Men's nursery (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Men's nursery |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franziska Meyer Price |
| script |
David Ungureit , Rainer Ewerrien |
| production | Uli Aselmann |
| music | Christoph Zirngibl |
| camera | Bernhard Jasper |
| cut |
Stefan Essl , Zaz Montana |
| occupation | |
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Männerhort is a German comedy film directed by Franziska Meyer Price from 2014 . The production is based on the play of the same name by the German-Icelandic author Kristof Magnusson and tells of three relationship-plagued men who create a women-free zone in the central boiler room of their new housing estate in order to be able to secretly watch football and drink beer far away from everyday marriage - until the strict caretaker discovers their refuge and wants to drive the trio away. Elyas M'Barek , Christoph Maria Herbst , Detlev Buck and Serkan Cetinkaya can be seen in the leading male roles . Other roles were taken on by Cosma Shiva Hagen , Lisa Maria Potthoff and Jasmin Schwiers , among others .
action
On the run from their wives who love to consume, Eroll, Lars and Helmut dive into a central heating cellar on the periphery of their new housing estate, where they have set up a final enclave of masculinity. Here you can indulge your hobbies carefree between pin-up girls and table football: between fast food and canned beer, football is watched on the big screen and the misunderstood wife is talked about - a real men's refuge! But when one day the facility manager Aykut finds out about them, they have to fight to find their hiding place - until the annoyed Aykut also forges the plan to flee from his wife. But soon the idyll begins to crumble and the men realize that they were really just fooling themselves. Lars, who actually thought he was having an open marriage and was happy, wanted nothing more than to be with his Anne, especially since she is about to give birth to her first child. Helmut confesses to his friends that he is gay and Eroll separates from his wife Connie. So the three of them dissolve their men’s after-school care center and finally live as they had always hoped for: Lars as a family man, although he knows that Eroll is the father of Anne's child because he is sterile himself, Helmut openly acknowledges his friend Alex and Eroll enjoys his regained freedom and moves into the world.
background
The shooting of Männerhort took place from September 5 to October 25, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area. Although the production company initially had a different location outside of Hesse in mind, the decision was finally made in favor of guaranteed funding for the cheaper production variant in the Main metropolis. In addition to the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the German Filmförderfonds (DFFF), the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and HessenInvestFilm also funded the project, which cost around 4.3 million euros, with the required maximum funding of one million euros. Producer Uli Aselmann found the decision to be an advantage after the city of Frankfurt, in contrast to other major German cities, "has not yet been photographed". In addition, he was able to engage a cameraman for the project with Bernhard Jasper , who had already staged Mainhattan for Matthias Schweighöfer's films What a Man (2011) and Schlussmacher (2013) . For the exterior shots, a new district in the northern Frankfurt district of Riedberg was finally awarded the contract, where the main motif, the row house settlement of the three protagonists, was also located. Here, among other things, scenes were created in the adjacent Riedberg natural science campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . Sequences located in the shopping center were again shot in the inner city MyZeil , which was renamed “Happy Center” for the film.
reception
Reviews
"The fact that the film turned out to be quite amusing in parts is thanks to the chemistry between the male actors, which helps overcome some weaknesses in the script and staging," said Die Welt in its review. “These four turn the boiler room into a water heater, in which not only the common stereotypes about men and women are gutted, but also a few life lies are exposed [...] It's just a shame that the female characters who were introduced for the cinematic expansion of the stage play , all of them are painfully one-dimensional caricatures, and not flesh and blood. "
Reinhard Westendorf of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung wrote in his review: “Basically nothing more or less than a man's joke that plays out all clichés and that the women will spontaneously laugh out loud at least, the staging of the staid men’s ward trumps at least in terms of performance.” He found praise especially for the play of actor Christoph Maria Herbst , "who already played his badass role on stage", and "presented even past puns fresh and cheeky".
"Director Franziska Meyer Price was able to win three comedy quality guarantors for her gender comedy Männerhort - and considering so much talent in front of and behind the camera it is all the more disappointing that the film fails like this," wrote Christoph Petersen of Filmstarts . "We are still looking forward to every new project with Elyas M'Barek, Christoph Maria Herbst or Detlev Buck, but it is still better to steer clear of their men's nursery ."
“A running gag about men standing in line at the post office laden with return parcels from their wives does not, unfortunately, fill the entire evening - just like the clumsy rubbish of the plot,” says Birgit Roschy from epd Film . It gives the "joke-technically simple film adaptation of the tabloid comedy" an average of 3 out of 5 stars.
success
The film premiered on September 21, 2014 at the Cinestar Metropolis cinema at Eschenheimer Tor in Frankfurt am Main . The release for the public demonstration of the production took place on October 2nd. According to press reports, the production already had around 280,000 visitors in 530 cinemas at the end of the first screening weekend and thus reached number 1 in the German cinema charts , ahead of Dracula Untold and David Fincher's Gone Girl .
Web links
- Männerhort in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for men's day care center . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 595 K).
- ↑ Age rating for men’s day care center . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Männerhort, Germany 2013/2014, feature film . In: film portal . Filmportal.de. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Ursula Vossen: Three men on the Riedberg . Filmhaus.de. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ↑ a b c German premiere of MÄNNERHORT, absolutely exceptional state in Frankfurt: MÄNNERHORT inspires fans . Presseportal.de. October 1, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Big line-up of stars when filming in MyZeil . MyZeil.de. October 9, 2014. Archived from the original on October 17, 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. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ↑ To be a man you have to go to the basement today . In: The world . Welt.de. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ Reinhard Westendorf: Plain play with the clichés . In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . noz.de. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ Christoph Petersen: Männerherzen> Filmstarts criticism . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Criticism of the men's nursery. epd film, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Jens Schröder: “Männerhort”: the next local production at number 1 on the cinema charts . Meedia.de. October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
