Today’s movie is a rather dark yet very funny movie. The male protagonist plans to murder his wife and we see him imagining three different ways to do so. But when he wants to turn his phantasies into reality he fails. He just isn’t able to operate the Simplicitas Home Recorder, that should be so simple it operates itself and that’s the crucial element in his plan of a perfect murder.

And the simplified diagram on page 6 of the user’s manual is so simple a child can use it:

If you still have no clue about the movie then maybe this picture will help you…captured just before our protagonist fills in the last name of his wife.

The director later said in his memoirs about this movie, that was a flop at its time, “The audiences laughed from the beginning to the end of the picture. And they went home with nothing. Because nothing had happened.”
Still no clue? Then be vulgar, by all means, but let me hear that brazen laugh!

That’s Hugo Matuschek in front of his department store in Budapest, Hungary. The movie we’re looking for was remade a few years ago with a different title and actors I only know by name (now that’s a hint…ha, ha, ha). I’ve never seen the newer version. Why should I when the original is so brilliant? And besides most of the new films aren’t filmed in black and white.