Everything is love

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Movie
Original title Everything is love
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Markus Goller
script Jane Ainscough
production Henning Ferber
music Annette Focks
camera Ueli Steiger
cut Markus Goller,
Olivia Retzer
occupation

Alles ist Liebe is a German fiction film by director Markus Goller from 2014 . The Christmas film is based on a screenplay by the author Jane Ainscough and is a German-language remake of the Dutch ensemble film Alles is liefde (2007), which in turn was modeled on Richard Curtis ' film Actually… Love (2003). The tragicomic production tells of ten men and women from the Frankfurt am Main area who struggle with all sorts of love and relationship problems on the three days before Christmas.

The episode film was produced by Henning Ferber Filmproduktion and Film1 in co-production with Universal Pictures International Germany and shot between February and April 2014 primarily in Frankfurt, Berlin and the surrounding area. The leading roles are Nora Tschirner , Tom Beck , Heike Makatsch , Wotan Wilke Möhring , Katharina Schüttler , Fahri Yardım , Christian Ulmen , Friedrich Mücke , Inez Björg David and Elmar Wepper . Alles ist Liebe was released for public screening in Germany on December 4, 2014, where the film received mixed reviews.

action

On the occasion of its company anniversary, the department store chain Berghans & Gutmann is organizing a Christmas spectacle on December 21st on the Mainkai in Frankfurt am Main . In the large-scale marketing campaign, which is broadcast by the local TV broadcaster Skyline TV, an actor in Santa Claus costume is supposed to receive the wishes of children on a ship - but unfortunately the event gets out of hand: Actor Tom von Loessel suffers a heart attack and dies still in costume on board the ship. Production manager Alice desperately needs a replacement for the event. Finally, colleague Daniel was able to persuade Hitchhiker Martin, whom he had picked up on the roadside after a breakdown, to jump in at short notice.

But the series of breakdowns never ends: Martin feels forced to jump into the cold waters during his appearance to save little Lotte from drowning after she has broken the barriers to give Santa Claus her wish list. Lotte is the eldest daughter of Simone and Kerem, who are now expecting their third child. However, Kerem, who has been unemployed for a long time, hides from his wife that he was temporarily hired at the inner-city Christmas market and that the family is about to evict their apartment. So he can ask bailiff Viktor for a few days' respite at short notice.

In any case, he is only thinking about his imminent wedding to his partner Klaus, whom the prospect of the upcoming event plunges into a life crisis. Viktor finds support from his sister Kiki, who works at Berghans & Gutmann and, disguised as an oversized gift, meets her ex-boyfriend Jan again during the event on the Main. The actor has now celebrated his breakthrough as a Hollywood star and has come to Frankfurt to promote his new film The Berserker . For the former couple, who broke up in the bad, the reunion is without much joy.

Simone's friend Clara finds out during the recording that her father, the actor in the castle von Loessel, has died and that she will spend the time until Christmas preparing for his funeral. Reluctantly, she leaves her son Boris in the care of his father Hannes, from whom she lives separately after his affair with Boris' teacher Sarah. While Clara is pushing for a divorce, Hannes is hoping for a reconciliation, and so he takes the presence of his son as an opportunity to convince Clara once again of his qualities as a loyal family man. It is Clara, of all people, who allows herself to slip up with young Daniel after her father's funeral.

At the end of the day there is a happy ending for everyone on Christmas Eve: After spending the night with Daniel, Clara realizes that she only loves one: Hannes. She rushes to him immediately, the two reconcile and want to dare to start their marriage again.

In the meantime, Kerem has met Martin, who is still in his Santa Claus suit, and asks him to come to his house in costume so that he can fulfill his promise to Lotte to get Santa Claus. Martin agrees after some hesitation. The surprise succeeds, Simone and Kerem speak out and want to get through Kerem's unemployment together. Lotte has informed her classmates and they are now all sitting around Santa Claus, alias Martin, in Simone's and Kerem's living room. Alice also learns Martin's whereabouts and thus gets her interview with Santa Claus.

Klaus found accommodation with a colleague after he ran away from Viktor at the crucial moment in front of the altar. On television he sees Alice interviewing Santa Claus, alias Martin, and he catches his breath when he hears Martin saying that he has a son, with whom he has no contact. Martin also mentions his name: Klaus.

Viktor picks up Klaus from his colleague's apartment and in the car they swear their love again and that they always want to be there for each other. On the way home they meet Martin in a traffic jam, and when father and son, Martin and Klaus, stand across from each other, they embrace.

The film ends with a passionate kiss from Klaus and Viktor in front of the altar after they have said yes.

production

The Frankfurt Christmas market on the Römerberg was specially built for the shoot.

