Love Machine (2019)

Movie
Original title	Love machine
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 14
Rod
Director	Andreas Schmied
script	Silvia Wohlmuth
production	Helmut Grasser
music	Matthias Weber , ; Yariv Vaknin
camera	Anna Hawliczek
cut	Olivia Retzer
occupation
	Thomas Stipsits : Georg "Georgy" Hillmaier; Claudia Kottal : Jadwiga Fiedler; Julia Edtmeier : Gitti Hillmaier; Ulrike Beimpold : Josefine Ferstl; Barbara Schöneberger : Uschi Baumann; Hemma Clementi : Johanna Rieger; Julia Jelinek : Uta; Lilian Klebow : Dr. Cerny; Monica Reyes : Theres Weinmann; Elfriede Schüsseleder : Gerda Fiskas; Adele Neuhauser : Eva Wildner; Katharina Straßer : Lisa Blümel; Michael Rast : Walter Baumann; Wiltrud Schreiner : Monika Sadleder; Holger Schober : Kurt Haindl; Gerhard Maier : moderator;

Love Machine is an Austrian feature film by Andreas Schmied from the year 2019 with Thomas Stipsits , Julia Edtmeier and Claudia Kottal in the lead roles. The Austrian theatrical release took place on February 1, 2019, the premiere was on January 24, 2019 in the Cineplexx Donau Plex .

action

Georg "Georgy" Hillmaier is an unsuccessful and ambitious musician. He travels around with his two-man band until his band colleague dies of sudden cardiac death. After being evicted from his apartment, he moves in with his sister Gitti, who works as a waxing specialist and beauty consultant.

In order to earn money he starts working as a call boy . His sister is skeptical at first, but soon supports him and passes him on to her customers. Georgy has a raccoon belly, but he is very sensitive and empathetic and is therefore well received by the women. Business goes well until he falls in love with the driving instructor Jadwiga and he has to choose between love and work.

production

The shooting took place in June and July 2018 in Vienna . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by Allegro Film .

Sergey Martynyuk and Manuel Grandpierre were responsible for the sound and sound design, Monika Buttinger for the costume design, Katharina Haring and Nina Salak for the production design and Tom Mayr and Kiky von Rebental for the mask.

After Die Werkstürmer (2013) and Harri Pinter, Drecksau (2017), the film is the third feature film by director Andreas Schmied .

reception

Horst-Günther Fiedler found in TV-Media that Stipsits "after the rather disappointing Baumschlager finally and sympathetically arrived in the cinema as a womanizer like you and me". The role of the superficial, but warm-hearted and insecure Hallodris is written for the cabaret star .

Franco Schedl, on the other hand, said on film.at that the film may not be quite as bad as "Baumschlager", but that it is still a long way from a successful comedy. The French could stage frivolous entertainment, in Austria it usually "turns out to be a very rigid matter". The script wouldn't leave out any of the standard predictable humiliations .

Matthias Greuling wrote in the Wiener Zeitung that the film was part of a current in Austrian cinema that was trying to appeal to the masses. You always run the risk of ending up in old clichés. That would have happened in a lot of films lately, like Baumschlager or Das kleine Genuss . Love Machine is no exception.

Barbara Petsch judged in the daily newspaper Die Presse that the rustic comedy was convincingly cast, quite amusing, but would have turned out too long. The film seems "not particularly cheeky, but not tasteless either". The "crass military satire Baumschlager" would be more original than "Love Machine".