Kehraus (film)

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Movie
Original title Sweep
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hanns Christian Müller
script Hanns Christian Müller,
Gerhard Polt ,
Carlo Fedier
production Hans Weth
music Hanns Christian Müller
camera James Jacobs
cut Thea Eymèsz
occupation

The customer

The 6th floor

Board

Other actors

At home

On the ball

Kehraus is a satirical German feature film from 1983 about the practices of the insurance companies towards their customers, the behavior of the bosses of such a group towards the employees and the hustle and bustle during carnival . Almost all of the scenes show the characters' weaknesses and wickedness in all sharpness. Nevertheless, the film ends in a conciliatory way: the female and male main characters find each other. The film title is derived from the sweep .

action

On Shrove Monday, the forklift driver Ferdinand Weitel got some largely superfluous insurance policies from the insurance agent Arno von Mehling, who visited him at home. Immediately after his departure, Weitel disillusioned, as the contribution payments would cost almost half of his net salary. He calls the insurance company and learns from the employee Annerose Waguscheit that to cancel one or the other contract he would have to come to the 6th floor in person on a Tuesday or Thursday. This Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday and none of the employees thinks about work. Mr. von Mehling, who is financially completely exhausted, does not want to lose his commissions and therefore tries to avoid Weitel.

Nobody on the 6th floor knows that the board of directors has been observing the employees for a long time with a surveillance camera and wants to fire a number of them to save money because they are not working effectively enough. Coincidentally, Mr. Weitel, who was sent "to the 13th floor" to the board of directors by Mr. Deutelmoser for fun, managed to get through the code card-secured door into the board room. There he happened to find Mr. von Mehling at the board meeting at which "live overlay" from the surveillance camera was being shown. A security guard throws him out shortly afterwards. Weitel reappears in Mrs. Waguscheit's office and is visibly angry because he suspects that von Mehling is hiding from him. From what Ferdinand Weitel has seen, Ms. Waguscheit can reconstruct the existence and location of the hidden camera in the office: You disable the camera with a bitten carnival donut. Out of sympathy, Mrs. Waguscheit tells Mr. Weitel as he leaves that he could find von Mehling at a carnival ball that evening. But which one?

A few hours later, another, but pitifully unsuccessful insurance agent named Rösner Weitels Mietshaus rings the doorbell. At least Weitel learns from him that it is the ball "Traumpolice". Without a ticket for the ball, Mrs. Waguscheit, whom he meets at the entrance, will call him “her husband, HR manager Dr. Berzelmeier ”, who is“ on the list ”, issued; so he comes in. After some back and forth, the employees of the “6. Stocks "together with Mr. Weitel to the board of directors, who celebrated exuberantly and casually informs the employees that they were all fired because of" chronic lack of performance ". All employees are shocked; Herr von Mehling suffers a heart attack, the employee Wandrey, masked as Zorro, who has meanwhile turned out to be an eccentric with a penchant for Wehrmacht paraphernalia, freaks out and shoots a sharp weapon, causing the chandelier to fall. The guests leave the hall in a panic, and the event comes to an abrupt end. Ferdinand Weitel and Annerose Waguscheit discover their mutual sympathy, and "Rosi" finally takes the tram together with "Ferdl" home to him instead of to her mother. She promises him that the next day the documents of his signed insurance contracts will disappear.

Reviews

  • Der Spiegel : “Kehraus” brings the Polt world into a dramaturgically solid structure, a world as cold as the country in which another Bavarian wanted to plant pineapples, populated by people who treat themselves infamously in hearty Bavarian language and their souls from Freezing and frustration bumps are deformed. It's a comedy made up of little tragedies. It takes place in the milieu of the employees, in an insurance company called "Fidelitas", and it is also a biting social report about people in the pumping and leveraging of the hierarchy.
  • Lexicon of international films : Bitter farce on the impotence of the common man in the face of a profit-oriented bureaucracy. The often dull, macabre and vulgar means of expression conceal serious social criticism and humane intent.
  • Münchner Merkur : This movie shows the best Polt ever. It is a successful mixture of bitter social satire, tragicomic valentine and wonderful mistaken slapstick.

Awards

The script was awarded the German Film Prize in Gold in 1984.

Gerhard Polt received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 1984 for his comedic performance .

Trivia

  • According to the script, the film was shot from April 19 to May 27, 1983.
  • The indoor and outdoor shots of “Fidelitas Assecuranz” were taken in the ESG office complex on Vogelweideplatz in Munich-Steinhausen.
  • There are parallels to Polt's humoresque series Fast as in real life : To the episode "Sales Representative Training" (from the 7th episode, 1982), in which insurance agents are pedantically prepared for a visit to the customer in a role-play. In this episode, the representative "Rösner" (also played by Erhard Kölsch ) and his colleague "Gropper" (played by Wolfgang Gropper ) appear. Also thematically related is the humoresque "Today we hit the drum", in which a very drunk carnival prince is supposed to appear at the celebration of a bank, but can hardly move. The two Kehraus cloakroom women Demmler and Humpel talk about a particularly precarious evil that has happened to their acquaintances (episode "Catastrophes" from Fast as in real life).
  • Several fictional carnival hits are played in the film: "Today we hit the drum" (from the episode of the same name from Fast wia im real life ), "I eat beef bratwurst", "In the Bohemian Forest, it's cold there" are characterized by extremely senseless texts, which is also meant as a parody of the carnival.

The song "Ich bin ene Vampir" from the Höhner from 1982 played in the film was a current carnival hit at the time.

  • A radio play variant also came onto the market, although the roles were partly cast differently from the film (including Ruth Drexel and Hans Brenner ).
  • Not all scenes from the script were fully shown in the film. For example, according to the book Weitel, he speaks longer with Berzelmeier, Heinzel and Rüden when he bursts into the 13th floor, and Waguscheit experiences mobbing motorcycle rockers on their way to the ball.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel of November 14, 1983
  2. ↑ Waste. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used