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Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose (2006)
Miserable failure
Judging from the storyline, this TV movie premise sounded great. A German professor, stumbles upon a mystical / valuable / mysterious artifact, and is the one who knows this item will lead to famed Excalibur sword. What happens next is a mindless chase through Scottish highlands (beautifully photographed) Mindless because, the chase from the police didn't make any sense. Worse: There is no chemistry between Desire Nosbush and Ulrich Muehe. They are supposed to fall in love nobody in their sane mind believes them. Absoulty terrible is the monastery sequence, note not the hero (Muehe) finds about the whereabouts, but no: a BLIND monk, (carrying a candle in the dark
(?)) tells our hero the entire story and where to find the damn sword. This did the rest to the flimsy storyline. Its sad for the try and they must have had a good budget,
another funny thing is the fact that in German TV Productions everyone aboard speaks German. And when the writers didn't know what to do with the blonde girl, they made her fall asleep. Zero Points for the writing, Muehe is a great actor, who can't save this TV Flick from drowning and Miss Nosbush is a total miscast.
Das Jesus Video (2002)
dull, lame, boring, no excitement
How boring can an adventure thriller be? Watch the Jesus Video. A so called Event Movie of the year from ProSieben. There was no thrill in watching this film. Terrible actors, one boring chase after the other, which leads to no climax whatsoever. I haven't read the novel on which the film is based upon and now I don't want to - sorry. You can take almost any "Suspense" sequence and cut it out, and the movie doesn't get any worse or better.
Schtonk (1992)
the title is bad, the film great
Whoever thought of that film title? It makes no sense. The film is one of the best of Director Dietl. Wounderful farce about the Hitler Diaries. George sometimes a bit over the top, but just marginal. Ochsenknecht is on top of his career. Too sad it doesn't translate well into english
Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937)
one of the best german films of the 1930s
Hans Albers & Heinz Rühmann are at their very best in this hugely entertaining film. Albers & Rühmann pretend to be the famous duo Holmes & Dr. Watson and the police, the gangsters and the girls believe them beyond any doubt. The direction is so smooth and has the best of comic timing as any Lubitsch film might have. Even today, the film has not lost it's tempo, witt and adventures style. Whoever thinks, German film makers only made propaganda pictures during the dictatorship, are dead wrong. Try to get a VHS copy, sit back and be drawn into the hillarious adventures of THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES.