High Society (2017)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | High society |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Anika Decker |
| script | Anika Decker |
| production |
Christopher Doll , Lothar Hellinger |
| music |
Jean-Christoph Ritter , Michael Geldreich , Christoph Bauss |
| camera | Andreas Berger |
| cut |
Charles Ladmiral , Andrea Mertens |
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High Society ( subtitle : Opposites attract ) is a German feature film by Anika Decker from 2017 . The romantic confusion and culture clash comedy is about the spoiled industrialist daughter Anabel von Schlacht, portrayed by Emilia Schüle , who after a scandal learns that shortly after giving birth she grew up with Aura Schlonz, played by Caro Cult, who grew up in significantly poorer circumstances , was mistaken and is actually the oldest child of a cashier. Jannis Niewöhner , Iris Berben , Katja Riemann and Jannik Schümann also play in other roles .
The comedy was realized by Hellinger Doll Filmproduktion. Decker appeared again as a co-producer with her production company Decker Bros and Warner Bros Pictures Germany . The shooting of her second directorial work took place from August to October 2016 in Berlin. The film opened in German cinemas on September 14, 2017. The production polarized strongly among critics after publication. The total number of visitors was around 577,000. Schüle was nominated for her performance in the following year for the Bambi in the category "National Actress".
action
Industrial daughter Anabel von Schlacht leads the life of a spoiled high society girl. Your everyday life consists primarily of luxury, shopping and partying. When the daily reveals that the young Berliner was swapped by two less responsible nurses after her birth in the clinic, she is confronted not only with the truth, but also with social decline: Mother Carmen Schlonz is a cashier and lives with two other children and an illegal subtenant in the socially deprived area of Berlin . Her foster daughter Aura, bored of her hedonistic but penniless life in the prefabricated building , sees her chance for a full life, and without further ado moves into the luxury villa of her biological family. Mother Trixi von Schlacht is overjoyed with the new arrival, but only knows how to provoke Anabel due to the situation and her unemotional, snobbish manner.
After a falling out at a fundraising gala organized by Trixi, Anabel decides to leave her old life behind and move in with Carmen. Anabel is warmly welcomed by her single mother, her two half-siblings Rosa and Siddharta, and their lodger Gernot, but her new surroundings initially remain strange to her. Anabel finds support in the young police officer Yann, who initiates the manhunt after the theft of her car and turns out to be Aura’s friend. When the situation escalated during a demonstration in front of a fur shop where Trixi and Aura were shopping and Anabel fired bags of paint at them in disguise, however, Yann was forced to take Anabel and the two passionate activists Carmen and Gernot with him to the station.
Anabel, who previously tried unsuccessfully for work and who is facing a hefty fine for her behavior, feels compelled to ask her friends for help, but they want nothing more to do with her after their social decline. Her crush, the successful venture capitalist Ben Schwarz, then invites Anabel to an interview in his company. At Schwarz Enterprise, she finally finds a job with a cleaning lady in Ben's household, where she comes across his BDSM toys while cleaning up . Yann has meanwhile managed to find her car again. Anabel is increasingly enjoying his way of life and the two get closer during a trip through Berlin and a subsequent meal where they meet Aura.
Trixi meanwhile realizes that she cannot make up for the lost time with her biological daughter Aura and that she is increasingly missing Anabel. During a spontaneous visit to the Schlonz family, she tries to buy Anabel with money. But she has now emancipated herself from her former mother and is sending her away. Aura has since hooked up with Yann again, who drives Anabel into Ben's arms with his behavior. He tries to seduce her over a luxurious dinner, but leaves her handcuffed to his bed in the middle of foreplay when he leaves for business reasons. Humiliated, Anabel seeks help from Yann, who after an argument with Aura has now finally separated from her and freed her. When her bedridden foster father suffers pneumonia , Anabel reconciles with von Schlachts at his sick bed. At the end of the film, Anabel and Yann become a couple.
background
After Traumfrauen (2015), High Society is the second directorial work by author and director Anika Decker . Decker found inspiration for the script in an article she had read in Zeitmagazin years earlier and which dealt with an "alcoholic nurse who swapped various babies". Decker, who had wanted to direct "a comedy about rich and poor as well as the various social classes" for a long time and who had done a student internship in a baby room in a women's clinic at the age of 15, then intensified her research on the subject. The author also incorporated private matters into her script. For example, some characters were based on actual people from high society , whom Decker had often met for professional reasons. The members of the Schlonz family, on the other hand, were shaped by their immediate environment.
