The church remains in the village
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The church remains in the village |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German / Swabian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Ulrike Grote |
| script | Ulrike Grote |
| production | Ilona Schultz |
| music | Jörn Kux |
| camera | Robert Berghoff |
| cut | Tina Friday |
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The church stays in the village is a Swabian dialect comedy from 2012. Ulrike Grote directed and also wrote the screenplay. The cinema release in Germany was on August 23, 2012.
action
The two villages in "permanent feud" Oberrieslingen and Unterrieslingen share a cemetery in Unterrieslingen and a church in Oberrieslingen. This situation has always caused trouble between the villages and especially between the Häberle and Rossbauer families.
Currently, a pothole on the boundary between the two villages is heating up the dispute. Nobody feels responsible for the repair. The dispute escalated when Grandma Häberle from Oberrieslingen had an accident near the pothole and died. When she was about to be buried in the cemetery in Unterrieslingen, the villagers dug the hole for it next to the compost heap , of all things, which aroused renewed displeasure.
While the funeral service is taking place in Oberrieslingen, two strangers suddenly appear who are interested in the church. Howard Jones, a foreign multimillionaire, is bidding millions for the building. Apparently he would like to give the church to his mother for Christmas. The local council immediately plans what it will do with the money.
When the people of Unterriesling got wind of it, they were outraged and pointed to an old curse. Elisabeth Rossbauer threatens to dig up the Oberrieslingers buried in Unterrieslingen and bring them back. And they would start with Grandma Häberle. To prevent the church from being sold, they simply let the statue of Mary on the altar bleed from its nose. But with this “ blood miracle ”, in the end, only the purchase price is driven up.
Maria Häberle runs a small restaurant with her two sisters Christine and Klara , in which the two strangers also live. Christine overhears a conversation between the two strangers, according to which the church is possibly worth ten times the negotiated price because a mysterious manuscript is hidden in it. Her father, Gottfried Häberle, who is also the town's mayor, has just found out that Peter Rossbauer is asking for the hand of his youngest daughter Klara. Therefore it is no longer accessible to anything else. Anger and indignation at this cross-village couple culminate in the 'arrival' of Grandma Anni's coffin. The horse farmer dug it up as threatened and let it slide down the vineyard to Oberrieslingen.
Despite the new events, Elisabeth Rossbauer, the mayor of Unterrieslingen, gives in unexpectedly and signs the purchase contract . While Howard Jones and his companion Dieter Osterloh begin to measure the church for the transport to America , Maria Häberle wants to place Grandma Anni's coffin in the church's crypt . She and her family agreed that grandma always wanted to go on a trip. So maybe she'll finally get there and you would have a place for the coffin. Jones and Osterloh help the Häberl sisters to carry the coffin into the crypt, and discover a sarcophagus in which they suspect the hidden treasure. According to her guess, a golden goblet and the first version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are hidden here.
Gottfried Häberle gets into the pothole with his tractor, which tips over and traps the old man in the process. Klara finds him there and calls her sisters to help. Together they try to lift the tractor, but they can't. Elisabeth Rossbauer, who comes by with her son Karl, lends a hand after a long war of conscience and helps. Karl now thinks that it cannot go on like this with her two villages, otherwise one day there would be deaths. The Häberle sisters are of the same opinion. Christine finally has the opportunity to report on their overheard conversation, and reveals that Jones is "ripping everyone off" by buying the church. You're making a plan. While Christine distracts Jones with her feminine charms, Karl Rossbauer and Maria Häberle look in the church and find in old scripts the tradition that here already in 1588 a pair of lovers similar to Romeo and Juliet had committed suicide because there was a connection between Oberrieslingen and Unterrieslingen was impossible. The chalice they were looking for, from which both of them had taken their deadly drink, is no longer in the church, but in Grandma Anni's estate. However, they have no idea where the Romeo and Juliet manuscript that Jones spoke of might be hidden.
