Fink drives off
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fink drives off |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| script | Michael Nöhrig |
| music | Lothar Scherpe |
| camera | Helmut Pirnat |
| occupation | |
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Fink departs is an Austrian television comedy from 1998. When it was first broadcast on ORF on January 24, 1999, the film reached 857,000 viewers, which corresponds to a reach of 12 percent and a market share of 28 percent.
action
Together with his girlfriend Rosi and another accomplice, Schellak, portrayed as clumsy and in good faith, robbed a bank in Vienna. The chaotic organization and implementation lead to complications - which ultimately lead to Rosi and the accomplice Guido fleeing without shellak. The left alone tries to escape on his own first, and then sits in the car of a driving school - in which the student Fink is receiving driving lessons.
Schellak, who cannot drive himself, finally takes the learner driver Fink hostage in order to escape. The two fight a lot at first, and it quickly becomes clear that the cheeky learner driver is superior to his hostage-taker. With great luck, the two manage to flee from the police several times by a hair's breadth. Both develop sympathy for each other, and when Schellak tries to release his hostage Fink, he refuses to leave.
A team of reporters from a private television station is also following the two of them - the sensation-hungry journalists manage to find Fink and Schellak. The reporter persuades Schellak to continue the escape together in the TV broadcaster's car and from then on poses as a hostage. At the same time, it provides information about the current whereabouts to its transmitter and the police. She arranged the planned arrest of Shellac at a gas station.
Again, Fink and Schellak manage to flee by luck and chance. When the two of them finally say goodbye after a successful escape, a police officer who happens to be passing by becomes aware of shellac through an accident and arrests him.
The film ends - after a leap in time - with the release of Shellak from prison. Fink and his mother pick up the bank robber from prison and propose to him that the three of them rob a bank.
reception
The television film was only discussed in the Austrian press in marginal notes before and after it was first broadcast. The press criticized the acting performance: "If this film had anything to tell, it was about how one shouldn't act in front of a camera without long-term loss of face." The Upper Austrian News called the film "infantile, but still funny" . The Kleine Zeitung's criticism was similar : "In parts, it is more stupid than the police allow, but also very funny ." Doris Knecht wrote in the news magazine Profil : “ Good, I laughed two or three times. [...] Otherwise, Austroschmäh and Austropop have a lot in common: being nice, never stepping on anyone's toes and going to bed early. «
Finally, the director SICHERITZ expresses himself ambivalent about his work: “I was offered the project at short notice and happened to have time. The book was unfinished, the preparation time extremely short, so a classic commissioned work. I like doing this thing anyway - or maybe because of it. "
Web links
- Fink leaves from the Internet Movie Database (English)