Kokowääh
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| Original title | Kokowääh |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | Cinema: 123 minutes DVD: 121 minutes |
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| Director | Til Schweiger |
| script | Til Schweiger, Béla Jarzyk |
| production | Til Schweiger, Thomas Zickler |
| music | Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer, Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Christof Wahl |
| cut | Constantin von Seld |
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Kokowääh is a German comedy film from 2011 . Leading actor Til Schweiger directed and wrote the script together with Béla Jarzyk.
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Since the moderately successful screenwriter Henry broke up with his girlfriend Katharina, he has been at a personal and creative low point. The only thing he manages is the script for the television series “ Der Forster vom Spreewald ”, which is finally canceled due to a lack of viewers. When, thanks to his agent, he is made the unexpected offer to work on the adaptation of the bestselling novel “Freiflug”, he finally has the opportunity to fundamentally change his life. However, the author with whom he is supposed to work on the script is his ex-girlfriend Katharina.
When eight-year-old Magdalena turns up, his life is finally out of joint: In a letter that the little girl has with her, it says that Magdalena is Henry's biological daughter. Until her mother Charlotte returns from a court hearing in New York , Magdalena is said to be living with Henry. He has no idea how to deal with children and wants to bring Magdalena back to her foster father Tristan. However, he refuses to take Magdalena back because he has to overcome the shock of not being her birth father and his marriage to Charlotte is about to end.
Tristan also demands that Henry take responsibility for his daughter. Henry is hopelessly overwhelmed with the overall situation. He therefore tries to explain to Magdalena that he is her father. While working on the script, he developed feelings for Katharina again and his relationship with Magdalena intensified. However, he cannot bring himself to tell Katharina about Magdalena, since she was conceived while he was still with Katharina. When the suspicious Katharina unexpectedly visits him at home, she meets Magdalena and learns the truth from her. Disappointed and hurt by Henry's behavior, she leaves him and ends her professional collaboration with him.
To make matters worse, Tristan suddenly demands his daughter back. Henry becomes painfully aware of how much Magdalena means to him. There is a conflict between the two men. He tries to express his feelings with the help of a script he calls "Kokowääh". He sends it to Katharina so that she can understand how he feels. After reading the script, she meets with Henry and makes up with him. Together they continue to work on the script.
Meanwhile, Charlotte has returned from New York. She makes a compromise to keep Magdalena both fathers.
background
- The film title is spoken for Coq au vin . In the film, Kokowääh is the only dish Henry can cook, and later also the title of Henry's script.
- The original working title of Til Schweiger's screenplay was "Don't find happiness".
- The scenes of the exterior shots of New York City were not shot especially for the film, but come from the film One Way .
- Christof Wahl is named in the credits as a cameraman and also as a co-director of the film.
- Shooting began on July 21, 2010 and ended on September 13, 2010. The shooting took place in Berlin and Potsdam. The production costs of the film were estimated at 5.65 million euros. The cinema release in Germany was on February 3, 2011. In 2011, German cinemas counted 4,295,177 visitors. The film was first shown on German free TV on March 31, 2013 (Easter Sunday) from 8.15 p.m. on Sat.1 .
Reviews
“Til Schweiger has written a blended family comedy for himself: easy, entertaining, without depth. […] Schweiger does not attach any importance to the after-pains caused by the cuckoo child. And when things come to a head because the horned husband wants the daughter back, Schweiger ironed out the conflict like a crumpled shirt: let off some steam and everything went smoothly again. The film distances itself from problematizing the blended family. Is the director lacking courage? Schweiger is reminiscent of a child who only wants dessert. "
"How" Kokowääh "belongs to the kind of film in which the plot is crystal clear from the start. Only the moments of delay that are built in on the way to the happy ending create tension: humorous staged catastrophes that remain pleasantly without consequences, and many, many scenes in which Emma Schweiger is allowed to show her little girl charm. [...] Emma develops so much charm that one forgets the smeary jokes in the script and abandons oneself to the feel-good effect that Schweigers celebrate with many mood sequences: cut scenes with laughing, nudging people eating ice cream and boating, on green meadows and in a cozy atmosphere furnished living rooms, underlaid with lively pop songs. "
“In a few days, the child-hostile egoist Henry will become an understanding, loving father who works miracles for a missing plush donkey. [...] The mother urgently had to go to the USA, so she couldn't think of anything better for her daughter than to secretly drop her off with her birth father, whom the girl had never seen before. [...] You have to accept such leaps in logic and one-dimensional drawn figures in "Kokowääh". "
"What do you have against this beautiful story, you do-gooder, you can hear Schweiger's admirers say: You will probably still be allowed to film that little messy girls are totally cute, women often look totally sexy and Til Schweiger devours them all ! Nothing. Unfortunately, the film looks like a commercial for yoghurt, home savings or coffee pods over long periods. "
Awards
- The film received a gold bogey for reaching three million visitors in 30 days .
- As the "most successful German comedy film" of the year, the film received the 2011 German Comedy Prize
- The film received the 2011 Golden Screen for reaching three million moviegoers within 18 months .
- 2011 Wild And Young Award in the Best Film category
- 2012 Romy as best film
- The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Continuation and remake
From August 2, 2012 to October 1, 2012, Kokowääh 2 was filmed in Berlin . As in the first part, Til Schweiger acted as director, lead actor, screenwriter and producer. In addition to Til Schweiger, Emma Schweiger, Jasmin Gerat and Samuel Finzi play again. The movie was released on February 7, 2013. Supporting roles include Matthias Schweighöfer (as himself), Julia Jentsch , Paula Kalenberg , Steffen Wink , Helmut Zierl and Oscar Ortega Sánchez .
An English-language remake of the film is planned with Bradley Cooper to lead and direct.
Web links
- Kokowääh Official website for the film
- Kokowääh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kokowääh at filmportal.de
- Hannah Pilarczyk: The history of "Kokowääh" in Der Spiegel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kokowääh . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 096 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Kokowääh . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Til Schweiger in the audio commentary
- ↑ medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH: Film Funding 2011 at a Glance ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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. (PDF; 42 kB)
- ↑ Wishlist.de and Presseportal.de .
- ^ Film review Kino like dessert from January 31, 2011
- ↑ Film review It stays in the family ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Film review plea for blended families ( memento from February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) from February 3, 2011
- ^ Film review down feathers in the back light from February 7, 2011
- ^ Romy 2012
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt2194599/fullcredits#cast accessed on October 18, 2012
- ↑ http://www.stern.de/kultur/film/schweiger-film-in-hollywood-bradley-cooper-drehen-kokowaeaeh-remake-1978050.html
