All under one fir tree
| Movie | |
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| Original title | All under one fir tree |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oliver Schmitz |
| script |
Lo Malinke Philipp Müller |
| production | Markus Brunnemann |
| music |
Beaver Gullatz Andreas Schäfer |
| camera | Michael Schreitel |
| cut | Ollie Lanvermann |
| occupation | |
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All under a fir tree is a German television film directed by Oliver Schmitz from the year 2014. The comedy is based on the common script by Lo Malinke and Philipp Müller and deals with the estranged couple Elli and Robert, played by Gaby Dohm and Michael Gwisdek that As every year , he comes to his home in Berlin for Christmas to make the three children believe that they are togetherness - but without having done the math with his two new partners Chrissi and Micha.
The Christmas film was made by UFA Fiction on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste . The shooting took place from November to December 2013 in Brandenburg and Berlin. In addition to Dohm and Gwisdek, Johanna Gastdorf , Claes Bang , Susanna Simon , Bernhard Piesk and Anna Julia Kapfelsperger appeared in front of the camera. After its first broadcast on the first of December 2014, the film received mostly positive feedback from reviews. A novel of the same name , also written by Malinke, was published in the same year by S. Fischer Verlag .
action
Elli, couples therapist and author of the bestseller Nothing But Truth , and her husband Robert have been separated for three years. With their former affairs, the 22-year-old driving instructor Micha and the office assistant Chrissi, the two have now found new happiness - only their children Susanna, Tobias and Leonie still believe that they will continue to live happily under one roof.
When the family arrives at their parents' house for Christmas, Elli and Robert want to pretend the family idyll under the tree again, but Micha and Chrissi thwart their plans: They want to spend Christmas Eve together with their partners and also nestle in the common home . While Robert is bowing to the situation and confessing to his children about the separation, Elli makes every attempt to cover up the truth and introduces Micha and Chrissi to the children as a friendly couple who will spend the holidays with them.
But even the children are simply staging an "ideal world" for their parents: daughter Susanna and husband Heiner have just gone bankrupt with their car dealership and are hoping for a financial injection from their parents for the new start; The homosexual Tobias pretends to be a studied musician, but in truth earns his living as a composer of advertising jingles and baby Leonie only reveals to her brother Tobias that she is pregnant without knowing the identity of the child's father.
Robert's friend Chrissi insists that the façade of lies should finally be torn down, but is unsuccessful. Because Robert indirectly proposes marriage to her at the evening presents by pretending that Micha is the one handing her an engagement ring. But soon the farce threatens to be finally exposed. The emotions boil up, and gradually all the little secrets come to light. In a rage, Susanna and husband Heiner and a short time later Tobias and Leonie leave the apartment to leave. After Elli fails to jump over her shadow and stand by her love with driving instructor Micha, he too leaves the house with Robert.
Elli and Chrissi stay behind and find a way to talk to each other. To save Christmas, the two women now drive after their husbands. They landed on the slippery road in front of a Chinese snack bar in which they see Tobias and Leonie sitting. They sit down and Robert succeeds in encouraging his daughter about her pregnancy. Now Susanna and Heiner arrive with the two children after they see Elli arrive before the snack bar. In front of the assembled family, Elli reports that she has been separated from Robert for a long time and confesses her sincere love for Micha.
At the end, the audience sees a scene that takes place "a year later": Everyone has returned to Ellis' house for Christmas, but this time they seem reconciled. Leonie, who is now a mother, and the rest of the family watch as Elli presents her new book Young Man Wanted to Travel on TV , which tells of the motorcycle trip of a mature woman with a younger man through the Sahara.
production
A fellow director encouraged Lo Malinke and partner Philipp Müller on the resolution of their chanson and cabaret trio Malediva the script to all under a fir tree , which is loosely based on personal experience of the two authors. The shooting of the film took place between November 11th and December 15th, 2013 in Brandenburg and Berlin . The comedy was produced by UFA Fiction on behalf of ARD Degeto . The working title was Schöne Bescherung .
The two composers Andreas Schäfer and Biber Gullatz were responsible for the background music . In addition to their film music , popular Christmas carols of US origin can be heard; including Bing Crosby's version of “It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”, Bobby Helmss “Jingle Bell Rock” and Judy Garland's “ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ”. Moderator Jörg Thadeusz takes place in two scenes in the couple therapist Elli guest in his rbb telecast Thadeusz is even.
