Grüße an dass hr4 Team und an unsere sprengmeisterin Britta lohmann thank all people of the roten Hamm und all people of the World for the Musik a nice month euer besoffene elch sabine achim reutlingshoefer und gerlinde huebel haben zwei haftbefehle
0:13 The great Friedrich Holländer. Wrote many hits. His "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" was even honored by the Beatles by performing it in their Hamburg-times!For example on the LP "Live at the Starclub"
"Yes, We Have No Bananas" is silly enough in its original English. In German it's completely ridiculous. Lilo Pulver is sizzling hot as Cagney's secretary, Fräulein Ingeborg. Ring-a-ding-ding!
Also the meaning of the song changed. While the original was about a banana shortage because a disease, the shortage in east berlin was because of communism. Which made it even funnier in this context.
Best movie by Billy Wilder! Full of historical and movie citations and also with an outstanding cast. Just listening to the dialogues puts you in a good mood.
@@HarryLime-rl1km Calm dow. Most of Liselotte Pulver's movies are from Germany. I only know one Swiss movie where she is in. Her husband was the German actor Helmut Schmid.
@1:16 James Cagney: "I said Karl Marx, not Groucho". For those who forgot: Groucho was the spiritus rector of the legendary Marx Brothers (in part with German roots) Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo.
@Bettina Gerloff: Wenn in den beiden Aushängeschildern Leipzig oder Ost-Berlin Messe war und es dort Sonderrationen an Bananen (oder richtigen Orangen statt der schon verfärbten Dinger aus Kuba) gab, wie war das dann im Rest des Landes? Außerhalb blieben die Fallsbeutel trotzdem meistens leer. Als weltweit die Computerei anfing, wurde der Begriff EDV im Volkmund umgedeutet als Ende Des Versorgungsgebietes. Solche Schilder sollten an der Stadtgrenze von Ost-Berlin angebracht werden, war die bitterböse Pointe dieses Witzes. Natürlich mit der Schrift nach innen für diejenigen, die die Stadt in Richtung Brandenburg usw. verlassen wollten. Alles außerhalb dieser beiden Renommierstädte für ausländische Besucher des Klassenfeindes war Provinz, die man vernachlässigen durfte.
💔 ... Herrlich ... Aber was ist los mit der Film-Qualität !?? Deutlich mehr Mühe kann man sich ruhig geben - es handelt sich schließlich um einen Film von Billy Wilder !!!!
@Tibor Mészáros wrote:" Here in Hungary we never had the chance to watch this "cold war" comedy until 1989." Although here in the Federal Republic of Germany, we, of course, did have the chance to watch it anytime nobody could really enjoy it since, while the film was being shot, the notorious Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961. The shooting of the film had begun in June 1961 and was thus disrupted so that the Brandenburger Tor had to be "rebuilt" in a studio in München to complete it. The film was kind of re-discovered in November 1989. In case you did not know it: The plot is based on a 1920s play by Austrian-Hungarian Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952), adopted to the cold war east/west confrontation in Berlin, and the actual script was written by another Austrian-Hungarian, namely Billy -Samuel- Wilder (plus IAL Diamond).
@@soists2558The re-discovery really happened in 1987. It wasn't due to the fall of the wall (which had not yet happened) but because a new generation of west Germans were able to enjoy sarcasm about the cold war.
One, Two, Three is one of the funniest movies ever and this scene is just hilarious. The way that conductor just catches that flaming shish-kabob without skipping a beat. YAAAH!
I've also wondered if the Saber Dance was actually intentional-its composer, the Armenian Aram Katchaturian, lived in Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930s, and was a Conservatory professor there, at the time...
But, probably, the "Grand Hotel Potemkin", was also probably a caricature of the "New Hotel Adlon"-a sad try of the DDR at trying to capitalize on the prewar Adlon, in its location-actually, a rump, semiruined remainder of the grand old hotel, only partially rebuilt, and shabbily maintained and staffed, very similar to this pathetic "Grand Hotel Potemkin"...
@Antonio Perez Thanks for these details worth knowing. I'ld like to add this here: The entire so-called German Democratic Republik was a caricature of a sovereign country, but those 16 million Germans inside its border could not laugh about it. And the entire country was a kind of big Potemkin village. As to its alleged sovereignty cf @1:55 "we cannot interfere withe the internal affairs of the sovereign republic of East Germany"). Script writer Billy Wilder did not use their official political name GDR but simply the geographical description East Germany.
Also, the outer facade of "Grand Hotel Potemkin" was actually the remains of Anhalter Bahnhof-one of Berlin's main train stations before the War, and the main exit point for Jews being deported to Poland in the early War years...opposite this station, there was a real-life "Grand Hotel"-the Hotel Excelsior-Berlin's biggest Hotel...
Evidently, this is a Pun that Billy Wilder made-he always said that the greatest movie ever made was "Battleship Potemkin", and a close second was "Grand Hotel", which was naturally set in early 1930s Berlin...
The Great Frederick Hollander, composer of the Blue Angel theme, and of Die Ruine von Berlin...you have got to be a truly great musician, to portray a truly bad one!!!