Rabbits
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rabbits |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Detlev Buck Hans Erich Viet (co-director) |
| script |
Detlev Buck Wolfgang victory |
| production | Claus buoy |
| music | Detlef Petersen |
| camera | Roger Heereman |
| cut | Sybille Windt |
| occupation | |
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Karniggels is a film comedy by Detlev Buck from 1991. The film with Michael Lade , Ingo Naujoks and Julia Jäger in the leading roles is Buck's first work with producer Claus Boje .
action
Horst Köpper, known as "Köppe", who grew up in the rural idyll of Schleswig-Holstein , is about to complete his training as a police officer. His performance is below average compared to his colleagues, but he dreams of future service in a big city like Kiel or Lübeck . His trainers, however, have provided a somewhat more contemplative piece of earth for the inexperienced Köppe and send him as an intern to Barmstedt , where everyone knows everyone and where, as a normal citizen, the police are always met with suspicion.
Köppe's first vehicle inspection is unsuccessful due to his unsafe behavior when the controlled driver, a butcher named Elle, calls him an "apprentice" and does not want to be checked by him. However, the young police officer is not deterred and even makes extra laps in his private car at night to track down a mysterious cow murderer who has already cut up several cows in the pasture in the area. At night he runs across Elle again, who has broken down with the car and is now walking through the Feldmark to call a tow truck. Köppe immediately suspects to have found the perpetrator and knocks Elle down after the interrogation game becomes too stupid for Elle. A friendship develops out of the misunderstanding.
When he steals a car, he meets Annarina, a funky young woman from a well-heeled home, and falls in love with her. When Köppe pays a surprise visit to his newly found friend Elle, he finds him in his garage just in the process of spraying Annarina's stolen car. The sense of duty as a policeman wins the upper hand in Köppe over his friendship with Elle, which is why he immediately arrests him and hands him over to his colleagues. He proudly brings the car back to Annarina in person, who is currently having a party. But Annarina and her father show little interest or gratitude, since they have already settled the loss through their insurance and now even see the overmolded car as an impairment. In addition, Köppe has to watch how his love flirts with another man on this occasion.
Over the frustration of having lost two friendships, Köppe gets drunk and still drives his car, where he ends up on a police patrol. Nina, who attended the police school with him and with which he was also in love, tries to protect him, but is exposed. Afraid of losing his job, Köppe is hit and missed. The next day, in uniform, he goes on a crazy drive in the VW van in the station, during which he also "mediates" a traffic accident with a photo and carries out a grotesque traffic control. In the end, he is caught and suspended from the police force, which makes his mother cry and his grandfather to explain to him that from now on "another wind is blowing in the house" and that he will demand 350 D-Mark food money from him per month .
Elle helps him get back on his feet by getting him a job at the slaughterhouse. In the meantime, a farmer unmasked a teacher as the wanted cow killer. When Nina finally comes to visit him, Köppe's life seems to be turning for the better again.
background
- The director Detlev Buck has a short guest appearance as a postman in the film, as does co-author Wolfgang Sieg, who can be seen as a man in the garden.
- The film, produced by Boje-Buck-Filmproduktion in cooperation with Westdeutscher Rundfunk , had its theatrical release in Germany on November 14, 1991 and was first broadcast on television on June 7, 1995 on ARD .
- Buck explains that as a young man his mother advised him to become a police officer and sees the film as his idea of how he himself would have started a potential police career.
- The film was funded by Hamburger Filmbüro eV, the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, the Filmförderungsanstalt, the Berliner Filmförderung and the script funding of the Screenplay Workshop Berlin and the BMI.
- Parts of the film were shot in the police department for education and training in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein .
Reviews
“Buck looks at his creatures neither with the arrogance of the city neurotic nor with the blunt know-it-all of the outdoorsman: he loves them because of their weaknesses. And so the viewer laughs heartily at the hard work of the field police, who have to sneak after a tractor on the field lane when they are wanted, or at the arrest of a supermarket thief who is screaming and throwing eggs around. The viewer recognizes himself: What is carried out so seriously and devotedly as the service in the country here is strange from the outside because, experienced from the inside, it is the so-called seriousness of life. German province as a stroke of luck. "
“At every moment,“ Karniggels ”is shockingly authentic and at the same time shockingly harmless. But it's nice to see how Köppe gets his Nina in the end, and it calms the nerves when you finally find out who committed the mysterious cow murders. "
"Comedic country thriller from the far north, which lives from the close observation of the country and its people, funny characters and dry humor."
“The other actors, too, as policemen, farmers, blasé townspeople and sympathetic petty criminals, seem as realistic as if you would meet them in Sagehorn in the village pub. But important actors are rabbits, cows and countless flies. The comical effects that Buck can only get out of these creatures with close-ups or short cuts, prove that at least as a filmmaker he has left the cowshed far behind. "
Awards
- Detlev Buck received the award for young directors at the award ceremony of the 13th Bavarian Film Prize in 1992.
Web links
- Karniggels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karniggels at filmportal.de
- Karniggels in the lexicon of international film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Von Macken und Meisen in Der Spiegel , issue 47/1991
- ↑ The youngsters in Die Zeit , issue 48/1991
- ↑ Karniggels in Die Tageszeitung from August 25, 2011