Alles ist Liebe was filmed between February 17 and April 11, 2014 at various locations in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area. In the Main metropolis, where the film crew spent 23 days, the Kaiserplatz , the adjacent Frankfurter Hof , the Eiserne Steg , the Museumufer , the Opernplatz in front of the Alte Oper , the Nordweststadt , the Römer and the red light district in the station district served as the backdrop. Further recordings were made at the Wallschule in Langen and on the Mainwiesen near Philippsruhe Castle in Hanau . On a further 19 days, the film was finally filmed in Berlin, where, among other things, scenes were filmed on Richardplatz in Berlin-Neukölln .

The comedy was produced with a budget of eight million euros jointly by Alles ist Liebe Filmproduktions GmbH and Film1 in co-production with Universal Pictures International Germany . Henning Ferber acted as producer with his Henning Ferber Filmproduktions GmbH . HessenInvest supported the project with 800,000 euros. The Filmförderungsanstalt contributed 600,000 euros to the production and distribution funding, the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) just under 922,000 euros. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg funded the production with 400,000 euros.

Composer Annette Focks was responsible for the background music . In addition to Focks' film music , everything is love is mainly pop music from international artists; including Dean Martin's version of “You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You”, Lily Allens Keane - cover version “Somewhere Only We Know”, The Four Tops ' “ I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) ” and Cee- Lo Green's modern cover of the Christmas song “What Christmas Means to Me”. Joachim Kerzel stepped in front of the microphone as the narrator .

reception

Reviews

" Everything is love , we want that Christmas" was Kino.de . “Five interwoven episodes about love chaos in the normal pre-Christmas madness, turbulent and wildly romantic. Conclusion: Love is everything, everything is love , and everyone has trouble with love: The film gift for the celebration of love. ” Epd Film only gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and judged that Goller was in the“ variety of the torn Stories “get bogged down. “What is really fatal, however,” is “that there is no grounding in reality”, the scenes are only model apartments and the shelves are only filled with props.

"Not all wishes come true: Everything is love is not actually ... love, " said Cinema.de . “Well-known actors, who bravely allude to silly coincidences and predictable twists, provide the greatest gift. Strange situations […] It's true, the script is largely as formulaic and unoriginal as the film title suggests. On the other hand: Who wants to pull out the rod so shortly before the presents are being handed out? And so we prefer to be dazzled by the cozy glow of lights of this bittersweet comedy. After all, it's only Christmas once a year. "

Michael Ranze described Alles ist Liebe in film-dienst as “a messy episode film” with a “hectic nervousness that doesn't really fit into the intended Christmas mood”. Director Goller mainly relies "on the popularity of his actors". Ranze found that “the message that Christmas is the festival of love” came in this film “so sugar-sweet and forgiving that one would rather prefer the Dutch original”.

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the comedy the title valuable . The reasoning states that everything is love is “a turbulent Christmas comedy with good actors, little miracles and lots of cheerful moments” that “constantly oscillates between exuberant comedy and real feelings”. Special praise was given to the “successful [] and contemporary neutral [] handling of a gay couple depicted in the film”. However, director Goller gets bogged down "at some points in the many often only sketched out stories and emotional levels" and the beginning of the film is "a little long". In addition, "the Hollywood film set ... doesn't always really fit into the German pre-Christmas season".

success

Katharina Schüttler was nominated for her portrayal for Jupiter .

Alles ist Liebe celebrated its premiere on November 25, 2014 in the Cinemaxx cinema on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin . The production was finally released for public screening on December 4, 2014. After the end of the first screening weekend, the comedy recorded 85,098 viewers in 527 cinemas and was the most successful German-language new start behind The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 , The Penguins from Madagascar , Paddington and Interstellar at number five in the German cinema charts. Overall, the production attracted 443,709 visitors to the cinemas within five weeks. With 426,042 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was placed 22nd among the most watched German cinema productions of 2014. The total box office result in Germany was 3.5 million euros.

In Switzerland, Alles ist Liebe entered the German- Swiss cinema charts in tenth place with 4,616 visitors in 25 cinemas . The film was the second highest newcomer of the weekend after The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies . In the second week of screening, the film reached ninth place. The film stayed in the German-Swiss Top 25 for four weeks and recorded a total of 10,113 viewers. The premiere on free-to-air television took place on Christmas Day 2017 in the late- night program of ZDF . With 1.49 million viewers and a 10.2 percent market share , it was broadcast below the channel average. The advertising-relevant group accounted for 9 percent of the market.

Awards

In March 2015 the German magazine Cinema nominated the actors Katharina Schüttler , Friedrich Mücke and Jannis Niewöhner for the audience film award Jupiter in the categories “Best German Actress” and “Best German Actor”. However, the trio was defeated by his colleagues. Schüttler was also nominated for Romy in the category “Most Popular Actress Cinema / TV Film” for her play in Alles ist Liebe and the TV Christmas comedy Silent Nights (2014) .

Web links

Individual evidence

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