the moved man

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Movie
Original title the moved man
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1994
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sönke Wortmann
script Sönke Wortmann
production Bernd Eichinger
music Torsten Breuer
Andy Knote
camera Gernot Roll
cut Ueli Christians
occupation

The Moving Man is a German comedy film from 1994 based on the comic of the same name and the follow-up volume Pretty Baby by Ralf König .

action

When Doro catches her friend Axel again in flagranti with another woman, she throws him out of the shared apartment. But when he is gone, she notices that she is pregnant from Axel and wants to marry him.

In a group of men, Axel gets to know the gay Walter who invites the apartment hunter to a party. There he met his gay friend Norbert and moved in with him. The two gays are taken with Axel. However, Axel is straight and still loves Doro. When Doro almost wants to give up the search for Axel, she finds him and the naked Norbert, who had mistakenly thought that he would be loved, at home. At first she is shocked, but later she and Axel get back together and get married before their son is born.

Axel cannot sleep with the heavily pregnant Doro, and when Norbert and Walter appear at the wedding in women's clothes, Doro becomes suspicious. Contrary to her fear, Axel is not gay, but he meets his ex-girlfriend Elke and makes an appointment with her in Norbert's apartment.

When Doro spies on her husband, she finds him crouching motionless on a table in Norbert's apartment. He had previously taken a breeding bull drug to increase the sexual drive, which, however, put him out of action before the actual act. When Doro went into labor, Norbert took her to the hospital, where she gave birth to her baby. Walter delivers after Axel when he comes to. Doro is angry with Axel, but he is confident that he will get things under control again.

background

The film was based on the comics The Moving Man and Pretty Baby by Ralf König . With over 6.5 million admissions in Germany, it is one of the most successful German films and in 1994 was only surpassed by the American productions The Lion King and Forrest Gump .

Despite or because of the box office success, there was criticism of the film, including from König himself. Although both heterosexuals and homosexuals are caricatured in an exaggerated representation in Ralf König's book , this only affects the gay protagonists in the film, so that the perspective of the Films for the mass market is pushed into heteronormativity .

Max Raabe made an appearance with his palace orchestra right at the beginning of the film and was thus widely known for the first time. He also wrote the soundtrack for the film.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : "A comedy of confusion staged with a keen sense of situation comedy, which does not leave out any cliché and overdraws the milieu with caricatures, but offers upscale entertainment."
  • Prisma Online: “Sönke Wortmann's film advanced to become the most successful German film in 1994 with more than four million moviegoers - a lively comedy in which one can laugh heartily. The Germans cannot make comedies, it was said again and again. This is a reminder that there are bright spots - a consistently successful chaos of drives and feelings between men and women, staged by Sönke Wortmann, who was 35 years old at the time, in a beautifully shrill and with a knack for comedy. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man in motion. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Prism Online: The Moving Man Criticism