The wedding (2020)
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| Original title | The wedding |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 119 minutes |
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| Director | Til Schweiger |
| script | Til Schweiger, Lo Malinke |
| production | Til Schweiger, Christian Specht , Klaus Dohle , Willi Geike Stefan Gärtner |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | René Richter |
| cut | Christoph Strothjohann |
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Die Hochzeit is a German film comedy by Til Schweiger from 2020 with Samuel Finzi , Milan Peschel and Til Schweiger in the leading roles. The German theatrical release was on January 23, 2020, in Austria the film was released on the following day. It is a continuation of Class Reunion 1.0 - The Incredible Journey of the Silverback . Just like the first part, it is a remake of a Danish film, here Klassefesten 2: Greavelsen from 2014.
action
The life of the three friends Nils, Andreas and Thomas continues to be chaotic after their class reunion. DJ Thomas is troubled by the flop of his new album, but he is determined to marry Linda. Nils finds out that his wife Jette had a one-night stand after 25 years . After separating from Tanja, Andreas is again looking for a new partner.
When Bachelor of Thomas, an old friend who was also Jettes affair dies. Nils, Andreas and Thomas, together with Linda's daughter Lilli, have to go to his funeral, which is delayed due to a mishap. A race against time begins in order to arrive in time for the wedding.
production
The shooting took place from May 7, 2019 in Berlin and Brandenburg . The film was produced by Barefoot Films , with co-producers being SevenPictures Film GmbH , Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH and Erfttal Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co KG . The working title was Class Reunion 2.0 - The Wedding .
The production was supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt , the German Film Funding Fund and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH. Frank Heidbrink was responsible for the sound, Isabel von Forster for the production and Metin Misdik for the costume design.
The premiere took place on January 21, 2020 in Berlin's Zoo Palast .
reception
Filmstarts rated the film 1½ out of 5 stars. The numerous product placements , including for Schweiger's companies, as well as a “brutal humor” that “is neither well written nor well staged” are rated negatively . The conclusion of the review is: "If there are significantly more prominent product placements in a comedy than sparkling punchlines, that's never a good sign." However, the film is also "not as bad as the first part"; it contains "less questionable wisdom and more fast-paced slapstick ", which only worked to some extent thanks to the acting performances of Milan Peschel and Samuel Finzi.
Matthias Dell found on Zeit Online that this film was astonishing and - based on the works of Schweiger, mostly ridiculed by film critics - that Schweiger was one of his better, if not one of the best, alongside Guardian Angels . The comparatively mild age would not have been expected. For example, apart from the opening scene, the film dispenses with “a characteristic of Schweiger's oeuvre: the emotional marketing clip, which often stops the plot for dramaturgical reasons.” In terms of equipment, the film sets a new standard in Schweiger's work, the Americanized country house The trimmed furnishings of the apartments shown can only be distinguished by the basic tones. In Schweiger's world, Germany would "really only consist of exterior views of manor houses, fields, empty streets with American hearses and the lights of the night of a wider Berlin street", which served as a metropolitan code.
Horst-Günther Fiedler wrote in TV-Media that it was a well-intentioned sequel that should actually be called The Funeral . The film is only for fans. There would be no center of the film, hardly any story that could be driven forward by the loosely connected, number revue-like sequences. The far too many characters are caricatures, and visually everything looks like a two-hour IKEA commercial. In all the chaos, Schweiger has hidden a few true moments.
Web links
- The wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wedding at crew united
- The wedding at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Wedding . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 196367 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Wedding . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d The wedding. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on December 28, 2019 .
- ↑ The wedding. In: film.at. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
- ^ "Class reunion": New comedy by Til Schweiger becomes trilogy , accessed on December 28, 2019
- ↑ a b The wedding : The trailer for the sequel to Til Schweiger's class reunion 1.0 , accessed on December 28, 2019
- ↑ The wedding. In: Filmstarts.de . Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
- ↑ The wedding. In: cineplexx.at. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
- ↑ a b The wedding at crew united . Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ↑ Filmstarts: The Filmstarts review of The Wedding. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthias Dell: "The wedding": Mildes gender Mimimi. In: Zeit Online . January 23, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ . TV Media No. 5/2020, page 136: The Wedding: Til Schweiger and friend at the Chaos Trip: . Retrieved January 26, 2020.