Grandchildren for beginners

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Movie
Original title Grandchildren for beginners
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Wolfgang Groos
script Robert Lohr
production Jakob Claussen
Ulrike Putz
music Helmut Zerlett
camera Andreas Berger
occupation

Grandson for Beginners is a German comedy film by Wolfgang Groos from 2020 with Maren Kroymann , Heiner Lauterbach and Barbara Sukowa . The premiere was on January 26, 2020 in the Lichtburg in Essen . The film was released in Germany and Austria on February 6, 2020.

action

The two sisters-in-law Karin and Philippa as well as Gerhard, a friend from their youth, are childless seniors who spend their retirement in their own garden in Essen instead of traveling through foreign countries. They don't feel like taking senior courses or Nordic walking . Because of their boredom, they are looking for a new challenge. After Philippa is enjoying her life as Leonie's godparent grandma, Gerhard and Karin also apply to an agency for loan grandparents.

Soon afterwards, they will have lively sponsored grandchildren to look after. There will soon be a bouncy castle in the garden of your own home and Lego blocks are scattered everywhere . Seniors, who are inexperienced in parenting, face a number of challenges, such as hyperactive siblings from blended families , overprotective helicopter parents and single mothers with their Tinder profiles. For the three it turns out that the voluntary family constellations and the emotional cohesion are more important than their own egoisms.

production

The shooting took place from April 18 to May 31, 2019 in Cologne and Essen . The film was produced by Claussen + Putz Filmproduktion GmbH in Munich, the producers Jakob Claussen and Ulrike Putz , and the Berlin Studiocanal GmbH co-produced. Part of the goods Bayerische Rundfunk and ARD Degeto .

The production was supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the Filmförderungsanstalt , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the German Film Funding Fund .

Erik Seifert was responsible for the sound, Ellen Latz for the production design, Peri De Bragança for the costume design and Lisa Meier and Dunja Pflugfelder for the mask.

The film music was recorded by the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra .

reception

Andreas Fischer wrote in the Weser Kurier that screenwriter Robert Löhr did not skimp on humor, at least in the first half of the film. It is a shame that the production by director Wolfgang Groos frayed quickly and conflicts all too readily dissolved into self-satisfaction. Groos works a lot with the frontal pedagogical humor club. The film always has its strongest moments when it becomes quiet and no longer revolves around its clichés, but rather observed exactly how it really is with getting older. Then he shows a society that could use rest and that knows it, but that does not allow anyone to rest. Not even the grandparents, who give the children what they do not get from their parents: serenity and an open ear.

Peter Osteried found on cineman.ch that grandchildren for beginners is a life-affirming, optimistic, inspiring film that postulates that it is never too late for a new beginning if you have enough courage. The conflicts in this film are very understandable, cross-sectional through all storylines and with all characters. They never seemed excessive or exhausted, but authentic. That is also what makes this likeable comedy so attractive, because you can find yourself in the characters.

Christian Klosz said on filmpluskritik.com that despite minor weaknesses, especially in the last third, the film had become an entertaining, entertaining and, for a long time, also funny comedy, which humorously addressed the topic of getting older and judged: “Nothing earth-moving, but in the best A film for young and old ".

Stefan Klug wrote on MOZ.de that this comedy skilfully targets the peculiarities of our society with its prejudices and condemnations, rigid thought patterns and supposedly correct attitudes. All would get their fat off equally.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for grandchildren for beginners . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 196660 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for grandchildren for beginners . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Grandchildren for beginners: Stars come to Essen for the premiere. In: waz.de. January 26, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c grandchildren for beginners. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b grandchildren for beginners. In: film.at. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c grandchildren for beginners at crew united . Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  7. ↑ Shooting: Film "Enkel für Beginners". In: br.de. April 18, 2019, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Grandchildren for Beginners. In: mediabiz.de. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  9. ^ Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg: Credits , DFOB / filmorchester.de, accessed on February 6, 2020
  10. ↑ Andreas Fischer: Out of the beige hell. In: Weser Courier . January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Peter Osteried: It's never too late. In: cineman.ch. January 31, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Christian Klosz: "Grandchildren for Beginners": Critique of the home theater start. In: filmpluskritik.com. August 18, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Stefan Klug: Grandchildren for Beginners: Grandparents Made Easy. In: MOZ.de . August 22, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 .