Die Einsteiger

Die Einsteiger (West Germany / Director: Sigi Rothemund)

This is a Eurowestern

Runtime: 100 min
Release Date: 1985

Also known as

Cast and crew

Cast: Thomas Gottschalk (Tommy), Mike Krüger (Mike), Anja Kruse (Linda), Ankie Lau (Ling Ling), Udo Kier (the count Frackstein), Thea Gottschalk (the countess Frackstein), Corinna Drews (Jane), Kenny Whymark (Humphrey Bogart), Bob Lockwood (Goldi), Ossy Kolmann (Liborius), Werner Kreindl (the commissioner Gierke), Kurt Weinzierl (the trainer / the sheriff / the archaeologist / Louis XIV. / the pianist / Nero), Gert Baltus (the director Kappellusch), Jochen Busse (the elegant gentleman), Willy Harlander (the gas station tenant), Ludwig Haas (the manager), Gert Burkard (Kappellbusch’s driver), Sylvia Engelmann (Tommy's girlfriend), Klaus Stiglmeier, Eiji Kusuhara, Klaus Fuchs, Alexander Gittinger, Wolfgang Haussmann.

Story: Mike Krüger, Thomas Gottschalk
Screenplay: Mike Krüger, Thomas Gottschalk
Director of photography: Heinz Hölscher
Music: Gerhard Heinz, Olaf Weitzl
Editor: Claudia Wutz
Set decorator: Claus Kottmann
Art decorator: Claus Kottmann
Costume designer: Ute Truthmann
Make-up artist: Franco Di Girolamo
Sound: Peter Hummel, Max Rammler-Rogall
Producer: Karl Spiehs, Luggi Waldleitner

Synopsis

The two heroes Tommy and Mike experimenting with a video player also find themselves in the Wild West in their story-traveling adventures.

Trivia

The film is a parody of popular genres as well as blockbusters. This is not a western per se. The Western is only one short scene in which the two heroes are. The heroes watch a western on a video player and find themselves right in the middle of the story in a western town where they are to be hanged as outlaws. The musical theme accompanying this scene ironically refers to the Italian westerns that were very popular in West Germany. --by Jan Švábenický

Filming locations

The film was shot in the locations of Canary Islands (Spain), West Germany and Austria.

Links

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