One, Two, Three (1961, Dir: Billy Wilder)

Wow. Wilder schuf mit "One, Two, Three" die ultimative Satire über den Kalten Krieg, eine rasante, unglaublich witzige Komödie mit durchgehend perfektem Timing und einem Gag-Feuerwerk nach dem anderen. Erstaunlich, wie offen und gleichzeitig feingeistig er mit der Thematik umging, wenn man bedenkt, dass der Film mitten im Kalten Krieg kurz vor dem Mauerbau entstanden ist. Einer der schönsten Berlin-Filme überhaupt.

Jeder Dialog ist pures Gold:

Peripetchikoff: We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes.
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C.R. MacNamara: Just between us, Schlemmer, what did you do during the war?
Schlemmer: I was in der Untergrund: the underground.
C.R. MacNamara: Resistance fighter?
Schlemmer: No, motorman. In the underground, you know, the subway.
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Otto Ludwig Piffl: Is everybody in this world corrupt?
Peripetchikoff: I don't know everybody.
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C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, 'Made in Havana'.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
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C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
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Text: Le Samourai