Groupies don't stay for breakfast
Groupies don't stay for breakfast is a German comedy film by director Marc Rothemund from 2010. The film is based on a script by the two authors Kristina Magdalena Henn and Lea Schmidbauer and is about Berlin student Lila, played by Anna Fischer , who is after her Return from an exchange year in the United States with the young musician Chriz, played by Kostja Ullmann , in love - without knowing that this lead singer of the commercially successful rock band Berlin Mitte is.
The project was produced by SamFilm Munich . The shooting took place from August to October 2009 in Berlin and the surrounding area. In addition to Fischer and Ullmann, Inka Friedrich , Amber Bongard , Nina Gummich , Roman Knižka and Ben Braun were signed up for the cast. Critics rated groupies not staying mostly positive for breakfast and compared the production to the English-language comedy film Notting Hill (1999). With over 600,000 visitors in Germany, the film became the eleventh most successful German production of the 2010 cinema year.
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Young Lila comes back to Germany after an exchange year in the USA and falls in love with Chriz. She doesn't know that this is a hip young rock star who has lots of posters hanging from her little sister Luzy's room. Lila and Chriz first meet in a botanical garden where Lila is about to steal a rare plant for a friend. When Chriz tells her that he is the lead singer of the band 'Berlin Mitte', she thinks he's just joking. The two spend the evening together, and Lila offers Chriz to sleep in her sister's room, who is on an outing with her mother and her new boyfriend. The three of them come back sooner than planned and Luzy finds her crush in her bed. Chriz is late anyway and is picked up by his manager Paul and the bodyguard Horst. Lila now has to accept who he is.
Lila's friend Nike gets her an autograph appointment so she can speak to Chriz again. But he treats her like a fan in front of the rest of the band and the manager. Lila is disappointed. Shortly afterwards she receives a letter from Chriz with two tickets for his concert and an apology. Lila gives the tickets to her sister, but finally has to go because Luzy is still too young and without her shouldn't see the concert. Lila is skeptical at first, but ends up having fun. Chriz performs a song in which she recognizes herself and even mentions her name in it, whereupon she forgives him. After the concert, the two of them go out to eat in Japanese and finally end up in his hotel room, where Lila stays overnight. When the manager Paul wants to throw her out the next morning - with the words "Groupies don't stay for breakfast" - he realizes that Chriz is serious about Lila. He reminds him of his contract, which says he has to be officially single.
At home, Lila tells her best friend about the night on the phone, and Luzy overhears her. This tells everything in the school of a friend and at noon the story is in the media. It's a catastrophe for Chriz's entire team, and they want to portray it as if Lila made it all up. Chriz wonders about the details known to the press and accuses Lila of selling him and deliberately harming him. She can't believe that he even trusts her to do something like that and regrets having met him.
Luzy knows she made a bad mistake and confesses to Chriz that she was chatting. Chriz immediately goes to see Lila and bursts into her school lesson. He wants a relationship, but she's skeptical. She doubts his feelings and doesn't think it can work. After all, he is on the verge of a three-month tour through the USA and his band is on the verge of an international breakthrough. Chriz has to accept that and makes his way to the airport. Lila changes her mind and follows him. The gate is already closed and Chriz is on the plane. Only because he asks to open the doors of the plane again and throws one last hopeful look at the airport does he see Lila, and the two hug each other. Lila tells him she'd like a happy ending, to which Chriz replies that this is just the beginning. The film ends with Stumblin 'In , sung by Chriz and Lila in a duet on the beach.
production
Groupies don't stay for breakfast based on an idea by the two authors Kristina Magdalena Henn and Lea Schmidbauer . For both women, the project marked the first collaboration on a full-length feature film. After a pitch they further developed the script together with the two producers Ewa Karlström and Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton from SamFilm Munich , which was later to take over the production of the film. After completing the second version of the script, Marc Rothemund was hired as a director. He had already worked with Karlström and Ulmke-Smeaton on his directorial debut The Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature Big City People During Mating Season (1999). Eight more versions of the script were made before filming began.
