Showing posts with label Gisela Schneeberger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gisela Schneeberger. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Kehraus (1983)



Fork-lift truck driver Ferdinand Weitel is desperate: he earns just a few deutschmarks a month, and now an unsavoury insurance agent has talked him into signing over expensive contracts.

Arguably, Bavarian comedian Gerhard Polt's best movie is a spot-on social satire, although its humor may not communicate well to audiences outside the region.


Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Und Äktschn! (2014)



In a small provincial town in Austria an amateur filmmaker plans to shoot a movie about Adolf Hitler's private life.

Bavaria's best comedian Gerhard Polt can hardly translate his acrid humour to this story; the plot seems funnier than its realization really, which is rather subdued and seems ítself quite amatuerish.