Mother's Day - The Harder Comedy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mother's Day - The Harder Comedy |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Austrian German , Viennese |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| script | Harald Sicherheitsitz, Roland Düringer , Alfred Dorfer , Peter Berecz |
| production |
Sigi Borutta , Heinz Scheiderbauer |
| music | Viennese miracle |
| camera | Helmut Pirnat |
| cut | Paul-Michael Sedlacek |
| occupation | |
| |
Muttertag is an Austrian film from 1993, which caricatures the Viennese petty bourgeoisie in a satirical and consistently sarcastic way based on the events around Mother's Day . He plays in a communal residence ( council ) in Vienna and is characterized among other things by the participation of numerous Austrian cabaret stars and other culture-creating personalities from its founding period. The Am Schöpfwerk residential complex in Altmannsdorf in Vienna- Meidling , which served as the setting for the film , repeatedly attracted public attention due to social tensions and conflicts.
Mother's Day is one of the first 50 films to be released on DVD in the edition “ The Austrian Film ”.
action
The married couple Edwin and Trude Neugebauer, their son Mischa and Edwin's hard of hearing and a little senile father live in a community apartment in Vienna. The romance seems to have disappeared from Edwin and Trude's marriage, the latter's erotic fantasies are more about the attractive policeman Gerry Gratzl.
It is the Saturday before Mother's Day when Edwin’s father (“Grandpa Neugebauer”) notices, due to a thoughtless remark from Misha at breakfast, that there are plans to “deport” him to a retirement home. Then he decides to take the savings books hidden in the bedroom and donate the savings to a good cause.
Mischa, who is interested in computers, electronics and experiments with his guinea pig , is secretly tinkering with his “Mother's Day present”, an electric kitchen knife whose blade is live and therefore life-threatening. He is then accompanied by his mother to the meeting point of his group of youngsters , with whom he spends the day in the park, among other things to pick up rubbish.
Edwin meets the choirmaster Evelyn Schöbinger at a gas station, with whom he had an affair two weeks earlier during a “retreat weekend” of the church choir. He's still drawn to her, but it was just a one-off for Evelyn. Meanwhile, Trude is caught shoplifting in a drugstore by a department store detective disguised as a polar bear . But in the turmoil that ensues because of a dispute between the detectives and a “meddling” customer, she can escape with the overdrawn polar bear head. The detective is eventually killed by a pistol shot by a customer.
Grandpa Neugebauer goes to a post office to sell the savings accounts and donate the money. Evelyn, who happens to be present, helps him. When he was asked to disclose his password, he found these handwritten on both savings books. He keeps the savings book with "Zum pious piggy bank" and only dissolves the one with "Schöner Wohnen".
When Edwin and Gerry pursue their common hobby - remote-controlled model airplanes - Edwin learns that Gerry is having an affair with Evelyn, which visibly shocked him. Later he confronts Evelyn in the church, which because of the switched on choir microphone, the congregation can partly overhear.
On Mother's Day , the women meet after mass over a parish coffee. In the meantime Edwin is putting together his present for Trude, a camping table, on the terrace of the apartment. Grandpa crushes Misha's guinea pigs when they sit down on the deck chair, but hides it up. Meanwhile, Mischa scratches the paint on a parked car on the street, but is watched by a police officer and taken into the guard room . From there, Edwin is informed, who in turn asks Gerry to arrange things for him, which he does. At home, Mischa discovers the dead guinea pig, which ends up on the Schwalbach family's balcony in the ensuing tumult. At the gift presentation, Mischa hands his mother his deadly kitchen knife and offers her to try it out with the chops. Edwin refuses, however, saying that Edwin and Misha can grill on Mother's Day and mother can enjoy her holiday. In the end, the neighbor begs for the kitchen knife and finally suffers a serious electrical accident, whereupon she is taken to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Trude calls out from the terrace to Evelyn, who is just passing by on roller skates, with whom she is attending a belly dance class, whereupon she falls and comes up to Trude to take care of her grazes. When the two talk, Edwin thinks it's about his affair with Evelyn and tells the whole truth on his own. Meanwhile, Grandpa Neugebauer recognizes Trude in the phantom picture of the shoplifter published in the newspaper . Edwin now thinks he has to offer Evelyn hush money and wants to get the savings accounts. When it emerges that Evelyn was helping Grandpa at the post office to dissolve the passbook, and Mischa claims that she had done something obscene to him, the situation escalates, whereupon Evelyn runs into a barbecue spit with Grandpa Neugebauer in hand and that gets stuck in her chest. Then Grandpa, Edwin and Mischa bring the seriously injured Evelyn into the living room on the carpet and suffocate her with a cushion.
