The white lie

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Movie
Original title The white lie
Country of production Austria ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Marie Kreutzer
script Pia Hierzegger
production Dieter Pochlatko ,
Jakob Pochlatko
music David lifting dispute
camera Robert Oberrainer
cut Ulrike Kofler
occupation

The White Lie is an Austrian - German television film from 2017 . The comedy , directed by Marie Kreutzer , was shown for the first time on March 30, 2017 as part of the Diagonale . It is the first production of the ORF television film series Stadtkomödie . In Germany, the film opened the 39th Biberach Film Festival on November 1, 2017 , where the film was awarded the TV beaver as best TV film. The first broadcast on ORF took place on December 23, 2017. In the first , the first broadcast took place on January 24, 2018.

action

Hubert and Helga have two daughters together, are separated and each time with new partners. Helga is expecting a child from her new friend Wolfi, who already has a son. Everyday life works reasonably well for the blended family , even if not everyone always gets along well. The family comes together in Hubert's parents' house in Graz to celebrate Hubert's mother Marianne's birthday. On this occasion Hubert's new friend Patricia and Helga's new boyfriend Wolfi should also be introduced. His old mother, who has a heart condition, knows nothing about the changes in Hubert's private life. In order to spare her, Hubert prefers to remain silent instead of informing her of the changes and begins to pretend to be an intact family. This is how a comedy starts in which everyone plays for different reasons, until everyone is exhausted, drunk, offended or desperate and no longer knows exactly who they are with and for what reasons. Hubert finally confesses the truth to his mother. She reacts calmly and says that she doesn't care who is with whom, the main thing is that they are happy.

Awards

Production and Background

The shooting took place from July 25 to August 20, 2016 in Vienna and Graz , the plot is mainly located in the grandmother's suburban house in Graz.

The film was produced by Epo-Film , with the involvement of Österreichischer Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk , and the production was supported by the Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds and the City of Graz. Odo Grötschnig was responsible for the sound, Martin Reiter for the production design and Monika Buttinger for the costume design .

Based on the TV film series Landkrimi , which has been produced since 2014, the ORF has been producing the TV film series Stadtkomödie since 2016 , which is shot alternately in different cities and federal states with different actors and different directors. The white lie from Graz is the first production in this series, the second production was filmed in autumn 2016 Herrgott für Beginners from Vienna with Deniz Cooper and Katharina Straßer , the third production is Harri Pinter, Drecksau from Klagenfurt with Juergen Maurer .

reception

Reviews

The Heilbronn voice said that the film would dissect with merciless precision what happens when people meet between whom something has been wrong for a long time. This is sometimes painfully open, but above all it's very funny. “You can tell about this comedy that it was also produced on Wednesday evening on Piefke television. If this were a genuinely Austrian production, it would have been a lot sharper. But Josef Hader and Pia Hierzegger alone are worth switching on. ” However, the starting position is a bit constructed and the end is more conciliatory than necessary. Above all, the film is an event because of its great actors: “If Hader, Hierzegger and Co. try to maintain their construct of lies in front of their (in-law) mother, even though they don't really know why they should do it, then that's great acting. "

Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv described the film as a "lively and funny comedy about the normal white lies everyday madness".

Die Zeit Online wrote that in this blended family many people feel bad and “ eating is the order of the day”. As a viewer, one is “grateful that the Austrian idiom for producing the stomach contents is much more euphonistic than its High German counterpart.” Hader see in this film always looks like “as if a heavy downpour had just surprised him. [...] And Hierzegger is already in such a grave mood at the beginning that there are actually no more nuances downwards. . The whole ensemble dominates the priggish, world-weary, Austrian expression on scariest "basic problem of the film is that he too in his black-humored insults would sink," Even black humor is hard to bear as a permanent condition. "

Audience rating

The first broadcast in the first was seen by 4.08 million people, the market share was 12.7 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c diagonal: white lie . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Juergen Maurer is "Harri Pinter, bastard" . OTS bulletin of March 7, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b orf.at: Hader and Hierzegger tell a “white lie” (AT) . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b record attendance at the film festival . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ VIPs also from neighboring countries . Article dated October 25, 2017, accessed October 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ White lie: the opening film of the Festival . Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Start for top ORF city comedies in the Christmas program 2017/2018 . OTS notification dated November 14, 2017, accessed November 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ The first shows the "ORF Stadtkomödien" from January . Article dated December 22, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017.
  9. ↑ Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award 2017 - Nominations ( Memento from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Baden-Baden TV Film Festival. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Awards at the TV Film Festival in Baden-Baden for ORF co-productions . OTS notification dated November 30, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018.
  12. ↑ a b c EMERGENCY LIE | epo film . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  13. ^ Kurier: Josef Hader shoots the first "Stadtkomödie" for ORF . Article dated July 27, 2016, accessed March 18, 2017.
  14. ↑ derStandard.at: After country thrillers come city comedies: ORF is planning a new series . Article dated July 26, 2016, accessed March 18, 2017.
  15. ↑ orf.at: Deniz Cooper, Katharina Straßer and a "Lord God for Beginners" (AT) . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  16. ↑ Heilbronn Voice: Hauen und Stechen ( Memento from December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated December 29, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017.
  17. ↑ Volker Bergmeister: TV film “Die Notlüge” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 8, 2018.
  18. ↑ ZEIT Online: That has to be found out now . Article from January 24, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018.
  19. ↑ Primetime check: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 . Retrieved January 25, 2018.