Old Money (TV Series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Old money |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| year | 2015 |
| Production company |
ORF / super film |
| Episodes | 8 in 1 season |
| genre | Dramedy |
| production | David Schalko , John Lueftner |
| First broadcast | March 27, 2015 on Flimmit |
| occupation | |
Altes Geld is a television series of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , which was produced in 8 episodes in 2014 and comes from David Schalko (idea, screenplay, direction and production). After Braunschlag, it is the second part of a planned trilogy on the subject of greed and corruption. The series takes place in the milieu of the super-rich and revolves around an industrial tycoon who needs a liver and offers his entire fortune to whoever gets him this organ.
It was broadcast on Austrian television from November 2, 2015 on ORF eins . RTL Crime , where the series was shown from February 10, 2016, owns the broadcasting rights for German PayTV .
occupation
Leading roles
| Role name | actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| Rolf Rauchsteiner | Udo Kier | Industrialist, billionaire, patriarch |
| Liane Rauchsteiner | Sunnyi Melles | Smoking Steiner's second wife |
| Zeno Rauchsteiner | Nicholas Ofczarek | Smokingsteiner's son from his first marriage |
| Jakob Rauchsteiner | Manuel Rubey | Son of Rolf and Liane Rauchsteiner |
| Jana Rauchsteiner | Nora von Waldstätten | Daughter of Rolf and Liane Nahrungsmittelsteiner |
| Tania | Edita Malovčić | Serbian partner of Zeno |
| Herwig Brunner | Thomas Stipsits | Assistant to Rolf Rauchsteiner |
| Barbara Brunner | Ursula Strauss | Wife of Herwig Brunner |
| Kralicek | Robert Palfrader | Safety officer for Rolf Rauchsteiner |
| Kerstin Bachmann | Yohanna sword sweeper | Girlfriend of Jakob Rauchsteiner |
| Bye | Simon Black | Head of the organ allocation office, green politician |
| Dr. Schober | Cornelius Obonya | Personal physician of the Rauchsteiner family |
| Martin | Florian Teichtmeister | Friend of Jana Rauchsteiner |
Supporting roles
| Role name | actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| mayor | Herbert Föttinger | Mayor of the City of Vienna |
| Commander | Johannes Krisch | Underworld king |
| Severin Sonnborn | Michael Maertens | Kralicek's professional colleague |
| Rasko | Carlo Ljubek | Tania's brother |
| Ferry | Raimund Wallisch | Dog sitter with Zeno and Tania |
| Philip Canitz | Lukas Miko | Herwig Brunner's predecessor |
| Edit | Maria Hofstätter | Commander's wife |
| Max | Julian Loidl | Smoking Steiner's chauffeur |
| Mario / Stranski | Clemens Berndorff | Commander's henchman |
| Sister Katzenberg | Shifra Milstein | Sister of Rauchsteiner |
| Daughter Katzenberg | Ruth Brauer-Kvam | Smoking Steiner's niece |
| Robert Falkner | Hakon Hirzenberger | Editor-in-chief |
| Helmut Falkner | Dominik Warta | Editor-in-chief |
| Jandl | Gregor Seberg | Restitution attorney |
| Police chief | Klaus Rott | |
| Business traveler | Christian Tramitz | |
| Gabi Schober | Dörte Lyssewski | Wife of Dr. Schober |
| vet | Ulli Lommel | |
| Eliah Goldberg | Florian Carove | Assistant in the Jewish Museum |
| John Gardner Jr. | David Miesmer | young lawyer |
action
Episode 1 - "Bush Drums"
The billionaire industrialist Rolf Rauchsteiner receives from his personal physician Dr. Schober received the diagnosis that, in addition to hepatitis B , he also had hepatitis D and would die in a year if he did not get a new donor liver . Rauchsteiner's attempt to bribe Tscheppe, the head of the transplant distribution list, fails. The mayor of the city of Vienna, with whom Rauchsteiner has been holding corrupt agreements regarding property sales for years, assures him, however, that he will help him out. Smoking Steiner asks his wife Liane to bring the scattered family together. She then contacts the younger son Jakob, who works with his girlfriend Kerstin in an African development village, but refuses to come home. At the family reunion at the smoking stone estate, smoking stone announces Zeno, his son from his first marriage who is having a secret affair with Liane, Zeno's Serbian friend Tania and his daughter Jana that he will soon die. After the meeting, on the way home, Jana is jumped into the subway by a stranger who pretends to be her Facebook friend Martin and assures her that he wanted to save her from a careless accident. Martin accompanies Jana home and can convince her to stay with her for the night. The gambling addict Zeno has now visited the Dark Duck club, where he plays backgammon with a mysterious man named Kommander and loses all of his money and his car. Meanwhile, the mayor tries to threaten Tscheppe and persuade him to aid Rauchsteiner, but this fails. Rauchsteiner's security officer Kralicek asks his colleague Sonnborn, who works in Syria , about the possibility of buying an illegal liver from the Middle East . The next day, Tania receives a visit from her brother Rasko, who threatens to inform Zeno about a crime she has committed and which he served for her in prison.
