Hustle and bustle around Trixie
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| Original title | Hustle and bustle around Trixie |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| script |
Fritz Eckhardt , Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs ) |
| music | Gerhard Heinz |
| camera | Franz X. Lederle |
| cut | Traude Krappl |
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Trubel um Trixie is a German feature film by Franz Josef Gottlieb from 1972.
action
The British company ITPC uses a computer to determine the ideal company for the development of a new toy: The decision for the machine falls on the warring Viennese companies "Wiener Spielwarenfabrik", owner Otto Wiesinger, and "Wiesinger & Sohn", managed by his cousin Theodor and his son Theodor jun., called Teddy. The aim is to create two million Mozart dolls with machine guns and bonanza hats that play the Wolga song. Otto refuses the offer and Theodor accepts it because he wants to forestall his cousin. However, since Otto informed the ITPC that not only he, but also every other Viennese toy manufacturer would reject this offer, the ITPC became suspicious. Before she signs the contract with "Wiesinger & Sohn", she sends her agent Trixie to Vienna to find out more about the company.
Trixie applies unattractively disguised to "Wiesinger & Sohn" as Teddy's secretary and is hired. She finds out that Theodor has overlooked a crucial passage in the contract: the delivery of the two million dolls should take place by the end of the year. The capacity expansion required for this would cost the company 10 million schillings , which the company does not have. Despite the hardly to be expected fulfillment of the contract, Trixie does not send a rejection to the ITPC, because she has fallen in love with Schürzenjäger Teddy, whom she meets undressed and who also falls in love with her. When her ex-boyfriend Ronald shows up at the hotel and almost betrays her, Teddy thinks he has moved and Trixie has to alternate between her disguised and undisguised self at her work place in order to win Teddy back over - which leads to chaotic changing activities.
Both Theodor and Otto learn that an uncle has left them an inheritance. Above all, Theodor hopes for something of value in order to still get the 10 million schillings and to fulfill the contract with the ITPC, but receives a dilapidated train that is promptly driven for scrap in a test drive. Otto's legacy, an old ship, is also destroyed during a voyage. Meanwhile, the porter's grandson reveals Trixie to be a spy, and Teddy also learns that his great love and the unattractive secretary are a person who just wanted to listen to him. He breaks with Trixie, but Ronald teaches him better: Trixie had sent the ITPC the ITPC all the time, out of love, and claimed that the contract could be fulfilled. Even more: through the news of the inheritance of a railway, the ITPC believed in a fortune of the company and now in turn signed the contract. Since the train was worthless, Trixie will now be dismissed for misinformation.
It comes to a happy ending when it turns out that the deceased uncle just wanted to fool the warring cousins. In reality, he bequeaths both of them a total of 10 million schillings, which they have to invest together in a project: Both decide on the Mozart puppet project. Teddy travels to ITPC headquarters and announces to boss Mr. Brown that the contract will be fulfilled. The fact that Trixie has just been released is not tragic, as he can now take her back to Vienna as his girlfriend "unbound".
production
The trigger for this film comedy was the successful television series Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne , through which Fritz Eckhardt and Peter Weck had already become popular as a comic father / son duo. The world premiere took place on October 19, 1972.
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the hubbub around Trixie as a “German comedy of the seventies”, while the film service criticized the comedy as a “stupid comedy in an unpretentious staging”.
Filmecho / Filmwoche wrote of a “routine, playful nonchalance” with which Eckhardt and Weck “distribute their punchlines, throw them around, half let them fall, skillfully catch them again and beat each other with it”. Uschi Glas remains a bit pale, but this can also be blamed on the script, which makes her “more of a key word than the main character”.
Web links
- Trixie hype surrounding the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hustle and bustle around Trixie at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 117
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 8. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3902.
- ↑ The hustle and bustle of Trixie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karls Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 117