The Bone Man (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The bone man |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Murnberger |
| script |
Josef Hader , Wolfgang Murnberger , Wolf Haas |
| production |
Danny Krausz ( Dor Film ), Kurt Stocker |
| music | Sofa surfers |
| camera | Peter von Haller |
| cut | Evi Romen |
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The Bone Man is an Austrian crime film from 2009. The film contains elements of black comedy and the grotesque and is based on the novel of the same name by Wolf Haas , who also contributed to the script. It is the continuation of the previously made book adaptations Komm, Süßer Tod (2000) and Silentium (2004). The cinema release in Austria was on March 6th, 2009. In Germany, the film started on February 19th, 2009 in Majestic Filmverleih . It had its world premiere on February 9, 2009 at the 59th Berlinale .
action
The action begins in Bratislava , where an incident occurs in a brothel: a pimp is thrown out of a window on the first floor by an apparently angry customer. However, his friend Evgenjev was able to photograph the license plate of the fugitive.
Shortly afterwards, Brenner received an order from his friend Berti, who ran a car leasing company in Vienna, to collect outstanding leasing payments from the painter Horvath , who allegedly resided at Gasthof Löschenkohl in Styria . When he arrived in Klöch , Brenner encountered discontent and silence. Neither the landlord nor the waitress want to tell him anything about the painter's whereabouts. When Brenner wants to leave again, the junior boss Paul, who thinks he recognizes a private detective in Brenner, offers to carry out an observation for him: the landlord - Paul's father - lets a lot of money disappear from the business. Brenner initially refuses the shading, but when he meets Paul's wife Birgit (Gitti), he decides to stay there for the time being.
The following evening, the dead pimp's friend shows up in Klöch and tries to blackmail the old Löschenkohl. He threw the pimp out of the window and there is a video recording of the incident. When the blackmailer threatens to sell the prostitute Valeria, the landlord's mistress, to a brothel in Turkey or to have her murdered in a snuff video , the landlord kills him and dismantles the body in his slaughter room in the basement. But he is surprised by Ana, the dead man's friend. When she - pursued by Löschenkohl - escapes, she comes off the street with her car and overturns. The landlord finally pushes the accident vehicle with the seriously injured woman into a stream, so that the woman drowns. The meat of the dead is processed into goulash .
The next morning Paul accidentally discovers the wreckage and finds a bag in it, which he takes. At home he discovers the obituary notice of the pimp from Bratislava and a video tape showing his father doing the crime in Bratislava. Paul now also wants to blackmail him with it, but the old Löschenkohl only has contempt and sarcasm for his son. Paul goes to the police to report the incident and shows the police officer the obituary notice as evidence. But he doesn't take Paul seriously and leads him into an adjoining room where the supposedly dead pimp is. It turns out that he only broke his leg falling out of the window. So the blackmail was based on a lie. The pimp can persuade Paul to lead him to the old Löschenkohl so that he can finally find out where his missing friend is.
At first, Brenner does not notice anything, because tender feelings develop between him and Birgit. When he finds a severed finger in the slaughterhouse, however, Brenner ponders. He believes the finger could belong to the painter Horvath. While a big masked ball is being celebrated in the Löschenkohl tavern , the riddles are gradually being resolved: The waitress identifies herself as Horvath, who wanted to hide from his (or her) creditors until his gender reassignment operation on Löschenkohl was carried out. In the slaughter room, Brenner comes across the tied up Paul and the pimp hung up next to pork halves, both of whom were locked up there by the landlord. When the landlord arrives, there is a fight between him and Brenner, in which Brenner's finger is cut off by the landlord. Because of the intervention of Paul, who was able to free himself from his bonds and stabbing his father in the back with a butcher's knife, Brenner remains alive. However, in the last scene before the fatal stab, in which the old landlord lets go of his harassed victim, it remains unclear whether he really wanted to kill Brenner. The police finally ended the carnival party. Birgit leaves Paul, Brenner has to go to the Meidling Accident Hospital with Berti to save his chilled finger. The film ends with Brenner and Berti standing on a Viennese motorway because of a breakdown and waiting for an ambulance or a helicopter so that Brenner can get to the hospital on time with his severed finger. The black humor of this black comedy can also be found here .
