Es schlägt 13 (1950) Poster

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8/10
This is (a bit) more than you expect!
raimund14 March 2001
No painful operetta numbers, no monarchic nostalgia, highly original dialogues and editing - "Jetzt schlägt's 13" is surprisingly refreshing for Austria's cinema of the 1950s. Just because it's so close to a well structured plot, you can't forgive its burlesque story. Two butlers (played hilariously by Theo Lingen and Hans Moser) suspect themselves of being mass murderers at the same time, but due to completely different reasons. Susi Nicoletti and Josef Meinrad did better (and funnier) acting before and after that, but the script helps them to get away with their lack of spirit.
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10/10
Excellent after the war Viennese comedy film
cynthiahost10 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Germany ,after the reviving film business up their was filing Rubble,but by 1950 began to film Heimat movies.Austrian film Industry ,after the war, began to film comedies,such as more Hans Moser film and other subject.This one, shot in 1950 in now Independent Austria.Stars two comedians of both German and Austria cinema .Theo Lingens and Hans Moser,at their best,playing servants.In this case Theo is working for Joseph Meinrad, of Sissie fame , and Susan Nicoletti as a servant.As Theo sends breakfast up to them,Pusan notices a letter on Joesph tray.She grabs it and it turns out to be one of his ex girl friends,She get mad at Joseph an fires Theo.The comedy starts when Hans Moser as Ferdinand is hired to take Theo and he bumps into Theo and accidentally takes Theo suit case and Theo take Moser's .As Theo is at an eatery he reads an article about a Murder and the photo of the murderers back.It looks like Hans.He thinks that Hans is the murder and he found out Hans has his suitcase.Hans gets a ride for Walter Muller to go to Meinrad and Nicoletti's house,which looks like the front of the Von trap Families original home.Walters character knows Joseph's.Well Hans finds out he has the wrong case and with murder mys try dime novels in the case , he finds in Theo's suitcase picture of women and two sharp knives.Now he thinks Theo a murders.Nicole's' friend,played by Eva Leiter, shows up on the weekend,after Nicole invited her,but,Nicole start to suspect even her best friend might have been an ex girl friend of Joseph.Well as it turns out almost everyone is accusing each other for being the murderer.Theo comes back to try to stop the murderer .Before you know it Hans and Walter thinks that Joseph and Eve and Nicole are a criminal gang.One mishap to another.Fritz Imhoff shows up as a head of an employment agency.A funny comedy from the early years of Austrian cinema after the war,when they were independent again from Germany . 0611/14
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