Nobody pushes us away
| TV movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Nobody pushes us away |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Murnberger |
| script |
Sebastian Orlac , Ulla Ziemann |
| production |
Katharina M. Trebitsch , Iris Kiefer |
| music |
Michael Beckmann , Tom Stöwer |
| camera | Peter von Haller |
| cut | Florentine Bruck |
| occupation | |
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Nobody pushes us away is a German television film by director Wolfgang Murnberger from 2018. The social comedy was inspired by the fate of the Heinze women , the female employees of the former Heinze photo company, who received the same pay in 1981 before the Federal Labor Court in Kassel how their male colleagues fought. Sebastian Orlac and Ulla Ziemann wrote the script for the film and tells of Lilli, Gerda and Rosi, three employees of the fictional Gelsenkirchen photo group Kunze, who, with the help of the works council, trade union and the media, oppose the executive floor and the chauvinism in their own ranks try to fight back.
The production by Filmpool Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Trebitsch Entertainment was made between June and July 2018 in Cologne and the surrounding area. In addition to the leading actresses Alwara Höfels , Imogen Kogge and Katharina Marie Schubert , Christoph Bach , Martin Brambach and Johanna Gastdorf appeared in front of the camera. The fictional film received a predominantly positive response from reviews, mainly because of the enthusiasm of its actors. The first broadcast took place on November 14, 2018 as part of the ARD theme week on the subject of justice .
action
Gelsenkirchen, 1978. By chance, Lilli Czipowski, who has worked for many years at Foto Kunze , a large laboratory for developing images, discovers that the female workforce is paid significantly less than their less experienced male colleagues. When her outrage met with incomprehension from her partner Kalle, who also worked for Kunze, she and her colleagues Gerda and Rosi sought advice from works council member Ritschi, who promised them union support in the fight against the executive floor and for equal wages. The trio resolutely begins to collect signatures in order to pursue a lawsuit against their employer.
The three friends also have to struggle with all sorts of problems in their private lives: Lilli learns that Kalle, the father of their two children, is having an affair with a photographer, and finally shows him out. But without his earnings, the low-income woman suddenly finds herself confronted with unpaid bills and a defective car. Rosi, who works against her husband's will because she wants to improve her standard of living, meanwhile struggles to maintain her perfect image of family happiness. However, your daughter does not miss the fact that her mother does not attend adult education courses in her absence, but goes to work in secret. After the death of her husband Hans, the passionate singer Gerda tries again to escape her lonely existence with thoughts of better times.
With her revolutionary efforts to defend herself against the executive floor and the chauvinism in her own ranks, Lilli makes many enemies. And many women also do not dare to sign the list of signatures for fear of possible reprisals. Gerda then has the brilliant idea of asking for signatures in her local pub. With an emotionally charged speech, Lilli turns to everyone present and is successful. Soon enough signatures were collected and the women were looking forward to the trial at the labor court in Hamm with great media interest. As feared, the lawsuit is dismissed. The employer claims to pay wages based on performance, which explains the differences.
Resigned, the women go to work in the next few days and now face reprisals from the company management. In future they would only be given light jobs in the lower wage groups. Since they now only get "half the money", they show their employer what it is like to get only "half the work" for it and quickly reduce their work performance. Richi also encourages Lilli to go to the Federal Labor Court after the lost lawsuit. The Basic Law would be on their side and just because the judge would not have responded to the arguments of the women, they should not give up. The women also get a boost from the press. The negative headlines from Foto Kunze caused the first customers to drop out and nobody wanted to work there anymore, so that the vacancies were not filled. Therefore the company management offers the women a comparison. But due to the public interest, they do not want to accept the offer, but even increase the pressure on the company management. Lilli is slowly running out of strength. The debts grow over her head and her husband hardly pays anything to support the children. She would like to give up. She now receives help from Ritschi, who gives her money for three months' rent and uses the opportunity to come out as homosexual.