Episode 2 - "Alpha"
Rauchsteiner's liver disease turns out to be an intrigue between Liane and Dr. Rascals out who are having an affair with each other. Jakob was convinced by Kerstin to come home and arrives with her at his parents' estate. The mayor tries again to force Tscheppe to cooperate, but again does not succeed. Smoking Steiner puts Kralicek on Tscheppe, but he does not manage to overpower Tscheppe. At the next big family reunion, at which Jana's friend Martin as well as Jakob and Kerstin are also present, Rauchsteiner reveals to those present that whoever gets him a liver will inherit his entire fortune. It turns out that Jakob and Jana have an incestuous relationship , which Jakob had to end because he was blackmailed into it by his father due to another incident. In the meantime, Kralicek and his henchmen have broken into Tscheppe's house and seized his tape recordings of all the conversations he had with Rauchsteiner, the mayor and himself. They then lie in wait for Tscheppe, masked, and, under threat of torture, can successfully force him to give them his backup data as well . Herwig Brunner, the personal assistant and the right hand man from Rauchsteiner, is confronted by his wife Barbara, who suspects an affair behind his secret activities. Liane is worried about her plan to stay behind as the sole heir and asks Dr. Schober for advice on how they could kill Rauchsteiner faster. Dr. Schober shows scruples, but gives her the information that Rauchsteiner's liver has already been so attacked that Liane could kill him with a normal painkiller .
Episode 3 - "Leather Skin"
Rauchsteiner learns from Kralicek that he was able to get him an illegal liver. Dr. Schober announces to Liane that she no longer wants to have anything to do with her intrigue, whereupon Liane tells Zeno that she is Dr. Schober suspect that he is behind Rauchsteiner's liver disease. Brunner confesses to his wife that he works for Rauchsteiner. Tscheppe announces to Brunner that he will speak to one of the largest newspapers in the country about the torture incident and will pillory him and Rauchsteiner. However, the newspaper is covertly financed by Rauchsteiner, and Brunner then seeks out the editors-in-chief in order to persuade them to manipulate Tscheppe's interview by threatening to do so. Rauchsteiner learns from his sister, who lives in Israel , that she intends to sue him for restitution . Jakob wants to leave again, but is confronted by Kerstin and asked to face his family. A little later, she receives a reference to Jakob's incestuous relationship from Rauchsteiner and confronts Jakob and Jana. Rasko and Tania plan to get Rauchsteiner a liver on their own, but Tania's dog sitter Ferry notices this and asks to join the story. Ferry convinces her to see a vet who says she can raise human livers. Jana's friend Martin turns out to be a clandestine investigative policeman who wants to expose Rauchsteiner's machinations. At a big party in the Rauchsteiner estate, Jana Martin shows the family museum, where she shows him an ominous pair of gloves, which Jakob, who joins them, disapproves of. Rauchsteiner learns from Sonnborn that his illegal liver, which Kralicek promised him, comes from a 105-year-old Afghan . When Rauchsteiner, irritated, leaves the party to go to sleep, Liane offers him two painkillers for his headache.