The shooting lasted 40 days and was started on August 11, 2009 in Berlin . In the capital, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Potsdamer Platz , the Mercedes-Benz Arena , Berlin-Tegel Airport , the Botanical Garden and a residential building on Fuggerstrasse in the Schöneberg district served as the setting. The final scene was filmed on October 13, 2019. The project received production and distribution funding from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFFB), the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB). The film was initially supposed to be Alles für Lila , but was changed due to its similarity to the film adaptation of the novel Lila, which was published in the previous year, but Lila in Groupies Don't Stay for Breakfast . The title comes from a text passage from the script.
Casting was the responsibility of Caster Uwe Bünker. Rothemund brought Ullman up early in the casting process as the main actor, but after a successful audition he still had to convince of his singing talent. Fischer, on the other hand, was only cast late in pre-production after she had not been able to keep the first appointments due to other obligations. She was ultimately hired after a joint screen test with Ullmann. The role of Bodyguard Horst was written into the script especially for Michael Keseroglu at the director's request , after Rothemund had seen his portrayal in the youth drama Gangs (2009). Bravo photographer Bernd Jaworek could also be engaged , who not only took part in the film as a small actor, but also contributed motifs for tour posters, posters and CD covers.
music
The film music for groupies don't stay for breakfast comes from composer Gerd Baumann . Kostja Ullman, who had never had to sing in a production before, took singing lessons in preparation for the shooting for his role as lead singer of a rock band. Jane Comerford , lecturer and front woman for the band Texas Lightning , acted as his vocal coach. He also learned to play a guitar. The German-language songs interpreted in the film by Ullmann and his fictional band Berlin Mitte were composed by music producers Roland Spremberg and Michael Beckmann , among others . Both the sound and the image of the quartet were significantly influenced by the Magdeburg pop-rock group Tokio Hotel , which was enjoying great commercial success in Germany at the time.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was released on September 17, 2010 by Alias Entertainment under license from the Warner Music Group . It reached number 47 in the German album charts .
| Track list | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | title | Interpreter | length |
| 1. | Battlefield | Berlin center | 3:16 |
| 2. | Here she comes | Berlin center | 2:20 |
| 3. | Not without you | Berlin center | 3:31 |
| 4th | All for you | Jonathan Express | 3:22 |
| 5. | This is the time | Jonathan Express | 2:45 |
| 6th | Can't Take My Eyes Off You | Bananafishbones feat. Matthias Schmitz | 3:16 |
| 7th | Blue Sky Warrior | The Green Carpets feat. Paule | 3:17 |
| 8th. | Two steps | Jonathan Express | 2:24 |
| 9. | Won't Let Go | The country | 3:12 |
| 10. | Beautiful day | Berlin center | 3:12 |
| 11. | Two lovers | The country | 2:42 |
| 12. | Home run | Berlin center | 2:43 |
| 13. | Stumblin 'In | Lila & Chriz | 3:14 |
| 14th | Why Should I Wait | The Green Carpets feat. Paule | 2:07 |
| Overall length: | 41:32 | ||
Reviews
Various critics recognized parallels with the US-American-British film comedy Notting Hill from 1999 or described groupies not even staying for breakfast as its German variant.
Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts described the feature film in his review as "really good cinema that puts most modern Hollywood comedies right in its pocket" and is looking for "unparalleled quality, not only in Germany". The production is "a very sympathetic comedy right down to the very last scene, which wins over the audience with lots of little ideas, its bold (but not outrageous) manner and lots of Berlin local color". Peters also rate the game by Anna Fischer, Kostja Ullman and Nina Gummich positively. The chemistry between the main actors is right "from the first encounter in the flowerbed".
Kino.de critic Margret Köhler found that Rothemund mixed "a magical fairy tale with all the ingredients for a feel-good movie" that appeals to viewers across generations. Despite heartbreak and lovesickness, "humor, jokes and comic situations pop like champagne corks, the chemistry between the swarm of girls Ullmann and the lively Fischer [...] is right down to the last fiber of the body. The tender story is also an ardent ode to Berlin and its swing. The [...] hits by music producer Roland Spremberg, who has already celebrated two number one albums with a-ha , provide the ultimate sound kick for this hip mix ”.
