Men's hearts ... and the very, very big love

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Movie
Original title Men's hearts ... and the very, very big love
Men's hearts 2 Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Simon Verhoeven
script Simon Verhoeven
production Quirin Berg
Max Wiedemann
music Simon Verhoeven
Wolfgang Hammerschmidt
Gary Go
camera Jo home
cut Stefan Essl
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chronology

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men's hearts

Men's hearts ... and the really big love is a German comedy by Simon Verhoeven from 2011. The production is a continuation of Verhoeven's film Men's Hearts from 2009 and, like its predecessor, tells of a clique of different types of Berlin men whose work and love life are possibly linked and which were inspired by Verhoeven's private environment. The main roles of the romantic ensemble film were again by Christian Ulmen , Wotan Wilke Mohring , Justus von Dohnányi , Maxim Mehmet , Florian David Fitz and Til Schweiger taken. The cast was supplemented by the newcomers Michael Mendl , Christine Schorn , Mina Tander and Pasquale Aleardi .

The comedy produced by Wiedemann & Berg started in cinemas on September 15, 2011 and, like a man's heart, immediately took first place on the German hit lists. With around 1.3 million visitors ... and the very, very big love advanced to the fifth most successful German film of the cinema year 2011. Reviews described the film as a successful sequel that is qualitatively far removed from other shallow mainstream comedies. The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the rating valuable after it was released . Furthermore, men's hearts ... and the very, very big love were awarded, among other things, with the Bambi in the Film National category and the audience award of the Bavarian Film Prize.

action

The music producer Jerome needs a break from Berlin and moves back in with his parents in rural Heuchelheim. There his mother has restored his nursery and Jerome tried to organize his life. He falls in love with Helena, who manages her parents' horse farm.

Pop star Bruce Berger is bursting with energy and creativity. He introduces his producer to two new songs: a pop hit with the title The very, very big love and a rap with the title Positive Energy . His producer thinks the songs are inferior, insults Berger and fires him. Bruce therefore decides to found his own record label Bruce Berger Records - BBR and is looking for employees.

Phillipp visited with his girlfriend Nina, expecting twins, a childbirth class . The other, eccentric participants rob both of them the last nerve, so they drop out of the course when it gets too crazy at some point. After they both found out that they were going to have two children, Phillipp decides to open a second shop and "think big". He rents a luxurious old building and hopes to become wealthy soon. Despite her pregnancy, Nina takes a course as a web designer.

Advertising specialist Niklas learns that his wife has fallen in love with the couple therapist. She breaks up with him and he starts looking for acquaintances on the Internet. When he sees his ex-girlfriend Maria Hellström on TV - she is the star of a soap opera about pilots and stewardesses - he realizes that she was the great love and he decides to find her again.

The civil servant Günther has a platonic relationship with the single mother Susanne, whose husband Roland is in prison. Susanne finally wants sex, which causes problems for Günther because he is insecure and inexperienced.

The main characters' storylines begin to overlap. Günther calls Jerome constantly to get sex tips from the sexually experienced Womanizer. The attempts to have sex with Susanne fail, however, whereupon she hooks up with the sleazy pop star Maurizio from Bruce's former record company. He, in turn, is engaged to Helena, with whom Jerome has fallen in love. When Jerome learns that his dream woman is taken, it breaks his heart. He confesses his love to Helena, but then withdraws. Bruce Berger hires Niklas and Günther at BBR and Nina creates a website for her. However, believing that he is on the road to success, he ruins himself with his shopping addiction, with parties and drug excesses, and finally moves in with Jerome's parents. Roland cannot get his violence problem under control, which means that he is blocking the possibility of being released early.

Niklas finds his ex-girlfriend again, but due to a number of misunderstandings, she considers him a crazy stalker who beats women . Bruce learns that his former company stole the hit The Great, Great , and Maurizio made a fortune with it. Bruce is devastated. Nina gives birth to the twins and Phillipp caused a fire in his new restaurant out of negligence. Since he has failed to take out fire protection insurance, he is left with the property damage of 30,000 euros and faces ruin.

Although everything seems to go wrong for the main characters, everything turns out for the best in the end: When the hit star Maurizio tries to rape Susanne after a date, Günther saves her from him and she gives him another chance. They both become a couple again and have successful sex. Helena learns that Maurizio is sexually harassing other women and then finds herself with Jerome. Bruce can prove that the hit came from him and is successful with it. He pays Nina the agreed 30,000 euros for creating the website and she decides to expand this activity.

