The Blunt King
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Blunt King |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK 12 |
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| Director | Leo Maria Bauer |
| script | Christoph Frühwirth , Wolfgang Liemberger |
| production | Robert Winkler |
| music | Marcus Nigsch |
| camera | Robert Winkler |
| cut | Sarah Bernhardt |
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The Blunt King is a feature film by the Austrian director Leo Maria Bauer from 2015. The film was produced by Bonus Film . The Austrian premiere was on August 19, 2015. The text for the comedy was written in 2004 by Christoph Frühwirth for a reading with Karl Merkatz and also published as an audio book.
action
Franz König senior, also known as the Blunt King , is a grumpy butcher from the Weinviertel . For many years he and Rösli, the good soul of the house, have run a run-down farm with their own slaughterhouse and an inn. The food inspector threatens to close. König Senior plans to hand over his business to his son Franzl. However, he secretly dreams of a trip around the world on a motorcycle. At an elementary school meeting, he meets his former classmate, the vegan Charlotte. He spends a wild night with her, Charlotte becomes pregnant by Franzl.
Together they want to convert the butcher shop and tavern into an "organic grain station" according to the motto "If you don't move with the times, you move with the times". But that is a thorn in the side of the Blunt King. When Franz König happened to find out about it, he passed out and ended up in the hospital. He doesn't want to have anything more to do with his son. At Rösli, he met with little understanding for his behavior, which is why she temporarily moved to her sister.
After his discharge from the hospital, Franz is initially skeptical about the changes to his restaurant, but gradually becomes friends with the new features and reconciles with Rösli, as well as with his son, to whom he gives his wife's rings. The film ends shortly before Franz junior proposes to Charlotte.
production
The shooting of the film took place in the late summer and autumn of 2014 in Lower Austria and Vienna . The film was shot in Ottenthal , Unterstinkenbrunn , Laa an der Thaya and Falkenstein as well as in the shopping center at Wien Mitte train station . The film was supported by the Vienna Film Fund , the Austrian Film Institute , Filmstandort Austria and the Province of Lower Austria. The film is the cinema debut of Leo Bauer, who has directed television formats such as Wir sind Kaiser and Die Lottosieger . Dieter Draxler was responsible for the sound, Christian Kahrer for the costume design and Gerald Sorgo and Oliver Seitz for the production design.
criticism
The cinema magazine Skip wrote: Realized by TV professional Leo Bauer [...] the story, carried by an experienced ensemble, proves to be a comedy about the clash of generations and cultures enriched with plenty of local color, but also with serious undertones. The Tiroler Tageszeitung ran the headline of the film: A ham from the flat country and went on to write: The rural humours could have developed charm with a little less clichéd characters. Unfortunately, "Der Blunzenkönig" plays in the Lower Austrian single layer with figures that are as flat as the landscape.
Awards
Barbara Gräftner and Robert Winkler were honored in the 2016 Romy Awards in the category of Best Producer for the Blunt King.
Web links
- The film page on the Bonus Film website
- The Blunzenkönig on the side of the Austrian Film Institute
- The Blunzenkönig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The blunt king at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for The Blunt King . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The Blunt King: Cast . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ^ Vienna premiere of "Blunzenkönig" ( Memento from December 4th, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b Ottenthal: A "village drama" in the Weinviertel . Article dated October 14, 2014, accessed August 20, 2015.
- ^ A b Wiener Zeitung: Karl Merkatz - "For the Mundl I learned Viennese" . Article dated August 21, 2015, accessed August 22, 2015.
- ↑ Der Blunzenkönig: Contents ( Memento from August 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ↑ The Blunt King: Contents . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ orf.at - 50 extras wanted for Merkatz film . Article dated September 12, 2014, accessed August 20, 2015.
- ↑ skip - The Blunt King . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper: "Der Blunzenkönig": A ham from the flat country . Article dated August 21, 2015, accessed March 4, 2020.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Romy Academy Awards: ATV and Puls 4 share the best program idea . Article dated April 15, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016.