Best chance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Best chance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| script |
Karin Michalke , Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Stefan Biebl |
| cut | Georg Soering |
| occupation | |
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Beste Chance is a German feature film by Marcus H. Rosenmüller from 2014. After Beste Zeit (2007) and Beste Umgebung (2008), this is the third part of a coming-of-age trilogy about growing up in the Upper Bavarian province. The main roles are played by Anna Maria Sturm and Rosalie Thomass . The film, co-produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk , H & V Entertainment GmbH and Favorite Film GmbH , was released in German cinemas on June 26, 2014 after the rough cut version was shown on May 6, 2014 at the Augsburg Film Festival. The film reached around 116,000 viewers in the cinema.
action
The friends Kati and Jo haven't seen each other since graduating from high school five years ago. Kati is in the stress of finishing her architectural studies when she hears unsettling messages from Jo in India on the answering machine. But none of the old friends from the Bavarian hometown of Tandern want to accompany them: Mike works as a doctor, Rocky has a son and is getting married soon, Toni also has a girlfriend and is angry that Jo has not contacted him for years. That's why Kati travels to India alone, head over heels. In the ashram , which is considered to be Jo's last known whereabouts, she shows her picture around, but nobody recognizes the girl. She got into conversation with Ruben from Switzerland and decided to travel on with him to a “yoga retreat” to look for Jo.
In Tandern, Kati's mother hears on the radio about a bomb attack in India that may have killed European tourists. Worried, the fathers of Kati and Jo, Hubert and Walter, also set out for India to look for their daughters. In the ashram, however, they just miss Kati's departure.
Kati and Ruben get closer on the way, but Kati's backpack is stolen at a train station. As she pursues the thief, he falls and injures himself - it is a young girl who arouses Kati's pity. Ruben doesn't want to miss the train and drives off, but Kati takes the girl to the hospital and then to her family, who live in the area where she wanted to go with Ruben anyway.
Meanwhile, Jo unexpectedly turns up at home in Tandern and confesses to her mother that she is pregnant. Mike notices this when he treats her after a faint attack, and Rocky realizes it too, but Toni breaks up with his girlfriend because of his re-awakening feelings for Jo and is deeply hurt when he finds out about it.
Kati brings the Indian girl home - to a slum, where the father reacts angrily and with blows when his daughter, who was probably sent to beg or steal, returns empty-handed. Kati intervenes and is also attacked, can escape with the girl, but loses her backpack.
Hubert and Walter also lose their luggage when they leave their train during a stop on the open road and miss the onward journey. They are then attacked and robbed of their clothes. The two Upper Bavarians wander through India in underpants and socks until they are picked up by friendly locals.
Kati, still with the Indian girl in tow, meets Ruben again in a café at the original destination. When he gets something to eat, his cell phone rings. Kati reads astonished on the display: "Jo calling" and answers. She learns from Jo that she is pregnant from Ruben, who had lied to Kati. She confronts him about it, and during the argument the Indian girl suddenly runs away with Rubens' wallet - Kati cheers her on and then goes to a penniless police station. Coincidence would have it that Hubert and Walter were also stranded there. After the happy reunion, the trio returns to Delhi .
Rocky's wedding is in Tandern. Chaos breaks out when his girlfriend has doubts at the last moment, but he manages to clear them up. Jo and Toni also hug.
In India, however, Kati decided to stay in order to find herself. As she watches the believers bathing on the banks of a holy river, someone suddenly sits down next to her - it's Mike. The two smile at each other without a word.
background
The film was shot from November 24, 2013 to January 27, 2014, first in India and then in Bavaria.
criticism
"What you do and how you live depends, if you are lucky, more with friends than with big plans, and the chance to be reminded in the cinema is the best a film can offer."
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Best chance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the best chance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 512 K).
- ↑ Best chance. In: Filmtage Augsburg 2014. Filmbüro Augsburg e. V., May 2014, archived from the original on August 1, 2014 ; accessed on August 10, 2018 : "He's showing his new film" Beste Chance "in rough cut."
- ↑ Annual list (German) 2014. (PDF) In: Filmhitlisten. Film Funding Agency , accessed on August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Best chance with crew united
- ^ Benjamin Emonts: Best chance. Tandem, Delhi and back. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 24, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Doris Kuhn: Strange and familiar. In: Culture. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 26, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2018 : "It is Kati and Jo's third adventure - and the fact that time becomes visible alone gives the film an unbeatable charm."