Mother has to go
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mother has to go |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edward Berger |
| script | Marc Terjung |
| production |
Klaus Bassiner , Elke Müller , Tanja Ziegler |
| music |
Christoph Kaiser , Julian Maas |
| camera | Jana Marsik |
| cut | Sven Budelmann |
| occupation | |
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Mutter muss weg is a German TV film from 2012 . The film comedy was broadcast for the first time on October 18, 2012 on ZDF , where it saw 4.83 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 15.2 percent.
action
Tristan is the son of a former porn actress who now publishes adult books. His mother Hannelore is the dominant being in the life of the jobless dreamer. While Tristan reveals all his fears in the therapy sessions , he has to keep listening to how much he is a disappointment for his mother. Tristan needs start-up capital for a business idea. His mother, who has the necessary money, does not want to give it to him.
When he and Josip meet a contract killer in a bar , he thinks he can finally solve his problems. Together with Josip, Tristan breaks into his mother's mask, but Josip is clumsy and Hannelore survives the attack. Tristan feels guilty and cancels Josip's murder assignment. However, he has now passed the order on and cannot easily cancel it.
To avoid another assassination attempt, Tristan drives with his mother to a posh spa hotel. Tristan tries to protect his mother and in his paranoia suspects the hired killer behind every guest. During his stay, Tristan and the hotel employee Anita get closer and the two spend a night together.
Over time, Tristan realizes that he has to break away from his mother in order to get his problems under control. He rushes out of the hotel. Shortly before leaving, he learns that Anita has only recently started working at the hotel and has lied in her references . Tristan believes that he has found his mother's murderer and wants to cancel the assignment. However, he learns that Anita was commissioned by his mother to kill him. She paralyzes him with a drug and tries to suffocate him with a mask. Josip appears, shoots Anita and is able to save Tristan.
When she tries again to kill Hannelore, Josip is shot by her. Still partially paralyzed, Tristan flees from his mother. In a scuffle, they both fall from a balcony, are impaled by an iron bar and fatally injured.
In a follow-up, Tristan sits with his therapist again and it turns out that the whole story of his mother's murder and the fatal outcome are just a fantasy of his. The therapist Dr. Korff encourages Tristan, however, that she can solve his problems. Visibly structured, he speaks to the office assistant when leaving the practice, whether she might want to go out with him. She does not accept, but does not decline either. While Tristan is walking the streets cheerfully, you can hear his therapist talking to his mother on the phone, his killing fantasies are becoming more and more concrete and whether he should perhaps be admitted. The two women agree to keep watching him first.
background
Bastian Pastewka was offered the role of Tristan early on. Although he showed interest, he didn't sign the contract until the script was finished. He feared that he would not be in a comedy, but an "Artsy-Fartsy-Kunstfilm" ( English artsy fartsy = 'pseudo-artistic'; 'bizarre and difficult to understand') The film was shot in the summer of 2011 in Berlin and the surrounding area. a. in the Sanssouci Palace Park at the Belvedere on the Klausberg and in Lindstedt Palace .
reception
For the lexicon of international films , Mutter muss weg was a “(television) comedy with screwball elements”, in the center of which “a mother's boy [is] fighting for his own place in life”.
Prisma described the film as "entertaining fun with a top cast from crime specialist Edward Berger [...], who [...] shows that he is also capable of staging funny and absurd comedies". This was also possible thanks to "the well-timed script by Marc Terjung [...] and the excellent lead actor duo Bastian Pastewka in the role of the disturbed mother's boy and Judy Winter as ex-sex film star, mother and erotic book publisher".
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was full of praise:
“The way Bastian Pastewka plays Tristan, who compensates for his dependence in a Freudian way in killing fantasies, is great, precise acting. With Judy Winter as a counterpart, who brings out her star appeal in an unsurpassable way, Pastewka also has a teammate and opponent who allows both of them to create funny and tragic sparks from their roles, until their film turns black , again and again spinning comic conflagration. […] Seldom has one seen such an almost perfect book implemented in such a congenial way […], seldom so well thought-out scene design […], seldom so well considered camera […], successful editing, intelligently used music. Disciplined timing, indispensable for the supposedly easy form of comedy, does the rest to create a unique position among the television comedies of recent times 'Mother must go'. "
Awards
Judy Winter received the award from the German Academy for Television in 2013 for her role as Hannelore Fromm in the category “Best Actress in a Leading Role” .
Web links
- Mother has to go to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mother has to go to filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for mother must go . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 513 V).
- ↑ presseportal.de: Pastewka inspires viewers, ZDF television film “Mutter muss weg” takes first place .
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Seldom so funny .
- ↑ artsy-fartsy :: German-English translation. dict.cc , accessed on September 11, 2014 .
- ↑ artsy fartsy. Urban Dictionary , accessed on September 11, 2014 (original description of the meaning: "weird and hard to understand").
- ↑ Mother has to go. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Mother has to go. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ faz.net: From time to time he likes to remove the old woman