My father-in-law, the stinky boot
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| Original title | My father-in-law, the stinky boot |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sven Bohse |
| script | Uli Brée |
| production |
Thomas Hroch Gerald Podgornig |
| music | Jessica de Rooij |
| camera | Henner's visit |
| cut | Ronny Mattas |
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My father-in-law, the stink boot is a German TV film by Sven Bohse from 2015 with Michael Gwisdek in the lead role.
action
In a snow-covered alpine village, Joe runs the small farm together with his grouchy father Hans. It's not easy for Joe. He can't please his father, who has something to complain about in everything. When one day the Thai woman, Lamai, unexpectedly appears on the property and Joe explains to his father that he married Lamai while on vacation in Phuket, the two of them face a scandal. Hans doesn't want the young woman on the farm and demands that his son send the " whore " back to Thailand. But Joe is happy to finally have a friendly being at his side and without further ado he puts his father in front of the door. After all, he inherited the farm from his mother and his father does not even have a right of residence.
Furious, the old man moves into the camper and Lamai into the house. There she has to find out, however, that no female hand has worked here for years and that everything is very run-down, untidy and dirty. At first, Lamai enjoys seeing Joe again, but that doesn't suit him well. After their first night together in Germany, Joe suffers a sudden cardiac death. Hans Lamai promptly blames this. He gets even angrier when he learns that Joe has inherited the entire farm of his Lamai. Luckily for her, Joe was not alone on vacation, but with his friend Otti, who is now the only one standing by her and tries to help her to cope with the strange and dismissive people in the strange surroundings.
Otti, who as the village pastor has some influence on the people in the village, now tries to soften Hans up a little, but he does not succeed. Lamai, on the other hand, confidently opposes her father-in-law, who continues to try to evict her from the court by all means. In doing so, he has to realize that he has limits due to his age.
When Hans suffers a lumbago while mucking out in the stable, Lamai wants to help him, which he initially rejects strictly. Only after he has to lie on the floor all day because he cannot move does he consent and Lamai can bring him relief with practiced movements. As soon as he can move again, Wiebke, Joe's first wife, appears and explains that she has filed an objection to her divorce and that she intends to assert her claim to the court. As a result, the property would be sold and Hans would have to go to a retirement home. This makes him rethink a little and he recognizes Lamai as the "lesser evil".
But this insight does not last long, because in the meantime Lamai's son Sua and her mother Preecha also arrive at the farm. Now Hans has three strangers around him, with whom he is gradually trying to come to terms. Lamai's son reminds him of Joe when he was the boy's age. Since Sua is always looking for the old man to be close to, they spend a lot of time together and Hans repairs the old Mercury Cougar that Joe had been standing uselessly in the garage for years. He's getting along better with the two women, too, who together brought the house into shape and made a schnapps from the fruit in the camp, which Lamai is trying to sell in the village. On the way back she is followed by youths from the village who plan to rape her. Fortunately, Hans, who was just about to hunt in the forest, can step in and drive the boys away. When Lamai thanks Hans in the evening, he learns in the conversation that Joe was thinking of him in particular when he persuaded Lamai to come to Germany . It should be good for him too.
Joe's ex-wife Wiebke is now doing everything possible to get something from the inheritance. After unsuccessful objecting to the divorce, she reports to Lamai that she stole the wedding. In front of the assembled congregation, this is arrested and taken away. This provokes the pastor to a very direct and accusatory sermon to the people and their hypocrisy. As a result, he resigns from his priesthood.
After Lamai and her family were sent back to Thailand by the authorities, Hans can no longer stand alone on the farm. He sells it and travels after Lamai. With the money from the part of her inheritance, Lamai can live well here and Hans can also spend his old age carefree in "paradise".
background
My father-in-law, the Stinkstiefel was shot largely in Upper Bavaria : in Warngau- Wall, Weyarn , Bayrischzell , Ramsau / Hintersee, Bergkirchen and in Miesbach . These places represent the scenery of rural life very authentically. Further scenes were recorded in Munich and Thailand.
The leading actress and native Vietnamese Mai Duong Kieu learned Thai especially for the film. The tai chi that Lamai practices in the courtyard, however, was put into her cradle because her father is a kung fu teacher.
reception
Audience rating
6.06 million viewers followed the film on December 11, 2015 on ARD. The market share was 19.9 percent.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv commented: “Of course the story of the Grantler, who hides his good heart behind a rough shell, is not new, and Michael Gwisdek does not play the xenophobic old farmer who is allowed to transform himself into a friendly grandfather first time; but he also does it excellently in 'My father-in-law, the stink boot'. In addition, the script is generously spiced with black humor and evil dialogues, especially since the villagers are invariably exposed as lustful and bigoted. And the cast is great! "
focus.de wrote in its film review: “Despite all the situation comedy, thanks to fine acting work it becomes clear that both [main characters] suffer from loneliness and grief. The multiple award-winning Michael Gwisdek [...] repeatedly creates moments in which the rough shell gives way and reveals a deeply injured man who himself no longer knows where he belongs. Although the film is a comedy [...] director Sven Bohse [...] takes a surprisingly serious look at the topic of racism. ”“ And at the end there is no happy ending in the classic sense: Instead, the question arises whether home automatically means happiness means. The answer remains open. "
“For this story, director Sven Bohse found exactly the right line between tragedy and comedy. When Hans Polack is lying in the cowshed with a lumbago, but stubbornly rejects Lamai's offer of help and prefers to crawl back into the house in pain, then his behavior is laughable and revealing at the same time. But the authors also risked a scene in which a couple of unsuccessful village youths attempt to rape. Another difference to trivial flat goods: The behavior of the 'stinky boot' Hans Polack found an explanation in his biography - the old man had once fled the GDR with his mother after his father was arrested, thus a newcomer himself who was never quite homesick had overcome. In the end, the authors found a cheerful, edifying tone again, but provided the end with an ironic break. This is also a means of preventing kitsch feelings. "
Web links
- My father, who Stinkstiefel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My father-in-law, the stinky boot on Das Erste
Individual evidence
- ↑ My father-in-law, the stink boot ( memento from December 13, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), at stern.de , accessed December 11, 2015.
- ↑ My father-in-law, the stink boot, at bayern.by, accessed on May 20, 2017.
- ↑ a b Filmkritik , at focus.de , accessed on May 20, 2017.
- ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Gwisdek, Mai Duong Kieu, Palfrader, Sven Bohse. Purification, unmasking, Gaudi , at tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 20, 2017.
- ^ Film review in the Frankfurter Rundschau