Morning duds! The instructor Schmidt film

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Movie
Original title Morning duds! The instructor Schmidt film
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2008
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mike Eschmann
script Florian Gärtner
Jakob Hilpert
Rudolph Jula
Co-authors:
Screenwriters-Berlin
Script collaboration:
Klaus-Jürgen Deuser
Holger Müller
production Philip Voges
Alban Rehnitz
music Moritz Schneider
Robin Hoffmann
camera Bernhard Jasper
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation

Morning duds! The instructor Schmidt film is a German action - comedy from the year 2008 by Mike Eschmann with Holger Müller in the lead role of "instructor Schmidt".

action

In the barracks of trainer Schmidt, a high-ranking state visit has been announced. Prince Ravan and Princess Shirin are expected to later sign a peace treaty at Castle Schwangau after the Kingdom of Kalluchistan , located in the Middle East, was able to put down a coup d'état by Ravan's corrupt twin brother Habib with the support of the UN . In order to be safe from instructor Schmidt at the reception in the barracks, Colonel Herold sends him to grid square 56 , far away , to fight alleged terrorists there. At his side, the colonel places the general's son, the pacifist recruit Rainer Zielinski. When two armed men appear there, Schmidt and Zielinski overpower them as supposed terrorists. Schmidt interprets their KSK badge for the Special Forces Command as a "Koran victory fighter".

Back at the barracks, Prince Ravan is kidnapped by the twin brother Habib, who is believed to be dead, and who takes his place. Prince Ravan is brought to the catacombs of the nearby Castle Schwangau. Schmidt, Zielinski and Shirin are being pursued by the KSK under Brigadier General Scheel-Golowski. Finally, the three of them take refuge in Grandpa Schmidt's weekend house. He and the "wheelchair grandpa" own a large collection of weapons from the Second World War and have equipped the house with armor. When the KSK tries to storm the house, Schmidt, his grandpa and the wheelchair grandpa shoot back while Zielinski and Shirin take cover. Eventually the defenders in the house ran out of ammunition. So they fake a surrender so that Schmidt, Zielinski and Shirin can escape through a secret tunnel, while Grandpa Schmidt and the "wheelchair grandpa" in a World War II tank distract the KSK and shoot down a VW Beetle, among other things.

The three of them join the ballet group Magical Poetic Dance Company in order to penetrate Schloss Schwangau . They discover that the head of operations, General Scheel-Golowski, is in cahoots with Habib. After the signing of the peace treaty, the “light of peace” will be lit, but this would also detonate the explosives deposited under the ballroom. Schmidt accidentally lights the light himself, but can pee it out in time and save the princess and Ravan.

background

The shooting began on June 23, 2007 and ended on August 31, 2007. The shooting took place in Berlin and the surrounding area. The production costs of the film were estimated at 5.5 million euros. The German Film Fund , the Film Funding Agency , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg supported the project with a total of around 2.5 million euros.

The premiere of the film was on October 14th, 2008 at the Cologne Comedy FilmFestival . On February 7th, 2009 the film was shown at the European Film Market . The nationwide cinema release took place on April 23, 2009. It was released on DVD on November 12, 2009 by Universal Studios with an FSK-12 approval. On November 27, 2011, RTL II broadcast the film for the first time on German free TV . In Germany, only about 5000 cinema-goers were counted.

Soundtrack

On April 10, 2009, the Seven Sea Music label released a soundtrack containing 14 tracks.

No. title
1. Schmidt's Ride of the Valkyrie
2. Bastard (WOT)
3. Sahid's finest hour
4th The evil plan
5. Western Schmidt
6th Kampfmaschine (Get up - I feel like beeing a sexmachine)
7th Hymn of the opas
8th. Grandpa Schmidt's tank
9. Habib vs. Shirin
10. Schmidt's mission
11. I hit the gas (I want fun)
12. KSK in grid square
13. National anthem of Kaluchistan
14th Drecksack (WOT) (Party Remix - Extended Version)

The second as well as the last track of the soundtrack are cover versions of the hit Wot (Say Captain, say wot) by Captain Sensible from 1982. The eleventh track is a cover version of the track I want fun , with which Markus was number one in Germany in 1982 -Hit landed. For both music titles, Holger Müller changed the lyrics in a comedic way.

reception

In the opinion of Stefan Ludwig von Filmstarts , the film fails “because of the challenge of getting a successful stage character onto the screen”. While Schmidt shouted “militaristic slogans” in his program, “that the audience gets the laughing stuck in their throats”, in the cinema he degenerates into “a dumb troop commander”. The concept of the film is reminiscent of the Swiss comedy Watch out, get set, Charlie! by director Mike Eschmann , who was celebrated for his work in Switzerland. Eschmann, who, in Ludwig's opinion, made little use of the mistakes of Achtung, done, Charlie! learned, also directed Holger Müller's film. This is "so badly staged and without any timing that it is not even able to provoke". Ludwig judges, "The humor is so predictable and at the same time so intrusive that the audience is constantly ashamed of the makers", and compares the film in the same breath with Mario Barth's film Männnersache , who suffers from similar problems. Ludwig only found positive words for the portrayal of Ingo Appelt . As a final evaluation, Ludwig awarded 1.5 out of 5 possible points.

Cinema says: “As a radio comedy,“ Morning, you Luschen! ”Was a hit. The big screen, on the other hand, is a few sizes too big for trainer Schmidt and his defensive puns. The Bundeswehr joke brings it to a halfway successful gag (a car chase in reverse) and otherwise annoys with a hair-raising, stupid conspiracy story and trite gay jokes. "

The film-dienst judges: “The first cinematic detour of a comedy figure with an outrageous plot and a crude number revue full of squawking gags and tired stunts. What is intended as an ironic action parody, does not get beyond a male alliance sketch parade. Coquetry with politically incorrect topics is not worth the slightest argument. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Certificate of release for tomorrow, you Luschen! The instructor Schmidt film . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, April 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 887 K).
  2. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  3. ↑ a b Morning, you Luschen! The Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film at Blickpunkt: Film , accessed on August 14, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  5. ^ Film starts : film review , Stefan Ludwig
  6. ^ Cinema : film review
  7. ^ Film service : film review