The Christmas disgust

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Movie
Original title The Christmas disgust
Country of production Austria
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Joseph Vilsmaier
script Rolf-René Schneider
production Klaus Graf
music Klaus Pruenster
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation

The Christmas Disgust is a German-Austrian Christmas film from 2006.

action

The television presenter Robert Lahnstein flees before Christmas year after year . Also this year he is going to spend Christmas alone in a small hut. The heavily pregnant Simone Jakob also leaves her partner and goes to the clinic alone. Rita Waltleitner also discovers that life still has a lot to do with her and leaves the retirement home . Another main person is the single parent truck driver and safety officer Thomas Sattler with his little son Moritz. Felicitas Fermandez, disguised as Santa Claus , joins the scene.

Later, Simone and the taxi driver break down the car and the young woman makes her way through the deep snow alone and meets Rita, with whom she is looking for shelter in a small barn . The homeless Konrad Neuberger has also sought protection in the barn. A little later, Thomas and his son also appear in the barn, seeking protection. To make matters worse, Robert finally arrives in the barn and immediately turns the world into an enemy. Then Felicitas also comes into the barn and is very shocked to see Robert again, whom she had met earlier at the gas station and who had put her down. Over time, everyone must realize that they have gotten into a fatal situation. Robert especially gets on everyone's nerves and doesn't leave anyone with a good hair.

After a while Robert decides to leave the barn on his own. Nobody can stop him and everyone hopes that his absence will restore harmony. But soon Konrad begins to look worried for Robert and finally finds him broken into the ice . Using all his strength, he rescues him and they both return to the barn. It quickly turns out that Konrad has pneumonia , and Simone is beginning to go into labor. With Roberts and Rita's energetic help, she gives birth to her child. It's a girl Meanwhile, Thomas and his son go to the police to get help.

The next morning an ambulance comes to the mountains and takes Simone with the newborn and Konrad to the hospital . Thomas and Moritz go with them. Rita and Robert also leave the barn. During a walk, Rita advises Robert to like himself and not treat other people the way he does. To everyone's astonishment, Robert takes this to heart. Rita returns to the retirement home to pick up her belongings and receives an anonymous letter from Robert. Konrad receives a typewriter from Robert and after a long time is writing another novel . And Felicitas and Thomas also approach and kiss on the fairground . Later Rita gathers everyone together and they celebrate a nice, harmonious Christmas with Robert, to whom Christmas is now important. And Robert's son, the pianist Martin Lahnstein, with whom he had an argument earlier, sees how happily his father and the many strangers celebrate Christmas.

background

The Christmas Disgust was the third Christmas film that the Austrian producer Klaus Graf produced for Das Erste . His company, Klaus Graf Filmproduktion GmbH, worked with ARD Degeto and ORF . The shooting did not take place in the studio, but on original locations such as a Tyrolean barn. The television film was first broadcast on December 15, 2006. With an average of 6.41 million viewers, it achieved the highest rate of the evening on German television and a market share of 20.8 percent.

reception

Rainer Tittelbach rated the “pre-Christmas tragic comedy” Christmas disgust as “acceptable pleasure” with puns. Fritz Wepper is "more fun as a disgust [..] than in the end as a good do-gooder ." At the end of the film, the film is "badly sentimental", overall a "lightweight Degeto nativity play with a guarantee of purification".

The critic of the TV Spielfilm judged similarly : "Thirty cheeky minutes - then it gets maudlin". While "Wepper's poisonous Christmas rampage is in the mood", "the usual, lard-drenched homeland film clichés" follow.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Weihnachts-Ekel In: kino.de , accessed on December 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Primetime check: Friday, December 15, 2006 quotenmeter.de, accessed on December 28, 2013.
  3. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Das Weihnachtsekel" In tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ The Christmas Disgust In TV Feature Film , accessed on December 28, 2013.