A very hot number

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Movie
Original title A very hot number
A very hot number.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Markus Goller
script Andrea Sixt
production Florian Deyle
Philip Schulz-Deyle
Martin Richter
Andrea Sixt
music Peter Horn
Andrej Melita
Martin Probst
camera Ueli Steiger
cut Simon Gstöttmayr
Markus Goller
occupation
chronology

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A very hot number 2.0

A very hot number is a German comedy film by Markus Goller from 2011. The production is based on a screenplay by the author Andrea Sixt , who wrote the bestseller of the same name (1998), and tells of three working women of different ages who are strictly Catholic community in the Bavarian Forest set up a sex hotline to avoid the bankruptcy of their mom and pop shop and thus cause a huge scandal. Gisela Schneeberger , Bettina Mittendorfer , Rosalie Thomass and Monika Gruber took on the leading roles .

The production by TNF Tele Norm Film GmbH and ATrack Film GmbH was filmed in coproduction with ZDF from September to November 2010 in the Lower Bavarian community of Gotteszell and in Regensburg and opened in German cinemas on October 27, 2011. Critics compared the comedy with the Swiss production Die Herbstzeitlosen (2006) as well as British social comedies like All or Not (1997) and Calendar Girls (2003). With more than one million visitors, the film advanced to become the second most successful German arthouse production of 2011. Directed by Rainer Kaufmann , the film was continued in 2019 with A Very Hot Number 2.0 .

action

In the Lower Bavarian community of Marienzell, the economic crisis is driving residents into unemployment. After the local glassworks closed , the two owners of the corner shop, Lebensmittel Brandner , Waltraud Wackernagel and Maria Brandner, along with their saleswoman Lena, are waiting in vain for the last remaining customers in their shop, who now prefer to shop in the discount supermarket in Zwiesel . On top of that, one day Mr. Sonnleitner from Bayernbank appears unannounced in the shop and announces the termination of the future-proof business loan with four weeks' notice. Since Waltraud's husband became unemployed when the glassworks closed, the couple are also threatened with losing their home.

Waltraud, Maria and Lena only have a few weeks to get out of their misery with additional income. The crazy idea of ​​secretly founding a sex hotline soon seems like the rescue - but not without conjuring up a huge scandal in the strictly Catholic homeland. After a short time, the three women hold the first telephone bill of around 7,000 euros in their hands. However, the secret company is exposed when the mayor's wife, Gerti Oberbauer, catches Maria groaning in the shop. Through her somewhat retarded son Jakob, she has photos of the three women taking the phone and passing them on to the local newspaper. This appears on the very day on which the dean in the village shows the new window designs for the Regensburg Cathedral .

In the evening, after the dean left the village furiously, the majority of the angry village population carried torches to Maria's house, where her two friends were able to take refuge in time. Maria explains to the mob that they basically didn't do anything bad and that the villagers are also to blame for having preferred the discounter. After the death of her father in need of care, Maria embarks on a long trip to South America, from which she cannot dissuade even Mr. Sonnleitner, who turns out to be a hotline customer and who absolutely wanted to get to know her in real life. Meanwhile, Waltraud is making a career as a “sex expert” on local television, while Lena has a relationship with the young farmer Willi.

background

A very hot number is based on the novel by book and screenwriter Andrea Sixt in 1998. Sixt was responsible for the screenplay for the film, the dialogues could - unlike in the book - but with a significantly greater proportion Bavarian dialect provided . Sixt managed to win over the two producers Florian Deyle and Philip Schulz-Deyle for the realization of their script . The duo compared the production to British working-class comedies such as Calendar Girls (2003) and We Want Sex (2010), which, like A Very Hot Number, were characterized by “a great deal of authenticity”. In turn, the director took Markus Goller , the cinematographer Ueli Steiger , a friend Andrea Sixts, at the Comedy Friendship! (2010) had worked. Goller discovered parallels to his previous project in the material and found both the planned locations in his home country and the main female cast to be the greatest incentive of the project, after Gisela Schneeberger , Bettina Mittendorfer and Rosalie Thomass had already been signed before he was accepted.

The Lower Bavarian community of Gotteszell in the middle of the Bavarian Forest acted as the main location .

