Everything has to go - a family does the accounting

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Movie
Original title Everything has to go - a family does the accounting
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 177 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Dror Zahavi
script Kai Hafemeister
production Oliver Berben
music Stefan Hansen
camera Gero Steffen
cut Fritz Busse
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Everything has to go - A family accounts is a two-part German television drama by Dror Zahavi from 2014 . The film tells a fictional story that is based on the Schlecker bankruptcy .

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Part 1

Max Faber, founder and owner of the Faber concern, which runs a drugstore chain with over 8000 branches, gets into financial difficulties. Unsuccessful stock deals, for which he had taken funds from company capital to compensate, bring him to the brink of bankruptcy. The first suppliers have already stopped delivering goods due to unpaid invoices. Right now his daughter Kerstin is coming back from London. Hoping to have support from her, he appoints her second managing director on the occasion of his 70th birthday. He does not tell her about his financial problems, but she quickly realizes that the company is in the red . She urgently advises her father on a restructuring plan. He doesn't want to hear about it, however, but he transfers the villa he lives in to his wife for security. In the event of bankruptcy, the building would not be part of the bankruptcy estate.

Faber's son Alex not only broke up with him, he downright hates him. He had drug problems in his youth and instead of his father standing by and helping him, he had reported him and Alex even had to go to jail, which also caused physical damage to him. Today he works as a probation officer and, among other things, looks after the convicted Frank Landers, who has just been released from prison. He tries to keep him on the right track, but after a short time Landers and Lotto Karl commit a robbery. To do this, he deliberately chooses the drugstore where his girlfriend Janine Krause works because she knows that there is neither a surveillance camera nor a landline connection here. When she tries to call for help, Lotto Karl shoots her and disappears with Landers and the daily earnings. At the clinic, Janine learns that she is pregnant.

The financial situation of the Faber concern comes to a head, and after the press gets wind that Max Faber has transferred money abroad, the creditors put pressure and push for bankruptcy. Kerstin Faber can avert this for the time being by promising to work out a restructuring plan. However, this means that the drugstore chain is being “slimmed down” and numerous saleswomen are being given notice. In addition, employees are required to waive their wages. This means that Janine Krause has now also received her dismissal, which, on the advice of the union, challenges her to sue against the dismissal. As a mother-to-be, the prospects for success are not bad.

Part 2

Kerstin Faber tries to find an investor to save the ailing family business. To do this, she meets with the Dutchman Oskar Etsch, who is willing to support the group financially, but also sets conditions for it.

The drugstore chain Faber has already given notice of 3,000 saleswomen and closed its first branches. As a result, the dismissed employees sue, and Janine Krause has her first court hearing, which is also in the public eye. Due to insufficient justification of the social choice on the part of the employer, the court declares the termination to be socially unlawful and invalid. Janine Krause has to continue to be employed at Faber. She celebrates this success extensively, but at the same time learns that another colleague has now been fired for her.

Max Faber does not want to admit that his group is about to end. Although his daughter, as the second managing director, runs the business almost alone, he still wants to control everything. He is also suspicious of the upcoming agreement with Oskar Etsch and he cannot bear not being informed about the details. Nevertheless, Kerstin Faber has the management firmly in hand and her future planning provides for the suppliers to finally deliver the goods they have held back. To do this, she uses the advocacy of Janine Krause, who tactically and effectively brought her on board for her goals of saving the company, so that they can find good solutions together. Her father's authoritarian leadership style always opposed her and has brought the company to where it is now.

Against all warnings, Max Faber takes the business back into his own hands and removes his daughter from the management. Negotiations with the investor were broken and the supervisory board decided to dissolve the company so that the creditors could get at least part of their money back. The total debts of the Faber group amount to 200 million euros. With the dissolution, all 12,000 employees are now on the street and their displeasure is huge. Max Faber is being chalked up for sitting with his millions in his villa while thousands of people have to watch how they get along. The sale begins in the branches and there are also consequences for Max Faber, because all inventory in his villa is seized. Even his Rolex and the car are taken from him. However, the villa itself remains untouched because it belongs to his wife, and since she has 18 million in her private account, Faber's social decline is limited.

Janine Krause also suffered a setback when she learned that her boyfriend had committed the robbery in which she was shot months earlier. Without further ado, she separates from him. When Landers learns through the media that Faber is being accused of embezzling millions, he makes his way to Faber's villa. He penetrated there by force of arms and found a whole suitcase full of cash in the safe. When Faber can get hold of the gun, he shoots himself and Landers disappears with the suitcase.

reception

Audience ratings

When Alles muss raus - Eine Familie calculates from the first broadcast on October 13, 2014 on ZDF, 4.81 million viewers followed the first part, corresponding to a market share of 14.8 percent. The second part followed two days later, on October 15, 2014 and reached 4.35 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 14.5 percent.

Reviews

Klaudia Wick from Tittelbach.tv wrote: “'Everything has to go - a family does the accounting' takes a lot of time to tell a complex company story that is not only reminiscent of 'Schlecker', but also. The dramaturgy of the film is as economical as a discounter. Above all, this makes the exposition a firework of impressions and perspectives ... The characters of ALL milieus are credible. And the material from which this ZDF two-parter is made is reminiscent of the legendary Wedel two-parter in its best moments; But the makers also know the new American series and they at least meet their casual narrative style. "

Sidney Schering said atquotemeter.de: “There are so many characters, milieus and social construction sites that are captured that the dramaturgy and conciseness are lost. At the same time, there are too few surprises, character-related insights and meaningful moments to support the lengthy entirety of this film. "

“Epically broad (television) drama about the family feud of a drugstore empire. Comedic stylistic devices were reduced to a minimum. "

- filmdienst.de

Trivia

In the same year, another film was released with the Schlikker women , which has the same topic as the content, but was staged as a comedy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for everything has to go - a family does the accounting . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 147 V).
  2. ↑ a b Klaudia Wick: Atzorn, Martinek, Preuss, Lukas, Zahavi. Complex, time-efficient, credible , at Tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Sidney Schering: Film criticism at Königinmeter.de, accessed on May 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Everything has to go - a family does the accounting. In: filmdienst.de. Film service , accessed November 4, 2016 .