The General Manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The General Manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steffen Juergens , Rüdiger Heinze |
| production | Till Schmerbeck |
| camera | Steffen Juergens, Philipp Pfeiffer |
| cut | Sven Kulik, Carsten Schönijahn |
The General Manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder is a documentary by Steffen Jürgens from 2006, which was shown at the Munich Film Festival in 2007 and at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2008 and was released in German cinemas on November 13, 2008.
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After the death of the world-famous bosom miracle Lolo Ferrari , Steffen Jürgens and Rüdiger Heinze accompany their former self-proclaimed manager Martin Baldauf in rebuilding a replacement bosom miracle across Germany, from Frankfurt via Karlsruhe to Hamburg. From the talk show appearance shortly after Ferrari's death, to a doctorate with Jürgen Drews at the Pforzheim motorway service station, to measuring the then much too small bosom of his new star Ashley Bond, an erotic actress from England, with a dog leash at the lawyer: Nothing is the former UN police officers “at the 17th headquarters in Verona”, as he never tires of asserting, are too primitive. After a chaotic promotion tour through Germany, they finally land in Hamburg, where Ashley Bond separates from Baldauf after unsuccessful marketing attempts and flies back to England.
The film had its world premiere at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in December 2006.
Contributors
In addition to the portrayed Martin Baldauf, Jürgen Drews and Udo Lindenberg appear in the film . Lolo Ferrari can also be seen, as the film also consists of older recordings that were made before her death.
Reviews
- "The General Manager ..." is actually less of a classic documentary than rather an obscure, anti-hero-centered real comedy that successfully holds up a mirror to German show business in the economy class. Because such a Martin Baldauf doesn’t just act in a vacuum, but rather the lower-class television gratefully offers him a platform for his lofty frenzy. All in all, “The General Manager ...” offers a thoroughly amusing insight into the deepest depressions of show business, but also does not lack a certain tragedy in the form of the hapless antihero. (Splash movies)
- “ You can hardly believe that you are in a documentary, because there really cannot be a manager like Martin Baldauf. One thinks. This naivety, this self-confidence, this penetrance, this perseverance. And yet there is. "( ARTE )
- “ At least in the genre of pseudo-documentation à la Stromberg or The Forest for the Trees, one is used to the constant humiliation of pathetic movie characters. But in the authentic world of documentation? In 2004, director Steffen Jürgens also played foreign shame with his shrill short film parody Stuhlberg - The Youngest Manager in Europe when he wanted to tell (in a distorted form) the story of the young bosom manager Martin Luigi Baldauf. At that time Baldauf played himself and Jürgens played Baldauf's mirror image Daniel Luigi Stuhlberg. What happened during this time between the director and the research object - friendship, appropriation, parasitism? The rowdy excerpts from that short film, which can be seen again in Der Generalmanager, do not provide any definitive information about it. What is certain is that Juergens was far from getting enough of Baldauf, instead followed him for months and years with the camera and quickly realized that reality can be infinitely more cruel than any fiction. Above all, his camera work reveals a filmmaker who is drawn deeper and deeper into a vortex of destruction; who sees a horrific car accident coming and knows nothing more than to hold onto it mercilessly. "( Cut )
- “ Ultimately,“ The General Manager or How to Sell a Tit Wonder ”is the document of a foreseeable failure, which also applies to the film itself. Jürgens does not even try to illuminate the depicted milieu, but is content with showing the portrayed in front of the digital camera; and because he was only too willing to become an accomplice of the "general manager", one can only call his style cynical. " ( film-dienst )
- “ As a spectator, you follow the spectacle with a peculiar mixture of disgust and fascination. It's hard to bear, but you develop a need, an inner urge to watch the incredible goings-on. The filmmakers skilfully exploit the effect of being ashamed of others to the point of pain. One is stunned when, for example, a recording from the "Bärbel Schäfer" talk show shows how the beaming hostess with Martin Baldauf and Lolo Ferrari's widower, the former scrap dealer Éric Vigne, are looking for a new Lolo Ferrari - and only three Weeks after Lolo Ferrari's death. When Baldauf later measures Ashley Bond's bust with Vigne's dog leash. And when the hit producer of Jürgen Drews Bonds expertly comments on vocal abilities with "Well, the figure is a board", no increase seems possible, but it goes on and on, mercilessly. " ( Die Welt )
background
When Steffen Jürgens accompanied Lolo Ferrari on her tour of German TV talk shows and discotheques while researching the short film Stuhlberg - The Youngest Manager in Europe, he met Lolo Ferrari's German alongside Jürgen Drews , who has a guest appearance in his film Know manager Martin Baldauf. In the course of the research, the charismatic and self-portrayal manager moved more and more into the focus of the director, who was fascinated by him, so that Stuhlberg - The Youngest Manager in Europe is mainly about Martin Baldauf, who is portrayed in the film by Steffen Jürgens and Daniel Luigi Stuhlberg called. Lolo Ferrari only plays a minor role. Martin Baldauf himself has a small guest appearance . Steffen Jürgens then continued to be interested in Martin Baldauf. After Lolo Ferrari's death, Steffen Jürgens accompanied and filmed Martin Baldauf over several weeks and months in Germany and the Czech Republic , where he now lives and works - several times together with the film producer Rüdiger Heinze . The documentary The General Manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder was made from the video recordings .
Trivia
- The DVD release of the film also includes the short film Stuhlberg - The Youngest Manager in Europe .
Web links
- The general manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The general manager or How To Sell A Tit Wonder at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review from Splashmovies ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
