Pat and Patachon live in a boarding house with two enchanting dancers and an elderly inventor who is developing a television set. When an unscrupulous industrialist tries to steal the invention, Pat and Patachon find themselves in the middle of the turmoil. In the end, Patachon, inspired to become an inventor himself, is able to demonstrate his own unique invention. The Danish comedy duo Pat and Patachon were extremely popular in Germany in their day. Even though opinions may differ nowadays, in this charming comedy they win over even the harshest sceptics.

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Lauritzen’s comedy style was a typical European variant of slapstick: few gags, rather sloppy timing and more room for spontaneous improvisation and human emotions of the players; pleasure takes precedence over pointedness. Add to that romantic plots and idyllic Danish landscapes on sunny days of long Nordic summer. […] Elementary survival techniques […] play a big role in their films. In distress and danger, they turn into strangely twitching insects in mimicry like adaption, without identity or Eros: like sexless beings, they can move about among the Lau girls without even looking at them. In such scenes, in particular in combination with hard lighting, they are reminiscent of the silhouette like social parables of early Polanski shorts. […] In their films they play off the sympathetically portrayed petit bourgeois against the unsympathetic bourgeois and upper-class citizens; with this tendency they are right on target in crisis-ridden Europe.
Thomas Brandlmeier, Filmkomiker. Die Errettung des Grotesken. Frankfurt (Main), 1983. Translated by Jannie Dahl Astrup, Mikael Braae and Ulrich Ruedel