Differences to the novel
The plot was changed very much for the film adaptation and differs in many ways from the novel . Josef Hader explains this in an interview with TBA magazine :
In the book, months later, after everything has happened, the burner comes to the Löschenkohl and tries to find out [...] what happened in conversation. When Wolf Haas describes this in his own language, then it is very special and very funny. We do not have this language [...] available. We were afraid that we would slip too far into a normal who-done-it crime thriller.
production
The filming of the film took place between January 21 and April 7, 2008. As in the previous films, the main actors were u. a. Josef Hader and Simon Schwarz . Like there, Wolf Haas , the author of the books, has a cameo - this time on the cover of a book on which he is named as the author. The film was shot in the Lower Austrian town of Enzenreith , whose “Café-Restaurant am Schrammelteich” served as a film set for the “ Löschenkohl fried chicken station”. The film was produced by DOR Film . The Austrian group Sofa Surfers was responsible for the soundtrack . In the run-up to the cinema release, The Bone Man was published again in the film version as a book by Rowohlt Verlag .
reception
Reviews
The film was largely received positively by film critics. Some even described the bone man as the best film adaptation of the Brenner series to date. The actors Josef Hader , Birgit Minichmayr and Josef Bierbichler were also often praised . In addition, the grotesque black humor was highlighted several times.
"The Bone Man is Murnberger's third adaptation of a Brenner book by Haas and the best so far: a lot of feeling for the characters, dialogic brilliance and a fine tightrope walk between the grotesque and the everyday make the film - which deviates greatly from the original - as opulent as it is laconic horror comedy. Smaller dramaturgical potholes and unnecessary staging extravagances (especially inappropriate: the opening credits reminiscent of TV hits like "CSI") are once again made forgotten by Hader's nuanced portrayal of the existentialist Brenner - also because the character is presented with extraordinary emotional challenges this time. Because the longer Brenner deals with Minichmayr's Gitti, the warmer his heart becomes. For a cover version of the opus song "Live Is Life", she then comes along, this most unlikely and perhaps most beautiful of all Austrian love stories. "
“Anyone who feared the first signs of fatigue in view of the third cinema adaptation of a Wolf Haas novel can breathe a sigh of relief: With“ The Bone Man ”, director Wolfgang Murnberger and his co-author and main actor Josef Hader have again succeeded in creating a congenial crime grotesque is in no way inferior to its predecessors. The fact that the crime story is not in the foreground for large parts of the time is surprising, but in no way bothersome: In addition to murder, blackmail and provincial life, the story revolves around one topic - love. This gives the Brenner universe a whole new depth and doesn't make the story any less exciting, especially since the individual narrative strands are extremely cleverly interwoven. In addition, this time too, black humor moments, pointedly rough dialogues, bizarre secondary characters and grotesque cruelty are not neglected - horror and laughter are once again close together, so "The Bone Man" is also for weak stomachs and nerves, despite its focus on love Subject, nothing. It is also great what an excellent ensemble of actors the usual ingenious Josef Hader was given this time: Above all, Josef Bierbichler and Birgit Minichmayr deliver absolutely convincing and authentic performances. With "The Bone Man", the team around Murnberger and Hader succeeded in their best Wolf Haas adaptation to date - an absolutely exciting and highly entertaining mixture of crime comedy, homeland and love story that shouldn't be missed! "
“The bone man distinguishes himself from other representatives of the genre primarily through his dry, sarcastic humor. The formal but subliminally aggressive dialogues between Brenner and the staff of the inn are bursting with ironic humor. Josef Hader as the always somewhat capricious anti-hero Brenner is the undisputed popular figure of the film, who has little in common with an ambitious investigator and prefers a joint with Birgit (Birgit Minichmayr), the landlord's daughter-in-law, to the search for evidence. "
Theatrical release
| Going to the cinema in Austria | |||||||
| date | Visits | Copies | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th of March | 46,083 | 84 | |||||
| March, 15 | 114,860 | 84 | |||||
| March 22 | 166.983 | 83 | |||||
| total until 2016 | 281.110 | k. A. | |||||
On the first weekend after its cinema release, 46,083 people had seen the film in Austrian cinemas. With 43,664 visitors, it was also the second most successful film of a weekend (Fri – Sun) in Austria (behind Marley & Ich with 50,123 visitors). Luna Film is the distributor of the film . On the second weekend it was the other way around: The Bone Man scored with 40.110 around 8,000 visitors more than Marley & Me ; on the following weekend, The Bone Man was only beaten by the newly started Slumdog Millionaire (5,000 moviegoers more).
