TKX does not answer

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Movie
German title TKX does not answer
Original title Si tous les gars du monde
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1956
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
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Director Christian-Jaque
script Henri-Georges Clouzot
Christian-Jaque
music Georges van Parys
camera Armand Thirard
cut Jacques Desagneaux
occupation

TKX does not answer is a French adventure film by Christian-Jaque from 1956. In the GDR it was published as Wenn alle Menschen der Welt… .

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Suddenly a puzzling disease breaks out on the French fish steamer “Lutèce”, which is currently sailing off Norway . Some crew members suspect the Algerian Mohammed to have brought a disease on board. Captain Le Guellec can calm the mind a little and tirelessly sends out emergency calls, but nobody receives them. His last hope is the amateur shortwave transmitter . Five crew members are now sick.

In fact, in far-off Togo, the merchant Alberto receives the emergency call and alerts the local tropical doctor . This identifies the disease as botulism based on the symptoms . Only the Pasteur Institute in Paris has a serum that has to be with the fishermen within twelve hours at the latest. The radio transmitter is tried again until the radio mechanic Jean-Louis in Paris hears the radio message and can, with endless effort, obtain the serum. The next possible flight connection leads from Paris to Munich and from there to Oslo . A blind radio comrade of Jean-Louis is supposed to receive the serum in Munich and pass it on. But due to a mix-up, the serum was sent to a Polish stewardess in Berlin instead of Munich.

Again there are desperate emergency calls in all directions until the serum can finally be picked up by an American soldier from the stewardess in the hotel. At the Berlin sector border , however, the soldier was arrested by the Soviet military because he was unable to identify himself adequately. The Soviet officer, however, is convinced of the emergency and organizes a Soviet plane, which flies the drugs directly from Berlin to Norway. There a Norwegian plane brings the medication to sea and parachutes it over the “Lutèce”. However, the cargo falls far away from the ship into the sea. Of all people, the Algerian Mohammed, who is the last fisherman to have not yet fallen ill because, as a devout Muslim, he had not eaten the pork that caused the poisoning, is now jumping into the icy North Sea and saving his comrades.

The film ends with everyone involved in the transnational rescue operation finding out about the rescue of the fishermen, mostly via radio messages.

Production and reception

The film was licensed for the Federal Republic of Germany by Allianz-Filmverleih in Frankfurt / Main . However, the German dubbed version was over ten minutes shorter than the French original. The (West) German premiere took place on August 31, 1956.

In the following year, 1957, the film was also licensed by Progress Film-Verleih for the GDR and dubbed an uncut version by DEFA . The film was released on March 11, 1957 under the title Wenn alle Menschen der Welt ... in the GDR cinemas.

Awards

The film was on the IX. International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary from 1956 with the main prize. In 1957, the won the United Nations Award from the BAFTA Awards.

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  • Progress-Filmillustrierte - No. 3/57, program booklet for When all people in the world ... , ed. from the press and advertising service of VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin 1957

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