Waiter!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Waiter! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Gerhard Polt , Fred Unger |
| script | Gerhard Polt |
| production | Hans Weth |
| music | Biermösl Blosn |
| camera | Wolfgang Treu |
| cut | Ingrid Broszat |
| occupation | |
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Waiter! is a German comedy film by Gerhard Polt from 1991 , produced by Solaris Film and Vision Film . Directed by Gerhard Polt and Fred Unger. The film pulls Munich's high society through the cocoa and sharp criticism of the cultural scene. In contrast to the previous films by Polt Kehraus and Man speaks German unforgivingly, the plot ends .
The work had a total of 359,748 visitors (FFA) and was thus far less successful than the film Man speaks German , which saw 2.15 million visitors in 1988.
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The Helds are as different as day and night: You, the hotel owner, an extremely resolute, class-conscious lady with a penchant for sarcasm; he, married, a hopelessly crazy romantic - naive, but, when it comes down to it, with a helping of typically Bavarian sneakiness.
She also likes to spend her time in a beauty salon; he likes to work creatively as a poet, although of course she shows no understanding for his poetry. The urgent business in the hotel is meanwhile taken care of by Mrs. Held's “right hand”, the submissive Mr. Fuchs.
Ernst Held believes that he has found an admirer of his poetry in the owner of the beauty salon, Camilla; However, the latter tries - feigning admiration - to get close to him in order to ultimately be able to exploit him financially. Ms. Held suspects something and sends Mr. Fuchs out with a video camera to spy on the two of them, whereby enough apparently compromising material comes together.
Ernst Held recites his poems in Camilla's apartment; she, in seductive lingerie, tries to seduce him with every trick in the book. When asked what he would like now, he replies after a brief hesitation: “A peppermint tea!” In complete desperation, Camilla prepares what he wants; from carelessness, however, the tea pours onto Ernst's trousers. Camilla offers to clean his trousers, Ernst takes off his trousers, and immediately afterwards the doorbell rings: Ms. Held and Mr. Fuchs are standing outside, rushing into the apartment. Mrs. Held lets go of a rant, takes from her husband the car keys, papers and his cash and tells Camilla that she can keep him. Ernst thinks that he will now move in with Camilla and be able to write poetry there in peace; Camilla, however, furiously pushes his trousers into the hand of the now destitute and throws him out.
Ernst takes the train to Munich. When trying to withdraw money from the ATM, his ATM card is withdrawn. He satisfies his hunger by taking samples of the delicacies offered for testing in the delicatessen store Dallmayr and by ingratiating only to English-speaking guests as interpreters at the Augustiner Bräuhaus and having them pay for them. He spends one night with bums in the waiting room of Munich Central Station.
When trying to empty his bladder in a small green area, he is found by an elderly woman with a dog, indignantly confronted and referred to the nearby eatery "Zum Golden Spoon" to do his business. While trying to leave the pub in a hurry, he collides with the waitress - her tray with the food falls to the floor and Ernst's jacket is covered with sauerkraut. The waitress immediately quits the service, cursing loudly; The owner of the restaurant, Agnes Prochaska, is very embarrassed by the incident, and she has Ernst's jacket brought to the dry cleaner. It can only be returned to him the next day; so he stays overnight and is accommodated in the attic by Agnes, with whom Ernst falls a bit in love. In the meantime, however, he has made friends with the regulars of the restaurant, and since the waitress has just quit, he is temporarily staying at the Golden Spoon as a temporary worker, as "Waiter".
Agnes has financial problems and anger with the food police, who are making heavy demands on her. So it is just right that a group of reporters from a daily newspaper storms the bar and shoots a number of photos for the competition “Munich's most rustic pub”. The first prize is a completely new kitchen facility.
In one of the photos that can be seen in the newspaper the next day, Ms. Held recognizes her husband and is outraged. In addition, she has just received an invoice for books that her husband had printed, and since she now knows his whereabouts, she has them forwarded to him, and to pay the not inconsiderable cost of 18,000 DM, she also rushes him to pay Bailiff on the neck.
In the meantime, Ernst tries to sell his poems in addition to his work as a waiter and is cynically processed by a publisher. It seems to be the same with Bavarian television, but one of the people in charge finally believes that he recognizes a "primeval cattle" and so he is hired for a television show in which people present their literary outpourings. Ernst wins the competition superior. The bailiff immediately took away the prize money of DM 3,000. At the subsequent celebration with the TV and press people in a Schicki-Micki restaurant, it is decided to hire Ernst to give a lecture to intellectuals. He agrees and drafts his speech. Immediately before his performance, however, the organizers give him a text prepared by them. Then he costumes a doll in the clothes intended for him for this performance, pushes the doll onto the stage and runs away.
When Ernst comes back to the “Goldenen Spoon” business, he realizes that it has won the competition as the “most rustic pub”. To his horror, the same crowd is now hanging around there as at his victory celebration and his lecture that was canceled. Agnes says she has no other chance, otherwise she could never make it financially. And everything would stay the same, the regulars are all allowed to stay. Ernst is disappointed and wants to go. To make matters worse, his wife and Mr. Fuchs come. She watched him appear on television, and now that her husband is famous, she wants him back. Ernst receives car keys and papers and sends his wife to Agnes' place with 300 marks. He pushes Mr. Fuchs aside and drives off alone in the car.
Reviews
“A sluggishly staged comedy about a cozy 'fool' in a world of self-promoters and careerists. The satirical tips against television and the cultural "crowd" remain just as blunt as the poetry of the main character. "
“Polt stays at a distance, he makes a cinema of contemplation, but the tendency towards unequivocal satire makes his film sterile and dreary, it lacks that ambivalent, anarchic moment with which Achternbusch messes up his environment. Only for a tiny moment does one suspect how this film could actually have been: Polt is sitting alone in the shady beer garden, but the idyll is dead, the picture is black. The leaves of the trees have swallowed the sunlight. With this image in mind, we will continue to wait for the first real Bavarian film noir . "
“A bit of white-blue cosiness with a dash of criticism of the Kulturschickeria, always just a hair's breadth. Polt's humor stomps along broad and sedate, and the quintessential sighing is that there are fewer and fewer rustic, modest beer dumplings, also in Bavaria. But Polt's films are becoming more and more modest. "
Web links
- Waiter! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waiter! in the lexicon of international film
- Waiter! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Served. In: The time . Edition 7/1992.
- ↑ Polt as a poet and waiter. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 5/1992.