Bollywood makes the Alps glow
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Bollywood makes the Alps glow |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Holger Haase |
| script | Marc Terjung |
| production |
Markus Brunnemann , Tina Ermuth, Jochen Ketschau, Wolfgang Rest, Caroline von der Tann |
| music | Christian Kolonovits |
| camera | Uwe Schäfer |
| cut | Marco Baumhof |
| occupation | |
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Bollywood makes the Alps glow (alternative title: Mach's again in Indian ) is an Austrian - German love comedy from 2011. Directed by Holger Haase . Most of the film was shot in Upper Styria , in Pürgg , St. Martin am Grimming, Irdning , Bad Mitterndorf and Tauplitz and the original name was ... and Bollywood came to the mountains .
The film was shown on February 4, 2011 on ORF Prime Time and on February 8, 2011 on Sat.1 Prime Time.
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The producer Franziska works in film in Vienna and has to find the right location for a Bollywood film team. She inevitably suggests St. Maria, her home village, about which she actually didn't want to know anything more. But as easy as it was to inspire the film team with the idea, the more difficult it would be for Franzi to convince the residents of St. Maria.
When she arrived in St. Maria, the mood between her and her sad father, the mayor, or her sister Vroni has clearly cooled down. She tries to convince her father to do the filming, promises good economic effects and manages to get people on her side.
The shooting begins and soon a group of traditional costumes is asked. Shortly before the performance, it turns out that the "head" of the traditional costume group, Bruno, does not want to participate and the others only dance when Bruno is also there. Bruno and Franzi were once the dream couple in the village, but Franzi left St. Maria and left Bruno with a broken heart. She doesn't manage to persuade him to dance, but Bruno's funny Dutch friend helps her and finally nothing stands in the way of the Schuhplattler. The villagers are also slowly getting used to the Indians.
Only Franzi's sister Vroni seems to be a thorn in the side and tries to disrupt the shooting. Nevertheless, the mood in the village is getting happier and finally the brass band that has not played together for years comes together again. Bruno dances with his Dutch woman, Franzi with the Indian TV star and her father with the Indian woman. It seems that both Franzi and Bruno have a stab when they see each other dancing with other partners, yet they take advantage of the situation and snuggle up to their dance partners to make the other jealous. Amit, the Indian television star, accompanies Franzi home. He is delighted with the small town and imagines life here to be beautiful. Franzi thinks it would be the same for a child, but as soon as you have other - bigger - plans for your life, besides going to church, getting married and having children, it wouldn't be anymore - she hates this village. Amit means that you cannot choose your home country, and only when you realize that you have it in your heart can you become happy. Franzi remembers how she left St. Maria and Bruno when she was 18 years old.
The next day, Franzi Amit has to show the romantic silence in the mountains where the love scene is to be filmed. Amit is enthusiastic about the idyllic surroundings and falls into a Bollywood euphoria in which he empathizes with his film, declares that he, the secret agent, will find his love here and that Franzi is ensnared and stands in front of her with closed eyes and protruding lips what Bruno happened to observe from afar. Franzi does not react to Amit's apparent attempt to kiss.
When people in the tavern talk about the fact that the Indians are driving up sales and that it would be great if Franzi and Amit could do something, it becomes too colorful for Bruno. When the next scene with the Schuhplattler is about to be filmed, he begins a tangible argument with Amit, which ends in a fight between the Indians and the Styrians. When the villagers learned that Franzi only chose the village as a stopgap solution and that it was not primarily about giving something back to her hometown, the residents are disappointed with her. Her father comes to her and they talk. They talk about the fight and Franzi describes Bruno as a " primitive ", but her father replies that he just loves her, and he asks about her every day.
When Franzi is on the way to see Bruno, she meets the angry Dutch woman who leaves with her suitcase and explains to her that Bruno is "ouf de Berch" and that she doesn't understand what people always want "ouf de Berch". Franzi finds Bruno on a bench, sits down next to him and they start to talk. She says that her father told her that Bruno always asks about her and the two of them kiss. Franzi's father also kisses his Indian woman that evening - he's invited to dinner with her and stays all night.
