The Roaring Fifties
- Juraj Kukura: Jakob Formann
- Boy Gobert: Udo von Gerresheim
- Peter Kern: Franz Arnusch
- Nora Barner: Julia
- Christine Kaufmann: Natasha
- Sunnyi Melles: Bambi
- Beatrice Richter: Dr. Malthus
- Eva Mattes: Hilde werewolf
- Dietrich Mattausch: Wenzel Prill
- Paul Esser: Senator Hilton
- Klaus Höhne: Colonel Hobson
- Ilja Richter: Rabid Reporter
- Willy Millowitsch: Professor Donner
- Freddy Quinn: General Mark Clark
- Sona MacDonald: Yun- Sin
- Christa Berndl: Ms. Hilton
- Brigitte Mira: Woman Willmsen
- Dominique Horwitz: Mick
- Ingrid Caven: Claudine
- Charles Regnier Igor
- Karl -Heinz Vosgerau: Rouvier
- Rudolf Lenz: Sir Derek
- Karl Lieffen: Major Blaschenko
- Burkhard Driest: Major Assimov
- Guido Baumann: Federal Interior Minister
- Friedrich -Karl Praetorius: Mayor Klahr
- Ernst Konarek: Hölzlwimmer
- Ulrich Wildgruber: Emil
- Udo Kier: Fromm
- Wolfgang Sauer: singer
- Uwe Friedrichsen: Monsieur Chanson
- Ivan Desny: doctor
- Margit Carstensen: secretary
- Achim Sauter: Jew
- András Fricsay: Monsieur Tütü
- Zazie de Paris: Madame Perfume
- Peter Bohlke: Maitre d' Hotel
- Sid Grimsley: Jesus
- Bob Lockwood: MP George
- Ludwig Kaschke: 1 Air Traffic Controller
- Pit Krüger: People's Police
- Natias Neutert: The blind
- Bea Fiedler: Gloria Cadillac
- Edi beer Ling: Dr. Kaider
- Siegfried Grönig: Dr. Drissen
- Curt Bois
- Diether Krebs
- Lou van Burg
- Madeleine Vester: researcher
The wild fifties is a German feature film from the year 1983. The film was based on the novel Hooray, we're still alive by Johannes Mario Simmel.
Action
The Second World War is over. Jacob Formann comes from captivity back home. In Linz he gets work as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. His new contacts he uses to become self-employed. He ill-gotten themselves to the Americans 40,000 eggs and founds a chicken farm. Location for his business, the farm who has heard during the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler. The economic miracle of Jacob Formann can begin. In quick steps Formann rises to the successful CEO of the young Federal Republic. He is building contractor and publisher. Formann lives in the sprawling luxury. It was not until the oil crisis of the Republic bestowed as the early 1970s, its first recession, ending the rise of the petty bourgeois Formann. Formann must sell his business empire to a group of banks. But Formann is not unhappy about it. Burdens fall away from him, together with his girlfriend Julia, he retreated into private life.
Background
Filming took place from late August to late November 1982 in Munich. Exterior shots were done outside of Munich and around Neuschwanstein Castle. Premiered the movie on 23 September 1983. The film was made in co-production with ZDF, the 1986 also took over the television congestion radiation. The title song Hooray, we're still alive was sung by Milva. The song was composed by Klaus Doldinger. The lyrics were written by Thomas Woitkewitsch. The film material based on the novel by Johannes Mario Simmel was originally created by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an international production. He had in 1981 written a screenplay for the film production Bavaria Film in Munich. Internal disagreements between the former management and Cooper on the artistic design of the film were Fassbinder cancel the project in early 1982.
However, he beat Peter Zadek before in his place as a director. This then also took over the government, but did not use Fassbinder's screenplay. A condition of Fassbinder, for example, was that Götz George should play the main role - this at a time when it was hardly perceived as a serious and great German actor. His rediscovery and establishment as a movie and TV star of 1980er/90er years he should know after the movie Step-Down ( 1985) by Carl Schenkel, beyond him, the figure Schimanski in the ARD series Tatort cult star could be.
Reviews
" Very free filming of Simmel 's novel by a theater director who proposed a sassy, revue -like satire on the rise mentality of the economic miracle years. The result is, however - despite the enormous production costs and a considerable banns West German film, theater and television celebrities - only hectic farce full of hyped- Klamauks. Partly Highlights and accurate punch lines go under in the general dramaturgical confusion. "