Hugs and other things
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hugs and other things |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 115, 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jochen Richter |
| script |
Eike Barmeyer Jochen Richter |
| production | Jochen Richter Bernd Eichinger |
| music |
Mark Lewis Sibylle Baier |
| camera | Hermann Reichmann |
| occupation | |
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Hugs and other things (alternative title: hugs - and 1 million too much ) is a German film from 1975 about trying to make love for three. Sydne Rome , Jean-Pierre Léaud and Anny Duperey play the leading roles.
action
Two young women who are friends have decided to say goodbye to city life and settle on a remote farm. Here they want to make their past forget and create their own utopian world. Maria no longer felt fulfilled in her job as an advertising photographer and with this experiment she is searching for meaning. Jennifer, on the other hand, couldn't stand it any longer at home and fled from the constant terror of her husband. They are joined by the meek and cranky Tom, a dreamer and storyteller who is not interested in reality. Immediately beforehand, the young man was taken hostage by a stupid bank robber in the stolen bank, where he only wanted to withdraw money, and was forced to help him escape with his car. But his rickety VW Beetle is on strike and the gangsters are piling up. Tom stayed behind - with the booty from the raid.
Now the three live without any constraints into the day. They only do what they feel like doing, be it in a bathtub in the middle of a meadow, while they are dressed, to take a bubble bath. But a failure of this utopia is programmed. The attempt at a life or even a love for three fails because reality does not allow the slightest possibility for their all-convention-negating attitude to life. In addition, all sorts of bizarre Bavarian types are buzzing around her, who hardly leave her alone for a second: for example the country policeman who has kept an eye on the two women, an old farmer who is constantly ranting about the world revolution, or Tom's bitchy ex Lila, who chase after the bank robbers looking for their prey. Finally, to make matters worse, Jennifer's stubborn ex, Alfred Lämmer, appears, who is determined to win his wife back ...
production
The film passed the FSK exam on November 13, 1975 and premiered on January 15, 1976.
Reviews
“Take: three internationally renowned actors (...) rehearsing life for three in the Bavarian countryside. So take a rascal village bull, a fat horse, a lot of hay, a rainbow, a brass band, a lot of rain, as a contrast, an amateur bank robber clique with gangster mollies, a crazy advertising manager, a couple of weird Americans, plus an anarchist grandfather, the in the barn, accompanied by explosions, brandy burns. And because so much programmed humor is still not enough, the two women in model clothes sniff on the green, green meadows, have a little discussion, and finally bag a whole million in the Adidas bag. What Jochen Richter, director, has actually thought of this silly attempt at a comedy with depth, apart from a lot of documentaries with a feature film ("Die Ameisenommen", 73), remains in the dark like the two super-short embracing scenes after the "tree -changeover "pattern. Fashionably frizzled boredom and clumsy action pounding are just not enough for a comedy. "
“Bank robbery, flight from civilization and Bavarian types as motifs of a satirical film with a love story for three. Richard Lester and French comedies between realism and surrealism obviously served as models. What the authors really wanted cannot be made out. "
"Author's cinema between art and slapstick."
Web links
- Hugs - and 1 million too much in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hugs and other things at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hugs and other things on musikexpress.de
- ↑ Hugs and other things. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .