Two whiskeys and a sofa

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Movie
Original title Two whiskeys and a sofa
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Günter Gräwert
script Werner P. Zibaso
Stefan Gommermann
production Hans Rohardt
for Star-Allianz, Munich
music Bert reason
camera Karl Schröder
cut Werner Preuss
occupation

Two whiskey and a sofa is a German film comedy from 1963 about two competing architects. Directed by Günter Gräwert play Maria Schell and Karl Michael Vogler the leading roles.

action

Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two aspiring, young architects. Both are very ambitious and are in fierce competition with each other. When Beate took part in an architecture competition one day, of course, the charming little boy Hartmann was there too. From now on both of them use every imaginable trick to outdo each other and snatch the job from under the nose of the other. Klaus Hartmann, the son of old Hartmann, an experienced architect, is particularly experienced when it comes to trickery, and he has developed a tried-and-tested method that the Womanizer uses both safely and successfully: Take yourself, the (ideally) attractive client and two Whiskey and a sofa. The rest is left to the imagination.

Beate Dehn is not yet that experienced and confuses the old with the young Hartmann right at the beginning. But she too is shrewd and increasingly uses female cunning. For example, she pretends to be a millionaire who has jobs to distribute and tries to outdo Hartmann junior. When a real millionaire, the sophisticated American Mrs. Button, shows up, things get even more complicated. In the period that followed, Beate also used unfair means. While both young architects are trying to torpedo each other's designs, Beate even goes to the police and claims that Klaus Hartmann is none other than the wanted Emilio Fuchs, a bank clerk who recently got off the dust with the till has made. Hartmann is then temporarily arrested.

But with this action Beate cut her own flesh; her chances of winning the competition can only increase if she decides to cooperate with Hartmann. In the end, with Hartmann's help, she can receive First Prize and the two become a couple.

Production notes

Two whiskey and a sofa was filmed from July 23 to September 27, 1963. The studio recordings were made in the Bavaria studios in Munich- Geiselgasteig , the outdoor recordings in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Trieste and Munich. The premiere took place on December 20, 1963. The first television broadcast took place in the late evening of February 15, 1972 on ARD .

The production line had Heinrich Schier who were Filmbauten of Maleen Pacha and Werner Achmann created. Eberhard Schröder assisted director Gräwert.

Others

The film is very reminiscent of Doris Day comedies like Ein Pajamas für Zwei , whose successes were intended to be built on. A year earlier, Maria Schell had followed in the footsteps of Doris Day and Rock Hudson together with Paul Hubschmid in the love romance I am also just a woman .

Reviews

In its review of January 8, 1964, Der Spiegel wrote on page 73: “Brecht-Eleve, Walser director and amateur film experimenter Günter Gräwert was hired as a feature film director by the star alliance of Maria Schell's lawyer Rohardt. Hopes that might be linked to the new name are nipped in the bud. The framework of action crunches in the hinges: architect and architect compete for the same building project, try to outdo each other and find each other in the process. Where speed and dry wit could perhaps have sparked sparks from the wet wood, the direction was exhausted in decorative arabesques and subjected itself to theatrical exhibitions. Maria Schell, the proud creator of the film title, is no more credible as an architect than the Romanian Nadja Gray is a US millionaire who speaks German with a Balkan accent. "

The Handbook VII of the Catholic Film Critics criticized harshly: "The lowest set of unrealistic film reverie."

The lexicon of international films gave a succinct verdict: "German dream factory."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rohardt, completely unknown in the film industry, was Maria Schell's lawyer
  2. ↑ Two whiskey and a sofa on spiegel.de
  3. ^ Films 1962/64, Düsseldorf 1965, p. 203
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 9, S. 4479. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987

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