The blender

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Movie
Original title The blender
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tomas Erhart ,
Tom Gerhardt
script Tom Gerhardt,
Felix Krause
production Anja-Karina Richter ,
Günter Knarr ,
Philipp Weinges
music Siggi Mueller
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Melania Singer
occupation

The Blender is a German comedy film from 2012 , produced by Crazyfilm GmbH and directed by Tomas Erhart together with Tom Gerhardt . Gerhardt can also be seen in seven main roles.

action

Theo Freund is a con artist and pickpocket. As a blind man in disguise, he charges in Dusseldorf at the King Avenue a businessman at, this decreases the wallet and its cell phone while his dog steals the briefcase the businessman. Meanwhile, Justin and Karl raid a bank in which they force the employee Dennis to give them cash in a backpack. Meanwhile, Flo is waiting in front of the bank with the getaway car. Theo passes the same bank on his escape from the police and unceremoniously hijacks the waiting getaway car of the three bank robbers who have already stowed their loot in the car. The three then have to flee from the arriving police on foot, while Theo manages to escape with the car.

During the journey, Theo is called by his brother, the lawyer and prospective judge Wolfgang, who reminds him that he has to represent him in a court case scheduled for the current day for pickpocketing. Theo then drives the stolen car to the court and is actually acquitted thanks to Wolfgang's successful defense. Theo then offers his brother to take him with the car to celebrate the day. Theo has barely stopped in a restaurant to steal two cases of wine and a ham in another fraud when the police notice the car parked in the no-parking area. Since Wolfgang is in the car with the rucksack filled with the loot on the back seat, he is arrested. Theo makes off through the back door of the restaurant.

Wolfgang calls his brother from prison and informs him that he cannot miss his upcoming judge exam. Theo then promises to clarify the background of the bank robbery, to relieve him and to get him out of prison in time for his examination.

Theo disguises himself as a Turkish electrician Özdal in order to sneak into a Düsseldorf police station and get the files on the bank robbery into his possession, because he learned from the news that the backpack was filled with little money. This puzzles Theo and he suspects that one of the policemen has secretly enriched himself with the booty. While Theo is in the police station, he meets the investigating police officer Anne Sanders, who is waiting for her new colleague Cornelia Borowsky from Borken to join the troops. However, she called in sick for the next two weeks. Theo then decides to pretend to be Cornelia Borowsky and in this way to get access to the information she needs. He succeeds at first, although the police officer Gerald looks at his former acquaintance suspiciously, but in the end Gerald's old feelings for Borowsky outweigh his doubts. Theo's, too, are increasingly getting in the way of the feelings he has for Anne. When he learns that Anne discovered a weakness for Cubans on her last vacation in Cuba , he pretends to be Raul's new Cuban neighbor and rings the doorbell at Anne's door in the evening. He spends the evening with her in a discotheque and then accompanies her home. There, however, a mishap happens to him and his dark complexion is washed off, whereupon he has to flee his rendezvous.

When the real Cornelia Borowsky appears in the station the next day, Theo disguises himself as a paramedic, gives her knockout drops and hides them in a filing cabinet. After this problem is out of the way, it occurs to him that he has to act on behalf of his brother to take his judge exam. He then disguised himself as Wolfgang Freund and went to the courthouse, where - instead of answering the questions put to him - he gave a fiery speech and appealed to the judges not to take into account his specialist knowledge but rather his personal attitude when making their decision. Immediately after this speech, he left the room in a hurry to avoid further questions.

In the evening he goes back to Anne's apartment in his costume as Cornelia Borowsky. After a short time the real Cornelia Borowsky arrives there and Theo's masquerade falls. Justin and Karl also appear, who can bring Cornelia, Anne and Theo under their control. They drive with the three of them to the local canning factory, where they had their accomplice Flo, who died in a tragic accident, chopped up in a big mixer and canned. Anne and Theo find themselves in this mixer. But before the mixer kills the two, it is switched off by the arriving colleagues and the bank robbers arrested.

