Tante Trude aus Buxtehude (1971, West Germany)

Moritz appears as Monica the chambermaid Slapstick comedy. Gerda discovers that she will inherit a million marks from her Aunt Trude on her 21st birthday, but to get the money she has to take a key to the safe deposit box at a certain bank. The key is supposedly sewn into one of a pile of dresses that came with the will, and which she has sold to a dealer.

She and her friends track the dresses down to a ski resort, but they have all been sold to customers. The rest of the film swings between frantic attempts to examine the dresses, and displacement activity on the ski slopes.

The incredibly bony Ilja Richter as Moritz dresses pretends to be a chambermaid, Monica, for much of the middle part of the film as a ruse to get access to the guests' wardrobes.


Romantic complications at the poolside Inevitably he gets some unwanted romantic attention, here during an ill-advised visit to the hotel pool.


Three aunts at the bank At the end when a trickster has got hold of the key and gone to the bank to get the money, everyone turns up claiming to be Aunt Trude themselves.

Buxtehude is a standard German reference for a small and undistinguished town; a sort of German "nowheresville".

HF January 2003


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