It doesn't get any greener, said the gardener, and flew away

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Movie
Original title It doesn't get any greener, said the gardener, and flew away
It doesn't get any greener
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Florian Gallenberger
script Gernot Gricksch
edited by Florian Gallenberger based
on the novel by Jockel Tschiersch
production Benjamin Herrmann
Luca Verhoeven
Christian Hofer
music Enis Rotthoff
camera Daniela Knapp
cut Sven Budelmann
occupation

It doesn't get greener, said the gardener and flew away is a German fiction film by director Florian Gallenberger from 2018 . The tragicomic production is based on the novel of the same name by Jockel Tschiersch , which was published by Goldmann Verlag in 2016 , and was based on a script by the author Gernot Gricksch in collaboration with Gallenberger. It tells of the grumpy gardener Schorsch Kempter, portrayed by Elmar Wepper , who, after the bankruptcy of his rural nursery , runs away from home in a double-decker plane towards the North Cape .

The episodic road movie was produced by Majestic Film and new! Move films in co-production with ARD Degeto and WS Filmproduktion and shot between August and September 2017 in Bavaria , Brandenburg , North Rhine-Westphalia and on the North Sea . In addition to Wepper, Emma Bading , Monika Baumgartner , Dagmar Manzel , Ulrich Tukur and Sunnyi Melles appeared in front of the camera. The world premiere will not be greener on June 22, 2018 in the competition of the Shanghai International Film Festival . The film started on August 30, 2018 in Majestic Filmverleih in German cinemas.

action

Schorsch Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town on the Tegernsee and is not at peace with himself. His marriage to Monika lacks any passion, his gardening business is about to go bankrupt because a major customer is avoiding payment, and he has only a distant and critical relationship with his daughter Miriam, who would rather study art than take over her parents' business. He only feels free in his Kiebitz , a small biplane , ultralight aircraft . When the plane is to be seized because of the debt, Schorsch simply flies away, without money, without a cell phone. His destination: the North Cape .

A journey full of bizarre and extraordinary encounters begins. After an emergency landing with an empty tank, Schorsch first found accommodation with a farmer who gave him the tip to contact Richard von Zeydlitz, a noble landowner in the Rhineland, who wanted to create a park. During this work, Schorsch meets Philomena, the rebellious daughter of Zeydlitz, who hates her life and especially her stepmother Evelyn. She sees a chance to escape in Schorsch and hides in his plane as he travels on. Reluctantly, Schorsch agrees to her wish to take her to her grandmother in Sylt .

The elderly lady probes Schorsch, sees through his games of hide-and-seek and encourages him to face life. But he still does not dare to call Monika and Miriam, who are worried about him at home and are trying more badly than right to keep the ailing business going. The emotional closeness to Philomena is also becoming increasingly stressful for him, so that he secretly wants to fly on to the North Cape alone. But when he sees the desperate Philomena on the ground from the air, he turns around and takes her with him. Slowly he realizes that he has lived past his dreams for far too long and that he has to open up to life before it is too late.

Because of a technical defect in the machine, the two have to make an emergency landing at a disused airport in Brandenburg and stay with its owner Hannah. Since the delivery of the required spare part takes a few days, Hannah and her young helper Timo are actively helping to make the airfield more attractive. Philomena and Timo as well as Schorsch and Hannah come closer to each other. The two couples spend the night together, but the next morning Hannah is again distant - she has already been abandoned by her husband once and is afraid of being hurt again. Schorsch telephones Monika, who tells him that she has sold the nursery in order to realize her dream of a flower shop. Schorsch is now ready to fly home and be reconciled with his family.

Back home, Monika and Schorsch speak out. Miriam has rejected her study plans, but Schorsch, who was always against it before, now persuades her to apply to the art academy. After selling the nursery and the associated house, the family members finally go their separate ways: Monika uses the proceeds to open a flower shop to sell her orchids , Schorsch collects the outstanding payment from the major customer and then flies back to Hannah on his plane. The film ends with an enthusiastic video message from Philomenas to Schorsch, with the northern lights in the background.

background

It doesn't get greener, said the gardener and flew away based on the novel of the same name by the actor and cabaret artist Jockel Tschiersch , which was published by Goldmann Verlag in 2016 . Benjamin Herrmann appeared as producer and distributor of the film , who had already made the two films Cherry Blossoms - Hanami (2008) and Three Quarter Moon (2011) with leading actor Elmar Wepper . After reading it at the beginning of 2016, Wepper reported to Herrmann for the first time about Tschiersch's novel. The pre-production began in the summer of the same year with the engagement of author Gernot Gricksch , who wrote a first version of the script by the end of the year, on the basis of which the financing and casting could take place. Florian Gallenberger , who had already realized the feature film projects John Rabe (2009) and Colonia Dignidad - There is no turning back (2015) with Herrmann , has meanwhile joined them as a director.

