The Merry Quartet from the Filling Station (German: Die lustigen Vier von der Tankstelle) is a 1972 Austrian-West German musical comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Uschi Glas, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and Willy Millowitsch.Cowie p.80https://www.filmportal.de/film/die-lustigen-vier-von-der-tankstelle_2deaf3b420c344db8cbb449d10f89f4eElsaesser & Wedel p.22 The film's sets were designed by the art director Nino Borghi. Location shooting too place at a filling station in the market town of Perchtoldsdorf, just outside Vienna. It was made as a co-production including the West German production company Divina-Film, which had close ties to the film's distributor Gloria Film.
Synopsis Gaby and her friends buy a filling station, unaware that the construction of major new road has diverted traffic away. In order to attract customers they transform themselves into a singing filling station.
Cast Uschi Glas as Gaby Hans-Jürgen Bäumler as Tommy Alfred Böhm as Andreas Lorenz Nicki Doff as Nicki Willy Millowitsch as Tankstellenbesitzer Nesslauer Gisela Schlüter as Frau Babinski Henry Vahl as Ferdl Fritz Muliar as Ministerialrat Wurzer Helga Papouschek as Tamara Raoul Retzer as Arthur Scholz Michael Schanze as Michael Kurt Sobotka as Ingenieur Kranz Eva Vodickova as Eva
See also The Three from the Filling Station, a 1930 German film directed by Wilhelm Thiele The Three from the Filling Station, a 1955 West German film directed by Hans Wolff
References
Bibliography Cowie, Peter. International Film Guide. Tantivy Press, 1973. Elsaesser, Thomas & Wedel, Michael . The BFI companion to German cinema. British Film Institute, 1999. Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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