Bottoms Up (1974) Auf der Alm da gibt's koa Sünd (original title)

Director:

Franz Josef Gottlieb

Writer:

Hubert Frank (writer)

Release Date:

26 November 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

It's Your Cup of TNT

Plot:

A scientist discovers a way to turn cow manure into energy. Two secret agents are dispatched to find...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Formula | Chase | Espionage | Female Pubic Hair

Cast

Alena Penz	...	Sally
Alexander Grill	...	Josef Sandler
Rinaldo Talamonti	...	Tino
Alexander Miller	...	Heiner
Eva Garden	...	Claudia
Sissy Löwinger	...	Anna Sandler
Gerd Eichen	...	Sepp Huber, Wirt
Erhard 'Bimbo' Weller	...	Emil (as Erhard Weller)
Jürgen Schilling	...	Lois
Walter Feuchtenberg	...	Prof. Solo
Joanna Jung	...	Zenzi
Elisabeth Felchner	...	Kuhhirtin
Hans Terofal	...	Xaver, Gendarm
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ulrich Beiger	...	Arzt
Otto Retzer	...	Pferdekutscher
Gerry Thiele	...	Apotheker
Heinz Gerstl	...	Bursche auf Volksfest (uncredited)
Walter Klinger	...	Franz (uncredited)
Gudrun Velisek	...	Frau vom Sittlichkeitsverein (uncredited)

Directed by
Franz Josef Gottlieb		(as F.J. Gottlieb)

Writing credits
Hubert Frank		(writer)

Produced by
Günther Eulau	....	line producer (as Günter Eulau)

Original Music by
Gerhard Heinz

Cinematography by
Heinz Hölscher

Film Editing by
Christine Leyrer

Set Decoration by
Robert Fabiankowich

Costume Design by
Edda L'Arronge

Makeup Department
Christa Krebs	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Otto Retzer	....	unit production manager (as Otto W. Retzer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Uli Strobel	....	assistant director (as Ulrich Strobel)

Camera and Electrical Department
Horst Knechtel	....	assistant camera

Production Companies

• Lisa-Film

Distributors

• Neue Constantin Film (1974) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Pan American Productions (1976) (Australia) (theatrical) (as "Bottoms Up Bavarian Style")
• Astro Distribution (2002) (Germany) (DVD)
• BCI Eclipse (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• European Trash Cinema (????) (USA) (DVD) (as "Bottoms Up Bavarian Style")
• Lisa-Film (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• Starbase Video (1982) (Australia) (VHS) (as "Bottoms Up")

Also Known As:

"Auf der Alm da gibt's koa Sünd" - West Germany (original title)
"There's No Sin in the Alpine Pastures" - USA (alternative title)

Runtime:

UK:81 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:18 (nf) | USA:X (self applied) | Australia:R

Filming Locations:

Pfarrwerfen, Salzburg, Austria

Company:

Lisa-Film

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kings of the Road (1976)

Another entertaining but atrociously dubbed European sex comedy

OK, this is an incredibly stupid German sex comedy, but it does have several things going for it. It has a pretty cool setting up in quaint a mountain village in the Bavarian Alps. It also is very energetic for a low-budget sex comedy with characters running all over the place, driving motorized vehicles at full-speed, and there's even a long Buster Keaton-like sequence with a character hanging off a chairlift as it goes up and down the mountain (people rarely devote this kind of energy to a sex flick these days). It also has a strange kind of freakshow appeal with two of the characters, one of whom (dubbed as an Italian lothario type) is very close to being a midget while the other (dubbed with a Swedish accent) is definitely a giant (he's at least eight feet tall!). And, of course, there's the girls: the three main Frauleins who are in this are all absolutely gorgeous and, as per the English title, they all have very nice "bottoms" and they sure spend a lot of time with them "up".

The plot is complete nonsense, but it has something to do with a male and female spy trying to recover a formula that turns bullsh*t into gasoline. The formula has ended up hidden in this village somehow after being printed on some characters butt and, oh, who really cares? The really bad part of the movie though is the English dubbing. I'm sure a movie like this isn't riotously funny or cleverly satirical in its native German, but when the clowns doing the English dubbing got ahold of it, they undoubtedly made it far, far worse. For all anyone knows, when they dubbed this to English they may have completely made up the jokes and the dialogue as Woody Allen famously did with a cornball Japanese film in his "What's Up Tiger Lilly". But whereas Woody Allen was far more funny and talented than the people whose film he was re-dubbing, the jokers that did this one (and a lot of European sex comedies of this era) definitely weren't. I don't expect anyone will ever go through the trouble to subtitle movies like this, but they should consider just releasing them as latter-day silent movies. Trust me, it would be a definite improvement