In addition to Deyle and Schulz-Deyle's tnf telenormfilm, Martin Richter and Andrea Sixt also appeared as producers with their production company ATrack Film. In addition, ZDF acted as a co-producer of the project. The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern supported the production with around 830,000 euros to fund scripts, production and distribution. Furthermore, both the Bavarian Banking Fund with 100,000 euros and the German Film Funding Fund with another 555,000 euros participated in the project. The film comedy was shot between September 23 and November 9, 2010 in the Lower Bavarian community of Gotteszell in the Bavarian Forest and in Regensburg in Upper Palatinate . Sixt and Goller stayed in constant contact during the filming and decided to rewrite scenes repeatedly on set in order to respond to important suggestions from the actors.

criticism

Dietmar Kanthak from epd Film summed up that the comedy “on the one hand relies on the original power of Bavarian comedy”, and on the other it lives “on solid contrasts”. The "leisurely pace of the film" is "just as satirical stylistic device as the harmless rippling music", whereby the "real triumph of comedy" lies in the fact that it gives its characters enough air to breathe. Goller and Sixt go "behind the surface of a lovingly painted village world", whose dry humor "protects the comedy from plain embarrassment". Schneeberger in particular finds "wonderfully quiet tones as Waltraud".

The magazine Blickpunkt: Film described the film as a “charming and well-cast comedy of manners”, which “suitable for the public” dispenses with overly attractive things and therefore resembles in large parts the Swiss comedy Die Herbstzeitlosen (2006). Goller stages "with a steady hand melancholy as well as comical situations that arise primarily from the demands of phone sex, the piety and the sense of shame of the trio". The portal summed up the film as a "gag-rich, audience-oriented and affirmative life guide cinema that functions as a sympathetic women’s film as well as a jolly swank."

Asokan Nirmalarajah von Filmstarts called the film a “beautifully photographed homeland farce with sympathetic characters, accompanied by catchy music” and compared it to English working-class comedies such as All or Not (1997) or Calendar Girls (2003), the careful plot structure of which drove the production remember. In his opinion, Goller "skilfully maintains the balance between serious and humorous elements and does not lose sight of the social background of the sympathetically drawn figures when the idea may initially seem silly."

Brigitte Preissler from Die Welt found that Sixt “really dug deep into the cliché box when characterizing her characters” and went on to write: “In front of the homogeneous philistine backdrop, the most gaudy effects can be achieved with tangible sex and fecal jokes. In order to give the film depth, Goller and Sixt also incorporate all sorts of serious motifs [...] But it is useless, the plot only frays out. One cannot expect more than moderately funny entertainment from a very hot number . "

success

Actress Rosalie Thomass at the 2012 Bavarian Film Award ceremony.

A very hot number celebrated its world premiere on September 30, 2011 at the Zurich Film Festival. In Germany, the film was shown at a preview on October 20, 2011 at the Filmtheater in Zwiesel , and on October 25, 2011 at the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich . The release for the public demonstration of the production by its distributor, UFA , finally took place on October 27, 2011.

According to press reports, at the end of the first screening weekend, the feature film had around 125,000 visitors in just 169 cinemas, placing itself behind the two newcomers The Adventures of Tintin and Killer Elite and Johnny English - now even more! and Wickie on a big trip to number 5 in the German cinema charts. With a box-office result of a little more than a total of 875,000 euros, the film was consequently the best copy cut of the weekend. In the art house cinema charts, the comedy even ousted Pedro Almodóvar's thriller The Skin I Live in from the top of the table.

The one million visitor mark reached a really hot number in the ninth week of the game. In the 2011 arthouse annual charts, the feature film was ranked eighth of the most viewed arthouse films of the year and was the second most successful German production in this list after Yasemin Şamderelis Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland . In the annual charts as a whole, the comedy was once again ranked eighth of the most successful German cinema productions of 2011 with 1,027,339 visitors.

Awards

Actress Bettina Mittendorfer received the Bavarian Film Prize 2011 for her portrayal of Maria , while Gisela Schneeberger won the German Actor Prize 2014 for her play . In addition, A Whole Hot Number was nominated for the 2012 Bambi in the Film National category, but was defeated by Bora Drachtkin's Turkish for Beginners .

continuation

From April 24 to June 13, 2018, filming for a direct continuation of the film began in Gotteszell and the surrounding area as well as in Munich. The working title was A very hot number 2.0 . While Gisela Schneeberger, Rosalie Thomass and Bettina Mittendorfer could be engaged again for their roles Waltraud, Lena and Maria, Rainer Kaufmann took over the direction of Markus Goller. In addition to the female trio, Franziska Schlattner , Matthias Ransberger , Tristan Seith , Felix von Manteuffel , Jorge González and Günther Maria Halmer appeared in front of the camera. This time Kathrin Richter and Jürgen Schlagenhof contributed the script.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for a very hot number . Youth Media Commission .
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  7. ↑ Brigitte Preissler: Bavarian village women are now telephoning . In: The world . World online . October 26, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
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