Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Movie
German title Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Original title The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Country of production UK
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length approx. 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director John Madden
script Ol Parker
production Graham Broadbent ,
Peter Czernin
music Thomas Newman
camera Ben Davis
cut Chris Gill
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (original title: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ) is a British comedy from 2011 , which was released in German cinemas on March 15, 2012. It is based on the 2004 novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach .

action

A group of British seniors travels to India for a variety of reasons and ends up at the “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” in Jaipur . You are the only guests of the completely shabby hotel. In the plot of the film, the fates of the individual hotel guests are interwoven.

Jean, who is in an unhappy marriage to Douglas, signals to Graham that she is interested in him. Norman and Madge look for new acquaintances at a club for the rich and each fake identities as members of the British royal family. After Graham's death, some of the hotel residents travel to his cremation according to the Hindu rite. Jean learns from her daughter that her financial situation has improved considerably and that they can travel back to England. Jean surprises her husband Douglas and Evelyn in a familiar conversation and creates a scene for Douglas.

Meanwhile, Sonny's mother has appraisers come to the hotel to estimate it for a sale. Muriel tampered with the office computer and discovered that the hotel's economic situation wasn't that bad, it just had to be managed better.

Sonny's mother forbids him to marry Sunaina, but has to be reminded by an old employee that her deceased husband, Sonny's father, once married her against resistance from his family. Finally she agrees to the wedding. Muriel, for her part, manages to avert the intended sale of the hotel.

Douglas and Jean prepare to leave for England. Douglas wants to say goodbye to Evelyn under a pretext, but Evelyn is hiding. On the way to the airport, Douglas and Jean get caught in a traffic jam. The only way to get to the plane is by rickshaw. However, the driver can only take two people without luggage or one person with luggage. Jean tells Douglas she is traveling alone with luggage. That was a sign of fate that they should part; everyone deserves better. She says goodbye to Douglas and has her taken to the airport. Douglas returns to the hotel in a roundabout way.

In the final scene, Muriel, who can walk and stand again, works at the hotel reception and welcomes new guests. The hotel makes a renovated impression.

people

Evelyn Greenslade recently lost her husband who left her with a mountain of debt. She therefore had to sell her apartment and her savings have been used up. That is why she dares to start over in India and looks for a job there. She finds him in a call center, whose employees she is supposed to train in how to conduct calls. The owner is Sunaina's brother, and Sunaina also works there.

Muriel Donnelly was the housekeeper and also responsible for finances. Now she is in a wheelchair and has to be operated on on her hip. Although she has great prejudices against foreigners, she finally flies to India for immediate surgery, as the waiting time for a hip operation in England would be six months. When she arrived in Jaipur, she was operated on after just a few days.

Douglas and Jean Ainslie have been married for 39 years. Douglas has invested almost all of her savings in his daughter's company. But the company is not doing very well. In order to enjoy a supposedly higher standard of living for less money, the couple flies to India together.

Graham Dashwood is a distinguished high court judge and lived in India for the first 18 years of his life. On the occasion of his retirement, he decides to fly to India to relive the experiences of his youth there. He comes out to fellow travelers as homosexual and looks for his childhood sweetheart, whom he finally finds in the company of Evelyn and Douglas. After returning to the hotel, Dashwood dies of a heart attack.

Norman Cousins is looking for a wife. Since he wasn't particularly successful in England, he decided to take a flight to India to look around.

Madge Hardcastle has been married several times but has never been lucky in the marriage. She too would like to make a fresh start in India and find a suitable husband.

Sonny Kapoor is the manager of the "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". He is in financial difficulties, so the hotel is threatened with closure. He also has family problems because his mother disagrees with his girlfriend Sunaina.

Actors, roles and voice actors

actor role Voice actor
Judi Dench Evelyn Greenslade Gisela Fritsch
Maggie Smith Muriel Donelly Barbara Adolph
Bill Nighy Douglas Ainslie Frank Glaubrecht
Penelope Wilton Jean Ainslie Karin Buchholz
Tom Wilkinson Graham Dashwood Eberhard Haar
Ronald pickup Norman cousins Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Celia Imrie Madge Hardcastle Monica Bielenstein
Dev Patel Sonny Kapoor Imtiaz Haque
Diana Hardcastle Carol Almut Eggert
Tena Desae Sunaina Sanam Afrashteh

Reviews

Melanie Lauer wrote in the review of filmstarts.de that with this film “young and old alike can lean back - and learn a lot about the trials and tribulations of life and, last but not least, about unexpected opportunities with one laughing and one crying eye”.

In the stern.de review of March 15, 2012, Johannes von der Gathen praised the actors of the film as “a brilliant ensemble of top-class Anglo-Saxon character actors from Judi Dench to Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy to Maggie Smith who made this trip to Jaipur, India make it a real pleasure. "

Tim Lindemann, on the other hand, writes on schnitt.de : "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is pervaded by such a clumsy neo-colonial ideology that you alternate between sinking into the cinema seat in shame or shaking your head in disbelief."

Awards

Even before its German theatrical release, the film was given the title of Particularly Valuable by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Office .

At the ceremony of the European Film Awards in 2012 was The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel nominated for the Audience Award.

continuation

A sequel was realized in 2015, the cinema release in Germany was on April 2, 2015. The German title is Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2 , in the original it is entitled The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Best Exotic Marigold Hotel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 712 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Best Exotic Marigold Hotel . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review by Melanie Lauer filmstarts.de, accessed on March 19, 2012
  4. ↑ www.stern.de, accessed on March 19, 2012
  5. ^ Critique by Tim Lindemann "Kolonialrenter" www.schnitt.de, accessed on September 2, 2012
  6. ↑ fbw-filmbeval.com: Predicate: Particularly valuable , accessed on March 19, 2012
  7. ↑ shortnews.de: [1] , accessed on January 20, 2014
  8. ↑ filmstarts.de: [2] , accessed on February 6, 2014