Back wood 8

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Movie
Original title Back wood 8
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1998
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Harald Sicherheitsitz
script Harald Sicherheitsitz,
Roland Düringer
production Danny Krausz ( Dor Film ), Kurt Stocker
music Lothar Scherpe ,
Peter Herrmann
camera Walter Kindler
cut Ingrid Koller
occupation

Hinterholz 8 is an Austrian comedy film by Roland Düringer and Harald Sicherheitsitz , based on the cabaret program ofthe same nameby Roland Düringer.

In Austria, the film with many Austrian stars was the most popular local film in 1998. In 1999 he was awarded the Romy . Standard German subtitles are available. The film is loaned and distributed by the film shop and has also been released on DVD and Blu-Ray as part of the “ Der Austrian Film ” edition.

action

Herbert Krcal is a young ambitious employee of the Viennese catering service Feinspitz, who u. a. Has supply contracts with the Austrian Parliament . He is interested in buying a prefabricated house . When he discussed this with his work colleagues Meier and Forstinger, they advised him not to buy what they considered to be an inferior prefabricated house. They suggest that they buy an old house and renovate it.

During a walk in the Vienna Woods , the Krcal family discovered an old farmhouse in the woods that was already close to decay - it had the address Hinterholz 8 . Krcal brings his work colleagues over to take a tour of the house. Thanks to overrated recommendations (“I'll be moving in in six weeks”), he decides to buy the house.

Nearby is a place whose residents seem very backwoods to limited. There Krcal learns that the house belongs to the mayor Kandler. He has long since noticed that the Viennese are interested in his house in the forest. Kandler has allegedly been negotiating with his assistant Mündel for weeks about the house. Krcal finally offers him 400,000 schillings (around 30,000 euros) for the ruin and the property,  and Mr. Kandler agrees. In truth, Mündel was just a sham buyer to drive the price up.

When the Krcal family returned to their 72-square-meter rental apartment on Vienna's Lerchenfelder Gürtel that same evening and, as always, there was no parking space near the apartment, Herbert Krcal felt only strengthened in his purchase.

Financing for the house is signed at his house bank and the Krcal family can get to work - unfortunately alone, as the promised help from their work colleagues does not materialize. Herbert Krcal is also not exactly a handyman. Among other things, he has to find out that the damp walls are energized, whereas he would like to remedy this with waterproof wallpaper.

When the Krcal family had to move out of their Vienna apartment, as it had already been passed on to the neighboring doctor to enlarge their medical practice , the pressure on Krcal to complete the house promptly increased. In the meantime, however, they are given quarters in the allotment garden of their in-laws.

Finally help comes from the friends who bring a Bosnian illegal worker with them. When checking the roof and the roof structure, one of the chimneys collapses and devastates half the house. The move is now a long way off. On the advice of his brother-in-law Willi, Krcal had no choice but to commission a builder to repair the house, which resulted in even greater financial costs.

In the meantime, the pressure from the village community on Mayor Kandler is growing. Some are convinced he should never have sold the house. Kandler forbids Krcal to dig a cellar several times.

Margit applies for a pedicure in a drugstore as a beautician, where she has to serve the elegant workman, whom she had previously seen on the stage with the floor grinder in the hardware store. Stefan (Workman) suggests that Margit take her out to dinner, but she refuses.

Meanwhile, the Krcals marriage is heading for a crisis. Herbert is changing increasingly under the stress that he is exposed to from building a house, in his company and through the bank. In addition, he has to endure the constant teasing of his brother-in-law Willi. In order to save costs, he has many of the contractor's activities done without an invoice. He illegally dumps his building rubble in the forest to avoid further costs. When Margit locked the car key in the car, Herbert "opens" it with a shovel and the sentence: Made in Japan, destroyed in Sulz in the Vienna Woods. However, he is caught by the forester who has become aware of the noise and has to pay a hefty fine. The water is now up to his neck. On his birthday, the leasing company confiscates his car and his wife tells him that she is getting a divorce.

At the end of the day, Krcal gets the old company delivery van and an old caravan from Meier and Forstinger as temporary accommodation. At the handover, he breaks up with the two false friends who make fools of him and chases them away.

Herbert Krcal spends Christmas Eve alone in his trailer. But his wife doesn't have the heart and drives to him with their son, an enthusiastic spaceship enterprise fan. Both stay overnight and Philipp is even allowed to stay with his father for a few days. The next day they both get down to work in the now half-excavated cellar. Krcal has asked the district administration - a cellar can be dug. Before going to work, he knocks a drug pill into his beer. Suddenly they come across bones and believe that they have discovered an old Roman grave. The random incident gendarme but clarifies it all: the house stands on a former plague pit . When the gendarme Herbert wants to help "out of the pit", he pulls the gendarme into the hole. Now the drug is showing its effect on Herbert. He imagines that all of his fake friends and advisers are standing around the plague pit laughing at him and the like. a. Brother -in-law Willi, who says "dig your own grave and it will be occupied" . He then flees with his son Phillip to Margit's job, who currently has the workman Stefan as a client, and notices how Stefan charms Margit and hits him on the nose.

Now it's all over for Herbert Krcal. The showdown takes place at the blue lagoon, a prefabricated house park near Vienna, where Krcal finds himself as a hostage-taker in such a prefabricated house. The police manage to arrest him; but before he can be taken away, he calls the Enterprise for help, as there is no intelligent life on this planet. Krcal receives an answer from Kirk and the family is beamed away.

Trivia

The title Hinterholz 8 may be a subtle nod to Hinterholz 6 . That was the address of the last place of residence of the English poet W. H. Auden (1917–1973) in Kirchstetten in the Vienna Woods (Lower Austria). The place is roughly where the plot of Hinterholz 8 is located.

The statements "Meal, Mrs. Knackal!" (Roland Düringer from 4:59) and "Look again, Mr. Engineer, hello!" (Alfred Dorfer from 1:11:55) include elements that are reminiscent of the MA 2412 series recall.

The gendarme (played by Hans W. Pemmer), who spies incognito , is sitting on the motorcycle, which passes Krcal's property several times .

Reviews

"'Hinterholz 8' lives from its dry humor, from the typical anarchic Austrian joke and the language that makes many things appear easier than it really is. As in the case of India, which is also successful in German cinemas (more than 120,000 moviegoers), the film once again lifts a successful cabaret program onto the screen, but at the same time emancipates itself from this 'genre'. "  - kino.de

"Cynical, black and humorous, sarcastic and simply bitterly angry, Harald SICHERitz presents us with a play by Roland Düringer, who has taken on the leading role here and plays the desperate" house builder "Herbert with flying colors."  - filmtipps.at

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wystan Hugh Auden Memorial. On: NOeMuseen.at.
  2. ^ Film story and background Hinterholz 8 , kino.de
  3. ^ Story and criticism Hinterholz 8 , filmtipps.at