FC Venus - Attack is the best defense
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | FC Venus - You have to be eleven couples! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ute Wieland |
| script |
Jan Berger , Outi Keskevaari, Katri Manninen |
| production |
Stefan Schubert , Ralph Schwingel |
| music | Oliver Biehler |
| camera | Peter Przybylski |
| cut | Martina Matuschewski |
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FC Venus - Attack is the best defense is a fiction film by director Ute Wieland from 2006 . The comedy is a German version of the Finnish film FC Venus - Fußball ist Frauensache (2005) and is based on an adaptation by the author Jan Berger . It tells of the couple Anna and Paul, played by Nora Tschirner and Christian Ulmen , between whom a competition for the future of their relationship flares up when Paul lures his girlfriend from Berlin to his old homeland under false pretenses to join his old football club to help a personal misery.
Was produced FC Venus from the desert film co-produced by Egoli Tossell Film, Seven Pictures Film and Second media fund film production in collaboration with the stations Sat.1 . The shooting took place from September to October 2005 in Brandenburg , Berlin and Lower Saxony . In addition to Tschirner and Ulmen, Anneke Kim Sarnau , Heinz Hoenig , Florian Lukas , Andreas Pietschmann , Andreas Guenther and Steffen Groth appeared in front of the camera of the ensemble film. The film opened in German cinemas on April 27, 2006, a few weeks before the start of the soccer World Cup in Germany.
action
Anna and Paul live together in Berlin, where Anna works as a civil engineer . Suddenly Paul receives a call from his childhood friend Steffen, reminding him of his promise to return to his home village if their jointly founded football club Eintracht Imma 95 is in trouble. This case has now occurred because the top player Udo is in a coma . But Anna hates football, which is why Paul moves with her to Imma under the pretext of a house in the countryside.
Anna quickly notices that the men in the village all live for the local football club, and when she learns the real reason for the move, she offers Paul a bet. The players' women compete against Eintracht Imma 95. If the women win, Paul and Anna have to move back to Berlin, and the other men also have to keep various promises. However, if the men win, the women must never again complain about their men's football. First of all, additional women have to be won, as not every one of the eleven players in Eintracht Imma 95 has a partner. It turns out that one of the players is gay and his friend ( Andreas Pietschmann ) is an asset to FC Venus. In addition, Anna, who previously played in the U16 national team under pressure from her father - the famous Bundesliga coach Laurenz Schmidt - hires the current national goalkeeper Kim Wagner, who receives her eligibility to play by having sex with one of the men.
The women set up their own soccer field, but the training starts slowly. It wasn't until Anna signed her father as a coach under pressure from Kim that the team improved. The women ensure that the men increasingly lose their self-confidence and eventually conquer their local pub. Since Laurenz Schmidt also examines the training of men, they feel called to greater things. Paul is firmly convinced that Schmidt is only there to get him into the Bundesliga. When the situation clears up and Paul learns about Anna's true past, their relationship comes to an end.
Finally the day of the game comes. First, the men are 2-0 up with Udo, who has surprisingly returned, and Anna is pissed off at the referee. But in the last minute of the game - with a score of 2: 2 - he whistled an unjustified penalty for the women after Paul fouled Anna and saw the red card. Paul leaves the field angry. Anna converts the penalty and the women win 3-2. Anna then goes back to Berlin alone, but at some point Paul realizes his mistake and looks for her unsuccessfully. The women are now so infected with football fever that they secretly watch Paul's games. Anna also realizes that one shouldn't break up because of football and returns to Imma. The soccer-infected women play soccer again and allow their husbands to play again.
background
At a meeting in Cannes in 2004, producer Ralph Schwingel was originally made aware of the idea for FC Veuns by his Finnish colleague, film producer Jarkko Hentula . Although Hentula Schwingel initially wanted to work as a co-producer for the Finnish original FC Venus - Fußball ist Frauensache , which was published the following year, the collaboration failed for various reasons. Schwingel liked the script so much that he suggested the German-language adaptation to Hentula. As a result, both films went into pre-production almost at the same time - a fact that Schwingel later described the project as “the first and so far only instant remake”. As a director he was able to win Ute Wieland , who viewed FC Venus in the tradition of British comedies such as All or Not (1997) as an ensemble film about love and friendship, but also a romantic comedy. She defined three narrative levels that carry the film: The love story between Anna and Paul, the soccer bet and the topic of soccer and this as a metaphor for the battle between the sexes.
Schwingel described the casting process as “incredibly difficult” and “exhausting”. In her inquiries, Wieland always had to emphasize that it was an ensemble film in which there was little room for individuals, but encouraged all auditors to improvise and contribute something themselves. At some point the production team started moving the characters around like pieces on a chessboard. Nora Tschirner was cast at Ute Wieland's request after she saw Tschirner in Anno Saul's intercultural comedy Kebab Connection (2005). Both she and her then MTV colleague Christian Ulmen received individual training in preparation for the shooting. Tschirner trained for example in the youth training boarding school of Hamburger SV . Volker Ippig , the former goalkeeper of FC St. Pauli , was hired for a supporting role ; he can initially be seen as an injured field player.
