The Film is also called "Der Teufel hat gut lachen". I admit it isn't on the level of Früh's top Films "Hinter den 7 Gleisen" or "Bäckerei Zürrer", but still watchable, at least for us who we grew up and lived in Switzerland. I love all these silly old Swiss films who show us our lost past, it is kinda traveling back in time. Anyway for me it matters that I think Kurt Früh really knows how do depict simple people in their daily struggle and that cannot be compared to mainstream cinema. Of course I can speak of it because I myself feel that many of those characters are played simple-minded, naive or sometimes even stupid (not only from Früh's films). That is a characteristic of many old Swiss films which I sometimes even feel a little embarrassed. But it is as it is. We have to accept that. So, I love to watch that film even a second and third time because of where it is filmed and it is not that bad a story, admitting there is no highlight in acting. Even Gustav Knuth.. anyway. Said enough. I really prefer Kurt Früh in his dramatic films.
2 Reviews
Good cast, but doesn't deliver
Horst_In_Translation3 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
"Drei schräge Vögel" is a black-and-white movie from over 50 years ago. The director and writer is Kurt Früh, one of Switzerland's most famous. He was pretty much in the middle of his career, in his mid-40s, when this was made. The film was written by Max Haufler, usually an actor and this is his last project as a screenplay creator.
Even if this is so old already, I felt that it also could have been from the 1940s judging from the way it looked. The film starts with a random introductory part about money and its importance and it already shows that the rest of the 90 minutes is almost exclusively comedic as well. This film is also a good example of how Swiss German accent can be so heavy that you don't really understand everything and subtitles would have been a great help, even if you are a German native speaker. The cast includes really quite a few names you may have heard if you are from Germany: Horst Janson, Trude Herr, Theo Lingen and Grit Boettcher. Still I was never really amazed by the story, the acting, the music performances or also the cheeky wisdom told in this film. Not recommended.
Even if this is so old already, I felt that it also could have been from the 1940s judging from the way it looked. The film starts with a random introductory part about money and its importance and it already shows that the rest of the 90 minutes is almost exclusively comedic as well. This film is also a good example of how Swiss German accent can be so heavy that you don't really understand everything and subtitles would have been a great help, even if you are a German native speaker. The cast includes really quite a few names you may have heard if you are from Germany: Horst Janson, Trude Herr, Theo Lingen and Grit Boettcher. Still I was never really amazed by the story, the acting, the music performances or also the cheeky wisdom told in this film. Not recommended.
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