One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three is a film produced in the United States which savagely caricatures the Cold War. The fast-paced slapstick comedy is set in Berlin in 1961. The film used the Brandenburg Gate as a location, an unfortunate choice as the Berlin Wall was constructed during the filming which resulted in loss of the location. The stereotyped characteristics of American capitalists, Germans, and Russians are exaggerated and ridiculed. The film was shown on television in the United States and had some popularity in West Berlin, but did not find wide acceptance. It was an embarrassment to the American filmmakers in their relationship with the Soviet filmmakers due to its crude portrayal of Russians and of socialism.

Plot
The beautiful daughter of a Coca-Cola executive residing in West Berlin falls in love with a handsome young communist worker who lives in East Berlin. The father, in order to break up the relationship, puts a balloon on the young man's bike that says, in English, "Go Home Russkies," and also plants other ridiculous anti-communist material on him. Innocently navigating the streets of East Berlin with this mobile billboard denouncing the Russians the young man is soon taken into custody. Under "torture", he is forced to listen to loud American rock and roll music, specifically. He bears up well under the agony this produces, but when they begin to play it at double speed he breaks down and confesses to being an American spy in the employ of the CIA.

External links and further viewing

 * One, Two, Three the Wikipedia article
 * imbd listing
 * Entire movie on Youtube