Who laughs last, laughs best
| Movie | |
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| Original title | He who laughs last laughs best |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script |
Johannes Weiss , Klaus ER from Schwarze |
| production | Karl Spiehs |
| music | Werner Twardy |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Jutta Neumann |
| occupation | |
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He who laughs last, laughs best is a German comedy of confusion by Harald Reinl , published in 1971. The main roles in this story about a hotel that is on the verge of ruin are cast by Roy Black and Uschi Glas .
action
The Carinthian Schlosshotel Seefels, owned by Theo Frobenius, is about to end due to enormous competition. As a result, Frobenius is forced to sell his company to CEO Mertens. Frobenius finds out that Mertens wants to visit the hotel in secret. In order to drive up the price of the property, Frobenius forged the plan to present his hotel to Mertens as a flourishing business and did everything possible to make his plan work. But instead of Mertens enjoying the good service of the hotel, the hotel is presented to the strict student Krüglein as a model business due to a mix-up.
In the meantime, Merten's nephew, the playboy Robby, has crept into the hotel incognito as Neuhaus's new porter. The actual Neuhaus had told Robby on the train that he didn't want to take the job. The waiter Andy tells Robby how bad the hotel is. But instead of Robby dissolving Frobenius 'plan, he plays along, if only because he has fallen in love with Frobenius' niece Sabine. He helps the hotel to full capacity by diverting buses with guests who were supposed to go to a Mertens hotel to the “Seefels” hotel.
Sabine only reacts hesitantly to Robby's approaches. Unexpectedly, Neuhaus' wife turns up at the hotel, who wants to receive alimony from him . When she does not meet her husband and the supposed Neuhaus Robby is not there to explain the role reversal, she leaves her baby in the hotel - if her husband is not paying for the girl, he should at least look after his child. When Sabine discovers the baby at Robby's one day, who has still not uncovered the mistake, and takes care of the child, she turns away from him, thinking that it is his child. Out of frustration, she approaches the aging hotelier Bernd Ander. Both spend a day at Anders Castle. Robby finds out and wants to recapture Sabine. Together with Andy he forges a plan by flying a sports plane over the castle and dropping a stone with a message into the castle courtyard. It says that the hotel would burn, which is not true, as Andy only lets a little smoke rise on the hotel. Robby just wants Sabine to leave the castle, alarmed by this news, and drive back to the castle hotel.
After the hotel was devastated by the fleeing guests, including Mertens senior, a profitable sale of the hotel seems to be impossible. Nevertheless, Frobenius receives a letter from Mertens regarding sales negotiations. When Frobenius and Sabine appear in Mertens' corporate building, Robby Sabine, who has just been appointed managing director, reveals his true identity. After clearing up all the existing misunderstandings and credibly assuring Sabine that he would like to settle the castle hotel's debts and ensure that there will always be enough hotel guests, the two of them embrace.
production
It is a production by Lisa Film GmbH (Munich), KG Divina-Film GmbH & Co. (Munich). The film was shot in various cities in the Austrian state of Carinthia and on Lake Wörthersee . A hotel not far from Pörtschach served as the “Seefels” castle hotel , in which it was possible to shoot from October to November 1970 outside the holiday season. Bert Anders' Anderberg Castle was found in Hochosterwitz Castle . The film was titled Help I'll Dad and Quietly Plead My Songs .
On February 9 and 10, 1971, the official double premiere of Whoever laughs last, laughs best in Offenburg (Lifa Filmtheater) and Limburg in the presence of the actors. In November 2003 the film was released on DVD as part of the “German Cinema Classics” series.
Roy Black sang in the film the hits Infinite is love and For you alone (you can't have everything) , also good evening, good night , love is not a fairy tale and for you alone . Peter Weck is dubbed in the film by Ernst Stankovski . In guest appearances not mentioned, cabaret artist Peter Lodynski can be seen as the resigning hotel porter and Miriam Dreyfuss as girlfriend Sabines Lodynski's wife at the time. Years later, a scene by Uschi Glas and Roy Black was reused as a flashback in the episode Two Men around Elke in the series Ein Schloß am Wörthersee .
The plot of the film bears a slight resemblance to the play The Auditor by Nikolai Gogol . In it, an auditor wants to check a city incognito, but when the mayor of the city sees a man who he believes is the auditor, he tries everything possible to satisfy him, as is the case with Robby Mertens and student teacher Krüglein in the film .
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films rated the film as "an extremely undemanding comedy with harmless Schlager romance and a lot of senseless slapstick."
At the end of Christian Genzel's criticism, it says: “Well, if you look at it soberly, it was slapstick”, which “can be left as the final word without contradiction”.
literature
- He who laughs last laughs best . In: Kristina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema. A bio and filmography . Reinhard Weber specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809390-9-6 , pp. 153–154.
- The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films . Recorded by Roman Closer. Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-8000-7228-6
Web links
- He who laughs last, laughs best in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who laughs last, laughs best at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ filming locations , on imdb.com, accessed October 15, 2009
- ↑ Whoever laughs last, laughs best DVD
- ↑ He who laughs last laughs best. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Whoever laughs last, laughs best at wilsonsdachboden.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
