Kotschie man

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Movie
Original title Kotschie man
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Norbert Baumgarten
script Norbert Baumgarten
production Anke Hartwig
music Michael Eimann
camera Lars Lenski
cut Jürgen Winkelblech
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Mensch Kotschie is a satirical tragic comedy from 2009 by director Norbert Baumgarten , who also wrote the screenplay.

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Jürgen Kotschie is about to turn 50. Thanks to a family (Mrs. Karin and son Mario), a big house and a good job as a civil engineer, Jürgen shouldn't have any more worries, but instead he falls into a crisis of meaning, feels his everyday life more and more depressing and his life more and more meaningless.

His father lives in a home, no longer speaks and constantly clings to a TV remote control. Jürgen regularly brings him from the home to the family home, where he only clings to his remote control in silence. Jürgen now thinks back more often to his former lover Carmen Schöne, with whom he had a relationship eight years ago. Carmen now appears to him in his dreams. One day when he is supposed to pick up his father, he dies. On the way back, Jürgen does not drive home, but takes a hitchhiker with whom he later goes to a karaoke bar to party. After he remains alone in the bar and gets lost, a dog runs up to him, which he takes on his ride.

He decides to visit his former lover Carmen, who lives with her husband Manfred and their daughter Jenny. Apparently, Jenny is Jürgen's illegitimate child, whom nobody knows about. The next day Jürgen picks up Jenny from school under a pretext and visits an amusement park with her. Before he drives her back, he picks up 20,000 euros from the bank and gives it to Jenny in an envelope.

Before Jürgen drives into a forest, he abandons the dog. There he wants to poison himself with the car exhaust. When he wakes up again he is still alive because the dog had torn off the hose that was supposed to lead the exhaust gases into the interior of the car. Jürgen dances and gains new courage.

Reviews

“Satirical comedy that finds convincing cinematic narrative means for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and precisely captured an emotional state of emergency in pictures that make the hero's world of experience transparent through spatial poetics, color dramaturgy and perspective. The fact that the lacony is sometimes applied a little thick is hardly significant. "

- Lexicon of international film

“... shows the pointedly humorous film by Norbert Baumgarten in wonderfully exaggerated and sometimes absurd images that remind us of other films such as American Beauty and Blue Velvet and range from slapstick sequences to melancholy moments. Some scenes and many pretty individual ideas combine to create beautiful capers, for example when the dream images of the two women or Kotschie's descriptions of his nervous breakdown are combined with the phone calls about the birthday buffet. [..] The story achieves its fascination above all on the visual level. "

- German film and media rating

“The precise images of this film, the ingenious equipment by Natalja Hansen, share the preference of some comic artists for extreme perspectives. The bird's eye view turns the interior of a village church into a sublime scenery. In a visual novel you praise something like this as particularly 'cinematic', but in the cinema you no longer expect this ingenuity. These ideas have a clear function: They show the loneliness in a perfect world that celebrates its order, whether one is there or not. Nothing will change when you're dead. "

- Daniel Kothenschulte - Frankfurter Rundschau

Awards

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the rating “valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films
  2. ^ Judgment of German Film and Media Assessment
  3. ^ Film review by Daniel Kothenschulte in Frankfurter Rundschau from March 18, 2010
  4. ↑ FBW press release