Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein

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1977–

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Siegfried Rauch and Nadja Tiller in Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977)

Would you believe there ever has been a German "gentleman" agent? Well, here he is: Thomas Lieven, the smartness in person. This mini series describes his adventures as an agent of the Germa... Read allWould you believe there ever has been a German "gentleman" agent? Well, here he is: Thomas Lieven, the smartness in person. This mini series describes his adventures as an agent of the German Abwehr (military intelligence service in Nazi Germany) in the midst of the century.Would you believe there ever has been a German "gentleman" agent? Well, here he is: Thomas Lieven, the smartness in person. This mini series describes his adventures as an agent of the German Abwehr (military intelligence service in Nazi Germany) in the midst of the century.

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Siegfried Rauch

Thomas Lieven

• 1977

Heinz Reincke

Bastian

• 1977

Herbert Fleischmann

Major Loos

• 1977

Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Oberst Schüttler

• 1977

Gert Günther Hoffmann

Obersturmbannführer Eicher

• 1977

Berno von Cramm

Winter

• 1977

Erik Schumann

Simeon

• 1977

Rainer Penkert

Lovejoy

• 1977

Marisa Mell

Chantal

• 1977

Günther Stoll

Oberst Werthe

• 1977

Rolf Schimpf

Hauptmann Brenner

• 1977

Christian Rode

Débras

• 1977

Nadja Tiller

Estrella

• 1977

Hildegard Krekel

Carmen

• 1977

Günter Bothur

Francois

• 1977

Günther Kaufmann

• 1977

Edgar Wenzel

Frederic

• 1977

Horst Pinnow

Paul de la Rue

• 1977

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Sorry, the book was much better.

"Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein" was filmed twice, and both versions had no chance to match the book by Johannes Mario Simmel.

Although several Simmel books were successfully filmed in the 70's, the makers were out of luck this time. For some reasons, many of the characters are only a cartoon of themselves. The impudent methods of the main character, Thomas Lieven were funny and thrilling, but Simmel's favourite issues, like the relativity of good and bad, were lost somehow. Moreover, some sequels had to be stretched to fit the time window.

The TV series of 1980 contains only half the book. The sequel never was filmed. Perhaps the producers and actors were not too happy with the result of their work?