Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller (4 Stars)

This is the fifth film in the historical comedy series about Susanne Delburg. It takes place in 1818. Susanne now lives in Vienna, where she's a popular figure on the stage. She receives regular offers of marriage, but she turns them all down. It's not that no man is good enough for her. The most important thing in her life is her career, and she fears that she'll have to give up acting if she takes a husband.

This film plays a trick to tell a completely different story. We find out that Susanne has a twin sister called Ilona. They're identical except for their hair colour. Susanne has red hair, while Ilona is a brunette. Ilona lives on a farm in Hungary with her Uncle Török. We only see Susanne briefly at the beginning and end of the film. The whole story is about Ilona.

A Swabian regiment is stationed in Schwarzenau, an Austrian town to the north-west of Vienna. The soldiers want permission to marry Austrian girls, but it's not allowed, because they're Germans. That's strange, but I'm sure there's a historical reason for it. In the early 19th Century, after the fall of Napoleon, Europe was splintered into small countries that were in uneasy alliances with one another. Duke Seibersdorf says he'll give them permission to marry if they bring him five barrels of the Hungarian Tokayer wine. This wine is made exclusively by Susanne's Uncle Török.

The Swabian soldiers visit the farm to buy wine. Török refuses. After all, they're only Germans! At this time Török is trying to arrange a marriage for Ilona with a rich nobleman. She wants to avoid marriage, so she disguises herself as a man and goes to the Swabians. She steals five barrels of wine from her father, and she gives the wine to the soldiers in exchange for them accompanying her to Vienna, where she wants to meet her sister.

This is supposed to be a man? She wouldn't fool me. She calls herself Peter, and she becomes one of the boys. She doesn't even raise suspicion when she refuses to bathe with them.

It's a feast of cross-dressing. On the road to Vienna they confront bandits, so the soldiers disguise themselves as women. I'm not sure why. They compliment Peter on how convincing he looks as a woman.

There's one thing I should have mentioned in my past reviews. The French comedian Jacques Herlin appears in every film playing a different role. He's always a dim-witted opponent of Susanne, except in this film, in which he's a dim-witted opponent of Ilona.

In the first film he plays the Governor of Giessen.

In the second film he plays the same character, but now in the court of Napoleon's sister Elisa.

In the third film he plays the Russian ambassador.

In the fourth film he plays Baron Bierhäusel.

In the fifth film he plays the Viscount of Chempenoise, one of the officials in the palace in Vienna.

This is the most amusing of the films so far. There are many hilarious scenes of mistaken identity, not to mention mistaken gender. It's also the film in which the historical setting is emphasised the least. 

Once more, the film's erotic content is exaggerated in the film's title and the film posters. Literally, the title means "The innkeeper does it even harder". Does what? That's false advertising, because we hardly see her in the film, only her twin sister. In America it was called "Sexy Susan and her Sister".