Comments on: Stupid German Movie Titles

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:26:14 +0000

I live in Canada and the French title for Airplane! is “Y-a-t-il un pilote dans l’avion?”, which translates as “Is there a pilot in the plane?”

By: Gunther Heinrich

Gunther Heinrich — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:50:11 +0000

Hmmm, “Ritter der Kokosnuss” / “Knights of the Coconut” might be ridiculous but it’s also very fitting for a crazy Monty Python feature movie. It’s one of the rare occasions where I can live with the stupid German version.

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:17:56 +0000

Thanks! This is great. My favorite is “Der Ritter der Kokosnuß”, but there are so many bad ones to choose from.

Danke! Mein lieblings ist “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Es gibt aber auch viele die stimmen.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:58 +0000

In Soylent Green, when Heston discovers the letter E.G.Robinson wrote it reads Thorn, I am going home.
The German dub translates it from off Thorn Ich lasse mich einschläfern (I’ll let me put to sleep).
In Die Hard the terrorists who are germans are given Spanish and other foreign names, so they are not bad german villains in the Film. It becomes very confusing when in a scene, Bruce Willis writes their real german names on his Arm ( Hans instead Jack Gruber and so on)!

By: bulbul

bulbul — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:07:44 +0000

In the final scene of Once Upon a Time in the West, when Charles Bronson puts the harmonica into Henry Fonda’s mouth in the original version, there is no speaking, the camera just displays Henry Fonda, who then remembers the long forgotten event and dies.
In the german version, during the displaying of Henry Fonda with the harmonica in his mouth, the german voice of Charles Bronson says from the off “play me the song of the death”.
This is a major fraud!

great collection by the way.
cheers.

By: Jim Perry

Jim Perry — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:35:38 +0000

You will also find that “The Pope Must Die” is altered in the States to read “The Pope must Die-T” where the T looks painted on at the end of the word. Unbelievable.

By: Sieglinde

Sieglinde — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:23:08 +0000

Well, I thought Hungarian titles were stupid, but German titles rule them all! DDDDDD

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:07:35 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

By: CR

CR — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:35:59 +0000

Danke.
Endlich spricht mir mal jemand aus der Seele.

Thank You.
Somene is finally sayin what had to be said !