Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
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Juraj Kukura, Boy Gobert, Peter Kern, Beatrice Richter, Nora Barner, Christine Kaufmann, Sunnyi Melles, Eva Mattes, Ilja Richter, Willy Millowitsch, Freddy Quinn, Brigitte Mira, Udo Kier, Bea Fiedler, Dietrich Mattausch, Hermann Lause, Sona MacDonald, Paul Esser, Klaus Höhne, Christa Berndl, Dominique Horwitz, Ingrid Caven, Charles Regnier, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Rudolf Lenz, Karl Lieffen, Burkhard Driest, Ulrich Wildgruber, Friedrich Karl Praetorius, Ernst Konarek, Sid Grimsley, Siegfried Grönig, Heidy Forster, Edi Bierling, Andrea Bürgin, Herta Böhm, Guido Baumann, Uwe Friedrichsen, András Fricsay, Zazie De Paris
Back from a prisoner-of-war camp, Jakob Formann turns his work with the US Army into an audacious start in business.
The story
After the Second World War, Jakob Formann returns home from a prisoner-of-war camp and finds work as an interpreter for the US Army in Linz. He uses the contacts he makes there to strike out on his own, swindling the Americans out of 40,000 eggs and starting a poultry farm. The farm is based on an estate that belonged to Heinrich Himmler during the Third Reich. With this enterprise, Formann’s economic miracle can begin.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The Second World War is over. Jakob Formann returns home from a prisoner-of-war camp. In Linz, he finds work as an interpreter for the US Army. He uses his new contacts to go into business for himself. He swindles the Americans out of 40,000 eggs and starts a poultry farm. His business is based on the farm that belonged to Heinrich Himmler during the Third Reich. Jakob Formann’s economic miracle can begin. Formann quickly rises to become a successful corporate executive in the young Federal Republic. He becomes a construction contractor and publisher. Formann lives in extravagant luxury. Only when the oil crisis brings the country its first recession in the early 1970s does the rise of the petit-bourgeois Formann come to an end. Formann has to sell his corporate empire to a consortium of banks. But Formann is not unhappy about it. A weight has been lifted from his shoulders, and he withdraws into private life with his girlfriend, Julia.
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