The place Imma that appears in the film does not exist. The residents' cars all begin with the fictitious license plate IM – MA. On the other hand, Altlandsberg , east of Berlin near Strausberg, served as the location for the film . It was mainly shot in the city, with the town signs being unscrewed and replaced by fictitious names especially for the shooting. Most of the soccer scenes were created on the sports field in Egestorf, Lower Saxony . Here, too, all signs and logos of the local MTV Egestorf club were unscrewed and replaced with Eintracht Imma signs. Performers Sandra Borgmann sang the Gerd Müller anthem "Then makes it boom" for the production .
Reviews
Stern editor Birgit Roschy found that "various Vereinsmeier types are recognizable", but the sympathy of the film goes to outsiders. The "unbelievably narrow-minded initial situation" develops "at times a fun that is rarely experienced in German comedies". Your joke draws "the comedy mainly through the female imitation of male rituals". The "female loosening exercises and the fruitless efforts of men to contain them" are presented "with a lot of dialogue wit and situation comedy", but ended in a rather predictable end. Women's football remains "mainly a parody of men with modest game scenes, but a mood like carnival".
Cinema magazine described FC Venus as a 'dramaturgical bloodshed. Nevertheless: The whole thing has speed, wit and a charismatic cast (inside) ensemble. You might not win the cinema World Cup with that, but in the cinematic Bundesliga FC Venus is sure to be in the upper midfield. The kick of the film arises because the actors really hung themselves in and "compensated for the somewhat headless approach to the story with charm and soul".
Holger Lodahl from the arthouse film portal kino-zeit.de judged that FC Venus is ostensibly a film about football, but basically about something else: “Here the gender battle between men and women takes place on the lawn with the round leather thing: The Women have to assert themselves against their arrogant husbands. Therefore, FC Venus is a great comedy with great music and research slogans that plays with all the prejudices that have always been kicked back and forth between men and women [...] The men occupy the TV and couch while they are everything around them to be forgotten. But they should: The women can finally go to the cinema again in peace ”.
Film critic Hans-Ulrich Pönack called the production a “sometimes smirking film” and found that Wieland was giving away a lot “by using a much too predictable, brittle narrative and staging”: “Record, one-dimensional characters dominate the action; the arc of tension appears consistently limited; the pace slows down too often, the well-known (football / gender) clichés are served more stupidly than caricatured in an entertaining way. FC Venus is unfortunately not a refreshing comedy about women and men that comes up with unexpected motifs and original gags, but always remains in the context of a normal TV movie ”. Tschirner is the only one who has role character / strength / personality.
Jürgen Armbruster von Filmstarts described FC Venus in his review as a “miserably failed football comedy” that presented a “sucked-out idea” and was “completely overdrawn and not very sympathetic”. The feature film only benefits from its well-known actors, without whom “the film would be in good hands in the Wednesday evening program of any private broadcaster”. FC Venus “feels like such a TV production [...] It is bitter that every now and then it is actually hinted at what would have been possible here. As a reward for all those who actually hold out to the end, the probably most erotic interpretation of the Gerd Müller- Ulk song "Then make it boom!" And some really successful one-liners ".
success
FC Venus celebrated its world premiere on April 25, 2006 at the Cinemaxx in Hamburg . In Germany, the film was released for public screening the following day by a distributor, NFP Marketing & Distribution. Alternative titles were FC Venus - you have to be eleven couples , FC Venus - you have to be 11 couples , FC Venus - women on the ball , and FC Venus - black red blonde . According to press reports, the production counted 96,995 visitors in 253 cinemas at the end of the first screening weekend. By the end of the year the film was able to book 256,427 admissions at the German box offices nationwide. It was ranked 24th among the most visited German productions of 2006. The box office profits in Germany were around 1.5 million euros.
Web links
- FC Venus - Attack is the best defense in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- FC Venus - Attack is the best defense at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for FC Venus - attack is the best defense . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 829 K).
- ↑ Age rating for FC Venus - attack is the best defense . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b FC Venus - Attack is the best defense in the lexicon of international films . Retrieved July 28, 2012
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n press release. In: Desert Film . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Women on the Edge of the Broken Shin . In: Stern . Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ↑ a b Hans-Ulrich Pönack: FC Venus . In: poenack.de . Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ↑ Editorial review . In: Cinema . Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ↑ Holger Lodahl: Football as a battle of the sexes . In: kino-zeit.de . Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ↑ Jürgen Armbruster: FC Venus> Film Starts Critique . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ↑ Filmgarde on the ball . In: Berliner Morgenpost . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b FC Venus . In: film portal . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ FC Venus - Attack is the best defense ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on tv14. Retrieved July 28, 2012
- ↑ DVD title
- ↑ a b c weekend charts. In: Blickpunkt: Film . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (national) 2006 . Film Funding Agency . FFA.de. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
