The Merry Quartet from the Filling Station

The Merry Quartet from the Filling Station (German: Die lustigen Vier von der Tankstelle) is a 1972 Austrian-West German musical comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Uschi Glas, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler and Willy Millowitsch.^[1][2][3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Nino Borghi. Location shooting too place at a filling station in the market town of Perchtoldsdorf, just outside Vienna. It was made as a co-production including the West German production company Divina-Film, which had close ties to the film's distributor Gloria Film.

Gaby and her friends buy a filling station, unaware that the construction of major new road has diverted traffic away. In order to attract customers they transform themselves into a singing filling station.

• Uschi Glas as Gaby
• Hans-Jürgen Bäumler as Tommy
• Alfred Böhm as Andreas Lorenz
• Nicki Doff as Nicki
• Willy Millowitsch as Tankstellenbesitzer Nesslauer
• Gisela Schlüter as Frau Babinski
• Henry Vahl as Ferdl
• Fritz Muliar as Ministerialrat Wurzer
• Helga Papouschek as Tamara
• Raoul Retzer as Arthur Scholz
• Michael Schanze as Michael
• Kurt Sobotka as Ingenieur Kranz
• Eva Vodickova as Eva

• The Three from the Filling Station, a 1930 German film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
• The Three from the Filling Station, a 1955 West German film directed by Hans Wolff

• Cowie, Peter. International Film Guide. Tantivy Press, 1973.
• Elsaesser, Thomas & Wedel, Michael . The BFI companion to German cinema. British Film Institute, 1999.
• Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

• The Merry Quartet from the Filling Station at IMDb