Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... (1999)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Gabriel Barylli

Writer:

Gabriel Barylli (writer)

Release Date:

8 April 1999 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Cast

Maximilian Schell	...	Hochberg
Lisa Martinek	...	Maria
Heio von Stetten	...	Christian
Gudrun Landgrebe	...	Lisa
Ralf Bauer	...	Martin
Verona Pooth	...	Ricarda (as Verona Feldbusch)
Lambert Hamel	...	Dr. Schneider
Rudolf Wessely	...	Prof. Unseld
Nina Ruge	...	Clarissa
Mathieu Carrière	...	Michael
Gabriel Barylli	...	Gerald
Joachim Kretzer	...	Andreas
Hans-Georg Nenning	...	Fritz
Herman Van Ulzen	...	Ober Luxusrestaurant / Waiter in High Class Restaurant
Robert Meyer	...	Chefportier / Chief Porter

Also Known As:

On the Wings of Love (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Germany | Austria

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:6 (w)

Filming Locations:

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Concorde Media

Movie Connections:

References Sissi (1955)

Soundtrack:

Can't Get You

Unbelievable stupid

Should we talk about clichés? You have to if you want to talk about this film. It's a cliché by itself, predictable as possible and so stupid you wonder why you go on watching it.

I wondered myself quite often and so maybe I can think which were the good parts. Well, Lisa Martinek as the lead actress was goodlooking I thought. And one of the most untalented german actors, Ralf Bauer, has the only acceptable lines in the film. Enough to watch this film? Yeah, it isnt.

Christian is a dreamer, you can say, but you can also say he's an idiot. He falls in love with his neighbour, who is a business woman. Well, she isn't at first, but when she marries him, she gets the company from her father and turns so extremly into a business woman you won't believe it. You think, oh, maybe she will change now. And then you see her ignoring her husband at their first morning after the wedding, phoning and driving to the firm immediately. One day after she watched him with lovely eyes.

When Christian first confronts her after one year with his problem that she not even seems to talk to him, everything becomes alright because they drive to Vienna. And then there idiotic misunderstandings and one of the most stupid sub-plots I have ever seen including an document which makes all Austrians to Germans or vice versa I forgot that one. Wow!

The actors are all, well bad and average and normal. The best performance is by Verona Feldbusch and I am serious. The screenplay is awful and that's all there can be said. There are jokes so bad they hurt (especially the golf sequence and Carriere doesn't make this one funny).

A distraction to watch.

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