The best is yet to come
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The best is yet to come |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Kaufmann |
| script |
Kathrin Richter , Jürgen Schlagenhof |
| production |
Andreas Richter , Annie Brunner , Ursula Woerner |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut |
Nicola Undritz , Hans Funck |
| occupation | |
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The best comes is a German feature film by director Rainer Kaufmann, produced for ZDF . The comedic family drama in an upper-class milieu with Sophie von Kessel and Friedrich von Thun in the leading roles was shown for the first time at the Munich Film Festival in 2008 and broadcast on television on May 25, 2009. It became the starting point for a series with the films In den beste Familien (2012) and Beste Bescherung (2013) as well as The best of all lives (2015).
action
To celebrate his 70th birthday, screw manufacturer and family patriarch Karl Maillinger invites his four adult children Anna, Vincent, Tom and Miriam to his remote hunting lodge in the Bavarian Alps for the weekend. There he announced, surprisingly, that one year after the death of his wife, he would marry the Moldovan maid Dina and continue to run the company. Children in their late twenties to late thirties have not yet found their place in life. In addition to her work in the company management, Anna is a housewife and mother and likes to take responsibility for others. However, she lets herself be dominated by her father, whose post she would like to take over as soon as possible. Cocaine addicted and rebelling against his father, Vincent has lost a lot of money on financial speculation and appears with his latest conquest, the attractive Susan. Tom, whose relationship with the mother of his son Malte has failed, is committed to humanitarian projects in Africa and annoys the others by moralizing. Miriam, the youngest, has to let her father accuse her of being financially dependent on him as an unsuccessful artist.
Various events escalate the usual family disputes. The grandchildren destroy Vincent's cocaine supply while playing, while the father suffers a fit of weakness while dancing. Anna sees her skins swim away as her father unexpectedly wants to take Vincent into the company's management. When she also catches her husband Johann, with whom the relationship is already divided, having intimacies with Miriam, she despairs and climbs down into the pools . Vincent pulls her out of the water and shows her solidarity with her father. When a tree smashes through the roof of the hut during a thunderstorm and Karl's attempts to organize the repairs with an authoritarian management style fail, the mood changes for good. The children decide to claim their inheritance in order to be able to stand on their own two feet and to be independent of the father, who has to sell the company in return. When they leave, there are signs that Anna and Johann will find each other again, Vincent wants to start drug therapy, Tom and Susan have become a couple. Karl Maillinger wants to invest in education in the future and takes care of Tom's spoiled son, who discovered his affection for his grandfather in the course of events.
background
The best comes about a year after Rainer Kaufmann's film Ein Flehendes Pferd was made based on a novel by Martin Walser ; Shortly after its cinema premiere, filming of the television film began. In addition to other members of the film staff , screenwriter Kathrin Richter was also involved in both productions. These are ensemble pieces in front of a landscape backdrop, which are limited over long distances to a plot of land and the surrounding nature as the main location. The main theme in both cases is the change in familiar life situations.
The title The best is only to come is the translation of Frank Sinatra's hit The Best Is Yet to Come , which is alluded to several times within the film plot.
Manufacturing
The shooting, carried out by the production company Roxy Film , took place from the end of September to the end of October 2007 in Munich and in the vicinity of Bayrischzell in the Bavarian Prealps . Most of the scenes are located south of Bayrischzell in the Kloo-Ascher-Tal (also called Kloaschautal), the vegetation of which was colorfully colored during the shoot. As Jagdhütte which served Winterstube approximately in the center of the valley at position ' "37.4 47 ° 37 N , 43.9 11 ° 58'" O . The lookout point with bench, where Karl and Vincent and Anna and Vincent speak, is at the end of the valley on the Kreuzbergalm , 1,300 m above sea level. NN, position 47 ° 36 '51.6 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 35.8 ″ E , directly on the German-Austrian border. The location of the locations in relation to one another is not shown realistically in the film. For example, those involved park their cars at a place in the back of the valley that is actually further away than the destination of the approach, the hunting lodge. The pools with about leading wooden bridge lying in the film on the way to the cabin are in reality located on the north edge of Bayrischzell at position 47 ° 40 '42.5 " N , 12 ° 0' 41.8" O . After bathing in the pools, Anna dries her clothes at the Kreuzbergalm hut, which is actually nine kilometers away and 500 meters higher.
The film contains several long shots in the range of just under one to two minutes. The complex arrival and greeting scene with twelve people and five cars at the assembly point in front of the footpath to the hunting lodge is followed uncut for two minutes as a plan sequence with the steadicam .
Explanations by the director and the authors
In an interview, director Rainer Kaufmann commented on his work: For him, the mixture of drama, humor and comedy is what makes the film so appealing. Anna's daughters, "who scurry through history like fabulous forest spirits in a midsummer night's dream," sees Kaufmann as an example of exaggeration and exaggeration as a means of narration. The "light-hearted, playful music" Gerd Baumann bring "vibrancy and lightness" in the story. Anna didn't want to kill herself in the pools; there is something purifying about immersion in water, just like the following thunderstorm. The tree that cuts through the roof of the hut is a symbol of life. The argument on the roof forces everyone to take a position on the one hand for themselves and on the other for or against the family. How far the changes in people and clarifications of relationships will ultimately succeed remains unclear. The film should "also stimulate people to think about how things could go on with the characters" .
