Contact high

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Movie
Original title Contact high
Country of production Austria , Germany , Luxembourg , Poland
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Glawogger
script Michael Ostrowski ,
Michael Glawogger
production Erich Lackner
camera Wolfgang Thaler
cut Christoph Brunner
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
nudibranchs

Successor  →
Hotel Rock'n'Roll

Contact High is a 2009 Austrian comedy directed by Michael Glawogger . It is a sequel to the film Nudibranchs . Glawogger wrote the script together with the main actor Michael Ostrowski .

action

The Spanish gang boss Carlos forgot a bag in Poland . He hires the car dealer Harry to bring them to Vienna; this passes the order on to the crook Schorsch. Schorsch is not very enthusiastic about the idea; firstly because his driver's license has been taken away and secondly because he would rather watch the television broadcast of the Le Mans 24-hour race . Therefore he transfers the mission to his friend Mao. But since Mao has her niece to supervise over the weekend, she again passes the job on to the hapless sausage stand operators "Max Durst" and "Hans Wurst".

Max and Hans want to hitchhike to Łódź in order to save their travel budget . When this fails, they finally take the train. This is the beginning of a series of unforeseen events.

When Harry notices that Schorsch did not go to Poland himself, he forces him to follow Max and Hans. However, he just wants to watch them conveniently as they bring Carlos' bag safely home.

When they arrive in Łódź, the two of them have other worries than their bags. When they pass a Polish butcher , Hans decides to buy Polish sausages first. Then it goes by tram to the said hotel and they will go when traveling without getting caught. Finally they pick up the bag from the agreed location, a hotel. Hans and Max spontaneously decide to take a room and go out in Łódź in the evening. When they leave the hotel, they eat two rolls they have brought with them. These were prepared by Mao's niece and apparently topped with magic mushrooms , as they have a hallucinogenic effect. Max gets ecstasy before the disco and the mushrooms start to work as the evening progresses. Both have an extreme trip on which most of the people around them perceive them as having dogs' heads. Since Hans assumes that he has not taken drugs, but is still high, Max explains it to him with the phenomenon “contact high” (→ see film title). In the disco they meet Gretchen, one of the few guests without a dog's head. Max begins to flirt with her, but is soon involuntarily led back to the hotel by Hans, where the intoxication of the two of them persists beyond the next morning. You drive to the station and get on the wrong train that takes you to Drogomyśl in the Polish province instead of back to Vienna.

Max meets Gretchen again at the train station and eats hash cookies with her , which bring both of them back on a trip. Then it comes to a showdown on a farm, where Harry and Schorsch went in search of the bag as well as Max and Hans. At the end, Polish police “pigs” can be seen who have also fallen into a state of intoxication after consuming joints that they found in the wreck of Schorsch's Ford Mustang .

background

"Contact high" is an expression from the drug scene, in which the transfer of the intoxicated state from a drugged person to a sober one is so called.

The characters from Contact High are identical to those in the Glawogger film Nudibranchs . After “Sex” and “Drugs” there was still missing “Rock 'n' Roll”. The last part of the trilogy was released in August 2016 under the title Hotel Rock'n'Roll and still bears the signature of the director Michael Glawogger, who died in April 2014.

criticism

Christoph Petersen writes on filmstarts.de: “When Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep meet in Vienna to smoke weed in Krakow, Contact High comes out of it. Michael Glawogger's psychedelic gangster comedy is just as self-referential as it is wacky, tosses around with lively quotes and awesome pieces of music and just puts you in a lot of pink mood. "

Lukas Foerster from critic.de says: “… his [Glawoggers] film remains primarily a drug comedy - one that is unfortunately not as hilariously funny over the entire length as in the scenes with Georg Friedrich as Schorschi, and one that is the one a little more distancing from the adolescent view of their main actors on the female gender would have been good. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Contact High . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 280 K).
  2. ^ "Contact High": Glawogger's surreal orgy of confusion celebrated its premiere. Kleine Zeitung , March 21, 2009, archived from the original on June 7, 2009 .;
  3. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/s/steiermark/muerztal/peak_muerztal/4823631/Hotel-RocknRoll_Ostrowski-logiert-im-
  4. ^ Christoph Petersen: Contact High. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved February 9, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Lukas Foerster: Contact High. In: critic.de. Retrieved November 11, 2014 .