Four strings
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Four strings |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Kreihsl |
| script |
Stefan Vögel , Michael Kreihsl, Thomas Baum |
| production |
Markus Pauser , Erich Schindlecker |
| camera | Reinhold Vorneider |
| cut | Andrea Wagner |
| occupation | |
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Vier Saiten is an Austrian television film from 2020 by Michael Kreihsl with Otto Schenk , Marianne Mendt and Omid Memar in the leading roles. The film comedy was first broadcast on ORF on March 25, 2020.
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Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and Grantler , as he stands in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna . To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar, who is also widowed, accommodates refugees in his home . These are a particular thorn in Karl's side.
Among the residents is 16-year-old Hamid, who attended a German school in Damascus and lost his family in the war in his homeland, Syria . After breaking into his apartment and having reservations about Hamid at first, Karl discovers his neighbor's musical talent and takes him under his wing. Karl is now trying to catch up on this musical support that he had missed from his own son Alexander, called "Sascha", with whom he has had no contact for years.
After breaking into his apartment, Karl Michaeli withdrew his original complaint against Hamid. When Hamid, whom Karl repeatedly calls "Syrian snot, " initially refuses to take cello lessons from him, he calls the police again . She questions his state of mind and then informs his son that Karl should be incapacitated. Then his son resumes contact with him and announces that guardianship to request and send it to the nursing home. Meanwhile, Esther Polgar asks her friend and lawyer Raimund Hinteregger to give Karl Michaeli a resignation because it poisons the climate in the house and keeps bringing the police into the house.
To be able to practice, Hamid steals an instrument from the music college. Hamid also has an eye on Yasemin, whose brother Aslan is not very enthusiastic about the relationship. In the event of an argument, the bridge of the stolen cello breaks. Karl tries to repair the instrument and discovers the sticker owned by the Vienna University of Music , although Hamid has claimed to have bought the instrument. Karl asks Hamid to bring the instrument back. Hamid is discovered and arrested. Karl asks Esther to help her lawyer Raimund Hinteregger represent Hamid. Karl meets his former student Schauer at the music university. Schauer tells the police that it was a mistake because Hamid is his student. Thereupon the advertisement of the Musikuni is withdrawn. Karl gives Hamid the cello of his son, who was not interested in this instrument.
When Hamid receives a deportation notice, Karl visits director Hermann Gruber and asks him to play for a place at the university. This would guarantee recognition as a refugee. After initial hesitation, he promises him a foreplay. Foreplay, in which Hamid, the Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar is the best that is in addition to Hamid's friends Yasemin, Geri and Aslan Karl's son Alexander in attendance. In the middle of the performance, Hamid suddenly breaks off and leaves the hall. Nonetheless, Hamid passes the exam. Attorney Hinteregger requests that the deportation be postponed.
production
The shooting took place in Vienna from November 16 to December 15, 2018 . The film was produced by the Austrian e & a film , and the Austrian broadcasting company was involved .
Sergey Martynyuk was responsible for the sound, Theresa Ebner-Lazek for the costumes, Julia Oberndorfinger and Hannes Salat for the set design, Birgit Hirscher and Hannelore Uhrmacher for the mask.
reception
The Oberösterreichische Nachrichten described Vier Saiten as a “cinematic masterpiece with an overmaster named Otto Schenk”. The storyline has the right potential for platitude threshing.
The Tiroler Tageszeitung wrote that the secret of the success of the film, which has a broad impact and is backed by a deeply humanitarian message, is easily explained: "Schenk plays Schenk". And he was allowed to indulge in that love that was always his greatest - alongside that for his wife Renee -: the love of music. Certainly it is a kitsch-endangered story that develops in the episode, but it is told as a comedy - and would provide a lot of material for acting highlights. Marianne Mendt as the house owner, Friedrich von Thun as a slightly greasy lawyer, Erwin Steinhauer as the director of the conservatory with dirt and Lukas Resetarits as Sandler gave the film an original Viennese feel.
An average of 1.1 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast on ORF.
Web links
- Four strings at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Four strings at crew united
- Four strings on the ORF website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Four strings. In: ORF nachlese , issue 3/2020, p. 6. Accessed on March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Otto Schenk plays on "Vier Saiten" (AT). November 20, 2018, accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Shooting: New role for Otto Schenk: He plays on "four strings". In: Small newspaper . November 20, 2018, accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Four strings from crew united . Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ↑ Michael Kreihsl: Four strings. In: michaelkreihsl.at. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Rotzpippn, Syrian! In: Upper Austrian news . March 26, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ^ "Four strings" with Otto Schenk: Big Grant, even bigger heart. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . March 25, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ TV ratings: best values for ORF “Weltjournal” and “Fellner! Live” on oe24.tv. In: DerStandard.at . March 26, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .