Down to business, honey

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Movie
Original title Down to business, honey
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director May Spils
script Werner Enke
production Peter Schamoni
music Kristian Schultze
camera Klaus Koenig
cut Ulrike Froehner
occupation

To the point, Schätze is a German comedy film by May Spils from 1968. The female lead was played by Uschi Glas , the male by Werner Enke . The film, which premiered on January 4, 1968, was one of the commercial successes of “ Junge Deutsche Films ”. He influenced the vernacular, including terms such as "fumble", " dumbass " and "tüllich" as a colloquial abbreviation of "natural." In the US it was called Go for it, Baby .

content

Martin lives in Munich-Schwabing aimless and carefree into the day. He earns his living writing hits for his client Block. Even a break-in that he happened to observe is not particularly interesting to him.

Only his friend Henry persuades him to report the crime to the police. At the police station, however, he shows such a listlessness about the investigation that he himself appears suspicious. Thanks to the brisk Barbara, whom he met shortly before, he can escape first; she distracts the police with a striptease .

Martin is later caught, but his behavior has not changed. In front of the police officer who wants to arrest him, he is bored with a pistol, but at the same time asserts that it is not loaded. The insecure policeman finally fires a shot at him, but even that can't upset Martin. He congratulates the policeman on his luck that it was just a graze.

title

To the point, honey is the beginning of a spontaneously composed four-line phrase with which Martin parodies his work as a hit writer himself: "To the point, honey / don't do any antics / come to bed / let's smoke a cigarette."

Alternative ending

According to the script, Martin - similar to Jean-Paul Belmondo in Out of Breath - was to be shot by a police officer. When Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer shortly after filming began on June 2, 1967 , the end of the film was changed because the filmmakers “didn't want to portray reality”.

song lyrics

The text that Martin finally delivers to his client reflects the laconic attitude of the antihero . Block wants to market the whole thing as a sailor's song:

"Old boy, don't make a face, go quietly to your bunk and don't ask yourself about this or that or whatever, in the end it doesn't matter."

criticism

The film, which was one of the first to deal with the lifestyle of young people on the eve of the 1968 riots , achieved cult status at times. He depicts the milieu of a subculture that ignores the good-and-bad scheme of the bourgeois world and questions its notions of normality.

“A scruffy idler in Schwabing expresses his disaffection with the bourgeois world with pseudo-philosophical sayings and witty cynicisms. Light-handed first film; an intelligent and at times amusing glossy critique of time, in which self-deprecating criticism and the desire for human relationships are unmistakable. Even in retrospect, the film remains one of the few really entertaining auteur films. "

- Lexicon of International Films

"In their debut, Spils and Enke are unique in their observation of a situation between melancholy and grotesque."

- Heyne film dictionary

“An all-round burlesque and personable story. Recommended for ages 16 and up. "

- Protestant film observer

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Hahn: Werner Enke was suddenly famous in 1968. Interview with Werner Enke. Nahe-Zeitung No. 173 Idar-Oberstein edition p. 19, July 26, 2008.
  2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 11/1968.
  3. ^ The most successful German films since 1968. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
  4. ^ German Film Awards 1968. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 7, 1968, p. 32.