Golden times

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Movie
Original title Golden times
Golden times.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Peter Thorwarth
script Peter Thorwarth
Alexander M. Rümelin
production Christian Becker
Benjamin Herrmann
music Kraans de Lutin
camera Jan Fehse
cut Anja Pohl
occupation

Golden Times is a comedy film of director Peter Thorwarth from the year 2006 .

It is the third film in a trilogy that Thorwarth shot in his former home in Unna . The other two titles are Bang Boom Bang - A surefire thing (around 460,000 viewers) and What doesn't fit is made to fit (around 670,000 viewers). The conclusion of the “ Unna Trilogy ” disappointed at the box office with less than 100,000 viewers.

action

As president of a golf club in Unna, Jürgen Matthies is organizing a charity event that will officially help build an orphanage in Romania. The aging star of the 80s action series John Striker, Douglas Burnett, is hired as a popular but at the same time affordable draft horse for this event. When Matthies and his somewhat naive treasurer Kettwig pick up the former Hollywood star at the airport, they do not notice that the doppelganger Horst Müller is standing in front of them. This was put on them by Ingo Schmitz, an employee of the party king Charly Neubauer and responsible for the commitment of Burnett, who wants to share the agreed fee with Müller. But Matthies also plays a double game: he does not pay the rent for the golf club premises to the raging farmer Buschschulte, and there are questionable items in the golf club's balance sheets, so that one gets the impression early on that he is not going to change it Charity, but about your own profit. At the same time he has a relationship with the young Jasmin, which causes his wife to set two Uzbek killers on her.

Burnett / Müller, the German actor Mischa Hahn and Matthies later celebrate an exuberant party in the hotel with cocaine and hookers provided by the pimp Harry Grabowski - himself a big John Striker fan. One of the Uzbek killers, who have since been hired as bodyguards for Burnett, then kills one of the prostitutes believing that she is Matthies' lover.

At the same time, Ingo wants to spend a night with Melanie, a former singer. However, this project fails.

Then the events roll over. Matthies removes the prostitute's corpse because he fears that he will be connected to the murder case, and in doing so goes over corpses himself (Buschschultes and Kettwigs). The hoax with Horst Müller is noticed by the Uzbeks when Horst Müller, overwhelmed by the role of Douglas Burnett, wants to quit, whereupon Ingo pays the killers hush money. Grabowski, angry about the loss of his employees, demands Ingo's car (which in truth belongs to his boss Charly) and a seat at Douglas Burnett's table at the closing gala as compensation. Grabowski discovers that Douglas Burnett is a fraud. Out of anger he lets Ingo break an arm. Ingo had split up with his girlfriend Bianca before, and Horst Müller aka Burnett nibbled Matthies' wife in the toilet. At the end of the gala, Horst Müller alias Douglas Burnett announces his true identity. Matthies, furious and full of desperation, kills him on the open stage with a golf club.

While Matthies is then arrested, Ingo, the initiator of the deception, gets away scot-free because nothing can be proven to him after Müller's death. In the final scene, Ingo gets into his parents' car to visit Melanie, who has obviously forgiven him.

criticism

According to the lexicon of the international film, "the sometimes rough Ruhrpott comedy" can "claim to reproduce the mood quite unfiltered", but this "hardly justifies the excess length of the film, the plot of which is more and more frayed by numerous secondary lines."

Trivia

Peter Thorwarth 2005 in Berlin
  • The pimp Harald Grabowski is the brother of Karl-Heinz Grabowski, a main character from Bang Boom Bang . Mark Kampmann and Melanie are characters from Bang Boom Bang .
  • The film contains numerous allusions to Bang Boom Bang : At a press conference Burnett mimics machine gun noises after Bang Boom Bang ; as Burnett races backwards through a pane, someone notices that he has "hit the pane nicely in the middle"; Kampmann “optimizes” vehicles, and Grabowski, when he's satisfied, says: “That's how I want to hear you”. Jürgen Matthies plans to dispose of the prostitute's body in the trout breeding tank; the vault in Bang Boom Bang is also found by the police in a trout farm. The number combination of Harald Grabowski's suitcase is 666, this corresponds to the numbers on the license plate of Karl-Heinz Grabowski's Mercedes-Benz SEC.
  • In the scene in which the helicopter lands on the golf course with Douglas Burnett, you can see Henning Wehland , the singer of the H-Blockx , who wrote the soundtrack for Bang Boom Bang , standing in the sequence that shows the enthusiastic audience .
  • This time, it was not Rainer Kühn who was responsible for the film music, but Kraans de Lutin .
  • Willi Thomczyk and Hilmi Sözer , who together with Ralf Richter have appeared in all of the well-known Peter Thorwarth films so far, are absent from Golden Times .
  • There are a few things in common between the fictional biography of the character Mischa Hahn and the real one of Gedeon Burkhard : Both come from Munich, have gained notoriety through television productions in Austria and both are trying to get into the big film business.
  • Lucas Gregorowicz alias Stefan, known from Lammbock , appears in the film . This character is very closely based on the character of "Stefan" from Lammbock : Stefan is a lawyer ("Stefan" in Lammbock is a law student) and the same Caribbean posters hang in his apartment as in the film Lammbock . Alexandra Neldel and Wotan-Wilke Möhring also play in Lammbock.
  • Harry's suitcase has the same combination with 666 as the suitcase in Pulp Fiction . According to Harry, it contains his life, a weight similar to that in Pulp Fiction.
  • Shortly before the end of the film, you can hear the TV news from the off . The end of Thorwarth's first film Bang Boom Bang is briefly alluded to.
  • As a reference to Bang Boom Bang , Golden Times should initially bear the title Hollowed . Jochen Nickel is shooting a porn film with this name in Bang Boom Bang . Before the film got the title Golden Times , it still had the working title Strike! , based on the character John Striker embodied by Douglas Burnett ( Dirk Benedict ) .
  • In two scenes you can see a Playboy edition with Melanie on the title. This is actually the issue from July 1997, in which there was a photo series by Alexandra Neldel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Golden times. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Working title of Golden Times , accessed January 7, 2008