Maria, he doesn't like it! (Movie)

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Movie
Original title Maria, he doesn't like it!
Country of production Germany , Italy
original language German , Italian
Publishing year 2009
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
JMK 0
Rod
Director Neele Vollmar
script Daniel Speck
Jan Weiler
production Jakob Claussen
Cristiano Bortone
Uli Putz
music Niki Reiser
camera Torsten Breuer
cut Bernd Schlegel
occupation

Maria, he doesn't like it! is a German film comedy from 2009, the script of which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jan Weiler . In 2016 the film was with Antonio, he doesn't like it! continued.

action

Jan wants to marry his girlfriend Sara, a German with an Italian father. Jener (Antonio Marcipane) came to Germany as a guest worker in the 1960s and married Ursula, whom he had met as a waiter at his place of work. When Antonio learns that the couple is only planning the upcoming wedding as a civil ceremony, he insists that big celebrations be held in Italy with the entire family.

So Jan has to go to Apulia in southern Italy with his girlfriend Sara and her family to make the appropriate preparations. In the small town of Campobello, numerous old conflicts within the family are revealed, and the wedding is delayed due to missing documents. In addition, a constant dispute develops between Jan and Antonio. The situation escalates when Jan's parents arrive and advise against the wedding, overwhelmed by the ongoing arguments. Jan leaves shortly before the church wedding. However, Antonio realizes that he stands in the way of his daughter's happiness. He drives after Jan and makes up with him. Then both drive back, but have to find out that Sara is already at the train station to go back to Germany. They follow her and Jan can still stop them by breaking the engagement. Instead, Sara's parents marry Antonio and Ursula, whose wedding, which was closed in Germany, had not yet been put on record in Italy.

background

Weiler wrote the script in collaboration with Daniel Speck . The shooting took place in Munich and Krefeld , with the scenes that take place in Osnabrück being created in Krefeld . Further recordings were made in Apulia and in particular in Gravina in Puglia , where the recordings were shot that take place in the fictional location of Campobello, which takes up most of the film. Shooting began on October 16, 2008 and ended on December 6, 2008. The film opened in cinemas in Germany and Switzerland on August 6, 2009 and was shown in Austria one day later. On July 4, 2010, the film celebrated its television premiere in Italy. The film was shown on October 28, 2010 at the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco .

Lino Banfi doesn't speak German. For this reason, posters with a kind of phonetic transcription were specially made for him, from which he could read the text. Ulmen announced that his idea of ​​Italy had not changed significantly as a result of the production, "everything is exactly as you imagine it, the clichés are all correct." More than 1.35 million viewers saw the film by the end of 2010 Germany.

Jan's oldtimer is a VW Karmann-Ghia Type 14 .

Soundtrack

On March 5, 2010, the soundtrack was released on Rough Trade Records , which includes 25 music tracks. The Sportfreunde Stiller sang her single A compliment entitled Un complimento for the soundtrack of the film on Italian one.

reception

Josef Engels von der Welt called the film “a decent German summer comedy that you don't have to be ashamed of.” Cinema critic Ralf Blau thought the humor of the “amusing, slightly over-the-top summer comedy” was flippier and more pointed than in the book, offer some additional laughs for it. The subtlety of the book was partially lost during the filming, thought Katharina Zeckau from film-dienst , but the result was an enjoyable "silly, beautiful summer comedy". For Birgit Roschy from epd Film , the potential of the book and the actor did not seem to be exhausted. The film tries to dress the anecdotes in the book in the dress of a marriage comedy and at best gets a few smiles. The fade-in at the beginning is "a real boring entry for a story that is continually slowing itself down." Then she loses herself in constructed, foreseeable conflicts. Martin Schwickert from Tagesspiegel found the punchlines fired short-lived, the film would become a number revue. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Michael Althen remarked that director Vollmar wrongly believes that "Humor is when everyone is constantly pretending to be more stupid than they are."

One focus of the discussions was the cultural clash. The film service found it overall to be "amusing and quite clever". It is true that the comedy takes up the most popular German stereotypes of Italy. "But the film goes beyond that by not leaving clichés like this to salmon volleys, but also strikes thoughtful, sometimes even philosophical tones and sows barbs, corners and edges in the clichés they have come to love." The world judged that he only set in isolated scenes on national stereotypes and in the best moments I am at Loriot level. The decision not to synchronize the Italians in German and just let them speak Italian paid off, according to the Austrian standard . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung, on the other hand, was disturbed by the national clichés that the “musty, stale, staid fifties comedy” served up: “Maria, help.” The FAZ , too, found the film “dusty”, like those with Peter Alexander or Vico Torriani .

