Why the UFOs steal our lettuce
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Why the UFOs steal our lettuce |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hansjürgen Pohland |
| script | Hansjürgen Pohland, Heinz Freitag |
| production | Martin Häussler |
| music |
Hellmut Hattler , Peter Wolbrandt |
| camera | Atze Glanert |
| cut | Christa Pohland |
| occupation | |
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Why the UFOs steal our salad (video title: Hallo, Checkpoint Charlie , later Checkpoint-Charly ) is a German comedy film from 1980 . The film was shot in Berlin in autumn 1979. It premiered on April 18, 1980 in several cities. It was broadcast on television in 1981.
action
The ecologically oriented Bavarian hobby biologist Peter McDonald travels to his mother in Berlin to ask her for money to breed a super lettuce variety. After realizing that his mother is not only very depressed, but also a brothel owner, he turns away from her, gets into the daughter of a wealthy consul and tries to finance his salad cultivation on his own. Monika, a young pastry chef, who he falls in love with and who lives in a strange allotment garden, which is inhabited by many different characters, helps him with this. There is also a lot of activity in the complex, as a delicatessen exporter is trying, with the help of the police, to lay the complex in ruins in order to create new building land.
After a garden party in the allotment garden colony, it becomes clear that something is wrong with McDonald's super salad. The people who eat it fall into hypnosis and the vehicles it comes into contact with can suddenly go twice as fast as usual. After an inspection of the salad by the international secret services, a dispute develops between the superpowers of the earth and extraterrestrial exponents in the breeding. When the US military arrives in Berlin, the scene is watched by extraterrestrial beings, the bionauts, who closely monitor McDonald's every step. When finally an American tank shoots through a fatal mistake a watchtower of the GDR troops on the East Berlin side, the third world war threatens to break out.
Reviews
"In spite of the star cast, it is quite stupid and banal [...] Grandpa's cinema celebrates its origins with crude slapstick and lots of idiots: Plenty of inedible greenery."
“Conceived as a parody of Berlin conditions and science fiction films, but completely unsuccessful; ludicrous, banal and boring. "
“Peter ... can't really enjoy growing his super salad because all the superpowers ... want the energetic green for themselves. All of this takes place in Berlin, so as not to miss out on funding from the Berlin Senate. "
Video
The film was released under the title Checkpoint-Charly by Mike Hunter Home Video under the number MH 149 on an approx. 90 min. VHS cassette.
literature
- Ronald M. Hahn / Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films. 720 films from 1903 to 1983 , Munich (Heyne) 1983, p. 553.
Web links
- Why UFOs our salad steal in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Checkpoint Charly . In: OFDb , accessed March 4, 2014.
- ↑ movie review at allesueberfilme.de, accessed on July 27 of 2008.
- ↑ Why the UFOs steal our lettuce in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 27, 2008.
- ^ Hahn / Jansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films. 720 films from 1903 to 1983 , p. 553.