The pig - a German career

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Movie
Original title The pig - a German career
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1995
length 3 × 90 minutes
Rod
Director Ilse Hofmann
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Mario Melzer , Thomas Teubner , Karl Heinz Willschrei
music Andreas Koebner
camera Daniel Koppelkamm
cut Hans-Otto Kruger
occupation

The Pig - A German Career is a three-part television film about the rise of Berlin-based Stefan Stolze (played by Götz George ), who makes a career with ruthless methods. The episodes were first broadcast on Sat.1 on March 19, 1995 .

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Part 1

The action begins in post-war Germany. Stefan Stolze (Daniel Weiss) grows up with his mother Monica, a stage actress ( Rosemarie Fendel ). He is an illegitimate child. According to his mother, his father died in the war. Stefan is a mediocre student who uses tricks early on to gain advantages.

Stefan raves about the girl Krista, who makes fun of him with her friends. In order to get revenge, Stefan damages Krista's bike, whereupon the girl falls and injures herself. His best friend is Lutz, who is at war with his German teacher, Mr. Winzer, and fears that he will remain seated because of him. Stefan promises him that Winzer will disappear. In class, Stefan provokes the teacher by chewing gum smacking his lips during a class test and refuses to take the gum out of his mouth. With his lips he silently forms the word "asshole". Mr Winzer loses his temper and slaps Stefan, who then runs out of class with a nosebleed. In the toilet, he realizes that the injury is too harmless to have any consequences for the teacher and hits his head against the tiled wall. When his mother sees Stefan's bruised face, she hires a lawyer. Mr. Winzer is transferred to another school.

A little later, Stefan himself flies from school because he stole from his classmates in the gym's locker room. His mother is horrified and asks: "What will become of you, boy?"

Following this question, there is a leap in time of around 20 years. Proud has now grown up and is a pimp, and he ends up in jail for other criminal activities. However, thanks to a confession, he is soon released.

In prison he met Robert Korda ( Michael Mendl ), who in a rage - mostly out of jealousy - committed several physical injuries. Robert worries about his wife Eva ( Edda Leesch ), who is overwhelmed with the management of his real estate company, and asks Stefan to take care of Eva after his release. Stefan uses the opportunity and causes the naive Eva to transfer the company to him. In addition, Eva and Stefan start a relationship.

Meanwhile, Stefan has met his old friend Lutz ( Felix von Manteuffel ) again. The two stay in contact. Lutz helps Stefan with the illegal takeover of the Korda company without realizing that Stefan is betraying his friend Robert.

The company flourishes under Stefan's management, but one day the betrayed Robert, meanwhile dismissed, stands at the door. He attacks Stefan, but remembers at the last moment that he would have to go back to jail immediately if he were injured again.

One day Alice van Lueck ( Andrea Sawatzki ) shows up at the company. She is the only daughter and therefore heir to the electrical company operator Theodor van Lueck. Stefan woos the inconspicuous woman who eventually falls in love with him. When she introduces Stefan to her father, he reacts coolly and negatively.

Part 1 ends with Stefan's and Alice's wedding. Robert Korda appears again at the wedding, who by now knows that Stefan slept with his wife. He attacks Stefan and is thrown out after he loudly announced that he knew Stefan from prison. At the wedding, Stefan also meets Alice's supposedly best friend Gabi, who makes fun of the uptight Alice: “It was an unequal friendship. Alice dreamed of my husbands and I took hers away from her - if there was one. " Stefan replies: " You shouldn't give up good old habits " . Stefan and Gabi leave the company unnoticed and go to bed together. In the end, Stefan and Alice go on their honeymoon.

Part 2

At the beginning of the second part, Stefan and Alice celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. Alice is now disillusioned with Stefan, but is still attached to him - in the restaurant she says: “For ten years. You weren't loyal to a single one - probably not even the first - but it wasn't a bad time. You can be charming, we've made some really nice trips, and sometimes you even sleep with me. "

Stefan still doesn't get along with his father-in-law. He intends to remove van Lueck as CEO and take his place himself. To do this, he has to win over the board members. Theodor van Lueck tries to get his daughter to divorce.

