Germany 1965
Language: German
Director: Hanuš Burger
Camera: Helmut Grewald
Script: Hanuš Burger, Helmut Grewald, Alfred Hirschmeier, Ingrid Reschke
Editor: Bärbel Winzer
Cast: Annekathrin Bürger, Helga Čočková, Herbert Graedtke
Producer: Helmut Klein
Music: Klaus Fehmel
Sound: Wolfgang Höfer, Günter Lambert
Distributer: Deutsche Kinemathek
Lenght: 101 Min.
Format: 35 mm
Color: sw
Age Limit: <

”Twelfe Night, Or what you will” was composed by Shakespeare for his native Christmas-festivities, a festival which in our culture could be compared to the carnival. Anarchy rules; the established order is turned upside down. So it`s no surprise that this great romcom contains one of the best breeches-roles ever: Viola is played by Helga Čočková in this casual, jazzed up musical, while the incomparable Annekathrin Bürger plays her admirer, the Countess Olivia. Its unabashed self-consciousness and stage-rootedness does nothing to harm Nichts als Sünde (Nothing but Sin). Quite the opposite: it looks as though the cinema itself has dressed up for the occasion!