So the Häberles and Rossbauers agree that their church is worth more to them than what Jones paid them for it. They plan to bring back their church, which is already ready for transport in one piece and ready for loading. First they fill the pothole and find out that it wasn't that difficult after all. Maria incapacitates Jones' companion with knockout drops , and Christine lures Jones over and lets himself be locked up with him. Both villages are now moving the church to another place undisturbed with their combined forces and all their tractors and wrap it with bales of straw. Maria and Christine find the manuscript they are looking for hidden in the baptismal angel. The next morning Jones and Osterloh look in vain for the building. Indignant, they pack their things and want to leave. Christine, who fell in love with Jones, gives him the old manuscript and says, "You can have that, but the church stays in the village."
Maria had found a stack of love letters in Grandma Anni's estate, which were a lot of correspondence between her and Grandpa Rossbauer. Then Elisabeth Rossbauer and Gottfried Häberle notice that they actually like each other, and Maria Häberle also takes a liking to Karl Rossbauer.
In the end, Jones also realized that Christine means a lot to him and returns with the manuscript. Clare and Peter get married in the church, which has now found a new, neutral place.
background
The shooting took place from August to October 2011 in Diersburg (Baden-Württemberg), Sexau ( Baden-Württemberg ), Ingersheim (Neckar) , Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . The lead production company was the Fortune Cookie Filmproduction by Ilona Schulz and Ulrike Grote . Co-producers were Network Movie , Südwestrundfunk and Degeto . Fortune Cookie shot a 30-part television series of the same name based on the movie for Südwestrundfunk from 2012 to 2017 , in which the history of the movie is told.
With 435,049 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was ranked 15th among the most-watched German cinema productions of 2012.
continuation
In 2015 the film was continued under the title Täterätää! - The church remains in theaters in Village 2 and premiered on September 7, 2019 on First .
Reviews
Kino.de writes that the director: “cleverly [draped] a lot of situation comedy and puns , ranging from 'di verstande koi deutsch' to the confused classics' noi 'in the sense of' no 'and not' new 'or' net 'in the sense of' not 'and not' nice 'are sufficient. All in all, the somewhat different Heimatlustspiel, which is bite-sized divided into small chapters, would have been good with a less complicated plot and significantly more light. "
Focus online assesses the film as a: "wonderfully fresh, bizarre Swabian comedy."
Thomas Abeltshauser from die Welt came to the conclusion: “Why this pilot film for a television series, which does not even show the slightest hint of a cinematic will to form, remains a secret. The makers would have better stuck to the title of their work. "
The Badische Zeitung says: “The film brew of slapstick, Romeo & Juliet, history showers à la 'Sacrilege' and Swabian posse in the style of 'Laible & Frisch' will find its audience. In the southwest, people are happy to be able to laugh in their 'mother tongue'. "
“Fickle-like comedy, shot in the Swabian dialect, whose plot is more farce than realistic regional cinema. Actors who are keen to play still provide vigor. "
Web links
- The Church remains in the village in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The church stays in the village at filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
- Official page for the film
- SWR's page on the series
- Expert opinion of the German Film and Media Assessment (rating "valuable")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the church remains in the village . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 714 K).
- ↑ Press release (PDF; 265 kB) - The church remains in the village, accessed on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ The church remains in the village. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for the SWR series - Drama, Drive and Dialect. SWR press release from August 10, 2012
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ↑ The church remains in the village 2. Accessed on January 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Broadcast date at daserste.de, accessed on September 8, 2019.
- ^ Film review at kino.de, accessed on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ "The church stays in the village": Quirky Swabian comedy at focus.de, accessed on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ Thomas Abeltshauser: Romeo, Juliet and two hostile Swabian villages at welt.de, accessed on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ The Swabian dialect comedy "The Church stays in the village" at badische-zeitung.de, accessed on September 6, 2014.
- ↑ The church remains in the village. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 16, 2017 .