Stefan begins to intrigue against his father-in-law. He copies business documents and passes them on to the tax office, whereupon the tax investigation department becomes aware of van Lueck. Alice's father appears in the evening at Stefan and Alice's, rightly accusing him of stealing the documents, threatening him with a pistol and shooting him.

In the hospital, Stefan is questioned by the police. Alice refuses to give any information, but Stefan claims that his senile father-in-law told a story about the end of the war and that he had a gun with him as an illustration, from which a shot was then released. However, Van Lueck is telling the truth - that he wanted to kill his son-in-law and regrets that he did not succeed. Later one of the policemen remarks to his colleague: "He deliberately lied so badly - he wants to see the old man in prison!"

While the proceedings against van Lueck are ongoing, Alice begins to drink. She's almost always tipsy, but not yet heavily drunk. Once she wants to get a divorce, once she wants to jump off the balcony, but she can't make up her mind.

Stefan hires a man who shoots at Stefan's car from Theodor van Lueck's garden. Van Lueck, until then at large, is sent to prison. In court he was sentenced to three years in prison. As the head of the company, he leaves the company when Stolze has been elected CEO. He is informed of the decision by the attractive Sibylle Curtius ( Gudrun Landgrebe ), in whom Stolze is now interested.

Proud is the head of the company and no longer needs Alice. He openly woos Sibylle, who is married to the gallery owner Harald Curtius. Alice is now addicted to alcohol. When she is very drunk one evening and Stefan makes a scene, Stefan makes fun of her and tells her that he had slept with her friend Gabi at the wedding. He gives her her car keys, whereupon she rushes off and has a fatal accident.

Proud begins a relationship with Sibylle Curtius and wants to marry her. He hires a private detective to find incriminating material about Harald Curtius in order to persuade Sibylle to divorce. The detective finds out that Curtius is homosexual and delivers photos to Stefan. When Stefan shows this Sibylle, she reacts calmly. After 15 years of marriage, she has long known that her husband cheats with men and mentions Stefan Haralds numerous advantages. For the bed, however, she had him, Stefan, and it should stay that way. She is not thinking of a divorce from Harald.

In the meantime, proud father Karlheinz Bertel ( Rudolf Wessely ), allegedly shot down over the English Channel in the war, has reappeared. Proud mother “heroized” things; her fiancé did not fall, but left her behind. Stefan's parents meet and get back together.

part 3

Part 3 describes the nineties. Stefan Stolze, still in a relationship with Sibylle Curtius, capitalizes on the reunification and takes over an ailing company in Saxony-Anhalt.

He starts an affair with his colleague Wanda Weißenfels ( Martina Gedeck ), who wants to marry him. Together they find incriminating material about Stefan's colleague Deterding - he had a poison gas factory built in Iran. Stefan, who wants to get rid of Deterding, blackmailed him with his knowledge and forced him to quit.

As Stefan found out from a private detective, Sibylle's husband Harald has AIDS. She is still attached to her husband and is unhappy about his imminent death, but divorces and marries Stefan.

Stefan's mother suffers a stroke and is now mentally confused.

Stefan begins a relationship with Rita ( Marie Bäumer ), the now teenage daughter of his best friend Lutz. Rita wants to run away from home and disappears without a trace after Stefan gave her 10,000 marks. The desperate Lutz falls for alcohol.

In the end, a dilapidated factory building in Bergedorf explodes. At the same time, Stefan Stolze received the Federal Cross of Merit.

Trivia

  • Götz George is proud to sell an Otto Dix painting in the first part , on which his real father Heinrich George is depicted, which later also plays a role in the plot (part 2).
  • When the wounded Stefan Stolze was questioned in the hospital, there was a small reminiscence of the character played by George, the crime scene commissioner “ Horst Schimanski ”; an actor, as a police superintendent, wears the "Schimanski jacket" with jeans and boots.

Reviews

  • Prisma Online: "In this three-part TV film, Götz George impressively portrays the rise of a German who initially experienced a bitter time of hardship and deprivation as a teenager after the end of the Second World War and who ultimately matures unscrupulously to become an important business magnate."

Awards

In 1995 Götz George received the Telestar for best actor in a television play for his role in this film .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Prisma Online: Criticism The Pig - A German Career