An island called Udo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | An island called Udo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Markus Sehr |
| script |
Clemente Fernandez-Gil Markus Sehr |
| production |
Andreas Brauer Erik Winker Martin Roelly Tom Spieß Sönke Wortmann |
| music |
Tobias Wagner Steven Schwalbe |
| camera | Daniela Knapp |
| cut | Stefen Schmitt |
| occupation | |
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An island called Udo is a German comedy film directed by Markus Sehr from 2011.
action
Udo has a problem, he suffers from being “difficult to see”. People around him do not notice him, overlook him and only notice him when he speaks to them directly. That's why he found shelter in a tent in the trekking department of a department store where he works as a shop detective . The only person in his life is the transsexual perfume seller Amanda.
His life is completely mixed up when Jasmin approaches him in the department store. She can see him. Udo is beside himself with enthusiasm. A love relationship develops between the two of them, in which Jasmin wonders several times why the strangest things happen to her companion all the time. The door is thrown in his face, Frisbee discs hit his head and a car hits him. Udo has to come out and confess to Jasmin that only she can see him.
Everything changes after the first night of love together - Udo's first ever. He climbs naked out of his tent in the department store, walks past customers and thinks himself invisible. But that's not the case - not anymore.
Suddenly Jasmin is not satisfied with Udo's abnormal manner. He tries to change, which upsets Jasmin even more. There is an argument. Jasmin wishes Udo to be invisible again, after which he actually becomes invisible again, even for Jasmin. Jasmin is offered a job in Munich, which she accepts. To do this, she now wants to fly to Munich in a private plane with her boss. At the airport, Udo can stop the plane at the last second. Jasmin and Udo kiss. Happy end.
background
The film was produced in a co-production by Little Shark Entertainment and Hupe Film , financed with funds from Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Arte , the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen , the Filmförderungsanstalt and the German Film Funding Fund . The film will be released in cinemas on June 16, 2011 by the company X-Verleih in cooperation with Warner Bros.
An island called Udo is the first feature film by the Cologne International Film School graduate Markus Sehr.
criticism
“You could well imagine the film as a parade of individual skits, but stretched into a full-length cinema narrative, there is a bit of filler material at the corners. In addition, the inconspicuousness is not only on the agenda of the main character, but also of the all too frugal staging. With a little more ambition, the material would have made a comedy whose weirdness would have raised it above average. "
"However, the appealing starting idea of the comedy does not really ignite and leads to a series of frugal skits, around which the plot tries and the staging seems all too simple."
“What an island called Udo suffers from is the lack of consistency, the questions and constellations raised by the exposition not only isolated, but also resolutely developed in depth. Because in addition to the rare subtle moments where the related elements of comedy and tragedy really come close to each other, the film strings puns and gaudy skits, as if a certain gag quota had to be reached in order to get a game length of 80 minutes. "
Awards
Fritzi Haberlandt won the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for her role , a prize awarded by the Berlin Film Journalists' Club for the best comedic performance in German film in 2012.
Web links
- An island called Udo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- An island called Udo at crew united
- An island called Udo at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Kohler: An island called Udo. (No longer available online.) In: film-dienst . Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 7, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ An island called Udo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed September 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Robert Zimmermann: An island called Udo. In: Critic.de. Retrieved June 4, 2013 .
