March melody

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Movie
Original title March melody
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2008
length Cinema: 96 minutes
DVD: 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Martin Walz
script Martin Walz
Lars Höppner
production Manuela Stehr
music Emil Viklický
camera Matthias Fleischer
cut Simone Klier
occupation

Märzmelodie is a German love - comedy with elements of a musical film directed by Martin Walz from 2008. The film starred Jan Henrik Stahlberg and Alexandra Neldel .

action

The single Anna Brokate from Berlin is a primary school teacher. Her students do not listen to her and she is overwhelmed by her work and on her nerves. Thilo Kranz is an actor who is still known to some in his role as Manni in the film "Head Through the Wall", but has not been given a role for a long time. He now has to keep himself afloat with part-time jobs like selling wine over the phone. In addition, his girlfriend Katja has just left him and he is plagued by a sudden memory loss, so that sometimes he no longer knows where he is and what he wanted to do.

Anna's girlfriend Valerie and Thilo's boyfriend Moritz are a couple and bring the two together at a meeting. Valerie has just started work again after looking after their child for two years. Her husband Moritz therefore has to take on the night shift in the print shop so that he can take care of Emily during the day.

When they first met in a restaurant, Anna had a nervous breakdown at the thought of her work and ran away. Thilo has already fallen in love with her. When Thilo calls Anna from his workplace and his supervisor comes up, Thilo fakes a sales pitch and when Anna's father answers the phone, he responds and gives Thilo a great sales success by ordering seven cases of wine.

Thilo now learns from his friend Florian that he is with his ex-girlfriend Katja. Florian soon breaks up with Katja when he learns that it is serious and that she has fallen in love with him. Only later do you find out that Florian only separated from Katja because he is seriously ill due to a muscle problem and did not want to burden her with it.

At the next meeting with Anna in a pub, Thilo goes to the bathroom for a moment and when he comes out he has another dropout and can no longer remember why he is here. When Florian meets him, he goes with him and leaves Anna. Florian later learns from Katja that he is pregnant and they get back together.

After Thilo got the tip from his boss that he should introduce himself as an actor, he would play a role as a wine seller, he suddenly had success. Anna quits her unloved job at school, looks for a job in a bookstore and gives tuition for students, but only in one-to-one tuition.

Valerie and Moritz arrange a meeting for Anna and Thilo under a pretext and eventually the two become a couple.

background

  • The characters in the film do not sing themselves, but imitate the singing of various interpreters with their different original voices. There are also no complete music tracks to be heard, but mostly only a line or verse from a song. The sung sections often fit seamlessly into the dialogues and last from seven seconds to a maximum of one minute.
  • Producer Manuela Stehr explained that she wanted to make a music film, but that the songs in popular music films often seemed too long to her.
  • Thilo was originally supposed to be called Theo in the film. Since Marius Müller-Westernhagen, who played Theo in the film Theo against the rest of the world , made the release of his song subject to the condition that the main character of the film must not be called Theo, the name was finally changed to Thilo.
  • The noises that can be heard in the background when Thilo has his dropouts are the cracking noises of thawing ice blocks.
  • Director Martin Walz has a guest appearance in the film as a passer-by who sings Hold on to your love from clay stones shards .
  • The shooting took place from May 8, 2007 to June 13, 2007 in Berlin. The cinema release in Germany was on February 7, 2008.

Songs

All songs used in the film are German-language titles by various artists, two music titles were specially composed for the film.

Reviews

“A melodic love comedy in which well-known older and newer German songs, hits and snouts are used with wit and flair to get to the heart of the characters' respective emotional states. The conventional threefold love story revolves around finding, losing and rediscovering three young couples, including an unemployed actor and a teacher who is overwhelmed by her job, who (lip-synchronic) vent their exuberance in a potpourri of seven decades of German hit history. Hymnically expressive, charming and often very funny, the film manages an entertaining tightrope walk between kitsch and depth. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Even if the spark doesn't quite jump over, the March Melody is an entertaining, if not particularly original, comedy."

- Arte

“The film sings a song of praise to the playback and discovers the truth of life in the Schmalz. However, the actors sometimes charge to the limit of their heartache, and at the end the film loses its lightness under the burden of telling its three stories to the end. "

- The mirror

“The songs break out of the people, depending on the affect and the situation, as a brief musical exaggeration of the situation. The song fragments enter the phrase so precisely that you can hear the filmmakers' pride in having found something so suitable. However, the more appropriate the cut, the more curious the effect. At some point just marveling at the fit is boring. "

- Berliner Zeitung

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life is a hit in Stern from February 9, 2008
  2. ↑ a b A music film from Berlin irritated by song fragments - "March Melody": That fits! in Berliner Zeitung on February 7, 2008
  3. ↑ a b audio commentary by the director
  4. ↑ March Melody  ( 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. on Arte from February 5, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv  
  5. ↑ March Melody in Der Spiegel , Issue 6 of February 2, 2008