Ausgerechnet Bananen - film One two three 

^^ the upsidedown flag from East Germany is also decent... XD

ladamyre so right!!!

"That" conductor is the great Leonard Bernstein :)

@@alel3544Nope, thats Friedrich Holländer, he composed Marlene Dietrich’s breakthrough hit

@@Reinhardboy78 Uhh, thank you so much for the correction ☺️

Lilo ist the number one actress of the classic movie era here in germany. Very gifted, great comedy talent, very sexy.

@@juerv1 And the best - she isn't from Germany, but Switzerland!

@@HarryLime-rl1km Well, I am aware of that, but nevertheless she acted in german movies.

@@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.

It needs a good musician to portray a bad one!

Friedrich Holländer! Sth.Friedrich Hollaender, because the Engl. speaking guys do not know the lettter "ä".

Jokes about Stalin were banned in Finland?

Look on the bright side. You got to see it because the nuclear war we were all fearing never happened. Comedy won over Communism. 😜

@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).

Also in Czechoslovakia. Tibor, l am sure you already know this amazing comedy has been written by Hungarian.

​@@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.

It goes so well with the scene. Also during the chase to the airport.

The swiss Doris Day

hilarious, didn't even notice that line til this comment!

🤣Ja hatten wir bis zur Wende, wenn's nicht gerade Leipziger Messe war, nicht. Der Film ist klasse! So nach dem Motto "Jeder ist käuflich".

@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.

Nichts ist veraltet. Jeder weiß, wann und wo die Handlung stattfindet. Den historischen und politischen Hintergrund sollte auch jeder kennen.

And she has a really evil cackle over Russian women's homeliness.

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.

@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.