Our great aunts in the South Seas
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| Original title | Our great aunts in the South Seas |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Rolf Olsen |
| production | Wiener Stadthalle |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
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Our great aunts in the South Seas is an Austrian comedy film by Rolf Olsen from 1964 .
action
The Sonny Boys Max Rettich, Gus Sunday, Pitt van Rees, Hyacinth and Paul are on their way to Kaioli by plane, where their friends Susi Güden, Felicitas and Evi are waiting for them. Susi Güden and Pitt have been a couple for two years and Susi's father has now given the musicians an engagement in the recently opened hotel of Miss Parker. She had already promised a group from Italy that she would be involved, but had to bow to Mr. Güden's instructions.
One of the Italians hires gangsters to stop the Sonny Boys . The group, in turn, is in trouble. Because the pilot collapses with a fever, Max has to make an emergency landing in Omahu on the other end of the island. In addition to the musicians, there is also the rich Aglaja Schultz on board. In Omahu, she organizes driver Slim Fergusson, who is supposed to take everyone to Kaioli by post bus .
The journey leads through the deep jungle and is not without risk, because the local Meri-Meri have just rediscovered their traditional roots under the guidance of the medicine man Wudu-Budu. These consist, among other things, in the hunt for white men who want to sacrifice them. They raid the post bus and take Slim prisoner. She revere Aglaja as a white goddess and want to make her the chief's new favorite wife. Max, Gus, Pitt, Hyacinth and Paul realize that nothing will happen to women, so they slip into their auntie costumes , which they have so far mainly worn for performances. The masquerade succeeds and the supposed women are brought to the tribal camp. You decide to save Slim.
The Meri-Meri's plan is to go fishing the next day and then sacrifice Slim. Max tries to explore the area in a gorilla costume , but is only spotted by the gangsters who are supposed to stop the group. They give him a tranquilizer, but flee when Max takes off the gorilla mask. The gangsters are not only targeting the troops, but also a supposed pearl treasure of the Meri-Meri. They believe the musicians are after the pearls too.
The next morning Susi, Evi and Felicitas are worried because the musicians should have arrived long ago. They secretly dress up as men in tropical clothing and drive into the jungle. They are caught and imprisoned by the Meri-Meri. Pitt secretly opens the prison cells while Max serves the Meri-Meri gasoline as an engagement drink. After the Meri-Meri have drunk the gasoline, chaos breaks out, which the men and women use to flee uncoordinated.
Max, Gus, Pitt, Hyacinth and Paul are captured by the gangsters, but a short time later they are rescued by a jungle Tarzan named Zongo. They find the car that the three women used to get into the jungle and shortly afterwards meet Susi, Evi, Felicitas and Slim. Miss Parker, who has since been looking for the young women, also appears and is indignant. Susi's father, however, is amused by the whole story and so the Sonny Boys appear at the big opening ceremony at the end as women in bast skirts and sing a song.
production
Our great aunts in the South Seas was created as the third and last part of the Tolle-Tanten film series. The previous films were Our Great Aunts (1961) and Our Great Niece (1962). Susi Güden, who was played by Vivi Bach in the first two parts , is played by Barbara Frey in the third part .
Our great aunts in the South Seas was filmed in 1963 in the studios of Wien-Film and in Ultrascope on the Canary Islands . The costumes were created by Helga Billian and Gerdago , the film structures were created by Leo Metzenbauer and Ferry Windberger . Heinz Pollak was production manager , Karl Spiehs production manager . The film was released in German cinemas on February 14, 1964. The film was released on DVD in 2012.
Various hits can be heard in the film:
- Gus Backus: Cola with rum
- Gunther Philipp, Udo Jürgens, Wolfgang Jansen, Kurt Großkurth, Gus Backus: the girls in Waikiki are beautiful
- Trude Herr: Hula twist
- Elfie Fiegert: Aloha, Aloha, Lailani
- Udo Jürgens, Barbara Frey: Only love is always modern
- Ensemble: Under the stars of the South Seas
Reviews
The lexicon of international film called Our Great Aunts in the South Seas “ series clothes of the cheapest kind.” Cinema magazine saw the film much more positively : “Anyone who likes well-tended silliness and appreciates the banality of the early 1960s hits is spot on here . Conclusion: A 'must' for friends of trash clothes. "
The magazine Filmecho quoted director Rolf Olsen in a contemporary article, who for his part referred to a moviegoer who was unknown to him at the Berlin premiere. This viewer had told him that if you went in there you knew what to expect: “You can never be disappointed. But you can really laugh. "
Web links
- Our great aunts in the South Pacific in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Our great aunts in the South Seas at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for our great aunts in the South Seas . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 31 596 V).
- ↑ Our great aunts in the South Seas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karls Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 75