Episode 4 - "Among Lions"
The day after the big party, Kerstin wakes up in an overland taxi near Linz, without cash or mobile phone, which turns out to be an act of jealous Jana, who has renewed her incestuous relationship with Jakob. After the party in the commander's club, while drunk, Zeno gambled his liver and is now afraid for his life, which is why he asks Kralicek to guard him. Contrary to Liane's expectations, Rauchsteiner wakes up, but his behavior has changed significantly. She then notifies Dr. Schober, who assures her that Rauchsteiner is in the terminal stage and urgently needs medical attention, which Liane refuses. The mayor went to Rauchsteiner to persuade him to appear on a committee of inquiry , but only received confused answers from Rauchsteiner. After Kerstin's attempts to reach Jakob fail, she manages to hitchhike a business traveler, who turns out to be a psychopath . He offers Kerstin to drive his car alone, but later tells the police that she stole it, whereupon Kerstin ends up in prison. Martin learns from Jana that the leather gloves from the family museum are gloves made of human skin that her Nazi grandfather had made from the skin of his wife's Jewish lover, who is also the father of Rauchsteiner's sister. The commanding officer orders Sonnborn to kidnap Zeno and bring him to him, as he has already sold his liver to someone. A misunderstanding in Zeno's apartment leads to a shootout between Kralicek and Rasko, in which both of them are gunshot wounds to their right arm. Rauchsteiner, whose condition is rapidly deteriorating, begins to hallucinate and in the final scene sees Liana sitting amidst a myriad of lions in the manor park.
Episode 5 - "The Beaver"
Jakob learns that Kerstin has tried to get a liver for Rauchsteiner through her African contacts and that a man has already been murdered for it. Kerstin, who is in prison, tries to contact Jakob without success. Kralicek and Rasko are made makeshift by Dr. Schober doctored. Liane found out that Tania had committed a manslaughter in Serbia and that her brother went to prison for her. Zeno confronts Dr. Schober and Liane and demands to see Rauchsteiner, which Schober does not allow. A little later, Zeno is kidnapped by Sonnborn, who invaded the estate unnoticed. Rauchsteiner is delirious and hallucinating an encounter with his deceased Nazi father. Jakob also becomes suspicious of Rauchsteiner's decline and confronts Liane, who blatantly tells him that Rauchsteiner will soon die and that she is jointly responsible for it. Meanwhile, Sonnborn brings Zeno to the commandant's house, but the latter refuses to give him the amount negotiated for it until his liver has been removed. The commanding officer also discovers that his helper Mario / Stranski is an undercover police officer and has him locked up together with Zeno. After another incident with Rauchsteiner, who is just about to end, Jakob decides to take him to the hospital. On the drive there, he learns from the chauffeur Max that the woman they ran over together years ago while drunk, contrary to Jacob's assumption, is still alive and in a coma . Brunner receives a visit from his predecessor Canitz, who threatens to tell Rauchsteiner that Brunner is planning a campaign of revenge against him because he considers him to be guilty of his father's suicide. At the private hospital, Jakob learns from Max that the woman who was run over is also in a coma here.
Episode 6 - "Man in the Animal"
Jana taught Jacob that their rule now for quite some time had failed to materialize. Jakob and Dr. Schober tried to persuade the relatives of the coma woman, who did not know that Jakob was responsible, to donate her liver for Rauchsteiner. The commander and his wife Edit roll the dice on the fate of Zeno and Mario / Stranski, and it turns out that both have to stay alive. Meanwhile, Kerstin receives a visit from the business traveler who brought her to prison, who offers her to get her out. Brunner learns from his wife that she wants to divorce him. Canitz intensified his threat to Brunner and, together with Rauchsteiner's sister, went to the hospital, who was still unresponsive and immobile, and went to the hospital, where they informed Liane of her plan of restitution. After the business traveler has got Kerstin out of prison, he takes her to a remote forest, where he rams a knife into her stomach with her hand and dies. A little later, Kerstin is picked up by the police and arrested for the murder. Ferry, Tania and Rasko are still trying to get a liver and go back to the vet, who, however, is a madman who tries to create a new human being with human experiments. Instead of asking for money for the liver, he demands that one of the three make himself available for experiments, but Liane now tells Tania that Rauchsteiner is close to death and that they no longer need a liver. It turns out that Zeno and Mario / Stranski are already in the care of the mad doctor and are both being prepared for an operation. The mayor, blackmailed by both Canitz and Tscheppe, decides to commit suicide and jumps from the terrace of the town hall.
