They're all a little crazy on this film set, which is shot on a theater stage.
Actor Mario imagines a charisma that nobody else notices.
Especially not the Turkish make-up artist he courts.
Samira is in a relationship with the recording manager Gigi.
Director Frank has left his family to elope with an electrified Lola, but this sparkling starlet wants to star in assistant director Oliver's new script, driving Frank to desperation.
Claudia Schulke
Freelance author in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Producer André is threatened by mafia players because he cannot pay his debts.
His rich wife Anne, star on the film set, abandons him, especially since she has already put her excess money into this production in which she is supposed to die of adultery.
When Oliver realizes that André loaded Mario's revolver with live ammunition, the chaos is complete.
This is Dieter Hallervorden's handwriting.
The Berlin slapstick and nonsense comedian has the comedy "Ruhe!
We're shooting!” translated into German.
The French authors Gérald Sibleyras and Patrick Haudecœur gave him the template, and now the clothes can be seen in the Frankfurt comedy.
Obsolete participatory theater
Director Thomas Schendel, after all trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, proves to be a loyal student of his master at the Berlin Schlosspark Theater.
He drives a horde of crazy film people through the exquisite stage design from Tom Grasshof's Villa and Buchskugel Garden and indulges in hands-on theater that has been obsolete for decades.
The audience is nolens volens forced into the role of extras.
Was the unfortunate man who had to take the stage because he was wearing a blue shirt a real spectator or a real extra?
Doesn't matter.
What is positively remembered: actress Arzu Ermen as energetic Samira, who, who does not speak German, sticks a wig and hat with Patex on Anne's head, as well as actress Ines Arndt as hectic military gigi, who has the troops and the audience under control.
The rest of the ensemble put on a good face and kept their composure in the infantile slapstick.
The audience liked it.
"Quiet! We're shooting!', Komödie Frankfurt, Neue Mainzer Straße 14-18, further dates until March 12, daily except Mondays from 8 p.m., Sundays from 6 p.m.