An angel named Hans-Dieter

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Movie
Original title An angel named Hans-Dieter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
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Director Hajo Gies
script Michael Baier
production Jana Brandt
music Günther Illi
camera Živko Zalar
cut Claudia Fröhlich
occupation

An angel named Hans-Dieter is a German TV film by Hajo Gies from 2004 with Fritz Wepper , Ulrike Kriener and Jaecki Schwarz . The Christmas comedy is about the cleansing of a merciless manufacturer who harassed his family and his company employees all his life.

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Entrepreneur Hans-Dieter Anhäuser is one of those uncomfortable contemporaries. He doesn’t treat his family or company employees the way they deserve. He cheats on his wife, he has hardly any time for his three children and he forces his employees to work unpaid overtime even at Christmas and plans to sell the company to the Japanese. The only thing that doesn't work as he imagined is his father-in-law's old safe, which he still tries to find the combination of in vain to this day.

Despite all the hustle and bustle, however, he forgets to pay attention in traffic and has an accident with the company van. Lying in a coma experiences his own funeral in a dream and learns what everyone really thinks of him. Anhäuser is horrified to hear from his own wife that this accident is the best that could have happened to them. Because his eldest son could now realize his ideas unhindered and thus get the company out of the red, his daughter could realize her model career and the youngest could pursue his dream of professional footballer. To make matters worse, he also meets his deceased father-in-law, from whom he has to hear that he only has one chance: namely to make his family happy until Christmas. Otherwise he would personally pick him up in the afterlife on Christmas Eve.

After a week in a coma, he wakes up as a purified man. But no one wants to believe his change of heart, only a homeless person listens to him. Resigned, he turns his back on his family and feverishly begins to do good and be friendly. He unconditionally accepts the new management of his eldest son and does not put any more obstacles in the way of his two other children to realize themselves. He encourages his mother-in-law to go on her long-awaited cruise and he persuades his neighbors to woo his wife so that she will be happy with him.

So Anhäuser hopes to have steered everything in the right direction, but he also has to realize that, where he now takes so much time for his family, that is where he really gets to know them. Despite his efforts, the company is as good as bankrupt and the activities of the new managing director are unsuccessful. A last attempt to save the company with the contents of the safe fails and the wishes fulfilled do not make the family happier. Anhäuser is at a loss and at the end. So he listens to the advice of the homeless and goes back home again to say goodbye. There he learns that his family has found that they are perfectly happy with what they have. In addition, the employees have decided to defer their wages until after the next trade fair in order to do their part to save the company. So Hans-Dieter and Christmas are saved for the family.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv said about this production: “Happiness is neither the result of deep conviction, nor are the contradictions that arise despite happy endings in the family microcosm hinted at. That 'An Angel Called Hans-Dieter' does not balance on the fine line between lying Santa Claus sentimentality and sick misanthropy, as Bill Murray did in the masterful Hollywood adaptation of the Dickens story, 'The Spirits I Called' does, was to be assumed. But it should have been a little deeper even at Christmas time. ”Conclusion:“ Kitsch and clichés serve as a lubricant for luck. On the other hand, not even good-humored actors help. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for an angel named Hans-Dieter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 876 V).
  2. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach : Wepper and Kriener: too much action, too little change on the way to happiness at tittelbach.tv , accessed on December 11, 2017.