If you go swimming in Tenerife
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| Original title | If you go swimming in Tenerife |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmuth M. Backhaus |
| script | Gregor Trass |
| production | Piran-Film + Televisions GmbH (Egon Haebe) |
| music | Christian Bruhn |
| camera | Gerhard Kruger |
| cut | Anneliese Artelt |
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When you go swimming in Tenerife is a German hit film by Helmuth M. Backhaus from 1964 .
action
Six high school graduates around the student Tom are allowed to vacation together on Tenerife with the permission of their parents - under the watchful eyes of travel companion Jutta Wilke, who billets the group in the Hotel Fiesta after the flight. Shortly after the arrival, pilot Jens Thomas announces to the astonished Jutta that the travel agency has not paid various fees for a long time and that his plane has therefore been confiscated. Hotel director Perro, on the other hand, never received the money that the high school graduates paid the travel agency, so he wants to fire his guests the next day. However, since Perro's staff resigns because they have not paid their wages, Perro takes on the young people as new staff. They should work out their stay in Tenerife.
The management of the hotel confronts Tom, Fritz, Christa and the others with great difficulties and soon the last guest has also canceled his room. Only Tristan Wenzel remains, who had already met the group at the airport in Germany. The young people see the only chance to save the hotel from ruin in bringing the hotel king Varnhagen, who is expected on the island, to their hotel, as celebrities stimulate business. Tom, who is supposed to check out Varnhagen at the airport, misses him, but meets his daughter Bessy, whose dress he tears and who comes to the hotel for repairs. In front of Tom, Bessy pretends to have come to the island by herself as a student. Varnhagen meanwhile meets Jutta, who rejects his advances. While Bessy secretly comes to a concert of the young people in the hotel one evening, Varnhagen is also there to advertise Jutta with flowers. He is mistaken for a guest and entertained and after a few mishaps such as over-salty vegetables with too much vinegar, he is satisfied with the service in the end. Things get complicated when Tom, who has meanwhile got closer to Bessy, sees them in town with Varnhagen and doesn't believe that they are related. Jutta too soon believes that Varnhagen and Bessy are a couple.
Tristan Wenzel turns out to be a hotel tester and suggests Varnhagen to buy the Hotel Fiesta. Varnhagen buys the hotel and plans a big party, for which Wenzel is now advertising on the island. When Jens Thomas, who has now got together with Bruni, announces to the young people that the plane has been released and that everyone could leave on the same day, Wenzel allies with Bruni and they both go into hiding. Jutta cancels the trip home and, after a long search, returns to the hotel with the other young people. Numerous guests have already gathered there for the celebration organized by Varnhagen and all holidaymakers will be hotel staff again for the evening. Varnhagen announces that he will leave the management of the hotel to his daughter Bessy in the future. The young people, in turn, receive free lifetime vacation rights in the hotel. Varnhagen confesses his love to Jutta. Tom and Bessy become a couple, Jens and Bruni find each other and the other young people also find each other in the end.
History of origin
production
The film was shot in Munich , Tenerife and Gran Canaria . Leading actor Peter Kraus later recalled: “My last hit film was called When you go swimming in Tenerife and it fully lived up to its title. The production company had not completed the necessary customs formalities for importing the technical equipment to the Canary Islands, and so we lay idly in the sun for a week before we could start recording there. As a result, the astonished viewer of the film saw us in the opening scene in Munich with a perfectly white complexion, only to see us get off tanned in Tenerife after a short flight. "
The film architect Johannes Ott was responsible for the production . Ingrid Neugebauer designed the costumes . Gerhard Krüger acted as cameraman . Production manager was Eva Rosskopf.
music
The original film music comes from Christian Bruhn . In addition, various hits are sung in the film:
- Diverse: It's going to be a weekend
- Peter Kraus: Whoever sees you, Evelyn
- Peter Kraus: Don't let a girl wait long
- The Tahitian Tamourés : Mañana, Mañana, Mañana (Red Moon from the Rio Negro)
- Ursula Oberst : Why are you looking at me like that?
- Ursula Oberst: All's well that ends well
reception
publication
The film industry's voluntary self-regulation released the film on August 31, 1964 without a public holiday permit for those aged 6 and over. The premiere took place on September 11th of the same year.
Piran-Film + Televisions GmbH, founded in 1961 by the Stuttgart entrepreneur Egon Haebe, has been marketing its films himself since 1963. Haebe, however, did not have the professionalism of major film distributors such as Gloria- or Constantin-Film , with whom he had previously worked. In addition, hit films had lost a lot of their attractiveness in the wake of the beat wave since 1963. According fell If you bathe goes on Tenerife in failure and finally the penultimate work of Piran film. At the beginning of 1965 the company stopped production.
Reviews
“Very poorest German Schlagerlustspiel”, found the lexicon of international films .
The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the film a “comedy that is neither pleasure nor play”.
Paimann's film lists stated that the film was "devised on the teenage vacation scheme" and "staged with few new ideas". After all, "the whole thing wins thanks to its inviting setting [...] and is - with conventional hits [...] - at least entertaining younger visitors."
Cinema wrote: “Help! It's unimaginative, full of clichés and never funny! Conclusion: If you go swimming with a movie ... "
Web links
- If you can swim goes on Tenerife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- If you go swimming in Tenerife at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Kraus: Wop-baba-lu-ba . My rocked life. Paul-Neff-Verlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7014-0292-2 , p. 166 .
- ↑ If you go swimming in Tenerife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 13, 2016 .
- ↑ cit. based on: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hits . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 179.
- ↑ If you go swimming in Tenerife. (No longer available online.) In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's film lists , No. 2905_2, December 11, 1964, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See cinema.de
