Die Gelüste des Hieronymus
1969
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is a 1969 British musical film directed by and starring Anthony Newley.[3]
Newley played the autobiographical title role of Merkin, an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers (played by Newley's actual children Tara and Alexander) and aged mother. The film largely concerns Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women, particularly Polyester Poontang (played by Newley's wife Joan Collins) and the adolescent Mercy Humppe (Playboy centerfold Connie Kreski). Merkin compares the relationship with Mercy Humppe to that of Humbert Humbert and Lolita.
Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth (Milton Berle), and an angelic 'Presence' (George Jessel) who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director (voiced by Newley), two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.
Kinostart: | 1969 | ||||||
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Genre: | Musikfilm | ||||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigtes Königreich | ||||||
Originalsprache: | Englisch | ||||||
IMDB: | 382 | ||||||
Verleih: | Universal Studios |
Regie: | Anthony Newley | |
Kamera: | Otto Heller | |
Schnitt: | Dorothy Spencer | |
Darsteller: | Connie Kreski | |
Joan Collins | ||
Milton Berle | ||
George Jessel | ||
Bruce Forsyth | ||
Anthony Newley | ||
Patricia Hayes | ||
Stubby Kaye | ||
Tom Stern |
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1970 | Writers' Guild of Great Britain Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award Best British Original Screenplay | Gewinner |