The aircraft yard in Großenhain , among others, acted as the location for Grüner wird's not .
The after-work house Knapsack in Hürth served as an art academy

The film was produced by Herrmanns Majestic Filmproduktion and new! Move films in co-production with Degeto Film and WS Filmproduktion. The production was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) and the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) ). The project development was funded by the EU's MEDIA program. In addition to Wepper, Emma Bading , Monika Baumgartner and Karolina Horster were also signed up. In addition, Gallenberger and Herrmann cast Ulrich Tukur and Dagmar Manzel again after John Rabe . Author Tschiersch also has a cameo in the film.

The shooting of the road movie in the air took place between August 15 and September 29, 2017 in Bavaria ( Bad Wiessee , Bergkramerhof golf course, Großdingharting , Ohlstadt airfield , Fischbachau ), Brandenburg ( Ganz (Kyritz) ), North Rhine-Westphalia ( Meiersberg airfield , Cologne , Hürth , Meerbusch ), Saxony ( Großenhain airfield ) and on Sylt and Norderney . It was filmed chronologically. Due to the availability of the cast, filming began with the last third of the film. Unlike in the novel, in which a piper is the focus, the one in green is not, said the gardener, and flew the red propeller airplane shown by a Platzer Kiebitz , a two-seat ultralight aircraft . The aircraft is registered under the aircraft registration D-MMWW mentioned several times in the film .

criticism

Peter Zander from the Berliner Morgenpost summarized that Gallenberger was creating a “very special genre” with his “Road movie in the air”. This leads to "again and again to wonderful aerial photos of quiet, almost poetic power, which make the country down there and also your own worries seem very small". The film lives “but above all from its second attraction, the wonderful Elmar Wepper [...] It's wonderful how he grumbles, grumbles and blows, only to get back on the ground in the end. But it won't be a nice comedy about gender and role behavior ”. The comedy portrays "strong, energetic female characters [...] This is also a very nice message, which, by the way, lovingly refutes the title."

Leading actor Elmar Wepper received positive reviews for his portrayal in the film.

Dieter Oßwald found in his review on Programmkino.de that Gallenberger staged his “tragicomic fairy tale about unfulfilled dreams as a flying road movie” and could “rely on an excellent ensemble”. The aerial photos with the red double-decker offer “ plenty of viewing values in Cinemascope . It is also airy and dramatic: cleverly packed into episodes, there is no boredom. Once again Elmar Wepper proves to be a big coup, who is in top form as a grunt against his will. With casualness present on the canvas, he mutates from sullen Saul to empathetic Paul. "

Editor Krischan Koch wrote on ndr.de that Gallenberger showed “a lot of sense for bizarre situations and eccentric types”. The film offers "wonderful, sometimes all too beautiful pictures of Germany from the air", while "Dagmar Manzel and the wonderfully casual Elmar Wepper make a wonderful couple". “This flight in the rickety biplane is certainly not too fast, but it is wonderful. It's nostalgic, weird, and really heartwarming. A flying road movie that frees your mind and simply puts you in a good mood ”.

Anke Sterneborg from epd Film described the film as a “playful feelgood movie” and compared the production with Christian Zübert's Dreiviertelmond (2011), in which Wepper also played. He, “who can only be lured out of retirement for selected projects, here again varies the Bavarian grumbler, who is catapulted into a new orbit by adverse circumstances, with a major nudge always coming from more or less little girls. In this case it is Philomena, who is rebelliously spun and wonderfully laid out by Emma Bading between airy Caprice and earthy charm, whom he initially reluctantly, increasingly benevolently adopted as a temporary substitute daughter, and who through her at the same time playful and lively manner a bridge to his own, estranged daughter builds ”.

Peter Hoch writes in the city magazine Klenkes : "The characters all have their hearts and tongues in the right place, which, together with the great cast and the sugary, tragicomic finale, makes the film a well-rounded affair." Michael Meyns found on filmstarts.de that the Film is one of “those pleasing films for the art house and program cinema audience”, in which “the art is written in lower case and the entertainment value is all the more important”.

success

It doesn't get any greener, said the gardener and flew away celebrated its world premiere on June 22, 2018 in the competition of the Shanghai International Film Festival . The German theatrical release followed on August 30, 2018 in Majestic Filmverleih . According to press reports, the production was able to place 12th in the German cinema charts at the end of the first screening weekend. In the art house -charts rose Green will not do it behind Gundermann , BlacKkKlansman and child welfare in fourth place. The film recorded its highest cut of 322 copies in its third week of showing. The comedy had 187,564 visitors by the end of the year. It's not greener was placed 33rd among the most successful German productions of 2018. The total box office income was around 1.4 million euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

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