Theo is also led into the presidium in handcuffs by Anne. However, Theo manages to avoid a prison sentence. Instead, because of his transformation skills, he is offered to work as an undercover agent for the police. Eventually Theo is surprised by Anne with two plane tickets, which invites him to go on vacation to Cuba.

background

The blender was shot in Cologne , Düsseldorf and Duisburg . Filming began on July 1, 2010. On the Düsseldorfer Königsallee u. a. Filmed in July 2010. The makeup artists needed up to three hours to prepare Gerhardt's styling for the individual roles. Gerhardt tested the results of the make-up artist by visiting shops on Königsallee and nightclubs in Düsseldorf while wearing the film costumes. The film is Gerhardt's film debut. The blender should appear in 2011. It was broadcast by RTL on January 5, 2012 for the first time on German free TV . This broadcast saw 2.62 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 7.8%. On January 6th, 2012 the film was released by Universum Film GmbH in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-12 approval.

Safiya and Peter Nottmeier can be seen in a cameo .

reception

The lexicon of international films judges the film to be "a trivial (television) comedy slapstick in which Tom Gerhardt slips into seven roles - Charley's aunt and other relatives send their regards."

The editors of tittelbach.tv are of the opinion: “The blender” is typically Tom Gerhardt: clunky, clunky, silly, shoddy, garish, fast-paced, politically incorrect, erratically staged, limitless in the dramaturgical system. Occasionally a reasonably good gag gets lost in this turbulent number revue of tastelessness and cinematic naivety. It only becomes bearable if it goes in the direction of slapstick. ”Awarded 2.5 out of 6 points.

According to the judgment of TV Spielfilm , the film is "TV duds with Tom Gerhardt as a cheater in various disguises." "" I have my style, and it is drastic, "said Gerhardt and remains true to his line. “In the» Blender «the joke remains dull, but Gerhardt does without faecal humor.” The fact that Tom Gerhardt “is dumbfounding the» arch enemies «from Düsseldorf could be interpreted as subtle humor”. The bottom line is: “Blender? Nope! Whoever wants Gerhardt will get him. "

Sidney Schering from quotenmeter.de finds positive words for the film, because "the proll and vulgar humor of Gerhardt's cinema excursions like" Ballermann 6 "cannot be found in this television production, which is why" Der Blender "is a good sample for viewers who Gerhardt- Creations like Tommie and Mario burp, fart and puke too much. ”However, this impression is put into perspective in the course of the film:“ Towards the end, the script loses the focus it had previously set and how sensible some of the plottwists are should be a very debatable question. The fact that badly incorporated, punchless homages to Quentin Tarantino's  » Kill Bill « are unwound in the last few minutes of the film robs the finale of even more joke Neither does «The Blender». However, it is filled with deliberately silly slapstick from beginning to end, which, due to Gerhardt's experience in the genre, is very accurate and, for once, does not slide into the prole-like. It is a diversion for slapstick fans, and in this segment one of the more successful German TV examples. "

The editorial team of kino.de sums it up: "" The Blender lives above all through the art of the make-up artists, who skillfully transform the comedian into completely different characters. "

The editorial staff of the Westdeutsche Zeitung praised the actors and their acting: “The almost idiotic exaggerated scenes in the comedy often achieve their goal: you have to shout. The guest appearances of the Internet star comedian Buddy Ogün as a choleric psycho -ghetto gangster and the singer Safiya are also surprising enrichments - extreme eye -catchers with an oriental mixture of Lara Croft and Catwoman . "

Frank Jürgens from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung is of the opinion that the film is “not only extremely unimaginative, but also terribly boring and exhausting. After all, the successful work of the make-up artist is convincing. ”For this, Jürgens awards 2 out of 6 points.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Der Blender . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 017 V).
  2. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ RP Online : “The Blender”: Tom Gerhardt is shooting a film in Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, DPO, July 18, 2010
  4. ↑ a b serienjunkies.de: The Blender: Start of shooting for RTL Comedy Movie , Mariano Glas, July 1, 2010
  5. ↑ a b RP Online : Film with Tom Gerhardt: The Kö today as a backdrop , Düsseldorf, jco, January 5, 2012
  6. ↑ RP Online : Shooting: Disguised Tom Gerhardt tricked Düsseldorfer , Düsseldorf, anch, December 15, 2011
  7. ^ A b quotenmeter.de: film review , Sidney Schering
  8. ↑ norbertheisterkamp.de: The Blender: Norbert in the new Tom Gerhardt film
  9. ↑ The Blender. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ tittelbach.tv: film review
  11. ↑ TV feature film : film review
  12. ↑ kino.de: film review
  13. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung : Tom Gerhardt in the TV comedy "Der Blender" , Berlin / Cologne, dpa, January 4, 2012
  14. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : Already seen: Der Blender , Frank Jürgens, January 5, 2011