Happy burnout

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Movie
Original title Happy burnout
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director André Erkau
script Gernot Gricksch
production Michael Eckelt ,
Christoph Ott
music Daniel Hoffknecht
camera Ngo The Chau
cut Uta Schmidt
occupation

Happy Burnout is a comedy film by director André Erkau with Wotan Wilke Möhring in the leading role from 2017 . The cinema release in Germany was on April 27, 2017.

action

The old punk "Lint" lives carefree in the day and is not interested in work. Mrs. Linde from the employment office supports him because he tells her touching stories about a refugee child that he is taking care of. When fluff should be canceled after an internal check, she gives him a medical report that certifies burnout . Therefore he has to go to a psychiatric clinic for six weeks , where he fakes the illness.

It is received differently by the other patients. The ventriloquist Datty is enthusiastic about him, while he grapples with real estate entrepreneur Anatol in the discussion group. All in all, he brings a breath of fresh air to the department. Patients blossom at a football game he organizes. The doctor also notices his ability to respond to others. She saw through that he didn't really suffer from burnout, but offered him to remain as a conversation partner for the patients because of the shortage of staff. He developed a special relationship with the mother of four, Merle, whose husband told her at the open house that he wanted a divorce from her. She angrily asks Lint how men can abandon their children. She also means him, who has an eight-year-old daughter who has lived with his mother-in-law since his wife's death, but whom he sees only irregularly. He can persuade his depressed roommate Günther, who has a red-burned face, to have a beer with him in the village pub. Datty joins them and lets himself be provoked into a fight in the bar, which Günther notes with amusement. In the evening in bed, Günther tells us that he was the operator of a chain of tanning studios, that he suffered from depression because of the stress and that he almost killed himself in a solarium and that he is still planning to do so. Lint does not listen, however, because he fell asleep and therefore cannot prevent Günther from actually attempting suicide. He now feels no longer up to the task and returns to his apartment.

The patients worry about him and drive to his home in the clinic's electric vehicle. There they find out that he has gone to see his daughter. He doesn't get on well with his mother-in-law, who has forbidden him to go camping with his daughter, for example. He is now telling her that he has changed and is now more responsible and reliable. He sets up his tent in the garden and plays with his daughter when the patients arrive. They assure the initially skeptical grandma that they value lint very much and that they would love to entrust their children with lint. In the end, Lint returns to the clinic as a supervisor.

The Körtlinghausen Castle in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia served as the filming location for the clinic .

criticism

Christian Horn von Filmstarts believes that in the "entertaining, trivial tragicomedy [...] the opportunities for a differentiated analysis of mental illnesses [...] are largely given away", since the patient figures remain "mere decals". Ultimately, it is a "feel-good film with glossy pictures".

Kester Schlenz vom Stern thinks that the film "often scrapes the cliché", but "always gets the curve", and particularly emphasizes the actors' joy in playing and the credible portrayal of Wotan Wilke Möhring.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happy Burnout in Schloss Körtlinghausen Der Westen, June 14, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Film review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on May 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ Wotan Wilke Möhring shines as a punk with a heart Stern.de, April 27, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2017.