When Wolfgang Kessler learns that his wife is secretly going to work part-time, he starts a marital dispute, as a result of which Rosi moves out and seeks shelter with Gerda. She is currently in the process of writing a battle song according to her passion. When she realizes that Lilli is in a crisis, she quickly takes the initiative and turns to television. Here you can reach people directly and you have to listen to them. In court this is only done by lawyers and judges, who then decide according to their ideas of justice or would then interpret the laws in this way. On the way to the television station, where Gerda and Rosi are on the move with a whole bus full of fellow campaigners, she presents them with her song “ nobody pushes us away” and thus awakens the right fighting spirit in them. In front of the camera in confrontation with her company boss Kunze, Gerda just doesn't find the right words and Rosi is not very eloquent either. Lilli, who is sitting in the auditorium and can no longer overhear it, speaks up and confronts Kunze with her sound arguments, whereupon Kunze leaves the discussion.
A year later, the women finally have the appointment before the Federal Labor Court and this time they win. However, they don't get too much of it, because one year after the verdict, Foto Kunze has to file for bankruptcy. But they definitely won the first part of the fight for equal pay. They want to stay tuned because nobody pushes them away .
background
The story of No one pushes us away was inspired by the employees of a large photo laboratory in Gelsenkirchen , known as " Heinze women " , who made headlines in 1981 when they fought for the same pay as their male colleagues in a third instance before the Federal Labor Court in Kassel . The case attracted nationwide attention, triggered a flood of follow-up processes and is therefore considered to be groundbreaking for equal rights for women and men in professional life.
Sebastian Orlac , who described the film as "heroine stories", began work on the script in 2013. Going into production Nobody pushes us away until five years later. The shooting of the film lasted 22 days and took place between June 12 and July 11, 2018 in Cologne and the nearby Ruhr area . The comedy was produced by Filmpool Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Trebitsch Entertainment on behalf of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and ARD .
Reviews
Christopher Schmitt fromquote meter found that the production "knows how to convince with its feeling for the mentality of the Ruhr area and a strong script". Nobody pushes us away "deliberately do without a gag fireworks, which would not have done justice to the serious topic", whereby the script would be "brought to life by the strong acting performances": "Alwara Höfels seems to be the tough, loud and pragmatic Lilli written on the body. The best sayings in the film are rightly reserved for her. Karsten Antonio Mielke and Martin Brambach convince in their roles as Ruhrpott machos, for whom all the woman power around them is increasingly scary. Both actors have a very fine sense of timing. The loud character of the film is reinforced by a very present diegetic and extra diegetic musical background ”.
“ Nobody pushes us away, first of all stripping a nostalgic Ruhrpott feeling picture sheet. This appears authentically presented and is by and large surprisingly entertaining for such a brittle unfinished business as 'equal pay for equal work' ", judged Heike Hupertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote:" As a nostalgic piece of contemporary historical importance, nobody goes to us away well. Towards the end, however, the WDR production makes it abundantly clear that it also wants to be future-oriented. With the modern world of work (keywords Industry 4.0 and digitization ), however, this film, which focuses exclusively on the solidarity of the working class, the works council and trade union, has just as much to do with the current reality as the socially romantic notions at an SPD party congress. Naive, but at least well meant ”.
Rainer Tittelbach wrote in his review for Tittelbach.tv that as a viewer you might need some time "to get used to the film". It works all the “easier, the more the characters take on contours and the little people talk takes a back seat to the story (s). With the 1A line-up, concerns about only dealing with well-known Pott cliché types are quickly dispelled. Especially Alwara Höfels as a buddy from next door should meet the waves of sympathy in this role. Smart to tell the story as a drama, always with a twinkle in the eye; so there is no embarrassing social romance. The litigation motif has a limited range of dramaturgical variations, but this is offset by the dialectic of politics and privacy and the depth of the characters ”.
success
Nobody pushes us away celebrated on November 14, 2018 as part of the ARD theme week on the subject of justice in the first broadcast. With a market share of 13.4 percent and a total of 3.96 million viewers, the feature film behind the ZDF television series Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved was the second most- watched prime-time production .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women's archive of the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hanover ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file)
- ↑ Ursula Schumm-Garling: Women and precarious employment ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: DGB Women 2008 (PDF file)
- ↑ Makin Of . DasErste.de. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ↑ a b Nobody pushes us away (2018) . Crew United. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ↑ a b Criticism: Nobody pushes us away . Odds Meter .de. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: Right work for real money . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 11, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ↑ TV film “Nobody pushes us away” . Tittelbach.tv . December 11, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ↑ TV ratings: decent start for "Parfum" and "Milk & Honey" . digitalfernsehen.de. December 13, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
Web links
- No one pushes us away in the Internet Movie Database (English)