When Franzi's sister Vroni can no longer buy rolls, but only flatbread in the bakery, it becomes too colorful for her and she steals two sticks of dynamite from Bruno's shed. Bruno and Franzi wake up in the morning and notice the open shed door. They find out that Vroni is responsible and suspect bad things.
The Indians who want to shoot the love scene in the mountains that day are already at the location and Franzi and Bruno are sure that Vroni wants to get rid of them. Unfortunately, they are already too late, so that the only way to intervene is via the steep edelweiss wall. In the middle of the edelweiss wall, Bruno asks Franzi if she would like to become his wife - Franzi slips off briefly and finally says whether they would like to talk about it later. They arrive in time and Franzi decides that she will talk to Vroni. Vroni is visibly excited, says she just wanted to scare the Indians. After Franzi admits her lies, the two make up. Weeping, Vroni falls into her sister's arms, suddenly they hear a ticking - the ignited dynamite. You can't throw it away in time and it will explode. Franzi finds Bruno lying on the ground, pushed backwards down a small rock by the pressure wave and is desperate. But he too is in good condition, says he learned from the film people that effects are important and asks Franzi again if she would like to marry him. She says yes, on condition that she lives in town during the week.
The film ends with Franzi's superior coming to St. Maria from Vienna and once again a dance scene with Indian music and the traditional costume group is to be shot as a background. However, they refuse - they would only dance to local music. Franzi's supervisor says that she must have her people under control and that one cannot cooperate with them. Franzi says that you can very well, you just have to get involved with her. A remix consisting of parts of folk music and parts of Indian music begins - a complete success, which is also the final scene of the film.
Reviews
“However, the film owes almost everything positive to main actress Alexandra Neldel and her largely excellently worked out role. Neldel carries the film almost alone. Every look from her is well thought out, every movement is perfect. When she cries, it affects you. Especially in the second act, Neldel's character says a great deal of truth about the themes of home and country life and stages the narrowness that constricts her character extremely aptly ("The air here is great. But you can't breathe."). But in the last third of the film, kitsch, triviality and nonsense unfortunately win, even if the plot and the staging are surprisingly good by then. You can see from the elaborate production that not all corners and ends have been saved here. Especially not in the cast, which is almost completely convincing. "
“You have to come up with an idea like this first: to pack Bollywood, homeland and mountain films, comedy and romance into a single film. But the most remarkable thing is that the whole thing still works. “Bollywood makes the Alps glow” is great fun. However, as a viewer you have to have a few requirements: a weakness for kitsch and slapstick, for party and pop culture, for traditional costumes and trash, for Schuhplattler and Schwarzenegger's homeland. This Sat 1 comedy is a film that you can safely forget about thinking. Just get into the Ösi-Indi clichés - and don't seriously expect a culture clash comedy! The “moral” of history revolves around reconciliation with the family, with the place where one grew up. Love describes the peak of this self-discovery. And the Bollywood magic is nothing more than a background slide. "
“Right at the top of the arguments for the film is - how can it be otherwise - Alexandra Neldel. Such a film needs a 100% sympathetic figure, a fresh, handsome maiden who not only turns the heads of the male images. Whether in crisp seperate trousers, in a lumberjack shirt or with a rose hairstyle - she keeps the action chaos together. Just as convincing on her beautiful side: Andreas Kiendl, a kind of Belmondo of the mountains, and Wolfram Berger, one of the great Austrian characters, who conjures up lasting melodrama moments with one or two strong scenes. But his confession, which Pastor Michael Kessler takes from him from Scheißhäusel to Scheißhäusel: it has something too! "
"Entertaining culture-clash comedy in which Indian (dance) culture meets alpine traditions."
Web links
- Bollywood leaves Alps glow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bollywood makes the Alps glow on the UFA website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Critics: Bollywood makes the Alps glow
- ↑ Bollywood makes the Alps glow tittelbach.tv
- ↑ Bollywood makes the Alps glow tv.orf.at