Willi and the Windsors (1996)
1h 25m
Running Time
November 27, 1996Release Date
Willi and the Windsors (1996)
1h 25m
Running Time
November 27, 1996Release Date
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Plot.
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
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Release DateNovember 27, 1996
Original NameWilli und die Windzors
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
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Willi und die Windzors ("Willi and the Windzors") is a 1996 German comedic television film. Produced under the impression of the continued scandals surrounding members of the British royal family during the mid-1990s, the parody film presents an alternate history in which Britain becomes a republic, resulting in Queen Elizabeth II and her family (the Windsors, which is deliberately misspelled in the title) being expelled from their country and moving in with relatives in Germany. The film was directed by Hape Kerkeling, who also appears as the titular character, Willi Bettenberg (cf. Battenberg and the House of Mountbatten), the royal family's (fictitious) next of kin.