Late show
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Late show |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Dietl |
| script | Helmut Dietl Christoph Müller |
| production | Helmut Dietl Alfred Hürmer |
| music | Stephan Zacharias |
| camera | Gernot Roll |
| cut | Inez Regnier |
| occupation | |
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Late Show is a German film by Helmut Dietl from 1999.
action
Conny Scheffer, the program director at "Tele C", is struggling with a rating low after the talk show host of the "Mick Meyer Show" interviewed a disabled sodomist about his sex life with a goat.
Scheffer listens to the radio presenter Hannes Engel on the car radio and knows immediately that he is the solution to his problem. But Hannes Engel repeatedly preached to his girlfriend Maria Keller that television was "blind and stupid". Maria has just quit her job as a series actress at Scheffer's broadcaster because she was not ready to undress for a scene on the orders of Scheffer's colleague Carla Sperling, although that made no sense.
With a Porsche as a gift and a lot of money, Scheffer still manages to lure Hannes Engel and lure him away from his farm idyll. Mick Meyer is fired, Hannes Engel is put in his place and calmed down with mendacious sayings.
From an alpine farm, the financier Dr. August Beer did the business with Tele C. In addition, there is the lovesick taxi driver Rose, who adores Hannes Engel, and the sleazy tabloid reporter Tschurli Nowak, who had to stick a hook in Hannes Engel's chin for a false and fluffy story about Maria and is now looking for it, the media star to be destroyed by a newspaper article.
criticism
“Director Helmut Dietl (“ Vom Searching and Finding Love ”) invites you to the horror cabinet of private television at a late hour: listening to ratings, abuse of power, vanity and unscrupulous financiers make his heroes lose the last bit of dignity. Where every picture is a cliché and everything comes across as heavily covered, well-known TV noses scrape past the self-parody wonderfully close. "
“Satire on the customs of the (private-sector) television business, which silted up in emphatically garish caricatures and verbal jurias without any deeper insight. Oscillating between puns and aphorisms, the film never seriously reflects the mechanisms of the attacked medium and offers - apart from a few highlights - at best solid craftsmanship. "
“The film is a catastrophe with rays of light, so to speak. Because the craftsmanship is flawless, and Harald Schmidt proves to be a surprisingly good, sometimes even great, actor. Jasmin Tabatabai is a gorgeous beast. Dietl has been fine-tuning the dialogues for a long time, but that is no praise: As here, with subordinate clauses of the umpteenth order and perfectly formulated bon mots, nobody speaks, this is pure paper. The story construction also remains artificial, in which many characters are simply superfluous. The most annoying thing is that nothing new is being said about the subject of television, that clichés are spreading, that no gag really sits where it belongs: in the pit of your stomach. "
"After" Rossini "now" Late Show ": In his new film, the director Helmut Dietl succeeds in a satirical travesty of the daily television madness - in which the TV fun professionals Thomas Gottschalk and Harald Schmidt amaze with their acting skills."
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
background
- The film opened in German cinemas on February 25, 1999 and was seen by 864,627 viewers.
- Jasmin Tabatabai was nominated for her role as Carla Sperling in 1999 in the category “Best Supporting Actress” at the German Film Awards.
- Parts of the film were shot in the original setting of the Harald Schmidt Show in Cologne's Capitol Cinema . Even Helmut Zerlett has a cameo role as a leader.
Web links
- Late Show in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Late Show at Filmportal.de
- Late Show at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/late-show,90932,ApplicationMovie.html
- ↑ Late Show. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Late Show , prisma.de
- ↑ Reinhord Mohr: Quote frogs in Tele-Zoo on Spiegel Online
- ↑ TOP 100 GERMANY 1999 , insidekino.de