The authors Kathrin Richter and Jürgen Schlagenhof write that change is the most difficult thing there is. They would have wanted to depict the network of relationships within a family and would have seen it as a challenge to tell the stories of eight people in parallel.
reception
Audience ratings
The broadcast on May 25, 2009 as TV film of the week in the ZDF evening program was followed by around 5.22 million viewers. The total market share was 18.9%, the show thus reached second place behind Wer wird Millionär? At 6.9%, the market share among young TV viewers was low. Among the over 50s, the show was in first place with market shares of 26.4% of the 50 to 64 year olds and 29.8% of the over 65 year old viewers. This confirms Rainer Kaufmann's preliminary assessment that the film is "more aimed at more mature people who see some of their own experiences reflected in this group process."
Reviews
For André Mielke von der Welt “Kathrin Richter, Jürgen Schlagenhof (book) and Rainer Kaufmann (director) have succeeded in creating a sympathetic film that treats its characters with mild irony and persists this fine, life-wise tone right through to the last shot. The unobtrusive style is supported by an exquisitely pictured Upper Bavarian autumn landscape, an idyll far away from any blue-and-white glory. ” From a good cast ensemble, alongside veteran Friedrich von Thun, Sophie von Kessel stands out because her figure's tragic father fixation is believable Art convey.
Christopher Keil writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “There are films that flow like long, calm rivers. You follow their courses, follow the many changes of direction to the sea, where each of the streams ends. That is their nature, it reflects their beauty. And Rainer Kaufmann directed such a beautiful and natural film. [...] What Kaufmann made of the already strong script is worthy of the award "
For the Teleschau media service, the best is only a “tragic-comic family piece full of truths, magical elements and an ensemble with charisma” .
According to Focus editor Carin Pawlak, “the book [...] serves us the most banal text food at this family celebration. And the otherwise very good director Rainer Kaufmann [...] is spoiling his good reputation with a home film in which only the dirndl [...] is missing. [...] What a joyless film. "
Andrea Kaiser from the Evangelical Press Service writes: “From many small events, director Rainer Kaufmann [...] puzzles together a large family collage. [...] Sometimes you imagine yourself as a spectator in Thomas Vinterberg's ' Fest ', sometimes in a family drama by Daniel Nocke and Stefan Krohmer , sometimes in a dreamy piece by Hartmut Schoen ('Carrot'), full of symbolic (natural) images . But amazingly, all these fragments and styles come together to form a new whole. To something of your own. "
Sequels
From May 3 to June 3, 2011, the filming of the follow-up film In the Best Families took place in Oberaudorf and Munich , which Roxy Film also produced for ZDF. In addition to the actors known from the first part, Mišel Matičević took on a leading role. The premiere was on July 5, 2012 at the Munich Film Festival, and the first TV broadcast as ZDF TV film of the week on December 3, 2012 reached 5.30 million viewers and a 15.9% market share.
A third film in the series was shot in January and February 2013 in Upper Bavaria and Munich and is about a Christmas party for the Maillinger family under the title Best Christmas presents .
Part 4, entitled The Best of All Lives , premiered on December 22, 2015.
Web links
- The best is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The best comes with Roxy Film
Individual evidence
- ↑ The best is coming (2007). In: Crew United. Retrieved May 30, 2009 .
- ↑ Gitta Deutz in an interview with Rainer Kaufmann: A mixture of drama, humor and comedy. (No longer available online.) In: ZDF.de. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009 ; Retrieved June 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kathrin Richter and Jürgen Schlagenhof: Change is the most difficult thing there is. (No longer available online.) In: ZDF.de. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009 ; Retrieved June 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Primetime check: Monday, May 25, 2009. In : quotemeter.de. Retrieved May 26, 2009 .
- ↑ Monday in the MEEDIA quota analysis. (No longer available online.) In: Meedia.de. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009 ; Retrieved May 26, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The best is yet to come. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. Retrieved May 29, 2009 .
- ↑ The arrogance of the patriarch. In: The world. Retrieved May 25, 2009 .
- ↑ Trained feeling. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved May 25, 2009 .
- ↑ A Midsummer Night's Dream from a family drama. In: Nordsee-Zeitung. Teleschau der Mediendienst, accessed on May 25, 2009 .
- ^ Carin Pawlak: Oral sex and verbal SM. In: Focus. May 26, 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Andrea Kaiser: Family collage. (No longer available online.) In: epd.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 17, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ In the best families. Roxy Film, accessed June 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for ZDF TV film of the week "The best comes first II" , accessed on May 7, 2011
- ↑ In the best families. Filmportal.de , accessed on August 29, 2013 .
- ↑ In the best families. tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 29, 2013 .
- ↑ The best does not come until 3 - An evening like any other ... Crew united , accessed on August 29, 2013 .