Episode 7 - "Chloroform"
Jakob has managed to convince the relatives of the woman in a coma to donate her liver for Rauchsteiner, whereupon he is quickly operated on. Zeno is found by the police and brought back to Tania's house, but it turns out that he had a lobotomy and he cannot remember anything. Dr. Schober is caught by his wife together with Liane, whereupon she threatens him with a divorce. Brunner tries to confess his true motives to Rauchsteiner, who is lying in the waking up station , and has to find out that he already knew about everything and that the real reason for his father's suicide was his father's hidden homosexuality . When Martin and other colleagues visit Zeno to ask him about the whereabouts of Mario / Stranski, Rasko unintentionally believes that they are coming to arrest him and escapes, where he is caught a little later and is returned to prison because he is has violated his probation obligations. Jakob visits the Jewish Museum and offers them the deal to exhibit the gloves made of human skin on loan. Barbara Brunner contacts Canitz and hands him a notebook from her husband, in which he has meticulously noted down all the criminal activities that he has carried out for Rauchsteiner. Liane is led by Dr. Schober and his wife are blackmailed, whereupon she asks Jakob for help. Jakob then looks for Dr. Schober's house to threaten him.
Episode 8 - "Snow-White Heart"
Jakob, who is increasingly taking over and continuing his father's business, forces Dr. Schober and his wife to leave the country. Tania convinces the moronic Zeno to marry her. At the registry office, however, Ferry Tania admits that he has been in love with her for years, that he is also very rich and that he only did the dog-sitter job to be around her. When Liana joins them to prevent their wedding, the marriage finally broke off. Canitz and Rauchsteiner's sister learn that the restitution suit, which they wanted to base on the gloves made of human skin, will not go through because the Jewish Museum has now become involved. Barbara Brunner confesses to her husband that she passed his notebook on to Canitz, whereupon the two decide to leave the country. However, Tscheppe manages to bait Canitz with hidden drugs and takes Brunner's notebook while Canitz dies of an overdose . Jakob persuades his pregnant Jana to go to a nightclub with him. However, he mixed the cocaine he had previously offered her with an abortion agent, which resulted in a painful miscarriage for Jana . The Kommander and his wife Edit get a visit from Sonnborn, who still insists on his payment for the kidnapping of Zenos. When the commanding officer still refuses to pay, Sonnborn shoots Edit. In shock, the commanding officer leads Sonnborn to an alleged hiding place in the forest, but this turns out to be a trap for Sonnborn, who is caught in a hole in the ground and then commits suicide. Tscheppe contacts Jakob and asks him to meet. He hands him Brunner's notebook and tries to win him over to his “Invisible Hand” movement, which intends to revolutionize society. The recovering smoking Steiner intends to retire with Liane, who has fallen in love with him again.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the series was composed by Kyrre Kvam and released on CD. With the exception of the songs "L'appuntamento" (episode 6), sung by Ornella Vanoni , and "I'm your man" (episode 7), sung by Leonard Cohen and the song "Der Koenig" (episode 8) by Palms , composed entirely of piano music.
“Often times a single musical theme is used for the entire season in TV series. For "old money", however, we gave each episode its own piece of music, which then leads through the respective plot in different variations. What they all have in common is the piano, just the piano. It accompanies the entire series, with the original topic being presented in the credits and the various modifications later. The piano was the only instrument by my side ... "
Lettering
The lettering used for the series was originally designed by Hans Möhring in 1932 and was published in lead type under the name “Florida” . It is best known for its use as the title font for Ingmar Bergman's film drama Persona .
backgrounds
The shooting took place from April to mid-August 2014 in Vienna and Lower Austria (including Gaweinstal-Pellendorf , Puchberg am Schneeberg , Reichenau an der Rax , Stockerau and Vösendorf ) as well as in Namibia .
