Mistress and the Deiwelsmilch

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Movie
Original title Mistress and the Deiwelsmilch
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Thomas Bohn
script Holger Badura based
on an idea by Ulrich Herrmann
production Heike Vossler
Oliver Berben
music Fabian Römer
camera Andreas Doub
cut Corina Dietz-Heyne
occupation

Mistress and the Deiwelsmilch is a German TV film from 2014 . It was first broadcast on April 10, 2014 on Das Erste . The film is a mixture of comedy and crime . The script was written by Holger Badura , where he wrote the main role of Miri especially for Daniela Katzenberger . A continuation was planned due to satisfactory quotas, but was rejected by SWR in August 2014.

action

Miri works in the city bank in Hattenstein. She is blonde and her style of clothing is extravagant , which always makes her appear interesting for the male world. But she's also very smart about numbers. The bank manager Fourquet is always amazed at how quickly she can find booking errors. Miri then explains to her that it is as if the numbers were talking to her. She is less well respected by her colleagues, who believe that Miri only uses her feminine charms towards her boss.

One day a wire-haired dachshund follows Miri and follows her into the bank. Since he has obviously taken it into his dog's heart, she takes care of him and calls him "mistress". While walking, she comes across the winery owner Bartolomä, who is sitting dead on a park bench. When she and the policeman Nils Christian Bartolomä have to deliver the sad news that his father has succumbed to a heart attack while jogging, this is confused because Bartolomä was supposed to be at a trade fair. Christian reports of increasing disagreements between them. His father had become more and more stubborn and simply didn't want to invest his money in modernizing the winery. Miri does some research in the bank and finds out that the winery is over-indebted. His son is shocked, especially at his father's plan to sell the Deiwelsmilch vineyard , for which a sales contract has already been prepared. Miri finds out that the mayor of Hattenstein himself is behind it - camouflaged by the investment company "Global Consort".

Her friend Nadja is one of Miri's private problems. She is supposed to be deported back to Russia, and when she tries to stand up for Nadja with the mayor, Miri has to let her feminine charms play here again. Just to get an appointment, she has to get involved with Kai, the mayor's “right hand”. That brings her a reference to a hotel through which the mayor runs money transfers, but the deportation stop doesn't seem to be working. So she has the assumption that there is more to it than pure bureaucracy. This is intensified when she arouses the mayor's displeasure with a thoughtless remark and he obtains her immediate dismissal from the bank.

Because Miri is not getting anywhere with her private detective work, she wants to look around the hotel "Waldresidenz". Due to her appearance, she is immediately classified as the expected help for the spa . She learns from her two new colleagues that they are also responsible for the very special needs of their customers. You first assign Miri to work at the counter. From there she has a good overview of the circle of customers who often disappear to a room with the ladies and receive an "exotic massage". Along the way, she also finds out that Bartolomä last met the mayor here and that Nadja probably also worked here. So she speaks to her and she confesses to Miri that she killed Bartolomä. The mayor got him drunk in the hope that he would finally sign a contract. After she took care of Bartolomä, he died in the act on her. The mayor then took care of the "disposal" of the dead person.

Miri then wants to confront the mayor, but he is currently on the hunt. When he sees Miri in the forest, he shoots her as a warning. Distraught, she escapes into her car, where her mistress is waiting for her to comfort her. In the evening, the bank manager Fourquet meets her because he needs someone to talk to. His district manager has forbidden him to give Christian Bartolomä a loan that he had actually already promised him. Miri promises to help him. That is why she tries to find out something from “Hoch- und Tiefbau-Weber”, who is a regular guest at the hotel and also has to do with “Global Consort”. She succeeds in overhearing a conversation through which she learns that there is a large oil deposit under the Deiwelsmilch vineyard . With this knowledge, Christian Bartolomä has a loan security and he does not have to sell the vineyard.

For Miri, too, everything is turning out for the better. With the knowledge of the mayor's machinations, Miri has leverage against him, so that Nadja's stay in Germany is secured and he gives up his plan to buy the Deiwelsmilch . She gets her old job back from Fourquet, and the dachshund mistress stays with her, through whom she was able to find out that it actually belongs to the mayor, who wanted to shoot him for being unfit for hunting.

background

Daniela Katzenberger had prepared for four weeks with an acting coach and since she had problems with the Palatinate dialect, her text had to be rewritten in High German at her request.

The location was Bad Dürkheim .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Mum and Deiwelsmilch on April 10, 2014 on First German Television was seen by 3.59 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 11.4%. In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 1.11 million viewers and a market share of 9.6% were achieved.

Reviews

Cornelius Pollmer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung gave a mixed judgment. The film does not live up to its own claims. "There is a lack of thriller, there is a lack of comedy and as far as regionalization is concerned, [...] it resembles a somewhat too long visit to the wine festival." Only "the surprisingly accident-free performance by Daniela Katzenberger" seemed worth mentioning.

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says about this film: “The Palatinate crime comedy seems - not least because of the unappealing dialect - like an amateur play. On the other hand, Katzenberger comes across as surprisingly personable - and especially the film dog named Mistress. Still, there is absolutely nothing to be said for making a series out of this ARD 'work'. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palatinate Barbie Daniela Katzenberger in "Mistress and the Deiwelsmilch" at augsburger-allgemeine.de, accessed on May 7, 2015.
  2. ^ Location at daserste.de, accessed on May 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Katzenberger film flushes young viewers into the first , DWDL.de, April 11, 2014
  4. ↑ Corrected quotas: GfK finds hundreds of thousands of viewers , DWDL.de, April 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Somehow even sympathetic , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Mistress and the Deiwelsmilch film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on May 7, 2015.