At some point is also good

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Movie
Original title At some point is also good
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Werner
script Daniel Bickermann ,
Christian Werner
production Sebastian Sawetzki
music Peer Kleinschmidt
camera Anne Bolick
cut Henning Stöve
occupation

Sometime is good too is a German fiction film from 2020 by Christian Werner with Fabian Hinrichs , Franziska Walser and Michael Wittenborn . The premiere took place on January 23, 2020 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , where Maresi Riegner was honored as the best young actor for her portrayal of Elli. The tragicomedy was first broadcast on ZDF on July 23, 2020 as part of the series Shooting Stars - Young Cinema in the Second .

action

Karsten is a conservative undertaker who leads an orderly life. Shortly before Christmas his budgie dies, his hearse causes problems, his wife wants to finalize the divorce and his always cheerful and cheerful apprentice Elli wants to make his funeral home more colorful and cheerful. At Christmas dinner, his mother Marion and his father Theodor tell him that they want to commit suicide together at the turn of the year .

Karsten doesn’t want to accept that, he doesn’t want to lose his father, who has Parkinson's disease and who used to work as an instrument maker, or his healthy mother who worked as a pharmacist. He therefore does everything possible to dissuade the two of them from their plan. In the few days he has left, he tries, with the support of friends and family, the police, Argentine bandoneon players and Sandra, his ex-wife's lawyer, to prevent them from carrying out their plans. Among other things, Karsten breaks into his parents' house to remove all medication from their home. He is caught red-handed and temporarily arrested by the police. He is also considering letting his parents be incapacitated. On a trip with his parents, Karsten also tries to talk his father into his conscience so that he can change his wife's mind again.

At the same time, his presence at the funeral home is required if he wants to prevent his trainee Elli from completely redesigning his company. He is also tormented by a stomach ailment and his health is deteriorating. Karsten is admitted to the hospital after a collapse, suspected of having pancreatic cancer . Without waiting for the final diagnosis, he flees the hospital to falsify a psychiatric report for the incapacitation of his parents. After his hospital doctor said there was a risk of suicide because of a serious diagnosis, the police wanted to take him into custody. Karsten continued his flight to his parents' house. There Karsten found out that he had gallstones and not, as suspected, pancreatic cancer. After a breakdown, Karsten is hospitalized again, where he sees his parents alive for the last time. After their death, Elli shows him the extra-wide coffin for his parents, a custom-made product that she had commissioned, just as his parents had wanted.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from March 10th to April 10th, 2019, and the shooting took place in Stuttgart and the surrounding area. The film was produced by Venice Pictures and ZDF ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel ) was involved. The production was supported by the media and film company Baden-Württemberg .

Tini Fetscher was responsible for the costume design, Christian Strang for the set design, Rüdiger Fleck, Tobias Adam, Maximilian Pongratz for the sound and Monika Knauf and Miriam Hauser for the make-up.

The film is based on a true story in which a journalist accompanies an old couple who commit a double suicide.

reception

Katharina Zeckau wrote on NWZonline : “That the filmmakers overshoot the mark and then exaggerate something with the bizarre: free. What remains is a wonderful film on an unfortunately unworthy night time slot. And the unanswered question raised several times in view of the planned suicide: What about God? "

Jonathan Steinert found in the Christian media magazine pro that the film was entertaining, touching and witty, with great actors and an original story. He manages to tackle extraordinarily complex and ethically hot questions about life, death, illness, suicide and dying seriously and humorously at the same time, without becoming moralized or slipping into flippant macabre.

Judith v. Sternburg said in the Frankfurter Rundschau that the author, director and camerawoman would follow familiar genre patterns of television comedy. It is all the more impressive to see what dazzling results they come up with and how they get classic slapstick and an unbelievable exceptional situation in a gently floating balance. Film and cast would elude classifications. Because Hinrichs pretends to be the opposite of a comedian, he plays every TV prankster on the wall. Werner and Bolick found the middle to savor flat running gags and yet let them run discreetly, whereby a discreet understatement is a bit, it is laughable.

Wilfried Geldner ( Prisma.de / Teleschau) described the film as a pretty well-told death comedy . The plot sounds partly like clothes, partly like a dark tragedy. But the film is full of surprises and, thanks to the script, also full of clever twists and turns and dialogues. In the recently somewhat overused genre of tragic-comic death comedies, this film is right at the top.

Kai Spanke, on the other hand, described the film in the Frankfurten Allgemeine Zeitung as a slapstick-like sketch marathon . The script would mainly consist of sketches. To make matters worse, a platitude blizzard raged between the joke interludes, which chased ice-cold foreign shivers down your back. Christian Werner and producer Sebastian Sawetzki wanted to stimulate a social debate with the film. Anyone who wants to promote a debate must nonetheless show that they have their topic under control and take them seriously. That doesn't rule out comedy. However, it should support the fabric and give it shape. In Sometime it is also good to behave the other way round, because there the subject only functions as a sidekick of a joke cascade that gets out of hand.

The first broadcast on ZDF on July 23, 2020 was followed by 680,000 viewers, the market share was 6.8 percent.

Awards

Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2020

Rhode Island International Film Festival 2020 (RIIFF)

  • Award in the Best Feature category (First Prize)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  13. ↑ Thomas Spanier: Uhlstadt-based director wins film award in the USA. In: otz.de. August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .