Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us!
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| Original title | Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Leander Haussmann |
| script | Mark Kudlow |
| production |
Herman Weigel Oliver Berben |
| music | James Last |
| camera | Hagen Bogdanski |
| cut | Peter R. Adam |
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Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! is a German comedy film by Leander Haußmann from 2009. It is a remake of the feature film Lina Braake or The interests of the bank can not be the interests that Lina Braake has by Bernhard Sinkel from 1975.
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The retired teacher Lena Braake is falling behind with the last installment payments for her own home on Windmühlengasse because her pension has recently only been paid out in the middle of the month. She wants to travel and have her bank draw up travelers checks . However, a bank employee cuts up her credit card, so Lena visits her customer advisor, Tobias Hardmann. With a trick he succeeds in selling Lena an additional loan with which she can supposedly finance her installment payments on the side. A little later Lena Braake not only loses her savings, but also her house. She is forced to move into the Haus Sonnenruh retirement home . Here she meets Johann Schneider, who is just celebrating his 80th birthday. He pretends to be in need of care and bedridden, but is actually an extremely sprightly pensioner. He falls in love with Lena, who reminds him of an early childhood love. When he learns that she could no longer pay off the EUR 80,000 mortgage for her house because the bank cheated on her, he wants to help her. He once lost 80 million in his business and knows the mechanisms of the "other side". Several times he manages to disappear from the home with Lena. On a senior citizen's trip to the city's natural history museum, driver Tom Szymanski allows them a detour to Lena's house. Johann Schneider has promised Tom to make up for it, to make him rich - a promise he wants to keep. At Lena's house they see Tobias Hardmann who is trying to convince Lena's neighbor Victor Semlitsch to sell his house with a trick. Both realize that the entire row of houses should be torn down to make way for a shopping center. They persuade Victor Semlitsch to sell the house to them for 210,000 euros in a month at the latest. Until then he does not want to accept the bank's offer, the amount of which Victor Semlitsch does not reveal to them.
Lena and Johann dress up as eccentric antique dealers and go to the bank that Lena had previously cheated on. Johann took the Rolex from the geriatric nurse Piretti and made an impression on the receptionist. She agrees to give both of them the desired loan of 250,000 euros, but Tobias Hardmann, who joins them, insists on a surety. Lena and Johann decide to occupy the office of Johann's son Alexander during the lunch break, ask Tobias to come and show him a guarantor, Siegfried, the resident of the old people's home, who acts as Alexander. Alexander, on the other hand, is not allowed to find out anything, since he has long wanted to incapacitate the supposedly weak Johann. The trick works at first, but the diabetic Siegfried swallows a lot of sugar when he has an attack of hypoglycaemia, so that when he actually talks to Tobias, he is too sugary and hardly responsive. When Alexander comes back from his lunch break earlier than planned, he meets his father among others in the anteroom of his office. In his distress, Johann states that he wants to sign the incapacity agreement immediately. While Johann and Alexander go to the notary, Tobias gives the bank permission to approve the loan.
Lena and Johann now go to Victor Semlitsch with the money. Just as he is about to sign the purchase agreement, he has a heart attack and dies. His granddaughter, who is coming to visit, immediately calls Tobias Hardmann and gives her consent to sell the house to the bank - Tobias had offered Victor 500,000 euros for the house. Lena and Johann want to give up, but Lena has one last, daring plan. They steal a dinosaur bone from the natural history museum and bury it on the property in Windmühlengasse, where the bank is soon planning a festival with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the new shopping center. Lena, Johann, Siegfried and pensioner Hildchen appear at the festival as future major investors swords and bankers that Tobias organized. He was actually expecting his college friend Jo Schwertlein, but Lena and Johann pretend to be his parents. Jo is heavily addicted to drugs and currently in a coma. In fact, he ate cookies from Lena's sleeping pills. The dinosaur bone is discovered during the event. Other retirees from the home are now performing in various roles, including archaeologists, conservationists and radio reporters, and make it clear to the bank that the land is no longer of any value. Lena and Johann set up a new purchase agreement in which they buy all of the windmill lane properties from the bank for a symbolic euro. The land in turn becomes the property of Tom Szymanski. The bank officials grind their teeth to sign.
A little later, Johann Schneider is arrested for his actions. However, because his son incapacitated him, he cannot be held liable and is released a short time later. In a letter he explains to Alexander the background to his actions. Lena has her house back and Johann indicates that he is now in a place far away - he has not died, but is on vacation by the sea with his great love Lena.
production
Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! was filmed in Berlin from March 17th to May 7th, 2009 . a. in an old banker's villa in Hirschgarten and in the natural history museum. The film was released in German cinemas on December 24, 2009. It was released on DVD on July 15, 2010.
Ezard and Leander Haußmann also portrayed father and son in the film. Dinosaurs - You look old against us! was the last feature film by Ezard Haußmann († 2010) and Walter Giller († 2011).
criticism
"What is actually just a toothless comedy with mild punchlines about an uprising of the ancients against the lack of morality in today's financial system is still captivating thanks to the noticeable affection for the characters."
"Spiced up remake of Bernhard Sinkel's wonderful comedy 'Lina Braake', which Leander Haußmann presents as a mix of slippery senior fun and classic Rififi number."
“Uncomfortable comedy by Leander Haußmann, which deals with the relationship between society and its elders. Under the guise of a classic dramaturgy of a rupture, wonderfully staged with a twinkle in the eye with rickety old people, Haußmann encourages the viewer to think about the relationship to the elderly in general. After the film you will want to visit your grandparents. "
"Dinosaurier" is a much more silly and superficial comedy about life in old age than its model, but the critical spirit of the New German Cinema that calls into question the existing conditions still blows through it. "
Awards
In 2010 became a dinosaur - You look old against us! awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize . Walter Giller was nominated for the German Film Critics' Prize 2009 for Best Supporting Actor in 2010 .
The film evaluation board awarded for dinosaurs - You look old against us! 2009 the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! at filmportal.de
- Dinosaurs - You Look Old Against Us! official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for dinosaurs - You look old against us! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 638 K).
- ↑ See crew-united.com
- ↑ Dinosaurs - You look old against us! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/dinosaurier-gegen-uns-seht-ihr-alt-aus/117014.html
- ↑ http://www.moviemaze.de/filme/3221/dinosaurier.html
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/101941-Dinosaurier.html
- ↑ See press dossier on the award ceremony of the vdfk (PDF; 39 kB).
- ↑ See fbw-filmb Bewertung.com