If the actors were occasionally thought to be suitably cast and in a good mood, other colorless characters would be remembered as "uncomfortable nuisances". "As a typically German wimp, Christian Ulmen seems ideally cast, only that as a personified indifference he has hardly developed any further as an actor since his appearance in 'Herr Lehmann'." ( Der Tagesspiegel ) "Ulmen, who hardly ever manages the character more than him Obtaining facial expression of puzzled incomprehension ", remained profileless according to FAZ , according to epd Film he played" like on autopilot ". As the only weak point of the film, the otherwise laudatory world critics found the transfer of the main male character from the book to the film unsuccessful. “As a chronically grumpy German, Ulmen inevitably has to lose. And not just because you keep wondering why any woman should love such a washcloth at all (...) ”. In the eyes of the critics, the Italian folk actor Lino Banfi , who is the future father-in-law, came off better . He is the only one to show something abysmal. The flashbacks to the dreary beginnings of the father-in-law as a guest worker in Germany give this figure "a plasticity that goes far beyond the usual wedding and immigrant quirks." Banfi saved the film "from sinking into entertaining triviality". The flashbacks to the 1960s made him a tragic hero. “That German cinema cannot find a humorous way between burlesque and tragic elements - this cliché also proves Vollmar's undecided multi-cultural comedy.” The film service said of Mina Tander that she was not developing a profile and that the relationship between Jan and Sara was pale stay.

Awards

The film ran in 2010 under the title Wedding Fever In Campobello in competition at the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival . Christian Ulmen received the Golden Cup for the best actor of the festival. Mina Tander was nominated for the German Film Critics' Prize 2009 for Best Actress .

literature

conversations

  • With Christian Ulmen in Focus , August 3, 2009, p. 44: "Pizza or Pasta?"
  • With Neele Leana Vollmar in the taz , August 5, 2009, p. 23: "The strangeness was really there"

Review mirror

Rather positive

Rather negative

negative

  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 6, 2009, p. 37, short review of “als.” (Alexandra Stäheli): Maria, he doesn't like it!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Maria, he doesn't like it! Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  4. ↑ shooting time
  5. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  6. ↑ Christian Ulmen in Focus , August 3, 2009, p. 44: “Pizza or Pasta?” , Accessed on November 22, 2012
  7. ↑ Film hit lists 2010 → Annual hit list national 2010 , Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed : June 24, 2011 (PDF)
  8. ↑ motor-klassik.de: VW Karmann Ghia and Mercedes 190 in the cinema: Leading role for VW Karmann Ghia and Mercedes ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Eberhard Kittler, December 18, 2008, accessed July 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motor-klassik.de
  9. ↑ Original soundtrack: Maria, he doesn't like it! (No longer available online.) Königskinder Music, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koenigskinder-music.de
  10. ↑ digitalvd.de: Sportfreunde Stiller provide the music for the film Maria, he doesn't taste it ( memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed July 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.digitalvd.de
  11. ↑ a b c d Josef Engels: Maria, we like it . In: Die Welt , August 6, 2009, p. 25
  12. ↑ Ralf Blau: Maria, he doesn't like it! In: Cinema No. 8/2009, p. 53
  13. ↑ a b c d Katharina Zeckau: Maria, he doesn't like it! In: film-dienst No. 16/2009, pp. 32–33
  14. ↑ a b c Birgit Roschy: Maria, he doesn't like it! In: epd Film No. 8/2009, p. 43
  15. ↑ a b c Martin Schwickert: The Father of the Bride In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 6, 2009, p. 23
  16. ↑ a b c d Michael Althen: Grouch on the beach . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 8, 2009, p. 34
  17. ↑ Der Standard : Spaghetti internazionali , August 5, 2009, p. 11
  18. ↑ Alexandra Stäheli: Maria, he doesn't like it! In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 6, 2009, p. 37
  19. ↑ Golden Goblet Award 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed June 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siff.com