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Movie
Original title No ears
No ear rabbits
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Til Schweiger
script Til Schweiger,
Anika Decker
production Til Schweiger,
Thomas Zickler
music Stefan Hansen ,
Dirk Reichardt ,
Mirko Schaffer
camera Christof Wahl
cut Charles Ladmiral
occupation
chronology

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Keinohrhasen is a German love comedy by and with Til Schweiger . The production was based on a script by Schweiger and the author Anika Decker and is about the Berlin tabloid reporter Ludo Decker, who is sentenced to 300 social hours in a day care center after a public faux pas and meets his former classmate Anna, played by Nora Tschirner . The film opened in German cinemas on December 20, 2007. The film ranks 13th on the list of the most successful German films in Germany since the official audience census began in 1968.

action

Ludo Decker is a Berlin tabloid reporter and is out and about with photographer Moritz every day to observe celebrities for the daily newspaper “Das Blatt” . He also likes to use this for casual sex contacts. In an interview with Jürgen Vogel , however, they are tricked by him with a made-up story about cosmetic surgery, which causes him trouble with his editor-in-chief.

When Wladimir Klitschko wants to propose marriage to Yvonne Catterfeld in a hotel ballroom, Ludo and Moritz are there to report on it and to make up for their blunder. Ludo breaks through the glass dome above the hall and falls into the cake. The not entirely impartial judge then sentenced him to 300 hours of community service in a day care center . Should he not prove himself there, an eight-month prison sentence would be served.

In the day care center, Ludo meets the director Anna Gotzlowski. Anna grew up with Ludo in the same neighborhood and was mocked and even abused by him again and again during her childhood, for example by having a group of children hold her in order to throw magnetic stones at her braces. She decides to reciprocate Ludo's meanness by entrusting him with unpleasant tasks and harassing him. The two fight over and over again, but Ludo can hardly defend himself, otherwise his probation is threatened. He is still interested in new female acquaintances and, among other things, sleeps with the nymphomaniac mother of one of the children in the after-school care center.

To make matters worse, Anna takes in the difficult son Lollo from Ludo's sister. Only when they bring Lollo, who has injured himself in the head with a dart in his head, to the hospital do they work together as a team for the first time. So they gradually come closer and bury the hatchet, even after Anna has apologized rather awkwardly for her previous behavior. They start meeting outside of the after-school care center, spending time together, and talking. The work in the after-school care center is also gradually becoming more sympathetic to Ludo. After Anna's appointment with a man fails one evening, she rings the drunk doorbell at Ludo's apartment door to be comforted. The two end up in bed and spend the night together. Although both initially deny the desire for a relationship, since they have a lot to do with each other until the rest of Ludo's time in the after-school care center, at least Anna hopes for more. However, she is disappointed for the time being and her attempt to explain her love to Ludo also fails.

When Ludo is surprised by Anna at another one-night stand and she withdraws crying, he gradually realizes that he feels more for Anna than he wanted to admit. Some time later she entered into a relationship with Jürgen Vogel. Finally he blows up a performance during a children's festival in the Renaissance theater and confesses to Anna, who is sitting in the audience with the children from her after-school care center, that he loves her.

background

Emergence

The budget of the film was 4.2 million euros. For the first time, Til Schweiger stood in front of the camera with his four children. The scenes with Nora Tschirner and Jürgen Vogel on the red carpet at the German Film Prize were filmed during the ceremony at the German Film Prize 2007 . Keinohrhasen celebrated its world premiere on November 24, 2007 in Berlin and opened in German cinemas on December 20, 2007.

Age rating

The film originally had the age rating FSK 6. Bild am Sonntag had the headline on January 13, 2008: “Too much sex!” The newspaper reported that numerous parents protested against the rating from the age of six, as it was extremely suggestive and vulgar in the dialogues go to. Harald Martenstein criticized the decision of the FSK in Die Zeit and in the Tagesspiegel : On the grounds that small children would not understand sex scenes and vulgar comments anyway, the FSK could also have approved the 100 days of Sodom [sic] from six. Thereupon the Federal Family Ministry, the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs (both CDU-led) and the Social Ministry of Schleswig-Holstein (SPD-led) used their rarely used right of appeal and achieved a re-examination of the film. As of February 1, 2008, the FSK Appeals Committee raised the approval to FSK 12. This was justified with the partially sexualized, coarse language.

