First name (2018)

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Movie
Original title The first name
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Sönke Wortmann
script Claudius Pläging
production Tom Spieß , Marc Conrad
music Helmut Zerlett
camera Jo home
cut Martin Wolf
occupation

The first name is a German comedy film by Sönke Wortmann from 2018 . It is a remake of the French film of the same name by Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte (original title: Le Prénom ) from 2012. It was shot in Bonn , Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach . The premiere took place on October 6, 2018 as part of the Zurich Film Festival , and it had its German premiere at the Film Festival Cologne on October 8, 2018. The German theatrical release was on October 18, 2018.

action

The film revolves around an evening get-together in the house of the literature professor Stephan, who gives great importance to his intellectual superiority, and his wife Elisabeth, who has given up her own professional ambitions in favor of family work. Their children are housed with Stephan's parents. Invited are Elisabeth's brother Thomas, whose lack of high school diploma and poor literary and historical education makes Stephan the target of his constant ridicule, and his pregnant girlfriend Anna, whose career as an actress the economically successful Thomas only half-heartedly supports. René, an orchestral musician with an eccentric style of dress and appearance, Elisabeth's “best friend”, who grew up with her and Thomas like a brother, also appears.

While Anna is late, to Elisabeth's chagrin, the conversation turns to the name of the unborn boy. When Thomas explains that the boy should be called " Adolf ", a huge argument breaks out over it. René finally sees through that Thomas was just kidding to provoke Stephan. Before Thomas can clarify the matter, the argument with Anna, who had just arrived, continues, who thinks that Thomas has given the correct first name. She can't understand why everyone is so appalled, since the proposed first name is the name of Thomas' and Elisabeth's late father Paul. She snubs the hosts by saying that she is not arguing with people who have named their children Caius and Antigone. In the course of the evening, other truths will be discussed , such as Stephen's greed , which is evident in the relabelling of valuable wine bottles, or Thomas' craving for recognition. According to Stephan, this became apparent when he killed a dog as a child and Thomas took the blame on himself. When René is confronted with his supposed homosexuality , which the others have assumed for years, he confesses his affair with Dorothea, the mother of Elisabeth and Thomas, who is stunned. Thomas hits René in the face. In the end Anna René goes home and Thomas sleeps with Elisabeth and Stephan on the couch.

Three months after this scandalous evening, Anna has her child. When the others come to the hospital and meet Thomas there, Thomas explains that Anna is well and has given birth to a daughter. The child's name is not revealed.

Locations

Bonn

Bergisch Gladbach

Cologne

Reviews

The critical reception was mostly positive. Martin Schwickert rated the film “good” in the Rheinische Post and said: “It's a pleasure, because the script with its plot turns is cleverly constructed, the astute dialogues repeatedly develop surprising explosive forces and the ensemble here goes to work with fun and precision . ”Matthias Dell von der Zeit , on the other hand, rated the film much weaker than the French original and said among other things:“ In the Germanization, there are again no implications that have given the material a greater social impression. Wortmann The first name ver Merkelt , if you will, all thrown into the dialogue text updates, such as AFD and refugees defiance: do not talk Let us over the strenuous policy. So the opposition of left-wing Bobo (to whom Stephan belongs in the original and who no longer has a milieu in the German version) and the conservative bon vivant (actually Thomas) at Herbst and Fitz tilts into the vertical of having money versus having a lot of money. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for the first name . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. Age designation for the first name . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Zurich Film Festival: World premieres and award-winning filmmakers at the ZFF . Article dated September 12, 2018, accessed September 12, 2018.
  4. The first name celebrates the acclaimed German premiere at the Film Festival Cologne , presseportal.de, October 9, 2018, accessed on October 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Comedy with Christoph Maria Herbst is set in Bonn. General-Anzeiger Bonn, October 15, 2018, accessed on October 15, 2018.
  6. First name - Sönke Wortmann is shooting at the NCG. Homepage Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium Bergisch Gladbach, November 22, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2018.
  7. Martin Schwickert: If the child should be called Adolf. In: Rheinische Post , October 18, 2018, p. A6. Online version , accessed October 18, 2018.
  8. ^ Matthias Dell: The conciliatory German view of conflicts. In: Zeit Online. October 15, 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 .