The Autumn Timeless (2006)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The autumn crooks |
| Original title | The autumn crooks |
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| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Bettina Oberli |
| script | Bettina Oberli Sabine Pochhammer |
| production | Alfi Sinniger |
| music | Luk carpenter |
| camera | Stéphane Kuthy |
| cut | Michael Schaerer |
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Die Herbstzeitlosen is a fiction film by the Swiss director Bettina Oberli from 2006. The tragicomedy is based on a script between Oberlis and the author Sabine Pochhammer and is about the Truber village shop owner Martha, who, after her husband's death, decides to wear lingerie with the help of her friends -Boutique to open. Stephanie Glaser took on the leading role . Heidi Maria Glössner , Annemarie Düringer and Monica Gubser can also be seen in other roles .
The film, which was co-produced by Swiss television , was released for screening in Switzerland on October 5, 2006 and, with almost 590,000 visitors, became the most successful production of the year. The film ranks behind Rolf Lyssys Die Schweizermacher (1978) and before Mike Eschmanns Warning, steady, Charlie! (2003) in second place on the all-time list of the best in Swiss cinema.
action
With the death of her husband Hans (1921–2005) 9 months ago, 80-year-old Martha lost her zest for life and would love to follow him into the afterlife. The Jassrunde with the friends is no longer what it used to be. Her village shop in Trub in the Swiss Emmental is bobbing around and her son Walter, the village pastor, would like to use the rooms for his Bible study.
When he suggested that she should give up the shop and start something new, it was more by chance, while shopping in Bern with her lively and optimistic friend Lisi, that she should now fulfill her lifelong dream at an older age: a lingerie boutique.
The gray general store becomes a charming lingerie boutique. However, you come across this in the village, and resistance quickly spreads among the residents. Her own son, as well as the conservative mayor of the fictional traditional party LLP, Fritz Bieri, son of Martha's friend Hanni, opposes the alleged seduction of sinfulness through lingerie.
Martha's other friends besides Lisi, Frieda and Hanni are also not entirely convinced that the lingerie boutique can be a success. With the help of various people, including those from the computer and embroidery course at the old people's home, Martha started a successful web shop for her lingerie with embroidered traditional costumes. Her friends are infected with her energy. Hanni takes the driving test, which her husband Ernst previously refused for reasons of cost so that he doesn't have to go to the old people's home, Frieda learns to use the computer and the Internet. Every time Walter or Fritz forge intrigues against them to force them to give up the shop, it only draws new strength from it.
But then Lisi suddenly dies of a heart attack in her kitchen. She had always boasted that she had already been to America, but shortly before her death Walter had turned this out to be a lie in an intrigue. For Lisi's sake, the three friends promise each other at their grave that they will pursue their respective projects. The son's resistance is broken when Martha realizes that he has a relationship with Lisi's daughter Shirley.
During a singing festival on a meadow, Fritz and Martha have a direct argument. The festival visitors were won over by Martha's ideas, including a spontaneous presentation of their lingerie by Fritz's daughter and her friend. A small sales booth with their lingerie is surrounded by many women.
Walter, who had finally told his wife Vreni the truth, gave a jerk and was able to convince the local singers instead of showing the old, worn traditional flag the modern one made by his mother.
reception
criticism
- Gernot Gricksch from tvDIGITAL wrote that this was the Swiss answer to the British Calendar Girls (2003); a well-played comedy with a lot of humor and charm.
- The lexicon of international films said: A life-affirming dialect comedy with a number of Swiss old stars, which skilfully circumvents the ciphers and the woodcut-like, pompous dramaturgy of the popular Heimat film and becomes a charming plea for dignity and joie de vivre in old age.
- Alexandra Seitz from the Berliner Zeitung wrote: Although Oberli's production, like harmless peasant theater, may make use of common prejudices about the supposed backwardness of the rural population and make many a joke at their expense. At its core, however, her story of the cloudy Indian summer hits an unflattering and far more general issue: the disrupted relationship between the generations and the incapacitation and displacement of the elderly.
- Meike Stolp explained on critic.de: Oberli is not about to turn their ladies into rock'n'roll grannies who fight their way out of the community and into supposed freedom. Martha, Lisi, Hanni and Frieda feel comfortable in troubles, they only fight for freedom within this community. Oberli also renounces the flat joke at the expense of the reactionary children Marthas and Hannis. They too have reasons for their actions and these are conveyed to the viewer as well. Unlike Beeban Kidron's AUTUMN TIMELESS , Bettina Oberli doesn't just rely on her charismatic actresses.
success
Die Herbstzeitlosen celebrated its premiere in the Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2006 , where the film received a standing ovation after the screening . Actress Stephanie Glaser , who played her very first leading role in the production, received a special leopard for her life's work as part of the festival .
After it was approved for screening , the film, which was co-produced by Swiss television , became the most successful Swiss cinema film of 2006. At the end of 2011, the film was behind Rolf Lyssy's Die Schweizermacher (1978) and Mike Eschmann's Watch out, ready, Charlie! (2003) in third place on the all-time best list in Switzerland. In Germany and Austria, the production was also seen by over 250,000 people.
In September 2007 the Federal Office for Culture (BAK) registered the film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2008 Academy Awards on the recommendation of its expert group . Ultimately, however, Oberli's film was unable to make it into the five nominated works.
On 14 October 2007, the film premiered on SF 1 Free TV - Premiere . It achieved an audience of 1.34 million, which corresponds to an above-average market share of over 45%, the highest audience figures that SF 1 has ever been able to measure for a feature film. Because of this success and an audience rating of 5.83, Die Herbstzeitlosen received the audience award SF Swiss Film with Bluewin in Zurich in January of the following year .
In November 2012, after conducting a representative survey of 30 suggestions in the Saturday evening show Gipfelstürmer on Swiss television, even before Mein Name ist Eugen (2005) and Die Schweizermacher (1978), the production was named the “ Most Unforgettable Swiss Film”.
Awards
- At the 33rd edition of the Prix Walo on April 22, 2007, the film won in the film productions category.
- "Audience Award SF Swiss Film with Bluewin" on January 17, 2008 thanks to the best audience rating (5.83) and the highest number of viewers at the free TV premiere (1,339,700)
- "Best Film" and "Best Actress" (Annemarie Düringer) at the Film Festival Cinéma Tout Ecran Geneva 2006,
Web links
- Late Bloomers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Die Herbstzeitlosen , information from Swiss Films, accessed on October 13, 2012
- Altweiberfrühling , play with the same content and several original actresses, accessed on October 13, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most successful Swiss films: Cumulative number of cinema admissions in Switzerland 1976 - 2018 , on www.bfs.admin.ch
- ↑ The autumn crooks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ For the 50 plus generation: "Die Herbstzeitlosen" by Bettina Oberli The old lady's plan in the Berliner Zeitung of March 29, 2007
- ↑ Die Herbstzeitlosen - Critique
- ↑ a b c “Die Herbstzeitlosen”: Most unforgettable Swiss film . In: Tagesschau . Swiss television . Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ a b The 20 most successful Swiss films in Switzerland: Cumulative number of cinema-goers 1976 - 2011 . Federal Statistical Office . Archived from the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ a b c "Die Herbstzeitlosen" are supposed to get Oscar . In: 20 minutes . Tamedia AG. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ a b “Die Herbstzeitlosen” win SF audience award . In: look . Blick.ch. Retrieved November 18, 2012.