Stern editor Sophie Albers called groupies a “German romantic comedy that actually does everything right” for breakfast . The film succeed "the feat of lightness that does not lose the ground out of sight" and directed to "all Twilight - Tokio Hotel -and- Bravo fans." The fact that it works “so well” is of course down to the main actors, “in addition to the wonderful cast down to the smallest role. The chemistry between Ullmann and Fischer is just right. ”Fischer also plays himself a little free. Rothemund also delivered a successful declaration of love to the city of Berlin with the feature film.
Julian Hanich from the Tagesspiegel judged that the comedy tells a "hair-raising, unbelievable story" that still has charm. The film is “jam-packed with sunny postcard idylls” and has “perhaps the stupidest title since The Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature City dwellers during the mating season , but somehow groupies do not exude a friendly charm for breakfast - and that is mainly due to the two main actors . Anna Fischer has big eyes, funny teeth and a face that sometimes reminds of Juliette Binoche and sometimes of the young Gudrun Landgrebe . Kostja Ullmann wrests a credible presence from his slender boy group body even in the stage scenes. That's enough for a hundred moody minutes. "
success
Groupies don't stay for breakfast celebrated its premiere on September 8, 2010 in the Gloriapalast in Munich . The release for public performance took place on September 16 through the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributor. According to press reports, the production counted 114,074 visitors (141,639 including previews) in 404 cinemas after the end of the first screening weekend. The film was the only German-speaking newcomer to be placed in fourth place in the German cinema charts behind Resident Evil: Afterlife , Beilight - Biss zum Abendbrot and The American . In the following week, the comedy even climbed to third place with around 100,000 visitors. By the end of the year, the film had 602,129 admissions at German box offices across Germany. It was the 11th most successful German release of 2010 and placed 59th among the most visited films of the year. The box office profits in Germany amounted to 3,770,357 euros.
In the TV was groupies do not stay for breakfast on the private channel on April 9, 2013 Sat.1 first broadcast. A total of 2.43 million viewers tuned into prime time . In the advertising-relevant target group of 14- to 49-year-olds, the production behind the two US series CSI: Vegas and Bones - The Bone Hunter advanced to the third most watched program of the day. 1.49 million people courted generated a market share of 12.9 percent.
Awards
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title valuable . In 2011 the film won the Golden Sparrow for the best cinema / television film at the 19th Children's Media Festival of the same name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificates for groupies do not stay for breakfast . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 654 K).
- ↑ Age rating for groupies do not stay for breakfast . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2010 - Filmförderungsanstalt, accessed on July 26, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n press release . Walt Disney Pictures. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Groupies don't stay for breakfast . Film portal . Retrieved October 2, 2019.
- ↑ Chart placement Germany (Media Control)
- ↑ Ingrid Beerbaum: Boy meets Girl ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Review at fluter.de, accessed on February 16, 2013
- ↑ Groupies don't stay for breakfast. In: prisma.de . Retrieved February 16, 2013 .
- ^ A b Sophie Albers: In love with Berlin . Stern.de . Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b Christoph Petersen: Groupies don't stay for breakfast . Filmstarts.de . Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ Margret Köhler: Groupies don't stay for breakfast . Kino.de . Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ Julian Hanich: Incredible, but charming . Daily mirror . Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b Premiere on September 8th, 2010 in Munich. In: Ganz-muenchen.de. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c German cinema charts: Eating, praying, playing right at the front. In: Blickpunkt: Film . Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b weekend charts. In: Blickpunkt: Film . Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (international) 2013 . Film Funding Agency . FFA.de. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: "Groupies" ignite in Sat.1 . Oddsmeter.de . Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ Report of the FBW , accessed on September 1, 2010
- ↑ The winners of the Golden Spatzen 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 12, 2011 (PDF; 187 kB)