The comedy was filmed from August 23 to October 14, 2016 in Berlin and Potsdam and, like Traumfrauen, was produced by Hellinger / Doll Filmproduktion in coproduction with Decker Bros. and Warner Bros. Entertainment . Decker was not only responsible as a director and screenwriter, but also appeared again as co-producer of the film with her brother Jan Decker. Lothar Hellinger and Christopher Doll were again the main producers . High Society received financial distribution and production funding from the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) and the Film Funding Agency (FFA).
Reviews
In the German-speaking film rating community , the film received average ratings, with individual opinions being very different. On kino.de, 47 out of 150 reviewers gave the highest rating, while 84 chose the lowest rating. At Moviepilot the film received 4.6 out of a possible 10 points.
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Frank Jürgens from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung found the production to be convincing "as a loosely staged comedy with a good portion of humor, heart and a great ensemble". The plot, which “ends in a culture clash comedy with a self-discovery trip and comes to a very predictable end, is neither new nor original. But Decker's staging [...] is bursting with witty, brilliantly implemented ideas, [...] timing and a pointed visual language ”. The film juggles "in such a refreshing and informal way with all sorts of social clichés that you can't be angry with the production for anything".
Rheinische Post editor Ulrike Cordes described high society as a "garish comedy from the present day in Berlin". The film vies for attention "with fast pictures from contemporary Berlin, pop music and lots of cheeky sayings". Decker builds into the "rather shallow story, therefore, aspects worth considering". The “first-class ensemble of actors” would “noticeably like to be carried away by the weird events”. Above all, Katja Riemann stands out "heavily Berlin-based as a proletarian with Buddhist and consumer-critical ambitions".
Hans Gerold from the Westfälische Nachrichten also mentioned Riemann positively, but saw it as the only ray of hope in a clichéd and superfluous comedy, which at best was suitable as "Gaudi for It-Girls who want to laugh at Prolls". He found that high society “could have become a biting satire about class antagonisms in a republic that is far too rich and saturated, but at most functions as a light, shallow and subterranean farce without meaning or understanding. With no real plot, the second fictional film torments itself [...] through a series of episodes that are well worth forgetting ”.
Michael Ranze from Filmdienst also rated the production rather negatively. He found that “the completely over-the-top slapstick comedy had no ambitions in terms of content”, but rather enjoyed “allowing clichéd opposites to clash spectacularly”. The supporting roles would be "played too exaggerated", only leading actress Emilia Schüle "attracts attention".
success
High Society celebrated its world premiere on September 5, 2017 in the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin . The comedy started in German cinemas on September 14, 2017 and had 125,000 visitors in its first week. This made it the most popular movie in Germany this week. High Society was able to stay in the top 10 of the German cinema charts for another three weeks (places 3, 5, 9), achieved a total number of visitors of around 577,000 and thus rank 52 in the annual balance sheet 2017. Schüle was at the Bambi for her game Award ceremony 2017 in the category "Actress national" nominated, but lost to Alicia von Rittberg .
Web links
- High Society in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- High Society at filmportal.de
- High Society on Warner Bros.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for high society . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for high society . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e Sabrina Heun: "High Society" screenwriter and director - Anika Decker: Power woman with a big heart . Retrieved October 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b High Society . Retrieved October 11, 2019.
- ↑ High Society - opposites attract , kino.de, September 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ a b High Society (2017) , Filmdienst , September 14, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017
- ↑ High Society juggles cleverly with clichés , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 16, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ One Prosecco too much , Rheinische Post , September 14, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ Princess in the Plattenbau , Westfälische Nachrichten , September 15, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ Live from the red carpet: the premiere of "High Society" . Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ The "High Society" stays among themselves , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 18, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017 , insidekino.com, December 31, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ Awards . Retrieved October 10, 2019.