Long Saturday (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Long Saturday |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age limit |
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| Director | Hanns Christian Müller |
| script | Hanns Christian Müller |
| production | Harald Kügler, Molly von Fürstenberg |
| music | Hanns Christian Müller, Die Toten Hosen |
| camera | Hans W. Jakob |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
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Long Saturday is a German comedy film from 1992 and was shot by Hanns Christian Müller for Olga-Film, Munich and ZDF . The film was shown in the cinema for the first time on October 29, 1992.
action
Susi Herzog ( Gisela Schneeberger ) is the tenant of a gas station with a kiosk on the premises of a shopping center. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of a long Saturday , December 23rd, she unexpectedly received the termination of the lease. Constantly bombarded by phone by her mother, who interferes in her botched marriage, annoyed by her unmotivated staff and annoying customers, the hyperactive Susi reacts spontaneously and runs straight into the department store across the street to complain to the manager. To get to his office, however, she first has to walk through the department store. In between, Susi gets to know the punk Anton ( Campino ), who rushes to help her against the "capitalist pigs" and thus causes chaos. What follows is a satire enriched with slapstick and mixed up, in which Susi and Anton accidentally uncover a robbery staged by the department store manager Horst Schmude ( Dieter Pfaff ) and his lover Iris Meier ( Antje Späth ). It leads to a nightly chase through the department store, in which some people were locked, some involuntarily. The extra roles of the police officers took on the members of the bands Die Toten Hosen and Biermösl Blosn . In the end, however, everything turns out well and the film ends with a romantic scene in the kiosk.
Film music
The music for the soundtrack was also written by Hanns Christian Müller. This includes the almost three-minute title Maßanzug von die Toten Hosen, which was first published in 2007 in the new edition of the album Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück .
criticism
Long Saturday was often compared to the earlier satirical works of Müller, such as Kehraus and Man speaks deutsch, which were created in collaboration with the cabaret artist Gerhard Polt . Cinema magazine writes of “disrespectful characters, fresh dialogue and great actors”. Müller would have managed to "put his satirical observations of the German petty bourgeoisie in a lively cinema story" in Langer Saturday .
Other critics were of the opinion that Long Saturday did not tie in with the vicious, bitter, black humor of Müller's earlier works. This comedy is too constructed and “too uptight”, “the jokes are too superficial and the gags too concentrated and trite”.
In addition, the performance of the amateur actor Campino was criticized. He seems "like a foreign body, which every comic scene through his acting talent and a myriad of trite slogans that have been put in his mouth, slams into the ground and thereby deprives them of any humorous potential". It is, however, "lucky that the other supporting actors act as safe as usual, especially Ottfried Fischer as a stout, submissive gasoline-attendant idiot, Dieter Pfaff as the sleazy Poldi manager fat sack, Hans Brenner as the obedient porter and the wonderful Elisabeth Welz touchingly naive geriatric nurse Rotraut. ”In the end, they would ensure that the film turned into a“ mostly entertaining joke potpourri ”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinema Alles Müller, or what? , October 1992 edition.
- ^ Review on filmtabs.de , accessed on December 11, 2010.
- ↑ Review on kino.de , accessed on December 11, 2010.
Web links
- Langer Saturday in the Internet Movie Database (English)(feature film)