Mr. Lenz is traveling into spring
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Mr. Lenz is traveling into spring |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Kleinert |
| script | Karl-Heinz Beetle |
| production | Ernst Ludwig Ganzert , Dorothea Seeger |
| music | Daniel Dickmeis |
| camera | Johann Feindt |
| cut | Gisela Zick |
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Mr. Lenz travels in the spring is a German TV feature film from 2015. Directed by Andreas Kleinert , Ulrich Tukur plays the leading role . It had its world premiere on October 7, 2015 at the Hamburg Film Festival .
action
The ashes of his father, who went underground in Thailand more than twenty years ago, are surprisingly presented to insurance employee Holger Lenz. He has not seen him since the end of the GDR. Now he is to take his inheritance in the form of an apartment in Pattaya . The long-distance journey is difficult for him, however, because father and son are far apart from each other in ideological terms and did not have much to say to each other. It is similar with his gay 17-year-old son, who reviles him on the Internet as an evil philistine towards his peers.
A special kind of adventure awaits the security-crazy petty bourgeois from Germany in Southeast Asia, during which he also has to rethink his relationship with his father, who is actually only terminally ill. And after returning to Germany after many turmoil, it is time for him to venture a fresh start, because his wife left him because of a colleague.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Mr. Lenz travels in the spring on July 20, 2016 was seen by 3.55 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 14.2 percent for Das Erste .
criticism
“The hero's worldview is turned upside down in Thailand. The author Käfer extends the thematic templates of the story, the happiness, gender and love variants, in the direction of the viewer, without meaningfully sending him on the trail of tolerance. Ulrich Tukur has to shoulder this developmental history of the man, alienated from his wife, child and his own existence, largely alone; As expected, he makes it very convincing. "
“ So Mr. Lenz is traveling in the spring is not exactly a psychological study. Much remains refreshingly bogus or turns into satirical, until the action turns in the last few meters onto the main street of the sentimental tragic comedy. "
“This Degeto production follows the stereotypes of many of her productions: Of course, Lenz is in his mid-forties (midlife crisis!), An insurance employee (philistine!), The woman constantly nagging (marriage crisis!), The son is exposed to gay (taboo!), Everyday German life cold and gray, life in Thailand colorful and loud (new phase of life!). "
“The tragic comedy 'Herr Lenz travels in spring' with Ulrich Tukur tells in soft tones and meaningful images of a self-discovery. None of these boring, cliché-saturated TV predictions, even if the duo Andreas Kleinert (director) and Karl-Heinz Käfer (book), who have already won an International Emmy Award for their Alzheimer's drama 'Mein Vater' (book), have the sensitivity and originality at the very end still a little lost. "
“There is nothing of sultry old man's fantasy in 'Herr Lenz'. Kleinert undermines all of this because he knows exactly what the traps are. [...] A funny tragedy? Rather not. The best best-ager drama of the year. "
At the OFDb the film got 6.67 out of 10 points from the audience, in the IMDb 5.6 out of 10 stars.
Awards
At the Hamburg Film Festival 2015, Ernst Ludwig Ganzert was nominated for the Hamburg Producers Award in the “German Television Films” category.
Web links
- Mr. Lenz travels in the spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mr. Lenz travels in the spring in the online movie database
- Mr. Lenz travels in the spring at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mr Lenz travels to spring (2015 TV Movie) Release Info , accessed on September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Primetime check. Quotemeter.de , July 20, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 .
- ↑ TV film Mr. Lenz travels in the spring on tittelbach.tv
- ^ Judith von Sternburg: Fathers and Sons. In: Media. Frankfurter Rundschau, July 20, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Viola Schenz: Life crisis, marriage crisis, breaking taboos. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 20, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Ulla Hanselmann: outbreak of the well-ordered misfortune. In: Media. Stuttgarter Zeitung, July 19, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: Enlightenment for the homophobic German philistine. In: Media. Die Welt, July 20, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 .
- ↑ As of September 4, 2016
- ↑ See IMDb