Martha (1967 film)
- Ove Sprogøe: Steward Watson
- Poul Reichhardt: machinist brast
- Poul Bundgaard: Alf
- Karl Stegger: Captain Peter Nielsen
- Preben Kaas: Koch ( ship's cook )
- Helge Kjærulff - Schmidt: shipowner O.P. Andersen
- Sverre Wilberg: shipowner Amundsen
- Lily Weiding: Miss Bruun
- Hanne Borchsenius: Lone Andersen
- Eleni Anousaki: Laura
- Henrik Wiehe: Helmsman
- Birger Jensen: Halfdan
- Paul Hagen: Radiotelegrafist Marius Knudsen
- Bjørn Puggaard -Müller: Johansen
- Gunnar Bigum: Accountants
- Holger Vistisen porter
- Sotiris Moustakas: Hector
- Antonis Papadopoulos: Aias
- Odd Wolstad: Captain of the Harald
- Lone Luther: Reinigungssdame
- Stavros Christofides: heater Alexander
Martha is a Danish film directed by Erik Balling and Henning Bah from 1967, which was produced by Nordisk Film. In this comedy film several famous actors to play with from the known Olsen Gang and he is also considered a precursor of the franchise. The story is about a ship's crew that their daily work establishes itself as pleasant as possible and experienced on their journey several surprises and adventure.
Action
The good old steamboat Martha is an old rust bucket without comfort in a very poor condition and does not correspond to the normal rules, but is loved by the team. The Martha always drives little to do with little cargo in the Mediterranean and was almost forgotten by their Danish shipping company. The team uses this time for a very comfortable and luxurious life on board. This enables them to their life so continue and to save the ship from being scrapped, they must put a part of their wages in the preservation of the ship. Your shipowners in Denmark is now trying to negotiate with an oil sheikh an important contract to enter so big in the oil trade. His greatest nemesis, the Norwegian Shipowners gates Amundsen, but he tries ways to steal this oil contract. Following the owner of Martha pays a surprise visit to the ship. In the further course of the crew she has to prove what is really in it. On their journey, the other Martha meets Harald, the ship of the Norwegian competitors. Whose ship is brand new, much larger and obviously a nicer ship than their own. There will be a competition of the two ships and their crews, whose output is to decide on the award of the lucrative oil contract as well as the fate of Martha. Mutual provocations between the teams, like playing the Norwegian national anthem and a provocative striptease include, of course with it. The crew of the Martha has to improvise very strong, to ever have a chance against the all-new fast steamer " Harald", and try to bring her 's curious ingenuity scrap heap ship into shape. According to some surprising events and turbulent adventures they eventually make it to win the contract for their shipping company as well as to save their beloved Martha from the threat of scrapping.
Production
When Martha was the built in Denmark in 1927 steamship Margarita (original name Aslaug ) used in the shooting. After completion of film production, the ship was scrapped in late 1967 in Yugoslavia.
Publications and aftermath
The film was broadcast on public television from Denmark, Sweden and Norway on October 10, 1967 its cinema premiere in Copenhagen and was subsequently several times. The film reached there, a very high cult status. In Sweden, it was arranged by sailor missions, even just for sailors in small cinemas and demonstrated on ships. Since the 1990s it into a veritable cult has developed where for sailors and employees of companies in the field of seafaring in Sweden and Denmark, as established in various clubs called Martha Martha Martha evenings and parties will be organized.
Meanwhile, he was (English, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish subtitles) published in the Danish original version on DVD and Blu -Ray. A German -language publication has not yet been published.