Men and other disasters

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Movie
Original title Men and other disasters
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Ulli Baumann
script Jessica shellac
Kerstin Österlin
production Michael W. Esser
music Stephan Brüggenthies
camera Konstantin Kröning
cut Susanne Peuscher
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Men and other disasters is a German television - comedy from the year 1999 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Kerstin Gier and was broadcast on ARD for the first time on April 30, 1999 .

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The life of the young student Judith Kern is absolute chaos. She is overwhelmed with the demands of her business studies , the relationship with her friend Holger and the constant requests of her friends. A mishap happens all the time, which in turn is followed by a small catastrophe. For example, she is supposed to take care of her sister Rebecca's children, but since she has to attend a course at the university, she hands over the task to her neighbor, Mrs. Kiebig. When she comes back home, she is shocked to find that the little ones have not only set the living room under water, but also their father's pictures on fire. Of course, an argument with Rebecca is inevitable. She seeks consolation from her Holger. But he only has karting and football with his friends in mind. Since he doesn't look after Judith, she separates from him after five years together. Shortly afterwards, she also loses her job as a waitress. When her neighbor Leo Palewski changes her lightbulbs, she feels personally attacked during the conversation. After all, her life is going well and she knows exactly what she wants.

But the pain of separation is there. In the following years she completely withdraws from her life and spends her time eating a lot in front of the TV. She keeps getting calls from all of her friends who urgently ask for her help. She only wakes up from her phase when her father Julius Kern reports from Spain. He will soon have an exhibition in Berlin. All of his pictures are to be shown. This also includes the pictures destroyed under their supervision. She quickly hides them in the attic. When two gallery owners want to pick up the pictures, they take away Judith's early works without knowing it.

Meanwhile, the set designer Leo Palewski still cannot confess his secret love for Judith. Rather, he has to watch as she tries to rush into the next relationship. The childhood friend and actor Kai-Uwe Martens is in town and wants to be portrayed by Judith. Judith is thrilled and will soon start painting again for the first time in years. However, she is torn from the crush when she has to discover that Kai-Uwe is in a relationship with the heavily pregnant Christian. But she unexpectedly has a chance to live out her artistic streak with Mrs. Hardenberg. Actually, she was only supposed to help with the auditing, but after Rebecca's children cause chaos again and destroy Hardenberg's entire exhibition, she steps in with the help of Leo and his men. He supports them in their realization and so they manage to set up a better exhibition within one night.

Judith is confident that she is now getting her life back under control. Instead, she has to realize that the old problems are still the same. Holger just hasn't changed. Rather, she now believes that he is having an affair with her sister Rebecca. She runs away sad. Leo follows her to the lake, where he not only comforts her, but also confesses his love for her. In the evening he brings her back home, where all her problems dissolve in good pleasure. Her father is not mad at her that his pictures have been destroyed and replaced by hers. She receives high praise from Mrs. Hardenberg, Rebecca has a new love, but not Holger, because he is and remains the same old, unreliable drunken idiot.

Differences to the novel

The film is based on the novel by Kerstin Gier , but differs from the plot in some essential points. In the novel:

  • is Judith with the last name Raabe
  • Her sister doesn't have any children of her own, but her cousin
  • Judith studies German studies with minor subjects philosophy and musicology
  • she is not a painter, but models puppet heads

criticism

The lexicon of international films saw the film as a "winking love comedy". The editorial team of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm , however, said succinctly: "A lot of Makatsch, but little effect."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men and Other Disasters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Men and other disasters on tvspielfilm.de , accessed on January 4, 2013