Ten years after their last movie, German producer Horst Wendlandt
united Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in front of the camera
again - for the movie 'THE TROUBLEMAKERS'. Terence Hill also
directed, the script was written by Jess Hill, Terence Hill's
son. Producers were Giuseppe Pedersoli and Matthias Wendlandt,
the sons of Bud Spencer and Horst Wendlandt. The whole movie
is a German/Italian family enterprise in second generation
and premiered in German movie theatres on March 16th, 1995.
The set: Santa Fé, High Noon in New Mexico: It's Bud
Spencer's turn. "Action!" the director -Terence
Hill - instructs, and a massive man strides across the plains
of New Mexico: He punches a bandit and the chap flies head
front through the air. Terence Hill and Bud Spencer: They
changed the Italo Western from being cruel to being funny,
and with "They Call Me Trinity", they created a
new genre of western - much copied, but never reached in quality
and popularity. "Trinity Is Still My Name" set the
path to their films that would follow and were loved by their
audience. All their films together - both those they starred
in together as well as those they made 'solo'- lured over
80 million viewers into the German cinemas since 1971.
In this western comedy, Terence and Bud are Travis and Moses,
two completely different brothers, who fell out with each
other ten years ago - after their respective businesses ended
in misfortune. Travis (Terence Hill) is a single player and
renegade. Moses (Bud Spencer) is a head hunter and father
of 10 children. Their mother's desire is that Travis and Moses
will reconcile, which makes them show some good will at least.
But trouble lurks behind every corner...
The sun burns down on New Mexico. The medic provides sun screen,
aspirin and ice bags. The stuntman limps, an extra was hit
by a bar falling from a window. The photographer is sick with
sunstroke. "What's up?" asks a blonde woman in a
western outfit. Anne Kasprik, from Berlin, plays Bridget,
the 'animal doctor' from Germany, who wants to build an animal
clinic in town and now successfully collects money for it.
Terence Hill discovered Anne Kasprik in an episode of the
German 'Tatort' TV series. He found her to be a mixture of
Julie Christie and Rita Tushingham, and invited her to the
casting. The actress: "I really thought that this was
a joke." She finally started to believe her luck when
she  sat
opposite Terence Hill. "My first thought was: He really
has those bright, steel blue eyes", she remembers. What
she liked best during the filming: "The relaxed atmosphere.
They were all professionals." And after three months
of work in New Mexico, she said: "In reality, Terence
Hill is rather shy. A quiet and fair man, without any vanity.
From the first day, Terence and Bud treated me like a sister."
The long day slowly comes to an end. Bud Spencer remembers
the special action scenes, which made him and Terence Hill
so famous: "The fist fights in our films are like the
ones in a comic strip or fairy tale: Improbable, not bloody
and unserious. Our fans like that - we make fun of brutality
and violence!"
The sun sets over the small town in the desert, which served
as film location for 25 westerns since 1965, among them "Chisum",
"Butch and Sundance: The early years ", "Silverado",
"Wyatt Earp" and "Lucky Luke". The next
day will take the film crew to the banks of the Rio Grande,
to the house of Maw (Ruth Buzzi), where the quarrels of
Moses and Travis had begun, and where Maw hopes for a happy
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