When the great aunts come

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Movie
Original title When the great aunts come
When the great aunts come Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1970
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Franz Josef Gottlieb
script Kurt Nachmann ,
August Rieger
production Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs )
Divina ( Ilse Kubaschewski )
music Gerhard Heinz
camera Heinz Hölscher
cut Christine Brandt ,
Traude Krappl-Maass
occupation

When the great aunts come is a German film set by Franz Josef Gottlieb from 1970.

action

The Munich travel agent Paul Förster actually wanted to go on vacation to Spain with his best friend Rudi . However, since the important customer, the Schlosshotel am Wörthersee , wants to become a customer of the rival travel agency Himmelreich in the future, his boss Storz urges him to investigate the cause on site in Velden .

Paul and Rudi go to Velden. On the way, their car is stolen by the shady drug smuggler Ted Cocci, their clothes and passports are fed to cows and when they appear at the police station in their underpants, they are almost arrested as drug smugglers. On their escape, they pick up a suitcase that has fallen from a minibus and contains women's clothes and wigs . They now appear as women in Velden, are mistaken for Ms. Himmelreich and secretary by receptionist Poldi and are courted. Poldi believes that he has found the woman for life in Rudi and ensnares him. Rudi's attempts to get something to eat fail time and again. In addition, there are entanglements because the castle hotel is regularly called by an unknown man who claims to be the new owner. In fact, the hotel has a new owner who is not known to anyone.

The chaos increases when Paul's boss Storz appears at the hotel and, in turn, begins to ensnare Rudi. He also tries to recruit Paul, disguised as a woman, as a new employee, in return for throwing Paul out. Storz's employee Eva, meanwhile, was supposed to help Paul and Rudi out of Munich with men's clothing and went to Velden with a packed suitcase and her unknown customer Christian. She returns the suitcase to the reception because Paul and Rudi are not registered under their real names. Ted Cocci appears in the hotel, who stole Paul's car and papers, pretends to be Paul and takes Paul's suitcase. Soon it is said that the ominous Paul Förster is the new owner of the hotel and Ted wants to take advantage of the opportunity and collect 30,000 DM as “Paul Förster”. This prevents Christian, who turns out to be the real new owner. Ted and his ally Bronja flee, but are caught by Rudi and Paul after a long chase. In the end, both managed to escape the incompetent Inspector Grassinger.

Eventually Christian and Eva become a couple and want to get married. Poldi finds his dream woman in the real Frau Himmelreich. Waiter André falls in love with a telephone operator and her twin sister with the singer Kurt Stadel. Paul and Rudi find their car again and drive to Munich. Her car is destroyed in a blast and both find themselves blackened with soot - their clothes are destroyed except for their underpants. You see a minibus lose a suitcase in the distance. Rudi states: "Now the whole thing starts all over again" - and both of them run to the suitcase, laughing.

production

Producer Karl Spiehs absolutely wanted the already well-known show master Rudi Carrell as the main actor. When he declined because of what he thought was a bad script, Spiehs asked him about his fee at the Rudi Carrell Show . Spiehs offered him five times the 20,000 marks mentioned by Carrell, plus unlimited free beer . Carrell agreed.

His partner, 18-year-old Ilya judge by ZDF for moderated by him telecast disco was even rewarded at this time per issue only 750 marks, a film fee received 200,000 marks.

The film was shot in Munich and Velden am Wörther See . The vehicle that Ilja Richter and Rudi Carrell drive and that Jochen Busse stole from them was a VW Porsche 914 . The premiere of the film took place on August 6, 1970 in Essen's Lichtburg . In the Federal Republic of Germany he had about three million visitors.

Various hits can be heard in the film:

criticism

The lexicon of international films described Wenn die great Aantenommen as a "Disguise and confusion game based on old German patterns - with an array of songs and show offspring from the sixties."

Cinema summarized: “Brain out, scrap on: Ilja and Rudi deliver clumsy gags non-stop. Conclusion: great aunts? Probably rather dumb little bags. "

The evangelical film observer draws the following conclusion: "Gaudy, cheap color comedy with lots of musical sprinkles - which you can still laugh about sometimes."

In December 2016, the film was shown as part of the Tele 5 series The Worst Films of All Time .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 45
  2. ^ Jürgen Trimborn: Rudi Carrell. A life for the show , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2006, p. 212
  3. ↑ The most successful German films since 1968 on insidekino.com
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 9. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 4252.
  5. ↑ See cinema.de
  6. ↑ Published by the Evangelical Press Association in Munich, Critique No. 382/1970, p. 386