Man thing

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Movie
Original title Man thing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Gernot Roll ,
Mario Barth (co-director)
script Mario Barth ,
Dieter Tappert
production Oliver Berben
music Paul Kuhn ,
Marco Meister
camera Gernot Roll
cut Carsten Eder
occupation

Man's thing is a comedy film from 2009 by Gernot Roll and Mario Barth . The screenplay was written by Mario Barth and Dieter Tappert , who also played the leading roles.

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Berlin 1991: Paul and his best friend Hotte swear friendship forever. Today Paul works in a pet shop and lives with his father Rudi. On a few evenings he appears as a comedian in a small pub, but with little success - until he begins to tell jokes about his friend Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. His relationship with Hotte suffers from these jokes and Hotte's girlfriend, who doesn't think much of Paul anyway, is now additionally angry.

Paul and Hotte get into a dispute over a newspaper article that Susi had published in her anger about Paul. Paul later sees a television interview in which Hotte also questions Paul’s friendship. Hotte and Paul then split up. The sleazy manager Heinz König becomes aware of Paul and offers his services. With his help and the jokes about Hotte and Susi, Paul is now successful and can fill entire halls in a very short time.

After a chance encounter in front of a discotheque, Paul and Susi, who are both very drunk, spend a night together. Paul's father Rudi, who doesn't like Paul's change, hires a Russian mafia boss to intimidate Paul's manager and keep him away from Paul.

There is a dispute between Paul and Rudi, whereupon Rudi suffers a breakdown shortly afterwards. Hotte finds him by chance and takes him to the hospital. Paul, who has just discovered that his manager is cheating on him, leaves a major television show before his performance to rush to the hospital. At the bedside, father and son are reconciled again and Hotte and Paul race in Susi's car towards the TV show, in which Paul is supposed to have his big appearance, which he has long dreamed of.

On the way, however, Paul confesses to Hotte his night with Susi. Hotte then hits Paul in the face with his fist. But he can forgive Paul afterwards, because he already knew from Susi that nothing happened between the two except a kiss.

Given the choice by Hotte of going to the pub with him for a beer or going back to the TV studio, Paul decides against his career and in favor of his friend Hotte. At the end they celebrate together with Rudi and Susi on the roof of their house.

background

The shooting took place from June 9, 2008 to August 10, 2008 in Berlin.

The cinema release in Germany was on March 19, 2009 and in Austria one day later. The film was shown in Switzerland from March 26, 2009. 870,502 and a total of 1,835,924 viewers saw him in German cinemas in the opening week. On October 1, 2009, the film was released in Germany by Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray with FSK-12 approval.

In addition to the main roles, Mario Barth and Dieter Tappert play various small supporting roles in the film. The Russian mafia boss is portrayed by Tappert and his Russian henchman by Barth. Barth also plays the construction worker Marek, the grandma and a person who is supposed to represent Jerry Lewis . In addition, Barth and Tappert play the roles of Paul and Hotte in their childhood years.

Paul Würdig , known as a rapper under the pseudonym Sido , can be seen in a cameo as production manager named Guido. In this scene he tells a rapper who wears a mask that he will not be successful with this trademark - the one who became famous in real life.

criticism

The Nürnberger Nachrichten of March 20, 2009 read: “ First Mario Barth filled the Berlin Olympic Stadium, now he is filling the audience with lame comedy slapstick from the bottom drawer. […] 'Mannersache' is Mario Barth's first film. What is he doing there? First and foremost, he cracks ancient jokes. He also wrote the script, directed with Gernot Roll, played six roles and surrounded himself with acting professionals such as Michael Gwisdek and Jürgen Vogel, which made his acting ineptitude even more noticeable. But the buffoon with the built-in facial cramp has not considered that. Or he doesn't really care because he knows that the fans don't care about such subtleties. "

Susan Vahabzadeh wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on March 21, 2009: “ Mario Barth's film 'Mannersache' is a kind of brain jogging. From desperately trying to find out where the hell the joke is. […] The times when the flatness of punchlines could still be lamented are over; one is already happy here if one can find one at all during what feels like three hours. […] The rest of the 'man's thing' is a string of more or less meaningful actions and sentences […] All of this has nothing to do with mastery of a craft, timing or even inspiration […] Is that enough for the cinema? Well: Wherever Paris Hilton is mistaken for a style icon, Mario Barth will certainly pass as funny. "

The editors of the Stuttgarter Zeitung on March 23, 2009 judged: “ It is not rationally understandable why TV stars dare to go to the big screen with simple scripts, bad timing and the mismatch of their routines for success. In the case of 'man's business' the case is more complicated: here we are dealing either with self-hatred or a cry for help. Paul (irritatingly unsympathetic and monomaniac: Mario Barth) and Hotte (Dieter Tappert) once swore eternal friendship: which is another word for the combination of binge drinking and regressive pounding. [...] Since the flat figures are only ever developed towards the next punch line, the final conflict of loyalty, 'career or friendship?' completely oversized. Mario has chosen the Olympic Stadium, Paul chooses friendship. What should we think of that? "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for men . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  4. ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  5. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2009 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 4, 2011
  6. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten : Film review: The joker strikes back ( Memento from March 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), mime
  7. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Film review: Paris Hilton des humor
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung : Film review: Get me out of here! ( Memento of February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), ukr

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