Meaning of the film title and names

While doing handicrafts in the day care center, Ludo sews a stuffed rabbit without ears. When Anna criticizes him for this, he points out that the rabbit made by Hortkind Cheyenne-Blue also has no ears. Anna then claims that Cheyenne Blues rabbit has no ears because he is a "no-ear rabbit" who can hear through his nose. This scene was also used for the first teaser .

The first name "Ludo" means "I play" in Latin .

The role of the juggler Bello alludes to the film Herr Bello , in which Armin Rohde mimes the human incarnation of a dog that temporarily mutates after taking a magic potion.

occupation

Jürgen Vogel , Barbara Schöneberger , Wladimir Klitschko and Yvonne Catterfeld play themselves in guest appearances in the film , although Catterfeld was never in a relationship with Klitschko in reality. Schweiger also made it possible for his four children to appear in the film, alongside Emma Schweiger as a kindergarten child, his daughter Lilli can be seen as a kindergarten child Sacha, Luna Schweiger can be seen in a flashback as a young Anna, Schweiger's son Valentin as a young Ludo. The actress in the black and white film , which is shown in one scene on Ludo's television, is Tyra Misoux , a well-known German porn actress.

music

In a version of the music video of the title song Apologize by Timbaland presents OneRepublic , excerpts from the film are used.

In addition to instrumental pieces by the three artists Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt and Mirko Schaffer, the film's soundtrack also includes songs by The Killers (remix by Mr. Brightside ), Rea Garvey ( Hold Me Now ), Keane ( Everybody's Changing ), Angels & Airwaves , Prefab Sprout , Bloc Party , Au Revoir Simone and Kashmir .

The text of the hip-hop music for the children's festival in the theater is the ballad The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which was newly recorded by the music project Young Poets and Thinkers .

criticism

After his earlier films were panned, Schweiger refused a general press screening. In a conversation he said that some critics were "really pissed off" . In Die Welt , Hanns-Georg Rodek complained that on the one hand Schweiger had refused press screenings before the cinema release, but on the other hand he was trying to use the media for the launch of his production by means of interviews and glamor photos. "This speaks to the mindset of one-night sex: grab all the benefits, avoid all risks." There are still media that have self-respect and cannot be instrumentalized. Peter Zander was in the same direction in the Berliner Morgenpost . Both newspapers refrained from evaluating the film.

Nora Tschirner received positive reviews for her portrayal.

The film service found Keinohrhasen anything but perfect, but mostly Schweiger did the right thing and found “a disarming balance between serious feelings and staged shamelessness” ; so he succeeds in the best German comedy since Sonnenallee . There was praise for Tschirner, Kavanian, Schweighöfer and especially for Vogel. The Stuttgarter Zeitung rated the comedy as entertaining and fast . However, the plot is "somewhat constructed" and it is better not to think about Anna's psychology. A rarity in Germany is a "really entertaining cinema with confident actors, beautiful pictures, a great soundtrack and a sympathetic story," said the General-Anzeiger (Bonn) . The contagious fun, which is convincing in the first scene, sags in the dramatic scenes, and not all guest appearances were successful. Cinema described the film as "warm-hearted and bizarre" and easy to digest. Schweiger shows "his feeling for great supporting actors and wacky situational comedy," and Tschirner hits the heart with her portrayal. The Focus praised a “wonderful ensemble” . Although the starting position consists of constructs and clichés customary in the genre, Schweiger developed a “charming chutzpah, casual ease and curious comedy” with “omnipotent sovereignty” . Unfortunately, some scenes were pasted up with “massive musical power” .

Some other reviews were more mixed. Epd Film was happy about Vogel's laughing stock at the beginning. The first half of the film offers "that sweet cocktail of tingling dialog jokes, not too deep dumbbells and self-irony [...] that you otherwise miss so much in German films." However, after the couple found each other too quickly, the film becomes uninteresting and the plot is predictable and at the same time it is incomprehensible why the two become a couple. Epd Film was just as annoyed by the loud “American music” as it was by the fact that Schweiger presented himself in the best possible light and made Tschirner look ugly for a long time. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ruled that some individual scenes were witty and charming, and that Vogel's appearance was a scream. Some gags in the constructed and weakly motivated plot are superfluous. A "half-funny" film "with quite funny scenes - but also with some lengths and sweaty kitsch" was no-ear rabbit for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