Niklas writes Maria an explanatory letter and asks her to give him another chance. She agrees and a romance is developing between them. In the end credits you learn that Bruce also had a huge hit in the Far East with Positive Energy .

background

production

The shooting of men's hearts ... and the really, really great love took place between September 21, 2010 and January 27, 2011 in Berlin and the surrounding area, but mostly in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district . A total of around eighty motifs were filmed - including the appearances by Bruce Berger, Barbara Schöneberger and Maurizio Marquez, which were created in just one day in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz . Like its predecessor, the film was produced by the Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion under the direction of Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg . The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg subsidized the project with around 900,000 euros. The film funding agency contributed 600,000 euros to the production and distribution funding, while the film funding agency in turn made just under 350,000 euros available.

For the sequel, Verhoeven was able to gather the entire main cast of the first part again. Newcomers to the cast were Michael Mendl and Christine Schorn as Jerome's parents and Mina Tander and Pasquale Aleardi as Helena and her fiancé, pop singer Maurizio Marquez. Moderator Barbara Schöneberger can be seen briefly as herself, Samuel Finzi plays a policeman. In contrast to men’s hearts , however, the shooting schedule was “so tight and fragile” due to other projects by the actors that, according to Verhoeven, there was hardly any room for unforeseen things.

music

The soundtrack for the film was produced again by director Simon Verhoeven and was released on September 16, 2011 by Universal Music . As with the first part, Verhoeven composed part of the film music himself, including the title “Blingading” by his band Marshmellow Club and the Bruce Berger songs “The whole, whole, very big love”, “When love hurts” and “Positive Energy ".

"Brighter Than the Sun" by the American pop singer Colbie Caillat served as the title song of the film , who was able to place another title on the soundtrack with " I Do ". For promotion in German-speaking countries, scenes from the film were subsequently incorporated into the associated music video .

Soundtrack

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Brighter than the sun
  DE 44 07/22/2011 (14 weeks)
  AT 31 08/19/2011 (10 weeks)
  CH 55 07/24/2011 (5 weeks)
  US 47 02/11/2012 (25 weeks)
  1. Colbie Caillat - "Brighter Than the Sun"
  2. The Naked and Famous - "Young Blood"
  3. Neon Trees - "Animal"
  4. Marshmellow Club - "Blingading"
  5. White Lies - "Bigger Than Us"
  6. I Blame Coco featuring Robyn - "Caesar"
  7. Maroon 5 - "Just a Feeling"
  8. Gary Go - "Open Arms"
  9. Colbie Caillat - " I Do "
  10. Eliza Doolittle - "Pack Up"
  11. Gary Go - "Heart and Soul"
  12. Bruce Berger - "The very, very, very great love"
  13. Bruce Berger - "Positive Energy"
  14. Kid Crème - "The Game (Piano Mix Edit)"
  15. Beathotel - "Smile"
  16. Simon Verhoeven - "Children's Hearts"
  17. Wolfgang Hammerschmid - "Men's Heart Themes"
  18. Bruce Berger - "When love hurts"
  19. Beate Maes and Simon Verhoeven - "We are mothers"

reception

Reviews

"Instead of continuing to conduct anthropological studies, the director is now concentrating entirely on his already established characters [...] Although this is only half as demanding, it is twice as much fun," said Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts . “In the second part of his ensemble comedy, Verhoeven throws all ballast overboard and simply has a lot of fun with his diverse cast of actors. That is star-studded, good-mood, feel-good cinema, as you wish. " Kino.de wrote:" Men's hearts and really, really great love is here as a mainstream comedy that, in addition to romantic errors and confusions, also contemporary things like stalking , Facebook , as a gag Called Spacebook, or sniffing course for pregnant couples, an even more rounded pleasure than its predecessor. This very, very great fun is believed to be a very, very big success, maybe even bigger than a man's heart . "

The Süddeutsche Zeitung highlighted the film positively in comparison with other German comedies and identified the man as the current comedy topic: “The man, the unknown and much scolded being who has been in various identity crises for a long time, is currently being pepped up by German cinema comedies. And that's a good thing when a director like Simon Verhoeven goes to work, because he has the talent to see his images of men stereoscopically: with extravagant satirical fantasy and tenderness. While would-be comedies like Resturlaub or What a Man let their male apotheoses perish in vulgar slapstick and shooter swamp, Verhoeven can delight with wit, empathy and a staging style trained in screwball comedies ”.

Julia Bähr from Focus magazine described the production as “Spulfilm”: “Occasionally you would like to skip a few minutes, especially when you watch it again. But the others are so entertaining that it's worth the effort. Alternatively, the lengths could also be viewed as integrated pauses: If you get a new snack every third appearance by Til Schweiger, you can keep up with the times. ”The star wrote that the film was based on productions like Til Schweiger's Kokowääh (2011) and Matthias Schweighöfers What a Man (2011) could easily continue “the series of successful German comedies”. It is Verhoeven's merit that “in his turbulent story he eschews boring gender clichés as well as stereotypical coarseness and kitschy romance. And no matter how bizarre, weird and disturbed his men may be: Verhoeven, who also wrote the script for men's hearts , never denounced his characters. ”The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the production the title valuable .

success

The continuation of the first part premiered on September 7, 2011 in the Cinestar cinema at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and was released for public screening on September 15, 2011. At the end of the first weekend - including preview screenings - the film recorded 294,757 visitors in a total of 688 cinemas. It placed itself in front of Friends with Certain Advantages and The Three Musketeers, like its predecessor, directly at number 1 on the German cinema hit lists. By November 2011, the production had attracted more than 1.3 million visitors to the cinema halls. The total box office result to date has been around 9.3 million euros. Like its predecessor, the comedy became the fifth most successful German production of the cinema year.

