Faking bullshit

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Movie
Original title Faking bullshit
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alexander Schubert
script Alexander Schubert
music Roman Fleischer
camera Julian Landweer
cut Levent Celebi ,
Robert Hauser
occupation

Faking bullshit , subtitled more criminal than the police allow! is a German film comedy from 2020 by Alexander Schubert with Erkan Acar, Adrian Topol , Susanne Schnapp , Alexander Hörbe , Sina Tkotsch and Bjarne Mädel . The premiere took place on 23 July 2020 at the Munich Film Festival pop in pop Autokino in Munich . The originally planned film festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The German theatrical release is scheduled for September 10, 2020.

The film is an adaptation of the Swedish comedy Kops from 2003.

action

In a peaceful, sleepy little town in North Rhine-Westphalia , the police officers Rocky, Deniz and the couple Hagen and Netti are on duty. There is hardly anything to do with it. Surprisingly, Tina turns up, who was commissioned by a higher authority to handle guard 23 due to the lack of criminality. In contrast to their direct superior Rainer, the four police officers do not want to put up with the closure of their station.

In order to save their jobs and to convince them of the necessity of their guard, the police officers try to fake crimes themselves and thus simulate intensive investigative work. The officers find someone in the homeless Klaus whom they can blame. Tina is suspicious of the increased crime rate, she suspects that the police might have something to do with it. During their work, the officers come across an actual criminal case, an art theft, which Tina had previously investigated without success.

production

The shooting took place from September 30th to November 8th, 2019, the shooting took place in Ahlen near Münster .

The film was produced by Mavie Films in co-production with Pamy Mediaproductions , Gretchenfilm Filmproduktion, UMAK, True Illusions, Telepool and The Greater Fool .

Kristin Hofmann was responsible for the costume design, Marie-Luise Best for the production, Kai Unger for the sound, Antonia Petschow for the mask and Karen Wendland for the casting.

reception

Christoph Petersen wrote on Filmstarts.de that the dry and black humor of Kops should actually go perfectly with the main actor Erkan Acar. But Faking Bullshit is by no means as crazy as Snow Maiden & Co. If the original had been reissued in the German instead of the Swedish provinces, the result would have been a not particularly original, but charmingly entertaining crime comedy. But the script for Faking Bullshit relies on two key additions that make the film worse instead of better. On the one hand, most of the talks revolve around the current debate about political correctness , MeToo and everyday racism . However, the film doesn't even begin to dare to go where it sometimes hurts. On the other hand, the film turns in the direction of a normal crime comedy. The entire art theft plot would consist almost entirely of unbelievable coincidences. The grand finale of all things turns out to be the film's greatest disappointment.

Marius Ochs described the film on filmpluskritik.com as a successful debut. The ensemble captivates with lovable characters who could cause laughter more than once. The sometimes well-pointed social criticism could, however, be much more sophisticated. The film also loses points because of the far-fetched plot.

Bert Rebhandl found in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the title would be a little unsuitable for a comedy that does a lot of things right in detail, but also lets itself be lulled a little by its implicit idyll. The film aims at disarming harmlessness. A self-regulating process is being demonstrated here to an agitated public who learn about gangs and clan crime every day from local newspapers: Guard 23 ensures order in a society that actually doesn't really know what problems it has.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Faking Bullshit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 200465 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c Details - Faking Bullshit. In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Christian Wolff: World premiere of "Faking Bullshit": Ahlen on the big screen on the Isar. In: wn.de. July 23, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ Bernhard Blöchl: Munich Film Festival: New ideas after Corona cancellation. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 26, 2020, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Satire film comes later: Cinema release postponed: "Faking Bullshit" starts on September 10th. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. August 4, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ More criminal than the police allow: Watch the first trailer for "Faking Bullshit" on moviebreak.de; accessed on July 25, 2020
  7. ↑ a b Faking Bullshit. In: gretchenfilm.com. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Faking Bullshit at crew united . Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  9. ↑ a b Faking Bullshit. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Christoph Petersen: Critique of Faking Bullshit - More criminal than the police allow !: When the police suddenly commit the crimes. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Marius Ochs: "Faking Bullshit" - review of the cinema release. In: filmpluskritik.com. August 19, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 .
  12. ^ Bert Rebhandl : Police comedy: fist on the law eye. In: faz.net. August 29, 2020, accessed August 30, 2020 .