The series was first released on DVD and on the online video library Flimmit on March 27, 2015. It has been broadcast on ORF since November 2, 2015.
Gert Voss was intended for the role of the patriarch, but he died during the filming. Udo Kier stepped in as a replacement .
Quotes
“'Old money' shows a world in which crime has already been made a raison d'etat, empathy is equated with human weakness, perversion is the ultimate expression of inner despair and greed is confused with will. Nothing is sacred to this elite except their own life. For nothing she seems less talented than to be satisfied with something. In order not to be shattered by her own senselessness, she hysterically creates catastrophes. Morality is for the middle class. Ultimately, human comedy. A comedy without God. "
“I'm very satisfied because what I like about the series is that everyone is on the same level, no matter how big the role. Nobody stands out because the ensemble was wonderfully led by David Schalko. It was a real teamwork. Schalko knows exactly what he wants. Since he also writes the scripts himself, everything is in line. It's about families, old money, wealth, corruption and beautiful women. Everyone sleeps with everyone else - and lions run across the picture. There are absurd situations that come close to madness. "
“Different levels of people are shown. The depressions that arise in you when it comes to an inheritance, everyone wants the money for themselves and how to get there. David Schalko describes all of this congenially. The dearest person becomes a sex offender, the dearest politician becomes corrupt, the facade is covered and you can see the people as they are. With the realization that we have it and have to deal with it, there is also redemption in the end. It gives us hope that we can do something to prevent us from becoming like that. "
Reviews
The Austrian and German media response to the DVD release and the release on Flimmit was mostly positive. The German daily newspaper Die Welt described Altes Geld as "the meanest, funniest, best series since Helmut Dietl". The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that "thanks to Kier, Melles, Maertens and Schwertfeger the language barrier is significantly lower than that of 'Braunschlag'" and spoke of "six and a half hours of film that nobody in Germany could manage". The Austrian daily Der Standard found that old money set "new standards" especially in terms of visual language. The weekly newspaper News also described Altes Geld as “colorful” and highlighted the “breathtaking scenery”. Stefan Grissemann writes in the time also from a "highly artificial, very color-intensive production" with "provocation potential" and speaks of "alien Performance" by Udo Kier. TV Media dubbed the series “TV excitement” even in the run-up to its release and assigned it to “massive scandal potential”. Spiegel.de also spoke of an "entertaining overall scandal".
criticism
"Old money is really big cinema - on television."
Awards
At the 13th Sichuan TV Festival in Chengdu, cinematographer Marcus Kanter received an International Gold Panda Award for old money .
Web links
- Old money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Old money at fernsehserien.de
- Smoking weed in the Führer-Cabrio article in the world on Sunday May 3, 2015 by Jan Küveler
- Old money on the Superfilm website .
- Report in the courier
literature
- David Schalko: Old Money - The Book Jung u. Jung, 2015, ISBN 978-3-99027-072-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Nobody is embarrassed to be an asshole" .
- ↑ Braunschlag: Interview with author David Schalko - page 2 .
- ↑ Old Money - Soundtrack ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d VoD start and DVD release of David Schalko's "Altes Geld" ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Old Money ( Memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jan Küveler: David Schalko: "Altes Geld" is a great series. In: welt.de . May 8, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Ivy - The Kulturrundschau from April 10th, 2015 - Pearl divers .
- ↑ "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 83 of April 10, 2015 Page: 13 Section: Feuilleton"
- ↑ New series "Old Money": "Knock yourself out". In: derStandard.at. March 26, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ news networld Internet Service GmbH: Miniseries - "Old Money": David Schalko's new trick . March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Stefan Grissemann: "Old Money": The daring pranks of the rich . In: The time . No. 13/2015 ( online ).
- ↑ TV-MEDIA exclusive: “Old money” has massive potential for scandal .
- ↑ Eva Thöne: Offside humor from Austria: "Dallas" for the mentally disturbed. In: Spiegel Online . March 31, 2015, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Criticism of Altes Geld (old money) on filmempfoice.com
- ↑ orf.at - "Old Money" and "Universe" awarded in China . Article dated November 8, 2015, accessed November 8, 2015.