A ski instructor who can't ski? The 1950s Austrian chaos we deserve.
Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959.
Acting
Peter Alexander's desperate physical comedy sells every lie.
Production
Glorious 1959 Austrian ski resort aesthetic, pure postcard nostalgia.
Director
Géza von Cziffra
Peter Alexander
Peter Schatz
Germaine Damar
Renate Hartwig
Ruth Stephan
Mathilde Hütchen
Maria Sebaldt
Marilyn
Oskar Sima
Direktor Wilfried Adler
Ernst Waldow
General Bumm
Agnes Windeck
Rose
Anneliese Würtz
Marie
Edith Hancke
Fräulein Lehmann
Jo Herbst
Dr. Klaus Maria Weichholz
Axel Monjé
Marilyns Komplize
Friedrich Schoenfelder
Toni Hartwig
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