Schwarzwaldfahrt aus Liebeskummer

This combination of Schlager- and Heimatfilm is neither good nor bad, it is just absolute nothingness as it could only come from hack director Werner Jacobs. Popular singer Roy Black plays as wooden as any tree in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) and the rest of the cast is not even worth mentioning; the forest is the best actor. Moreover, it is all so narrow-minded.

This picture is atypical of the genre; it has no subplots and it seems the director had some difficulty concentrating on the subject-matter of the picture. The films seems empty at times.. However, having said this, it is still a Roy Black picture with singing, honest emotions and good intentions. Boy meets girl, misunderstanding, separation, and then bliss, happiness.. A nice movie for a late Sunday afternoon in which you have nothing else to do and enjoy adolescent romantics and antics. Biederstaedt is fine actor but his role is limited, Peter Millowitsch is just playing himself. In 2008 still going strong in his own Kölnisch theater with folk-comedies. Not a good movie, bordering on darkish camp and therefore representative of the seventies. Times were not hopeful with the oil-crisis and rising unemployment.