Das verrückte Hotel - Fawlty Towers

Originaltitel: Fawlty Towers

Fernsehserie
1975–1979
0
30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,8/10

103.724

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.645

Das verrückte Hotel - Fawlty Towers (1975)

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Farce Sitcom Slapstick Comedy

Die Inkompetenz, die kurze Zündschnur und die Arroganz des Hotelbesitzers Basil Fawlty bilden eine Kombination, die dafür sorgt, dass Unfälle und Ärger nie weit weg sind.Die Inkompetenz, die kurze Zündschnur und die Arroganz des Hotelbesitzers Basil Fawlty bilden eine Kombination, die dafür sorgt, dass Unfälle und Ärger nie weit weg sind.Die Inkompetenz, die kurze Zündschnur und die Arroganz des Hotelbesitzers Basil Fawlty bilden eine Kombination, die dafür sorgt, dass Unfälle und Ärger nie weit weg sind.

Stoffentwicklung
- Connie Booth
- John Cleese
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,8/10

103.724

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.645

Stoffentwicklung
- Connie Booth
- John Cleese
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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- 6 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Wissenswertes
The character Manuel is often criticized as an overtly racist stereotype that would not be allowed in a modern television series. However Andrew Sachs defended the character, saying, "If it's insulting to the Spanish what is Basil to the British?" According to John Cleese, the character of Manuel was not meant to be a joke about stupid foreigners, since Manuel is a very lovely man who really does his best to get everything right. Manuel's problem is his poor English, which is a parody on mingy hotel and restaurant owners, simply hiring cheap people who are desperate for work, without giving them proper training.

Patzer
The layout of the hotel from interior shots would place the windowless kitchen hard against the front left of the building, as seem from the outside (if there were space for it at all). In exterior shots there is a large bow window here.

Zitate
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: ¿Que?
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: Where's... the bill?
Basil Fawlty: No, not a bill! I own the place!

Crazy Credits
The Fawlty Towers hotel sign has its letters missing, or scrambled up to make new words. The sign presents a different error with each episode.

Alternative Versionen
For German TV-runs the main-theme was changed to "funnier" music.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Pythons (1979)

Soundtracks
Fawlty Towers
Written by Dennis Wilson
Performed by Dennis Wilson Quartet
[series theme tune]

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

10/10

This is what comedy is all about!

This is pure comedy. It is genius. It is hilarity that transcends the boundary of comedy. Fawlty Towers is the kind of comedy that has you on the floor gasping for air in a puddle of your own tears. John Cleese has created one of the defining characters of comedy in Basil Fawlty. Manuel Sachs is superb as Manuel, the confused waiter from Barcelona. Prunella Scales is brilliant as the tyrannical wife. Connie Booth is very good as Polly, the hassled waitress. Put it all together inside a small hotel in Torquay and you get one of the greatest, most alluring comedies ever to grace the screen. The only bad thing about Fawlty Towers is that they didn't make more.

Fawlty Towers will always be tearfully, heart stoppingly, deadly, and disasterously funny.