Even before the film was broadcast, the novel of the same name for TV production, also written by Malinke, was published by S. Fischer Verlag in November 2014 . After the script was finished, an agent at the publishing house became aware of the material and commissioned Malinke to design it. After Fischer agreed to publish it, he wrote the complete novel in "four or five weeks". After it was published, the book was placed in the Spiegel bestseller lists . In 2016 the corresponding play celebrated its world premiere.
Reviews
“Where in other ARD family films the narrative salvation is sought in the transfiguration and outdated values, this production is surprisingly progressive”, judged Julian Miller fromquote meter and wrote: “The heart of Alle unter ein Tanne is of course the comedic tones who especially like the great enthusiasm of the cast and especially Michael Gwisdek. Initially designed as a role-swapping comedy, the script unfortunately quickly reaches the limits of its inventiveness. And yet: The accomplished and comedically not untalented actors still find a lot of space here to help with cheeky punchlines, as best they can, over the less entertaining stretches [...] For a nice Christmas film, which is primarily nice wants to be, one should meet the demands. "
Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse found the production “well played and definitely not a film to feel good about”. The story is "quite funny in terms of its basic idea and course. The individual scenes, however, lack the expected satirical bite in their course [...] The fact that the film still works quite well despite these shortcomings is due in particular to the cast. Gaby Dohm in particular shows an astonishing degree of enthusiasm for playing and brings out the contemplative and reflective moments of the story very well, which helps the film over its weaker points. The dialogues are very realistic. "
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung -Renzensent Ulrich Schilling-Strack described Alle unter ein Tanne as “one of the really impressive” productions among the numerous annual Christmas comedies: “As expected, the tree is on fire, of course in the literal sense, as it would be for a decent comedy heard. After that it gets a bit reflective, even a bit moral, and that should happen at Christmas in the best families, but the story doesn't skid because of the emergency braking, "he wrote and summed up:" Hats off, a successful Christmas film without it Sentimental spice, but with an excellent cast of actors, funny dialogues and laconic wit. Only a small hang shortly before the last act prevents the full score. "
"Director Oliver Schmitz has shot a nice comedy with a good pinch of satire full of witty language and situation comedy, although some things seem a bit as recited", criticized dpa . “The plot is of course quite alien, because nobody would build such a strenuous building of lies. But it is teeming with hearty dialogues from the pen of Lo Malinke. ” On the other hand, TV Spielfilm rated the film negatively and wrote:“ During the rest of the year, this family does not seem to have any telephone or other contacts. Sure, even an absurd plot can be entertaining, but stale jokes are annoying here - be careful, this film needs to be ahead of time! "
success
Alle unter ein Tanne celebrated its first broadcast on December 12, 2014 . With a market share of 13.2 percent and a total of 4.12 million viewers, the film was behind the television crime series Der Alte and the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? the third most watched prime-time production . The film has been broadcast annually since then - sometimes by the third television programs .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Interview: Christmas is bad . blu.fm. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ↑ a b c All under one fir tree . Crew United. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ EVERYONE UNDER ONE FIR: Giveaway competition . UFA . December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ^ All under one fir tree (2013-2014) . UFA . Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ↑ Julian Miller: Madness under the Christmas tree . Quota meter . December 11, 2014. Accessed December 21, 2015.
- ↑ a b Ulrich Feld: "All under one fir tree": Festival of Lies . Frankfurter Neue Presse . December 13, 2014. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ↑ Ulrich Schilling-Strack: Funny comedy "Alle unter ein Tanne" with Gaby Dohm . Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . December 11, 2014. Accessed December 21, 2015.
- ↑ Film review for Alles ist Liebe . In: dpa . Focus.de. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ All under one fir tree, family comedy, D 2014 . TV feature film . Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Friday, December 12, 2014 . Quota meter . December 13, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ↑ "The old man" has the edge . Ruhr news . December 13, 2014. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: Primetime check: Saturday, December 24, 2011 . Quota meter . December 25, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
Web links
- All under a pine tree in the Internet Movie Database (English)