In Switzerland, men's hearts and very, very great love rose to number 12 in the German- Swiss cinema charts. In the following week, production climbed to 3rd place. Within the first three weeks, the comedy drew more than 30,000 visitors to the cinemas. The film spent a total of six weeks in the top 25 of the cinema charts and was able to buy more than 46,700 screening tickets. In Austria the film reached number 2 on the box office hit lists.

Awards

On November 10, 2011, director Verhoeven received the media award in the national film category at the Bambi Awards in Wiesbaden . The jury, consisting of Hubert Burda and the editors-in-chief of the Burda Group, wrote in its reasoning: “Simon Verhoeven shows us that he has a thorough command of this genre, starting with the comical intricacies and sophisticated dialogues in his script to the perfect timing of the Staging of his film [...] Fine observation and great love for the characters are probably just as decisive for the success as the character of the filmmaker, who reveals himself to be a hopeless romantic through his work ”. In addition, Simon Verhoeven received the Bavarian Film Award for the second time in January 2012 , after men's hearts ... and very, very great love were awarded the audience award. The five most successful German films of the year had been up for election.

Sequels

Although Verhoeven granted the possibility of a third part in the men's hearts series after the sequel was published , Justus von Dohnányi confirmed in October 2013 that, although joint considerations for a further sequel had been sought, ultimately they had not continued. In January 2014 beamed Sat.1 turn the TV - offshoot of women's hearts from that as a female counterpart to men's hearts Berlin in five women and their different lifestyles says. Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion was responsible for the production of the feature film , while Sophie Allet-Coche took over the direction based on a script by Astrid Ruppert . The leading roles were cast with Nadeshda Brennicke , Valerie Niehaus , Anna Fischer , Julia Hartmann and Marie Schöneburg . When it was first broadcast, 3.03 million television viewers aged three and over tuned in, resulting in an above-average viewing participation of 9.9 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age identification for men's hearts ... and the very, very big love . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b men's hearts… and the very, very big love, Germany 2010/2011, feature film . In: film portal . Filmportal.de. Retrieved on November 23, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmportal.de  
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  5. ↑ a b Warner Bros. Pictures Germany> Men's hearts and the very, very big love . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  6. ↑ Funding decisions - Film funding - 2010 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. 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. Retrieved November 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffa.de
  7. ↑ a b Dieter Oßwald: Nobody expected this success . In: Cinezone One . Cinezone.de. September 26, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  8. ↑ Markus Tschiedert: There is no recipe for masculinity . In: Badische Zeitung . Badische-Zeitung.de. November 14, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  9. ^ André Wesche: A conversation with Simon Verhoeven . In: Nordkurier . Nordkurier.de. October 18, 2011. Retrieved on November 17, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de  
  10. ↑ Chart tracking (men's hearts OST) . In: Hung Media . AustrianCharts.at. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  11. ↑ Christoph Petersen: Men's hearts ... and the very, very big love> Filmstarts criticism . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  12. ↑ Men's hearts ... and the very, very great love - criticism . Kino.de . Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  13. ^ Rainer Gansera: Never again sausage sandwiches . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Sueddeutsche.de. September 14, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  14. ↑ Julia Bähr: The beauty of the enchanted unicorn . Focus.de . September 14, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  15. ↑ When men want to love . Stern.de . September 12, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  16. ^ Men's hearts 2: Predicate valuable, comedy; Feature film, Germany 2011 . FBW-Filmbeval.de . Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  17. ↑ German premiere of the comedy "Männerherzen 2" . Stern.de . September 7, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  18. ↑ German cinema is becoming a high-flyer . Focus.de . September 19, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  19. ↑ a b men's hearts and the very, very big love> weekend charts Germany . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  20. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2011 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
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  23. ↑ Top 10 - Austria (23-25 ​​September 2011) . In: Uncut Movies . Uncut.at. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
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  25. ↑ Bavarian Film Prize for "Men Hearts 2" . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  26. ↑ S. Sturm: Interview with male heart director Simon Verhoeven . In: TV Today . TVToday.de. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed in 2013-02-210. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvtoday.de
  27. ↑ Bruce Berger remains lonely - at least says Bruce Berger . In: Movie Break . MovieBreak.de. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed in 2013-02-210. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviebreak.de
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