Mitternachtskino um halb 10: "Kentucky Fried Movie"

In the "Midnight Cinema at half past nine" series, we show films that became cult in the late screenings of the 1970s. For example, this hilarious fun, the authorial debut of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker ("The Naked Gun") - "By far the funniest and most polished of the various doofus-humor anthology films that hit theaters after Saturday Night Live's success transformed so-called "college humor" into mainstream entertainment." (Every 70s Movie)

KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE

USA 1977. D: John Landis. D: Marilyn Joi, Saul Kahan, David Zucker, Uschi Digard, Bill Bixby, Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby. 83 min. FSK: 16

A special kind of sketch parade: For the first time, the trio of writers Jim Abrahams - Jerry Zucker - David Zucker showed their immense talent for absurd nonsense parodies, which then led to THE Naked Cannon, among other things. John Landis, who later directed BLUES BROTHERS, directed the film, which satirizes the film and television landscape, including news, advertising and kung fu, with uninhibited delight in skilful nonsense; Donald Sutherland also stumbles through the film at some point.
Independently produced for a relatively low budget, the film was a surprise success, earning over seven million dollars - it rummages its way through pop culture, "funny, shameless, wicked, crazy and indestructible" (Dirk Jasper's film encyclopedia). In short: a cult film full of high school and college humor as a highly concentrated distillation of Mad magazine, Mel Brooks, early Woody Allen and the British Monty Pythons - still works great today with its exuberant comedy!

Introduction: Jost Henze