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I had a great time watching this movie, brilliant fotografie, great acting. Specially Heinz Erhardt. 3 old friends are going on a cycle holliday, like they did 20 years ago. Inge Meysel is much younger here then she is now, but, like today a great comedy actress. A real treat of the 50" when the roads would still enable you to have a cycle holliday and watch the countryside (some very nice scenery in this movie) instead of the traffic.

Heinz Erhardt seems like the only performer that is capable of a few mild "intentional" laffs, in this harmless fifties comedy. Peter Kraus (The German "Pat Boon"!) as his son provides at least a fascinating insight at how Rock'n'Roll was made safe for the German youth. I'm constantly put off by the shallowness and safeness of the German postwar films. At a time when films like "Night of the Hunter" and "Kiss Me Deadly" were possible, Germany was churning out pleasing junk like the "Heimatfilme". So this badly acted, staged and sung movie is strictly for the die-hard Retrohounds.