The hottest day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The hottest day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian David Fitz |
| script | Florian David Fitz |
| production |
Matthias Schweighöfer , Dan Maag , Marco Beckmann |
| music |
Egon Riedel , Siggi Mueller |
| camera | Bernhard Jasper |
| cut | Stefan Essl |
| occupation | |
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The coolest day is a German comedy film by director and screenwriter Florian David Fitz . Fitz and Matthias Schweighöfer play the leading roles . The cinema release in Germany was on February 25, 2016.
action
The anxious 33-year-old pianist Andi and his three years older, convicted room neighbor Benno couldn't be more different, but they have one thing in common: They are diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis (Andi) or brain tumor (Benno) in a hospice and actually don't feel like it to wait there for death. Andi suffers from shortness of breath as a result of his illness and is dependent on the additional supply of oxygen , while Benno suddenly falls asleep irregularly.
On the spur of the moment, they run away, steal 140,000 euros through credit fraud and fly to Mombasa. They go on a road trip with a motorhome to South Africa , where Benno's former girlfriend lives with their daughter Leni, in order to spend the "hottest day" of their lives. Despite all the hardships and experiences, they find no satisfaction and have to ask themselves whether they are looking for something completely different.
While Andi ultimately dies of his illness after returning to Germany, Benno survives after it has been found that there was a misdiagnosis in his case due to an exchange of medical files and that he does not suffer from a brain tumor but from narcolepsy .
criticism
Carsten Baumgardt from filmstarts.de described the hottest day as a "happy death tragic comedy". The film directed by is designed as a mixture of Knockin 'on Heaven's Door (1997), The best comes to the end (2007) and Das Schicksal ist ein Louser Betrayer (2014), but “the balance between the different elements is not really successful : On what is perhaps the last trip of two dying candidates, the sometimes very inexperienced humor all too clearly wins the upper hand over the melancholy naturally inherent in the subject. And so, even if emotional depth is sought, there is only attempted sweetness in chic postcard motifs - despite the usual committed stars ”.
Deutschlandfunk Kultur editor Jörg Taszman found that the film continued "an inflationary topic of German entertainment cinema that is not very original". Above all, it is disappointing that “Fitz, who directed and wrote the screenplay, steals mainly from himself and as a writer with Vincent will Meer delivered the much more original film. Actually, the duo Fitz / Schweighöfer works quite well and here and there individual scenes are successful. It's just a shame that everything in German entertainment cinema is always squeezed into genre drawers, as in this case the tragicomedy. Innovative entertainment cinema looks different ”.
Sascha Geldermann from the Augsburger Allgemeine gave a similar judgment , criticizing that the idea of the film was “not new” and found that the “biggest point of criticism” was that Fitz was both Knockin 'on Heaven's Door (1997) and his own script on Vincent wants to serve Meer (2010): “The film is not very original and tells a story that is predictable from the start. Still, the film is not boring - which is mainly due to Florian David Fitz and Matthias Schweighöfer. The whole road trip lives from these two actors who have noticeably fun with the film ”.
Hans Gerhold from the Westfälische Nachrichten found that the hottest day is “another low point in German comedies and stirs the cheapest slapstick , creepy YouTube videos, incomprehensible mumbled and tangled dialogues, tired slapstick and outrageous nonsense into an inedible picture-sound pulp”. Distraction is required “at all costs, [...] the cut is wrong, Mozart's Magic Flute is placed over pictures from the townships. Scenes from A Long Way Down (2014) and The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) are stolen without getting better. Miserable and sloppy ingredients cinema ”.
success
The demand for the cinema tour at the start of the film was so great that additional rooms had to be reserved a month before the film opened. After the pre-sales successes of the US blockbusters Fifty Shades of Gray and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a German film has now also generated strong pre-sales figures. The world premiere took place on February 23, 2016 in Mathäser in Munich.
So far, the film has had over 1.7 million visitors in German cinemas and is number 16 of the films launched in 2016 (as of August 13, 2017).
Awards
From the German Film and Media Review was the hottest day with the predicate of value provided. The reasoning states: “The film is a tragic comedy that takes on the dramaturgy of a road movie during the course of the film [...] The sensitive topic is told in a balanced way with tragic and comic elements and provided with suitable music. One or two slapstick interludes should have been a little more reserved in the eyes of the jury. Several turning points provide excitement and also surprises. ”Furthermore, the main actors Fitz and Schweighöfer were praised, who would“ carry the film ”. The film has been described as a successful tragic comedy .
In 2016, Florian David Fitz was awarded the Romy for Der heilste Tag in the category Best Book Film.
Web links
- The hottest day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hottest day at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The hottest day . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 157968 / K).
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Critique of the FILMSTARTS editorial team. In: filmstarts.de . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Taszma: tragic comedy full of clichés. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Taszma: Do Schweighöfer and Fitz entertain as terminally ill? In: Augsburger Allgemeine . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Taszma: Slapstick with dying people. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Rush of visitors to "The hottest day". In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , January 29, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ The most successful films in Germany 2016. In: InsideKino. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ The hottest day. Jury reasoning: Predicate valuable. In: German film and media evaluation. Retrieved February 17, 2016.