One hand washes the other
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | One hand washes the other |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hermione Huntgeburth |
| script |
Volker Einrauch , Lothar Kurzawa |
| production | Volker Einrauch, Hermine Huntgeburth , Lothar Kurzawa |
| music |
Martin Hornung , Stefan Mertin |
| camera | Michael Wiesweg |
| cut | Eva Schnare |
| occupation | |
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One hand washes the other is a German television comedy by Hermine Huntgeburth from 2012 .
action
In a small town, the citizens have come to terms with the employees of the tax office. Certain companies are not subjected to any inspection and this fact costs them a bit. Others give the examiners friendship gifts to keep them happy. Chlodwig Pullmann is also one of the auditors and can significantly increase his family's standard of living through a steady flow of money and gifts. It hardly matters that Clovis's unsuspecting wife, Jenny, is leading an initiative for an anti-corruption officer in the small town. Jenny has been actively combating corruption since the town's old port storage facility was sold for less to an ominous company in Monaco. Jenny lost her beloved wool shop as a result. She suspects the machinations of Mayor Karsten Leimer behind it.
The peace in the small town is disturbed when the alcoholic head of the tax auditor Knut dies unexpectedly. If the mayor first tries to make Clovis the head, he will eventually have to accept that a new member from Hanover, Oberregierungsrat Dr. Jakob Kronibus, receives the post. The young, career-conscious civil servant was transferred from the state capital to the province because he had been "too precise" in party financial matters and now wants to iron out his career kink through a substantial increase in tax revenue in the district. Clovis and his colleagues try to change Jacob's mind on a personal level, but he remains tough. Jakob immediately discovers irregularities in the selection of auditors for certain companies and sets a new test assignment. Although the individual inspectors try to brief each other about the respective “agreements” with the companies, the cheating will soon come out: Clovis has checked a ticket seller, previously one of Sina's “customers”, and the numbers under flimsy pretexts “like previously agreed ”corrected downwards. Jacob gives Clovis a warning. Sina, in turn, checks Henning Safranski's electrical shop on Jacob's instructions, who has always been on Clovis's list and has never been seriously examined, also because Henning Chlodwig's severely disabled brother-in-law, Johnny, is employed. The examination that Sina properly carries out because she has fallen in love with Jacob results in a demand for additional payment of 55,000 euros. Because Safranski is now facing bankruptcy and Johnny also has to fire, Clovis first manipulates Sina's final report, but is caught by Jakob and without further ado deletes the file completely. Clovis is suspended.
Jenny realizes for the first time that her husband is corrupt and she has also benefited from it when she suddenly has to pay 60 instead of 20 euros at the hairdresser's, on the grounds that she used to receive an internal "tax auditor's wife's discount". She also learns that the Monegasque Society for Development and Planning of the Port Warehouse belongs to Mayor Leimer, Clovis and Knut's brother Heinz. Clovis hoped to raise enough money for a luxury motor home by selling the property. Jenny is outraged, but has other problems in the family: Son Torben stole concert tickets and short-circuited a car for the trip to the concert. Jenny sees Father Clovis's criminal machinations as a bad role model for the boy and threatens with separation.
Jenny finally has success with her action alliance, which calls for an anti-corruption officer in the small town. Jacob and Clovis stand for election, the latter celebrating his appearance as that of a repentant convert. He is elected anti-corruption officer with just a few votes against. Jenny makes it clear to him that she first wants to have the harbor warehouse and thus her wool shop back. His first working appointment therefore leads Clovis to Karsten Leimer and Heinz. Here he refuses any new attempt at bribery. As a final offer, Leimer offers him the motorhome that Clovis always dreamed of. Clovis becomes thoughtful. The film ends before his answer.
production
One hand washes the other was filmed from April to May 2012 in Stade (Old Town, Campe Cemetery, Schwedenspeicher Museum ), Buxtehude and Hamburg . The production was carried out on behalf of arte and the NDR and carried the working title Die Pullmann-Energie . Sabine Boebbis created the costumes and Sabine Pawlik designed the film . The film premiered on September 30, 2012 at the Hamburg Film Festival . On March 1, 2013, it ran on arte for the first time on German television. It was broadcast on ARD on January 22, 2014.
criticism
For the film service , one hand washes the other was a “well-acted (television) comedy with grotesque exaggeration about the sometimes fine line between corruption and 'trivial sins'”. The TV Spielfilm called the comedy a “corruption-meets-family-values-purr” and found it “slightly unfocused, but with subtle tones”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized that the film contained too many "coincidental associations" and "the relationships [...] are just as overdrawn as the people and events." The FAZ wrote that Huntgeburth was a "wonderfully exaggerated satire on tolerance for human beings Weaknesses succeeded, which one recognizes as one's own ”and praises Noethens and Lohmeyer's acting achievement.
Web links
- One hand washes the other in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- One hand washes the other at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit to the set in Stade: “The Pullmann Energy” ( memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nordmedia, May 15, 2012.
- ↑ See crew-united.com
- ↑ Hermine Huntgeburth shoots corruption comedy with Ulrich Noethen in Stade, Buxtehude and Hamburg . ndr.de, April 10, 2012.
- ↑ One hand washes the other. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Viola Schenz: Everything just coincidence . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 1, 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Thiel: We are corrupt, and that's a good thing , FAZ of January 22, 2014
