600 hp for two
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 600 hp for two |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sophie Allet-Coche |
| script | Daniel Scotti-Rosin |
| production |
Quirin Berg Max Wiedemann Peter Fröhlich |
| music |
Andreas Lonardoni Michael Klaukien |
| camera | Christian Paschmann |
| cut | Hedy Altschiller |
| occupation | |
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600 PS for Two is a German TV film from 2015. Walter Sittler and Herbert Knaup play two people whose lives could not be more different in the main roles . The film is based on a template by Pierre Colin-Thibert and Jean-Claude Islert.
action
Hartmut Sprenger once had a well-paid job in the marketing department of a large company. He was fired five years ago and is now selling sausages on Alexanderplatz in Berlin to make ends meet. He continues to play the successful businessman to his ex-wife Katrin and his 16-year-old daughter Olivia. He had actually promised Olivia that he would go on vacation with her, but is talking his way out of important meetings. When Olivia threatens to run away if he doesn't pick her up from boarding school the next day, he has a problem.
Lorenz Hoffmann is a successful HR manager in the company where Hartmut once worked. Lorenz was responsible for Hartmut's release at the time. He has been married twice and is currently in a relationship with a younger employee. He has to go to Munich for an important business meeting, but the air traffic controllers are on strike. Since he cannot take the train because of his back pain, it is very convenient for him that his company has to transfer a luxury sports car to Tegernsee. This is a gift for an important advertising medium, the soccer player Jesus.
On the trip Lorenz unwillingly takes the hitchhiker Hartmut with him, who does everything to get to Olivia on time. When Lorenz loses his driver's license due to a speed violation, Hartmut has to take over the driving. In return, he would like Lorenz to help him continue to present himself to Olivia as a successful businessman. They exchange their clothes and Lorenz is demoted to an unemployed hitchhiker. Since Lorenz recognizes who Hartmut is, he pretends to be Lothar Merseburger. They pick Olivia up and drive to Katrin's house in the country, where she also runs a physiotherapy practice. They spend the day there, grilling sausages, talking and chopping wood. A certain attraction develops between Lorenz and Katrin as it loosens his vertebral blockage. In other ways too, Lorenz enjoyed the time together, far away from his hectic work. Lorenz tries to convince Hartmut to tell the truth and to stop pretending to be an ex-wife and daughter. This doesn't work and so Hartmut, Lorenz and Olivia are back in the sports car the next day. You drive the “unemployed Lothar” to an interview in Munich. There the car is towed away because of illegal parking, at the police station Olivia learns from a policewoman that her father is unemployed. Since the two men continue to act for her, she just gets behind the wheel when the opportunity arises and drives away. By chance she had also exposed Lorenz's true identity, so that both men know who they are dealing with. The two of them look for Olivia and find her on a tree she drove into. Fortunately, she only has a broken arm and a laceration. During a phone call in the hospital, it becomes clear that Lorenz would get himself into a lot of trouble because of the broken car and its inaccessibility.
Both men drive back to Katrin with Olivia, where they tell her that they have to explain a few things.
background
The film had its television premiere on October 22, 2015 on ZDF .
reception
Rainer Tittelbach wrote on tittelbach.tv : “Lies and comic situations dominate the dramaturgy. Works - only the morale remains pale. [...] A comedy doesn't always have to be logical and wise - if it takes you emotionally for 90 minutes and in the end puts you in a good mood. And Sittler, Knaup & Co manage that with this little entertainment machine over the entire length of the game. "
The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "[z] between road movie and dialogue-rich soul striptease changing dramatic (television) comedy, which lives above all from the presence of the two experienced leading actors."
Web links
- PS 600 for two in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "600 PS for two". In: tittelbach.tv . September 14, 2015, accessed August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ 600 hp for two. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 16, 2020 .