{{short description|1983 German comedy film}} {{Infobox film | name = Die Supernasen | image = Die_Supernasen_DVD_Cover.png | caption = | director = Dieter Pröttel | producer = {{ubl|Karl Spiehs|'''Executive producer'''|Otto Retzer|Erich Tomek}} | writer = {{ubl|Thomas Gottschalk|Mike Krüger}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Mike Krüger|Thomas Gottschalk}} | music = Gerhard Heinz | cinematography = {{ubl|Fritz Baader|Otto Kirchhoff}} | editing = {{ubl|Eva Pavlikova|Claudia Wutz}} | distributor = Astro Distribution | released = {{film date|1983|9|8|df=y}} | runtime = 88 minutes | country = Germany | language = German | budget = }}
'''''Die Supernasen''''' is a 1983 West German comedy film featuring Thomas Gottschalk and Mike Krüger. The name of the movie, "The Supernoses", refers to both having big noses while at the same time being a malapropism for "Spürnasen", a colloquialism for "investigator".
The two have worked together in the four popular movies making up the so-called Supernasen-series. They were mostly college movies in a German setting - two naughty young men in Bavaria, with beautiful girls and funny complications. Their other collaborations were * Piratensender Powerplay * Zwei Nasen tanken Super * Die Einsteiger
== Plot == Tommy and Mike, once again without a job and without money, decide to open the PI agency "Columbo" and work as private investigators. Their first case involves a rich man who wants to know if his wife is cheating, which leads them to Bad Spänzer. Here, they slip into a variety of roles, save their client's marriage, thwart the assassination attempt on a sheik and fall in love with two young women.
== Reception == The film was a huge commercial success, selling a total of 2.7 million tickets in Germany, which made it the most successful German-language movie in 1983 and the sixth-most-successful movie in Germany that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidekino.com/DJahr/D1983.htm |title=Die erfolgreichsten Filme in Deutschland 1983 |publisher=Insidekino.com |date= |accessdate=2021-02-15}}</ref>
The film was popular in the German-speaking region and in several Eastern European countries. In Czechoslovakia it was released under the name "Dva supernosáči".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diesupernasen.de/movies/supernasen|title=Die Supernasen |first=Rüdiger|last=Matz|website=www.diesupernasen.de}}</ref>
== Releases == On February 1, 2019, a remastered Blu-ray was released, featuring the original soundtrack that was not included in previous DVD releases.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://edition-deutsche-vita.de/blu-ray/die-supernasen/ |title=Die Supernasen - SUBKULTUR ENTERTAINMENT |access-date=2019-02-20 |archive-date=2019-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220063159/http://edition-deutsche-vita.de/blu-ray/die-supernasen/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.diesupernasen.de/ Home || diesupernasen.de - Die Supernasen-Fan-Seite] - German Fansite * {{IMDb title|0086394}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Supernasen}} Category:1983 films Category:1980s buddy comedy films Category:German comedy films Category:1983 German-language films Category:West German films Category:1983 comedy films Category:Films scored by Gerhard Heinz Category:1983 German films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub}} {{1980s-Germany-film-stub}}