What Is the Matter with Willi?

Heinz Erhardt: Willi Tiny
Ralf Wolter: Felix Klein
Ruth Stephan: Annie Engel
Stella Mooney: Helga Tiny
Rex Gildo: Frank Kuhländer
Helen Vita: Woman Stirnima
Willy Reichert: State Kuhländer
Wolfgang Lukschy: Dr. Finz
Paul Esser: Motzmann
Ingrid van Bergen: Dr. Sigrid Kubin
Inge Wolff Mountain: Miss Grey bird
Fred Howe: Professor folding Müller
Max Nosseck Aga ben Nemzich
Rudolf Schündler: Fridolin
Rut Rex: courtesan
Evelyn Gressmann: Nurse

What's going on just with Willi? is a German film from 1970 based on the play to whom God gives an office of Wilhelm Lichtenberg. Starring Heinz Erhardt is to see more performances have Ralf Wolter, Rex Gildo, Willy Reichert and many other famous actors and singers of the 70s. The premiere took place on 17 July 1970.

Action

Tax inspector Willi Tiny is just a small financial officer, but he has a big heart for his "customers." In cases of particular hardship the records of the insolvent or unwilling tax liability disappear in the closet. Once all cabinets are filled, Willi disposed of the documents just in the trash. Unfortunately, the cleaning lady discovered the files and puts them Willis supervisor, the stern Government Motzmann on the desk. Three weeks before his retirement comes Willis behavior as the light, and Motzmann wants to make a disciplinary procedure that Willi loses the pension entitlements.

Fortunately, Willis friend Felix a good idea: Willi is "crazy" play, so you can be called to account for his actions not him. Willi mixed accordingly to Motzmanns office that keeps prompt him for a madman. Just at that moment Motzmann receives a visit from Secretary of State Kuhländer, but understands the spontaneous outbreak Willis apparently completely wrong - he thinks he's the most normal officials throughout the house, after all, so Kuhländer that everyone should let off steam.

That leaves Willi course not sit up. To be finally written " broken", he smuggles himself to a state reception where it ensures a proper scandal in which he only insulted a foreign investor and then slaps the unsuspecting Kuhländer from the greedy lenses of the assembled press. But Kuhländer who wanted to get rid of his unloved job anyway is to: - Willis horror - overjoyed, and appoints Willi before his resignation nor the upper government. In this position shifts Willi funds that were intended for the shelter Kubin, to a children's aid project. When he is first to be laid off again, the new Secretary of State, it even beat profit and to promote Willi to the press for Ministerial decides. Kuhländer Commented this process with humorous note, Willi bring it determines even as Finance Minister. This must be the formerly unfaithful officials but refuse, for he would indeed retire - " full board ", so the final word.

Main characters

Willi Tiny

Willi Tiny is a character from the comedy Who God is an office of Wilhelm Lichtenberg. Heinz Erhardt had Tiny previously embodied on stage more than 500 times. 1962, the episodic film Willi Tiny as part of the Heinz Erhardt Film Festival was broadcast on ARD. On January 1, 1971 staging of the play with Erhardt in the lead role under the title has also been The one it has now sent through the north Program Theatre guest appearances as a recording of the ZDF television. In the film Our Willi the best is the story continued to Tiny 1971.

Heinz Erhardt portrays the taxman Willi Tiny and pulls out all the stops Kalauerns. His hated boss Motzmann he referred to as a " Schwotte " (mixture of Schwabe and bulkheads ), the heating only in July and August, because the oil would then be the cheapest. The typist Annie Angel gets off her fat - it was a " great white bird ", which he justified by the fact that the lady would immediately run to the union if he called them with " silly goose ".

Felix Klein

Willis " Sidekick " Felix Klein (Ralf Wolter ) is not only his roommate at the home of Mrs. Stirnima, but also acts as his colleague, with whom he shares an office. Felix has to defend himself, with the two naturally found at the end of the film the whole film through the advances of Annie Engel.

Annie Engel

Annie ( Ruth Stephan) is a secretary in the tax office, but at the same time fired up to our ears in Felix Klein. Advertise your encounters but on deaf ears until they finally persuaded him to visit her in her karate club. At the end of the film she finally succeeds and Felix gives her Advertise claimed.

Helga Tiny

Helga (Stella Mooney ) Willis 's niece and just Ausgebüxt from home to meet up with her boyfriend Frankie ( Rex Gildo ), a beat musician. It comes with with her uncle Willi and sneaks out of the house at night to watch a live performance by Frankie in a disco. Willi and Felix embark on an adventurous journey through the Munich nightlife, the course ends with a lot of alcohol and without the hoped- Fund.

Frank Kuhländer

Frankie, the beat musician ( Rex Gildo ), is not only Helga's friend, but also the son of Secretary of State Kuhländer. He is responsible logically for the background music of the film and controls some songs on it. Not, however, before Uncle Willi gets promised the corresponding retirement of his father - He also has successfully Helga's hand.

Woman Stirnima

Helen Vita plays Stirnima woman, the landlady of Felix and Willi. Secretly, she raves about Willi what they would never openly admit. Her name is of the then hit Gruezi well woman Stirnimaa! the group Minstrels derived. The Minstrels are also seen in the movie and listen.

Reviews

" Taxman farce with punchlines and deeper meaning. " ( Rating: 2 stars = average ) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 902

" A little exhilarating, realistic foreign Heinz Erhardt comedy. " - " Encyclopedia of the international film " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997

" A pretty idea was partly overused, sometimes watered down to the hit movie. Approximately 10 without recommendation. " - Protestant observers movie (Evangelical Press Association Munich, criticism No 299/ 1970)

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