Location, Location, Location

[Heid the Ba]

Having googled it, I have never heard of this film but at least now I know two films Horst Bucholz was in.

[Arneb]

For someone who studied Cold War relations this one should be required watching. By all means, get hold of it! It is a jewel.

[Мастер]

Basil Fawlty: [seeing Manual with three trays] Manuel.
Manuel: ¿Si?
Basil Fawlty: [speaking slowly] There is too much butter on those trays.
Manuel: ¿Que?
Basil Fawlty: There is too much butter... on... those... trays.
Manuel: No. No, no, senor. Not... not "on... those... trays"... No, sir.
Manuel: [counting the trays instructively] "Uno, dos, tres".

[Heid the Ba]

Ah, all becomes clear.

[Arneb]

Shall we say Mactep got it?

[Heid the Ba]

I think so.

[tubeswell]

Yes. Mactep has it.

[Lianachan]

Yup, he got it. I've also never heard of it. Sounds good, though.

[tubeswell]

Well everyone else thinks Mactep has it, so I'm just running with the hounds. (Even tho' I don't have a clue what 'it' is either LoL)

[Arneb]

Oops, sorry: One, Two, Three, by Billy Wilder, starring James Cagney, Lilo Pulver, and Hotte Buchholz

The decrepit building really was Coca Cola's Berlin headquarters in the 60s.

[Мастер]

A different part of town

[Arneb]

Good-bye Lenin

[Heid the Ba]

Gaah! Beaten to the punch. It is one of the few films set in Arneburg we haven't had.

[Arneb]

Well first, it has to be right...

[Мастер]

Well first, it has to be right...

And it is right - this was where Comrade Ulyanov was hoisted away by helicopter, which for some reason flew low over the street, just above traffic, while carrying a heavy statue.

But, Goodbye Lenin also had a scene here.

[Arneb]

Really! I had completely forgotten. This was a deep bow to the Master of East-West comedy, then.

[Мастер]

Really! I had completely forgotten. This was a deep bow to the Master of East-West comedy, then.

One of the fake new broadcasts was filmed there - the one in which East Germany won its patent litigation, showing that Coca-Cola was originally developed by DDR scientists in the 1950s.

[Arneb]

Mervellous.

[Heid the Ba]

Needing a location Herr Doktor.

[Arneb]

OK, back to Noo Yoar, then.

One of my favourites.

[Lance]

Hmmm, I've seen that somewhere...

[g-one]

A Woody flick?

[Lianachan]

Pretty sure it's in pretentious bore Manhattan, as well as shit awful Men In Black II and a load of other things.

[Arneb]

Manhattan is the one I was thinking about.

Lianachan's turn.

[Heid the Ba]

You're up Lianachan.