The case of Gerti B.

Movie
Original title	The case of Gerti B.
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Sascha Bigler
script	Sascha Bigler, Axel Götz
production	Tommy Pridnig , Peter Wirthensohn
camera	Carsten Thiele
cut	Alarich Lenz
occupation
Susi Stach : Gerti Bruckner Karl Fischer : Franz "Franco" Aigner Cornelius Obonya : Jonas Lipansky Johannes Silberschneider : Herbert Bruckner Alice Prosser : Gerti Bruckner (young) Lino Gaier : Franz Aigner (young) Nils Arztmann : Jonas Lipansky (young) Christiane Hörbiger : Christiane Hörbiger Rainer Egger : Colonel Susanne Michel : Karin Aigner, Franz Aigner's mother Carl Achleitner : Franz Aigner sen. Thomas Schubert : Franz "Burschi" Aigner jun. Angelika Strahser : Susi Michael Edlinger : Vinzi (young) Ronald Seboth : Vinzi Larissa Fuchs : Nora Clemens Thomas Mraz : Daniel Smitters, Hörbiger's assistant Tanja Raunig : Heidi Mai Anna Rot : Chanelle André Pohl : Alexander Jaschke Gregor Seberg : Motorists

The Fall of Gerti B. is an Austrian film comedy from the ORF television film series Stadtkomödie from 2019 by Sascha Bigler with Susi Stach , Karl Fischer and Cornelius Obonya . The script by Sascha Bigler and Axel Götz is based on an idea by Sascha Kato and Ervin Tahirovic. The film was shown for the first time on November 25, 2019 on ORF.

action

The focus of the action are the three former friends Gerti Bruckner, Franz Aigner and Jonas Lipansky from the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf , who had lost sight of each other over the years and happened to meet again after forty years.

Gerti Bruckner has been married to Herbert for 32 years. She became a criminal investigator and is very committed to her profession, which she is hardly thanked for. The young Heidi Mai is put in front of her, who thinks she knows everything better. Franz Aigner was originally supposed to take over his father's funeral home, but then ran a discotheque and later a number of brothels. He's also past his prime, only one of his bars is over. Jonas Lipansky is officially a watchmaker, but actually works as a contract killer . He is put under pressure by his client after he is supposed to liquidate his old friend Franz, but Jonas hesitates.

The three protagonists are shown in retrospect at the age of sixteen, in 1978 on the day of the international soccer match between the German and Austrian national teams as part of the 1978 World Cup in Cordoba .

The corpse of the prostitute Chanelle, who had worked as a dominatrix in Franz's restaurant, is discovered by chance at a funeral when one of the pallbearers stumbles, the coffin lid opens and two corpses appear inside instead of just one. In this case, Gerti determines what leads her to Franz, who in turn is being observed by Jonas.

Jonas' client is slowly getting restless after he has still not liquidated Franz and is now putting her own people on the three friends Franz, Gerti and Jonas. Jonas liquidates the two killers of his client in Franz's villa. Then Franz tells Jonas how Chanelle died: After Christiane Hörbiger's reading in Franz's nightclub, she misses Loriot, one of her two pugs . Chanelle catches the slave as she feeds the two dogs chocolate. Thereupon there is a dispute between Mrs. Hörbiger and Chanelle, Chanelle hits the back of the head and is killed.

Jonas' client subsequently tries to kill Gerti as an accomplice. In her apartment in a skyscraper, Gerti leans out of the window, the anchoring of the railing loosing. Gerti falls over several floors and falls exactly on Jonas' client, who dies in the process. Gerti survived the fall and is looked after by Jonas and Franz.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from May 7th to June 5th, 2019 in Vienna . The location was, among other things, the Maxim nightclub on Kärntner Strasse in Vienna . The film was produced by Lotus Film , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . Dietmar Zuson was responsible for the sound, Eva Roth was the casting director and Marlies Theis was the art director.

After Herrgott für Beginners (2017), this is another city comedy from Vienna and the second, for which the director and screenwriter Sascha Bigler was responsible. His mother Christiane Hörbiger made a guest appearance in it, reading from the diary of Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten in front of the backdrop of the brothel club in downtown Vienna .

reception

The first broadcast on ORF on November 25, 2019 was followed by up to 621,000 and an average of 576,000 viewers, the market share was 18 percent and 20 percent for 12 to 49 year olds.

Web links

• The case of Gerti B. at crew united
• The case of Gerti B. at Fernsehserien.de
• The case of Gerti B. on the Lotus Film website
• The case of Gerti B. on the ORF website
• The case of Gerti example in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} “The Fall of Gerti B.” becomes the new ORF city comedy. May 9, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ORF premiere: StadtKomödie: Der Fall der Gerti B. Accessed on November 9, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ORF city comedy: The case of Gerti B (x08). Retrieved November 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The case of Gerti B. at Fernsehserien.de
5. ↑ ^{a b} Curling for Eisenstadt at crew united . Retrieved August 6, 2019.
6. ^ ^{A b} Neue Wiener Stadtkomödie: Film shooting in the night club. In: Kurier.at . May 25, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 . 
7. ↑ "The Fall of Gerti B." in the sights of Obonya, Stach, Fischer and Hörbiger. May 23, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 . 
8. ↑ "The Fall of Gerti B." with up to 621,000 viewers. November 26, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .