Who's crazy there, Doctor?

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Movie
Original title Who's crazy there, Doctor?
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1982
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Stefan Lukschy ,
Christian Rateuke
script Stefan Lukschy,
Christian Rateuke,
Hartmann Schmige
music Wilhelm Dieter Siebert
camera Jörg Seidl
cut Siegrun hunter
occupation

Who's crazy there, Doctor? is a German comedy film directed in 1981 by Stefan Lukschy and Christian Rateuke with Otto Sander , Sunnyi Melles and Hannelore Elsner in the leading roles and Loriot in two guest roles.

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Otto Sander as the red-blonde insane asylum inmate "Patient No. 7" on the trail of one flew over the cuckoo's nest . As that patient, he is bored to death in a mental hospital. He was admitted here years ago, but still doesn't know why. At some point it just becomes too stupid for him. When a column of painters is supposed to repaint the institution, No. 7 uses their lunch break, puts on painter's clothes and calmly walks past the gatekeeper into freedom. Once in the outside world, it soon causes quite a mess among the “normal people”. Of unshakable basic friendliness, number 7 appears to the people who meet him like an unreal stranger who, however, mostly leaves behind a hopeless chaos.

The mess begins with a Mercedes that is “entrusted” to him, he advertises a vodka brand called Karamasov in a department store, then tries his hand at driving a taxi and is driven to the scene of a crime in his sleeping place, a truck. Finally, he also meets his own chief physician, the institution's director Prof. von Schög, and they both go to the Bongo Bar together. The encounters with No. 7 lead several times to arguments between people, as a result of which a car is dented and finally an entire home furnishings is dismantled. Even number seven's attempt on roller skates to try to save the life of a suicidal man in a monkey costume does not end ideally: Both fall over the balcony parapet of an apartment building and end up in an open jumping mat.

On his way to freedom, number 7 comes across the beautiful Marlene several times, a young but also a little wandering woman who is deeply impressed by his nature. Her husband, a hot-headed contemporary, does not fit in with this at all and soon he is raging with jealousy. In the end, after No. 7 has thoroughly turned the world “out there” upside down, it turns out that it is not the supposedly “madman” who has gone nuts, but the supposedly “normal”, those with the good faith and peacefulness, the sincerity and just can't handle the gentleness of the quiet escape. After long errands, the patient finds his way back to his “home”, but is finally released as cured and can finally embrace his dream woman in freedom.

Production notes and trivia

Who's crazy there, Doctor? was shot in the second half of 1981 and opened on March 5, 1982.

The film structures were in the hands of Michael Assinger, Eva Ebner was assistant director.

Loriot had several small scenes in a curious double role. His cast as the abandoned film star "Max von Meyerling" is a double reverence to Erich von Stroheim : First, the name is reminiscent of Stroheim's almost identical role name in Billy Wilder's Boulevard of Twilight , and secondly, on a film poster for the imaginary Meyerling flick The Last Attack Loriot's head mounted on von Stroheim's uniformed body. Accordingly, Loriot put on his little role in a jagged parody. His second part is the somewhat moronic husband Edith Heerdegens , who is annoyed by her crush on Meyerling.

The same team (Christian Rateuke, Hartmann Schmige, Otto Sander, Peter Fitz, Jochen Schroeder and Wilhelm Dieter Siebert) had shot the comedy Der Mann im Pajama immediately before .

Reviews

“That the mad are actually the normal and the normal are the mad is shown once again in this Federal Republican comedy. All conceivable cliché figures of simple jokes are used: psychiatrists, clericals, gays, inhibited people, women. How funny is that: a woman's bobbing backside and the man's stupid, staring expression - in a change of cut. And Otto Sander, who can be really weird, only looks like Otto Sander in this stupid slapstick. Only Paul Burian is allowed to say a nice sentence: 'Things don't like me.' The two directors should have taken that programmatically. "

- Die Zeit , issue of March 19, 1982

“A funny, but very bad slapstick satire on everyone who thinks they are 'normal'. Wacky mill patient no. 7 alias Otto Sanders plays crazy and exposes the really insane. "

- Cinema 3/1982, p. 40

". In several interwoven episodes, everyday behaviors are caricatured in a subtle and subtle way. A not particularly profound, but humorous and poetic comedy. "

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