Christmas of all things
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Christmas of all things |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Gabriela Zerhau |
| script |
Andrea Stoll Gabriela Zerhau |
| production | Hans Joachim Mendig |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Johannes Geyer |
| cut | Anke Berthold |
| occupation | |
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Christmas of all things ( subtitle : Schneechaos ins Glück ) is a German-Austrian television film by director Gabriela Zerhau from 2005. The Christmas comedy is based on the joint script by Andrea Stoll and Zerhau and is about a group of passengers who on Christmas Eve on the train route gets stuck in the snowstorm in rough terrain between Salzburg and Munich - including the couple Sina and Carl, who are separated after an affair, played by Aglaia Szyszkowitz and Ulrich Noethen .
The ARD commissioned production was realized by Monaco Filmproduktion in coproduction with BR and ORF and filmed between January and April 2005 in Salzburg, Munich, Rosenheim and the surrounding area. In addition to Szyszkowitz and Noethen, Florian David Fitz , Young-Shin Kim , Maximilian Grill , Peter Lerchbaumer , Dany Sigel , Dagmar Schwarz and Ursula Staack appeared in front of the camera of the television film, which was first broadcast on December 4, 2005 at prime time. Of all things, Christmas met with a predominantly positive response from critics .
action
After some of her students were struck by salmonella poisoning on the pre-Christmas ski trip , teacher Sina started the journey home by train from Salzburg to Munich late on Christmas Eve with a small group of remaining sick people, including her son Felix . The hopelessly overcrowded wagons are crowded with travelers on their way to their families. The students still manage to claim the last free places for themselves. Only Sina is forced to go to another compartment, where a little later she meets her husband Carl, from whom she has been separated for a year after his affair with a colleague.
Both react surprised to the presence of the other and meet at a distance - especially since other travelers in the compartment are attending the play, including the lonely, heavily pregnant violinist Min Wang and the talkative Austrian pensioner couple Lisl and Franz, who are on their way to Christmas with his friends adult children is. Also present is Fritz, who was born in Berlin and who had wanted to spend the holidays together with his friend in the snow, but after a dispute is now starting the journey back home alone. Sina and Carl also fall back into their old habits and get into quarreling again.
The situation came to a head when a tree fell on the rails and blocked the train from continuing for hours. Annoyed but still patient, the passengers celebrate Christmas Eve together with coffee and music on the train. Felix and his classmate Jakob, on the other hand, decide not to sit around idly any longer and set off for the neighboring forest to get help. With Sina and Carl, the disappearance of the two goes unnoticed for the time being. After Min Wang went into labor, Sina assists her husband, who is a doctor, with the birth. When the train attendant Ulla points out to the couple that the children are missing, Sina and Carl follow the two into the snow-covered forest, where there is another confrontation, but they soon meet Felix and Jakob.
Back at the train, the Red Cross has meanwhile arrived and has taken care of Min Wang and the newborn. While guests the celebrations outside embarrassed to a snowball fight to deliver and flares to ignite, Sina and Carl lead to clear the air, where they reminisce and approach again. At the urging of Lisl and Franz, Fritz also decides to jump over his shadow and calls his friend to save the situation between them. A little later the train finally continues its journey to Munich , where Carl says goodbye to Sina and Felix. But they promise each other that Christmas Day will be celebrated together - contrary to what was planned.
production
The shooting of the film took place with interruptions between January 28th and April 8th, 2005 under the working title Schöne Bescherung in Salzburg , Munich and in Rohrdorf in the Rosenheim district and the surrounding area. The comedy was produced by Monaco Film in coproduction with Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) on behalf of ARD . Joachim Mendig appeared as a producer. The editors were Bettina Reitz, Bettina Ricklefs and Bernhard Natschläger.
The music for the film was composed by Fabian Römer . The Christmas carols that are recorded in the course of the film include Little Anthony and the Imperials' interpretation of " Winter Wonderland " and " Leise trickelt der Schnee ", " Oh Tannenbaum " and " Snowflake, White Skirt " by Max Raabe .
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from Tittelbach.tv described the production as “intelligent, lovingly made screwball comedy” and above all praised the film's “virtuoso visual design”. Cinematographer Johannes Geyer was “sometimes daring trips and amazing perspectives available”, the maneuvers of which were “quite impressive” in view of the limited set images. Gangloff also found words of praise for the cast. For Szyszkowitz and Noethen, the chamber play is "a found food", which they also "exploited extensively". It is "impressive how much director Gabriela Zerhau got out of the little plot".
Der Spiegel found that the plot of Christmas, of all times, had sprungfromthe “ fantasy land of TV movies”. The story “only lacked the shepherds and the angels. Unfortunately, what is really missing is the staging precision that only produces accurate comedy. So much remains in what is merely nicely meant ”. TV Today declared the film a “warm appeal to love” and summed up that the story was “a bit thin”, but the comedy was “thanks to the extremely lively, relaxed production and the fine photography”. Prisma found that Zerhau was staging an “accurate family comedy with a serious, but not too gloomy background”. The good cast ensemble ensures the best entertainment.
success
Ironically, Christmas celebrated its first broadcast on December 14, 2005 . With a market share of 13.4 percent and a total of 4.43 million viewers, the feature film behind the TV crime series Der Bulle von Tölz and the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar was the third most-watched prime-time production . The film has been broadcast annually since then. In 2007, ORF 2 tuned into prime time again with 378,000 viewers with a market share of 16 percent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for Christmas of all times . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 581 V).
- ^ Television activities of the Odeon group . Focus on film . Retrieved December 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Christmas, of all things . Crew United. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ^ Zoff with Aglaia Szyszkowitz and Ulrich Noethen in: "Schöne Bescherung" - shooting started on January 28, 2005 . Press portal. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff: Ironically Christmas - criticism . Tittelbach.tv . December 7, 2005. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ↑ Christmas of all things . The mirror . December 7, 2005. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ↑ Christmas of all things . TV Today . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ Christmas of all things . Prism . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ↑ Christmas films and "superstars" ahead of the TV ratings . Swabian newspaper . December 15, 2005. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ↑ Alexander Krei: ORF 1: Top odds for "Wetten, dass ..?" . Quota meter . December 9, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
Web links
- Ironically, Christmas in the Internet Movie Database (English)