Ms. Müller has to go!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ms. Müller has to go! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sönke Wortmann |
| script |
Oliver Ziegenbalg , Lutz Huebner , Sarah Nemitz |
| production |
Tom Spieß , Oliver Berben |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Tom Ferryman |
| cut | Martin Wolf |
| occupation | |
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Ms. Müller has to go! is a German comedy film by Sönke Wortmann from 2015. The film is based on the play of the same name by Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz .
action
The school grades of some fourth grade students in a Dresden elementary school ( Juri Gagarin elementary school) are getting worse. Now that the half-year report card is approaching, which determines the type of secondary school, many parents are concerned. You decide to make sure that the class teacher Ms. Müller hands over the class. Some make an appointment with her, give her a list of signatures and firmly claim that the teacher was to blame for the bad grades. The parents are not interested in the right secondary school, but only in the formal qualification. Later the teacher leaves the classroom for a while and leaves her bag lying around. After various arguments among themselves, some parents look in their pockets for their children's oral grades. Since the grades are much better than expected and there is nothing to prevent their children from attending grammar school, they try to convince Ms. Müller, who is now ready to hand over the class, of the opposite, and they succeed. At the end, the teacher would like to inform the parents about the grades, whereby it turns out that she does not have the current grades with her and that the slip of paper found by the parents shows that of the previous year.
background
Ms. Müller has to go! is awarded by Constantin Film . Also were involved in the production Little Shark Entertainment GmbH and Seven Pictures Film GmbH involved.
The film project was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , Deutscher Filmförderfonds , Filmförderungsanstalt and FilmFernsehFonds Bayern .
In total, just over 1.1 million people saw the film in theaters.
Explanations by the director
In an interview with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Sönke Wortmann explains the “microcosm of parents' evening” as an “interesting subject” from which he had hoped from the outset to be a success with the public own children. ”After a time when the main concern was that parents had to fight for their legitimate interests, today it is a matter of“ excesses in the other direction ”, i. H. to criticize presumptuous parenting behavior.
Reviews
Oliver Kaever from " Spiegel Online " rates the film rather negatively: It starts out strong, but loses tension after the teacher leaves. Also, unlike The God of Carnage , for example, the film does not maintain the aggressive tone it once adopted. “He should have targeted a middle class that revolves around worries about loss of status and overconfidence and turns school into a theater of war for interests that have little to do with the well-being of their own children. But it was never Wortmann's thing to hold the mirror in front of the audience. Once again, as with all of his work, [...] Wortmann curls up with the viewer and pastes any breaks in their ideal world with a patented emotional sauce. "
Marcel Reich from the “ Handelsblatt ” is also of the opinion that director Sönke Wortmann defused his “well-coordinated armed massacre far too much” until the teacher left, but rates this as a “small weakness” that does not prevent the film “nevertheless very much worth seeing ".
Jan Wiele from the “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ” praises the Kammerspiel , the “type comedy with good actors”; where only an excess of " slapstick " bothers him. The chamber play holds ready a "moral catharsis ". In the end, the teacher stands "as a principled winner over the parents and their motives."
Manfred Riepe from epd Film awarded 3 out of 5 stars. The film is "entertaining in parts, even if the filmed theater doesn't have a lot to offer visually". “The fact that the double hour leaves you cold” is “more due to the template”. As caricatures, “the five different parents […] are remembered”, the “film doesn't hurt anyone”. Ms. Müller lacks the “balance between the comedic dismantling and the insistence that certain fears and fears of parents are perhaps justified”.
Awards
- 2015: Romy in the Best Feature Film category
- 2016: Nomination for the German audio film award in the cinema film category for the audio description spoken by Nicole Engeln
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Ms. Müller has to go! in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Ms. Müller has to go! at filmportal.de
Remarks
- ↑ Release certificate for Ms. Müller must go! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 602 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Ms. Müller must go! Youth Media Commission , accessed on September 11, 2015 .
- ↑ "The greatest pressure comes from the parents" . The time . January 14, 2015
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: School comedy by Sönke Wortmann: Attack of the helicopter parents . mirror online . January 14, 2015
- ↑ Marcel Reich: Your nerves are on edge in the classroom . The Handelsblatt . January 16, 2015
- ↑ Jan Wiele: At the end of the day it is billed . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 17th January 2015
- ↑ Manfred Riepe: Criticism to Ms. Müller must go . epd film . December 12, 2014
- ↑ derStandard.at - Romy for ATV- "Klartext" and ORF- "ZiB 2 History" . APA notification dated April 24, 2015, accessed April 25, 2015.
- ↑ Ms. Müller has to go! in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.