Age Glow - Speed Dating for Seniors
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Age Glow - Speed Dating for Seniors |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Georg Schütte |
| script | Jan Georg Schütte |
| production | Michael Eckelt |
| music |
Daniel Hoffknecht , Gary Marlowe |
| camera | Carol Burandt from Kameke |
| cut | Ulf Albert |
| occupation | |
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Alterglow - Speed Dating for Seniors is a German feature film by the director Jan Georg Schütte from 2014 . The predominantly improvised ensemble film was shot in Hamburg in 2013 . He tells of 13 seniors between their late 60s and mid-80s who use speed dating to find a partner.
action
Seven women and six men between the ages of 60 and mid 80 come to speed dating in the Höltigbaum manor in Hamburg-Rahlstedt . Among them the retired teacher Helge Löns, the successful Viennese businesswoman Maria Koppel, the former publisher Martha Schneider, gardener Clara Bayer, cleaning lady Edith Wielande, master painter Kurt Milan, his roommate Volker Hartmann, the Russian ex-officer Sergej Stern, amateur poet Leni Faupel, entrepreneur's wife Christa Nausch, the former museum keeper Hartmut Göttsche, the newly widowed Johann Schäfer and Hilde Matysek, the mother of the young organizer. For a participation fee of 50 euros, they have the opportunity to get to know not only their changing counterparts, but also their different motivations for their participation in seven minutes.
background
Schütte's old glow is based on the radio play of the same name , which was awarded the ARD German Radio Play Prize in 2011 .
production
The main season of Alterglow took place over two days on June 20 and 21, 2013 in Hamburg . Director Schütte let the actors improvise to a large extent. They only knew the biography of their own character; no scene was shot more than once. Individual sequences for the credits were filmed in early October 2013. The film was produced on behalf of ARD by Riva Filmproduktion in co-production with Westdeutscher (WDR) and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).
reception
Reviews
“What this star ensemble is performing moves in a completely different orbit than anything we normally see as a romantic program involving actors beyond midlife. Aging is not a film about old people. It's not a film for old people either - it's simply a big theater in television format, ”said Ursula Scheer from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . “Because when the sparks fly between the actors, then these moments actually emerged from the moment and are as surprising for the audience as for the actors. [...] That gives the whole thing a liveliness and truthfulness that wants to keep looking and listening. "
"Anyone who looks at old-age glow with the customary expectations of our grandmothers in German TV scripts and in the acting skills of our best will suffer, will find it boring, tension-free and embarrassing," said Evelyn Roll from the Süddeutsche Zeitung in her review. But when you see the film again with “the acceptance of the concept”, says Roll, “something very remarkable happens: As if freed from depraved viewing habits, you suddenly see how brave, enchanting and touching it is that thirteen established stars with the The vulnerability of their characters also expose their own vulnerability. […] Almost unbelievable that public broadcasters make such a revolutionary workshop experiment possible and show it at prime time. "
Tobias Bühlmann from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote in his review: “The starting position of old age is very promising […] But precisely because those involved only received a description of their protagonists instead of formulated lines, many figures appear woodcut-like and lack depth. The increasing cadence of the cuts no longer lends the film any more drama. Individual actors - above all Mario Adorf - are indeed able to shine, but the expected fireworks do not materialize. "
Barbara Möller von der Welt described old-age glow as a “marvel of a film, in front of which one sits amazed and amused and touched and happy. Age glow ! Stunning title. Between preheating and glowing up. Speed Dating for Seniors - terrifying subtitles. Sounds kind of like tea dance with a walker. But it is not. […] What fun. Don't miss it! "
success
The version of the feature film by Altersgluchten premiered on November 12, 2014 on Das Erste . Around 5.07 million viewers tuned in for the first broadcast, which corresponds to a strong market share of 16.2 percent of the total audience. In the advertising-relevant target group of 14- to 49-year-olds, on the other hand, a market share of only 5.4 percent was recorded. The strong overall quota was enough for the day's victory.
From the total of twenty-one hours of material, the series Alterglow - The series was also cut. In six episodes of 25 minutes each, it focuses on one of the participants and is initially broadcast by NDR and WDR .
Awards
- 2011 German Radio Play Award of ARD (for the radio play version of NDR)
- 2014 Special Prize for Idea and Concept at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for Jan Georg Schütte
- 2015 Grimme Prize for Jan Georg Schütte (script / director) and Ulf Albert (editor) as well as audience award from the Marler Group
- 2015 Günter Rohrbach Film Prize (Saarland Medien GmbH Prize) for Jan Georg Schütte
- 2015 Prize of the German Academy for Television in the film editing category for Ulf Albert and in the producer category for Michael Eckelt
- 2016 German TV Award in the Best Editing category for Ulf Albert
Web links
- Age glow - speed dating for seniors at filmportal.de
- Age glow - Speed Dating for seniors in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Alterglow (2014) . Filmportal.de. Archived from the original on November 13, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ↑ Ursula Scheer: You can all fall in love . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . faz.net. November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Evelyn Roll: The Wild Thirteen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . sueddeutsche.de. November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Tobias Bühlmann: Speed Dating with Mario Adorf . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . nzz.ch. November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ↑ The main thing is that Grandpa Kurt gets one too! , Die Welt , November 12, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Uwe Mantel: Speed Dating with Mario Adorf . dwdl.de . November 13, 2014. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- Jump up ↑ Glowing Age - The Series: 6-part dating series, Germany 2014 on wdr.de