With a total of 283,000 cinema visits in Austria, Der Bone Man was significantly more successful than its two predecessors Komm, Süßer Tod (230,361 cinema visits) and Silentium (204,989) and is the sixth most successful Austrian film production since the start of Austria-wide cinema attendance in 1981.
The Bone Man is Murnberger's most successful film to date. The box office earnings in German and Austrian cinemas in 2009 totaled just over 4 million dollars. only a little below the estimated production cost of the film at 4 million euros.
Awards
Birgit Minichmayr was awarded the actor's prize at the Diagonale film festival in Graz in 2009. Leading actor Josef Hader received the Great Diagonale Acting Award for his performance for Austrian film . Josef Hader, Wolfgang Murnberger and Wolf Haas together received the Golden Romy television award in 2010 for the best screenplay of a movie.
DVD release
The DVD The Bone Man was released in Austria at the beginning of September 2009; in Germany it was released on September 25, 2009.
literature
- Wolf Haas : The bone man . The book about the film. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2009, 154 pages, ISBN 978-3-499-25237-2 .
Web links
- Website for the film
- The Bone Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bone man at filmportal.de
- The bone man in the online film database
- 360 degree panorama from June 2011 of the location in Enzenreith
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for The Bone Man . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Lunafilm accessed February 5, 2009
- ↑ Filmstarts.de, accessed on December 17, 2008
- ↑ Bachelor thesis by Markéta Kasíková ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, 1.3 MB
- ↑ Wilfried Scherzer: Herbstbier and Uhudler flowed on the Schrammelteich . On September 20, 2015 on meinviertel.at
- ↑ Markus Keuschnigg: "The Bone Man" in the cinema: goulash, grotesque and horror . On March 10, 2009 on presse.com
- ^ The Bone Man ( Memento from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). On May 7th, 2009 on programm.kurier.at (via Wayback Machine )
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: The bone man . On February 17, 2009 on critic.de
- ↑ The Standard : Cinema hits in Austria. Status: 06.03. – 08. March 03 , 2009, p. 28
- ↑ The Standard: Cinema hits in Austria. As of: March 13-15 March 03 , 2009, p. 28
- ↑ The Standard: Cinema hits in Austria. Status: March 20-22 March 03 , 2009, p. 28
- ↑ Österreichisches Filminstitut: Ö Kinofilme BESUCHE 1982-2015 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. xlsx file , 331 kB, as of April 1, 2016 (accessed April 8, 2016)
- ↑ Austria Yearly Box Office - 2009 - Rows: # 1–100 , or Germany Yearly Box Office - 2009 - Rows: # 101–200 (sum of the information given there). Both on boxofficemojo.com, accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ The Bone Man . Retrieved from imdb.com on September 21, 2015
- ↑ cf. Minichmayr and Hader received awards at derstandard.at, March 18, 2009 (accessed on March 21, 2009)
