Cappuccino melange

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Movie
Original title Cappuccino melange
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1992
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Paul Harather
script Paul Harather
production Dor movie
occupation

Cappuccino Melange is an Austrian television film from 1992.

To production

The road movie is the first feature film by director Paul Harather . Actually, he wanted to turn the script into his thesis at the Vienna Film Academy with a correspondingly small budget. But then the budding director was able to find a production company in Dor Film to help him find financing. In the end, he made the film as a ten million schilling co-production by the TV stations ORF , ZDF and arte and was able to engage familiar faces for his roles. Cappuccino Melange was the first major film appearance by both Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer .

Although the film is still in the shadows in public perception today, it can be seen as one of the prototypes for the later successful tragicomic "cabaret films" such as India or Free Play . The film premiered on December 26, 1992.

The film was shot in Rettenegg in Styria and in Vienna . It should be emphasized that the film does not require many words. Only a few sentences of German are spoken, rather the protagonists Josef Hader and Enrica Maria Modugno talk mostly in broken English or with hands and feet.

action

The silent Styrian young farmer Manfred (Josef Hader) is cheated for 80,000 schillings by the seedy car salesman Toni (Alfred Dorfer). To get the money back, Manfred gets into his tractor and takes it to Vienna. On the way he takes the Italian hitchhiker Gina ( Enrica Maria Modugno ) with him, who was thrown onto the street by her partner after an argument.

The experiences on his first visit to Vienna are confusing for the farmer Manfred, he feels lost and cannot find his way around. By chance he meets Gina again, the two get closer and spend a night together. Then both go their own way.

The name Cappuccino Melange is derived from a movie scene in which Manfred and Gina want to order drinks in a Viennese coffee house. When the waiter tries to take the order, both protagonists do not understand him. Gina because she doesn't speak German and Manfred because he can't imagine that there are different types of coffee. After the waiter lists a few coffee products, Gina pricks up the word “cappuccino” and repeats it. Manfred, on the other hand, is at a loss and says he would like a “milk coffee”, whereupon the waiter leaves with the annoyed words “Cappuccino, Melange”.

Awards

The film received three awards at the 33rd Monte Carlo Film Festival in 1993: the audience award, the special award for humor and the silver nymph for Enrica Maria Modugno for best actress. In 1993, Josef Hader also received the special award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for Cappuccino Melange .

Reviews

The film was barely noticed by the Austrian newspapers. Only the daily newspaper Kurier reported broadly about it, including in a report about the shooting. The film received significantly more press coverage in German newspapers than in Austria.

  • “ Harather has put his story into a poetic frame of childhood memories and images of the Styrian landscape (...) which also hides some very unconventional ideas behind its wit and feeling. “- Courier of December 25, 1992, page 18
  • “ Paul Harather tells (...) a little crazy story with many comical situations and some action, in order to break up two 'cliché' figures in fine details, with beautiful humorous sensitivity, to strip off their stunted and bent parts. “ Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 24, 1993
  • "The exposition of the topic does not want to end." Neue Zürcher Zeitung of October 1, 1993

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