Chutzpah - Humans need Klops!

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Movie
Original title Chutzpah - Humans need Klops!
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Isabel Kleefeld
script Andrea Stoll
production Thomas Hroch ,
Gerald Podgornig ,
Gudula von Eysmondt
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Renata Salazar Ivancan
occupation

Chutzpah - Humans need Klops! is a German - Austrian television - tragicomedy with Dieter Hallervorden , Anja Kling and Franziska Troegner from the year 2015 . It was directed by Isabel Kleefeld , which already at other television films served as director. The German-language TV premiere was on September 5, 2015 on Das Erste .

action

Edek Rotwachs, 80, is a Holocaust survivor who once left Germany to live in Australia . He has been a widower for five years and his friends are no longer alive. His daughter Ruth persuades him to come back to Germany and live with her in Berlin with her husband Georg and son Zachy . Soon he'll piss her off, because he doesn't feel like sitting quietly in the corner and waiting for death. He wanders lost through the city, while in his mind he hears the clatter of boots and the laughter of children from before.

First he turns Ruth's office upside down. With the help of Zachy, he finds his Polish holiday love Zofia via the Internet and moves in with her and her friend Valentina. Then he wants to open a meatball restaurant with both of them, albeit jwd , as the Berliner says. His daughter does not think this plan is promising, especially since she is skeptical of Zofia from the start. But she is wrong. The restaurant soon became very popular and known for its hearty housewife food.

When Edek suffers a heart attack due to the stress, which increases when a television team wants to report on his restaurant, Ruth accompanies him in the ambulance out of fear for his life and makes up with him again. At the hospital, she learns that he has survived the heart attack. Finally, Edek, Ruth, Georg, Zachy, Zofia and Valentina meet for a reconciliation dinner, at which Edek and Zofia announce that they want to get married. The film ends with a dance for all those present.

background

  • The word " chutzpah " denotes an impudence, audacity and impudence.
  • The template is the novel You Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett , German: Chuzpe , from English by Melanie Walz, there is a stage version as a comedy of the same name .
  • The film was part of the theme evening about Dieter Hallervorden on Saturday, September 5th, 2015. The occasion for broadcasting was Hallervorden's eightieth birthday.
  • The production company is Universum Film .
  • The film has been available on DVD since December 19, 2015 , but has not yet been released on Blu-ray .

Reviews

“'Chutzpah' is a gentle, melancholy comedy. […] 'Chutzpah' is excellently thought out, wonderfully implemented, well cast in the supporting roles and played well. Above all, Anja Kling, as a pessimistic alternative to the life-affirming Edek, is an excellent addition, especially since she does not create her character in a comedic manner; The story only becomes funny when it is confronted with the circumstances. Ruth's indignant looks alone are great in view of the exuberant heart and femininity of Zofia, who turns out not only to be Edek's business partner. In addition, those responsible should be given credit for the fact that the Holocaust issue is by no means hidden. It is precisely the contrast between Edek, who would have every reason to only see half-empty glasses everywhere, and his daughter, who always sees black (and is appropriately dressed), that makes this likeable comedy so appealing. "

- tpg

“Unfortunately, the film whitewashes almost all dialogues with intrusive clarinet music - apparently no film with a Jewish theme can do without it. However, there are also some romantic pieces of music. Overall, the film could have used a lot more speed and a little less dialect.

The actors, however, act with great enthusiasm, especially Franziska Troegner as the buxom Klopskochen. The role for Anja Kling turned out to be a little ungrateful because she had to roll her eyes a lot and be indignant: 'I can't believe it.' [...]

Joachim Bliese (Hamburg) and Otto Schenk (Vienna) have already played the role of Edek Rotwachs on the theater stages. In an interview with the dpa news agency in Hamburg, Dieter Hallervorden talks about his character: 'This role was an enormous challenge. If someone over the age of 80 decides to break all bridges and start a new life precisely where they have been played so badly - then it has to be a person who is really ready to completely change the life they have led so far. This figure is like a volcano of emotional worlds, and the role is a fine line between smiling and being deeply touched. Edek takes his life into both hands again according to the motto: As long as you remain a child, you won't really get old. '"

- dpa

“There are clichés here: The emigrant from far-off Melbourne speaks fluent German, but has to" yiddl "or roll the" R "irregularly. And of course Edek also has a hard time with the German sentence structure. If Hallervorden is allowed to be quick-witted, the Berliner Schnauze comes through pretty much without an accent.

[…] Chutzpah - Unfortunately, humans need pounding and the viewer is constantly under-challenged. [...]

In the template, the 87-year-old Edek comes from Australia to New York. Moving the action to Germany creates unnecessary dramatic holes. So you never understand since when the daughter, who appears super German, has actually been living in Berlin and why the relationship with her father is so close. But his father stubbornly refused to set foot on German soil again and, with the exception of a few trips to Marseille, always stayed in distant Australia.

According to the motto »We speak German«, the role of Zofia is also occupied by Franziska Troegner. She plays quite convincingly, but despite the accent she never looks like a Polish woman. It's annoying how much German television lags behind international trends. As a metropolis, Berlin is also becoming more and more multicultural in terms of language, but television continues to shy away from the multilingualism of this city. Anyone who remains so culturally one-dimensional and plays it safe with the actors doesn't risk anything else. Here, "good television entertainment" is constructed on the drawing board. "

- Jörg Taszman

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for chutzpah - people need kops! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, August 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 713 V).
  2. ↑ tpg: Chutzpah - Humans need Klops! Film (2015) Criticism KINO.de. kino.de, accessed on January 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ dpa: Media: Chutzpah - People need Klops - FOCUS Online. focus.de, September 5, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jörg Taszman: TV: Friede, Freude, Fleischklops. Jüdische Allgemeine , September 3, 2015, accessed January 4, 2017 .