguin in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on October 7, 2018
- ↑ Be tender, penguin on film.at
- ↑ Be tender, penguin on programm.ard.de
Web links
- Be tender, Penguin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Be tender, penguin at filmportal.de