The standard called it a "shallow little film" that lacks a lot. Der Spiegel regretted that the comedy did contain successful punch lines, but even the distracted silence, until there was nothing left to laugh about. It is unbelievable that, according to the script, no man should be interested in Tschirner and that Ludo and Anna should know each other from school, since Tschirner was 26 and Schweiger 44 years old. The shy Anna corresponds to a "musty role model" . The actor-director is apparently particularly proud of his buttocks, which he shows naked. The magazine ulkte that Klitschko was "portrayed quite convincingly by Klitschko himself in the film ."

success

country Visitors 2007 Visitors 2008 All in all
Germany 1,407,336 4,878,676 6.286.012
Austria 77,707 244.843 322,550
Switzerland 35,651 - 35,651

Keinohrhasen already reached more than 400,000 visitors within the first week of the screening and was thus able to place itself directly at number 1 in the German cinema charts. The film stayed at the top of the tables for another two weeks and already had almost four million viewers within the first month. By November 2008, around 6.3 million visitors saw the film in the cinema. The production advanced to the second most successful film production of 2007 after David Yates Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and the most successful German production since Michael "Bully" Herbig's (T) Raumschiff Surprise - Period 1 (2004). The film ranks 13th on the list of the most successful German films in Germany since the official audience count began in 1968 and grossed around 81 million dollars (almost 60 million euros).

The accompanying DVD became the best-selling title of the last ten years at the online retailer Amazon.de in the following year. In German free TV, Keinohrhasen could be seen for the first time on April 5, 2010 at 8:15 p.m. on Sat.1 .

Awards

After the German Film Academy had not nominated his film for the German Film Award because the DVDs submitted with watermarks were not accepted for nomination, Schweiger announced his departure from the Academy. When the film was awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize , last year's winner Jürgen Vogel alluded to Schweiger's behavior and said that the prize would probably appease Schweiger now.

Subsequent films

The sequel to Keinohrhasen is the film Zweiohrküken , which opened in December 2009 . In the run-up to the release of Schweiger's film Kokowääh (2011), Warner Bros. Pictures Germany announced that the theatrical release date for a third part of the series would be December 22, 2011.

In autumn 2013, an animated film was released with Keinohrhase und Zweiohrküken , which is aimed at children as an audience. Schweiger also took over the direction and played the role of the no-ear rabbit.

Newmarket Entertainment secured the rights for a US remake of the film in 2010.

literature

Book about the film

Review mirror

Rather positive

  • Cinema No. 1/2008, p. 47, by Philipp Schulze: A womanizer in love stress
  • film-dienst No. 1/2008, p. 33, by Michael Kohler: Keinohrhasen
  • Focus , December 17, 2007, p. 66, by Harald Pauli: Wallflower Sex
  • General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , December 20, 2007, p. 27, by Bärbel Schnell: From the boulevard to the kindergarten
  • Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 22, 2007, p. 34, from ukr : Aversion becomes love

Mixed

negative

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for no-ear rabbits . Youth Media Commission .
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  5. ↑ Cinema: “Keinohrhasen” celebrates its premiere in Berlin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . FAZ.net. November 12, 2007. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
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  10. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek : Silence to Silence . In: Die Welt , December 20, 2007, p. 27
  11. ↑ Peter Zander: Still Schweiger . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 21, 2007, p. 18
  12. ↑ Michael Kohler: Keinohrhasen . In: film-dienst No. 1/2008, p. 33
  13. ↑ Aversion becomes love . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 22, 2007, p. 34
  14. ↑ Bärbel Schnell: From the boulevard to the kindergarten . In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , December 20, 2007, p. 27
  15. ↑ Philipp Schulze: A Womanizer in Love Stress In: Cinema No. 1/2008, p. 47
  16. ↑ Harald Pauli: Wallflower Sex . In: Focus , December 17, 2007, p. 66
  17. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Keinohrhasen . In: epd Film No. 1/2008, p. 39
  18. ↑ Michael Althen: Among children. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 22, 2007, p. 35
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  20. ↑ Der Standard , December 19, 2007, p. 32: Relationship box
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  25. ↑ amazon.de /
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  27. ↑ focus.de
  28. ↑ rp-online.de ( Memento of the original from April 10, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  29. ↑ mexicofilmfestival.com ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mexicofilmfestival.com
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