Up to the elbow

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Movie
Original title Up to the elbow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Justus von Dohnányi
script Justus von Dohnányi
production Lars Büchel , Bernd T. Hoefflin
music Timo Blunck , Ralf Denker , Stefan Will
camera Matthias Schellenberg
cut Steven Wilhelm
occupation

Up to the Elbow is a comedy film from 2007 by director Justus von Dohnányi , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The main roles were played by Stefan Kurt and Jan Josef Liefers .

action

The action takes place during the 2006 World Cup .

Sven, who works for a private bank by profession, is on vacation in a lonely hut in Switzerland . The unemployed Willi is camping nearby at the same time. Achim, actually NLP coach and, after marrying into a rich family, junior boss in his father-in-law's shipping company , is currently out and about on his mountain bike in the area.

After Achim collides with Willi on his bike, the two reproach each other. When Sven arrives, he tries to mediate and invites the two fighters to his hut. Achim is recovering from his concussion there. On the last evening the three get drunk outside the hut. The former electrician and hobby hobbyist Willi builds a device with which he uses nails to conduct electricity through cucumbers and thus make them glow. Later that evening, Sven leans back and lies on his back on the grass. In the process, however, he falls into the nails of the still energized device and dies.

Since Willi is afraid of being punished for the accident, he begs Achim to help him make the body disappear. The two decide to take Sven to the Elbow on Sylt and hand him over to the waves there. Sven told the two of them the day before that his fiancée drowned there last year and that he would also like a burial at sea after his death .

Achim, however, secretly has a completely different plan: To get rid of his money problems at the company, he wants to rob the private bank where Sven worked. Since Sven talked about large amounts of black money in the bank, and about the fact that he is always the first to be alone in the bank and receives the keys to the bank from the boss every morning, the two first go to Willi, who lives near Stuttgart, and judge them Corpse.

Before leaving for Sylt, they drive to Achim's house in Hamburg, where Achim's wife Rebecca takes the car from him and throws him out of the house because his father-in-law has already discovered the company's money problems and his lies. On Sylt, they first go to Sven's apartment, but do not notice that he lives with his mother. Willi accidentally knocked her mother down with a rolling pin, who then passed out for a short time. The two of them put a bandage on her that also covers her eyes, and when she comes to, Achim pretends to be Sven and explains to her that she only had one accident.

Finally, the black money is stolen from the bank vault. Willi and Achim hand over Sven's body to the sea and take the money to South Africa , where the 2010 World Cup will take place. Sven's mother later sent them a fake photo in the name of her missing Sven, in which Sven and the two of them can be seen happily on the beach in Cape Town , and they enclose a large sum of cash from the loot with the explanation that Sven and his two new ones Business partners in South Africa has now made his fortune.

background

  • The production costs were estimated at around 650,000 euros.
  • The shooting took place from June 19, 2006 to July 13, 2006 in Hamburg , Winnenden , on Sylt and in the Swiss Alps.
  • The film premiered on June 24, 2007 at the Munich Film Festival . The cinema release in Germany was on November 1st, 2007. In the German cinemas 95,672 visitors were counted. The film was released on DVD on April 17, 2008.

Reviews

“ Over-the-top, giddy black comedy in the style of" Always Trouble with Harry ", with which actor Justus von Dohnanyi makes his feature film debut. He leaves most of the canvas to his colleagues Jan Josef Liefers and Stefan Kurt. The punch lines and lots of laughs are guaranteed with this irreverent fun. “- Kino.de

“ The novice director Justus von Dohnányi [..] managed to take beautiful snapshots of the German summer fairy tale. A fine, small film with excellent actors. “- Cinema

" In improvisation, slapstick and puns translated comedy whose black-humoriges concept works only partially, because the target" British humor "runs too often in the sand. “- Lexicon of International Films

“ In the times of Agenda 2010, Dohnányi builds his film primarily on social status and on qualities such as greed and belligerence. It is refreshing that not only the capitalist, but also the unemployed are real pests. “- Critic.de

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Up to the Elbow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 572 K).
  2. ↑ Kino.de: Filmkritik ( Memento from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  4. ↑ Up to the elbow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 29, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ http://www.critic.de/film/bis-zum-ellenbogen-1069/

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