One More Kiss and He′s Dead

Reinhold Schuenzel, who was born in Hamburg in 1888 and died in Munich in 1954, was one of the most versatile, productive and brilliant actors, authors, producers and directors of German cinema. His best comedies as author and director for Ufa in the mid-1930s
Viktor und Viktoria (1933), Die englische Heirat (1934), Amphitryon
(1935), Land der Liebe (1937) - are equals of those by Ernst Lubitsch
and Billy Wilder, who had already gone to Hollywood before Schuenzel -
a place he then fled to in the autumn of 1937. Through 33 staged
scenes, Beim naechsten Kuss knall ich ihn nieder sketches the portrait
of a courageous, stubborn artist who constantly fell between the
changing political systems in an extremely absurd manner: the portrait
of a gambler, an actor, a disorderly man in orderly times. Any attempt
at a lavish naturalistic air is deliberately abandoned. Beim naechsten
Kuss knall ich ihn nieder is a filmic Kammerspiel, a series of
thumb-nail sketches resulting in a portrait of the time: an unknown
chapter of German, and also German-American, contemporary and film
history.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH