Great times

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Movie
Original title Great times
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Annette Ernst
script Christian Zübert
production Valentin Holch
music Christopher Dierks
camera Alexander Fischerkoesen
cut Brigitta Tauchner
occupation

Cool times ( working title : The Starter Wife ) is a German film comedy the director Annette Ernst in 2006. In the lead roles embody Stephan Luca and Sebastian Stroebel , the two childhood friends Lars and Martin.

action

The story of the film begins with a flashback to the time 10 years ago: Lars and Martin are two close friends, young students who enjoy their lives to the fullest. People celebrate, drink alcohol in excess, and whistle after the women. Back in the current time, the plot continues and shows Martin in particular, who has the feeling, now at the age of 30, to be in a crisis of meaning. While he has been unemployed for half a year and was left by his girlfriend Nina, his friend Lars is now a successful lawyer and is engaged to the attractive Dani. Martin is so far behind with his rent payments that he is threatened with eviction from his apartment.

After several unsuccessful applications, which repeatedly failed due to his non-existent qualifications, Martin finally decides to finish his then discontinued studies. But there are hurdles in his way: His studies have been too long so that he would have to catch up on all courses if he cannot prove a “particular hardship”. To do this, he persuades his neighbor's boy, Josh, to credibly demonstrate to the professor at the university that Martin is his father and to look after him instead of his mother while he was growing up. The plan works, Martin is admitted to the exam, but breaks it off again to visit Josh at an acting performance and encourage him from the audience to encourage his role.

So Martin not only gets closer to Josh, but also to his mother. The two enter into a love affair and Martin decides to become a writer and will soon even publish his first novel.

production

Valentin Holch produced the comedy for Multimedia Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH ( Hamburg ) on behalf of Pro7 . Filming began on October 10, 2005 and ended on November 11 of the same year. The film was shot in Berlin .

First broadcast and different film titles abroad

Geile Zeiten was broadcast for the first time on March 2, 2006 on ProSieben . In Hungary it was first broadcast on August 5, 2009, there under the title Csodás évek jönnek , in Finland it was first broadcast on June 4, 2011, there under the title Kolmenkympin kriisi . The English title is 30 Something .

criticism

TV Spielfilm judges with an upward stretched thumb: “Big boys love and ego crises, narrated calmly and with lovable characters”. The summary of the program magazine is: "Fine clothes with quiet strengths".

Rainer Tittelbach sums it up appreciatively: “Strong cast, fresh direction by Grimme Prize winner Annette Ernst, good soundtrack”. In his conclusion, however, the film critic qualifies: “However, the conventions are catching up with this lively thirtysomethings comedy in the home straight”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Geile Zeiten - filmportal.de. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Geile Zeiten (TV Movie 2006) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Geile Zeiten - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Geile Zeiten - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved January 2, 2016 .