Shortly afterwards Gerry is at the door, because Mr. Schwalbach called the police about the guinea pig that died. Gerry takes care of this in a friendly manner, and when Grandpa Neugebauer calls after him from the balcony and asks what to do with the "corpse", Gerry replies, referring to the dead guinea pig, "Well, it's as hoit at the grill" (just throw it on the grill - “as” stands for “it” as well as for “she” in the Viennese dialect).
A tenants party takes place in the park of the residential complex on a mild June evening. According to the neighbors, Grandpa Neugebauer is already in the home, Edwin and Trude are one heart and one soul and have a good time. Evelyn Schöbinger has disappeared, it is suspected that she is in Kenya with the embezzled savings book of the parish. The neighbors thank the Neugebauer for the generous donation of grilled meat, even if it tasted a little "sweet". Edwin and Trude prefer not to eat.
At the end you see Grandpa Neugebauer sitting in a hotel on an island, who has apparently financed this luxurious stay with the second savings account.
occupation
| Roll) | actor |
|---|---|
| Mischa Neugebauer Police officer Gerry Gratzl vacationers on the island |
Alfred Dorfer |
| Evelyn Schöbinger young charm girl drugstore cashier vacationer on island |
Eva Billisich |
| Edwin Neugebauer neighbor boy 1 post office clerk dark-skinned waiter on island |
Reinhard Nowak |
| Trude Neugebauer Jungscharführer Michaela post office clerk elderly neighbor woman (church member) woman with hula hoops on island |
Andrea dealer |
| Grandpa Neugebauer drugstore customer Postman neighbor boy 2 pastor middle-aged neighbor with chin beard Older neighbor woman cyclist at gas station |
Roland Düringer |
| 1. Pensioner | Willi Resetarits |
| 2. Pensioner | I Stangl |
| Corvette driver | Hanno Pöschl |
| Department store detective (polar bear) | Herwig Seeböck |
| Poet (sandler) | Luke Resetarits |
| Philosopher (sandler) | Roland Neuwirth |
| mayor | Fritz Muliar |
| 1. City Indians | Günther Paal |
| 2. City Indians | Martin Forster |
| Agitator | Haymon Maria Buttinger |
| Mrs. Muller | Tini Kainrath |
| Mr. Schwalbach | Karl artist |
| Mrs. Schwalbach | Lotte Loebenstein |
| singer | Barbara Spitz |
| 1st guitarist | Peter Herrmann |
| 2nd guitarist | Markus Gartner |
| pianist | Lothar Scherpe |
| Bass player | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| drummer | Lenny Dickson |
| 3. Pensioner | Peter Berecz |
| Pensioner | Barbara Klein |
| Young mother | Gudrun Tielsch |
| Mr Müller | Silvio Szücs |
| supplier | Hannes Flaschberger |
| Müller junior | Benjamin Olesko |
| Young charm girl | Barbara Loew |
| Young Scharbub | Leonhard Rogenhofer |
| Gerti Gratzl & hairdresser | Monica Weinzettl |
| conductor | Karl Markovics |
| 3. City Indians | Alexander Biedermann |
| 4. City Indians | Boris Borutta |
| City Indian | Karoline Schellenberg |
| Gas station attendant | Joško Vlasich |
| Mr. Klein | Karl Pfeiffer |
| Grabber | Josef Kiefer |
| Herr Schmidt | Martin Beck |
| Shoplifter | Helmut Gebeshuber |
| 1st policeman | Georges Kern |
| 2nd policeman | Walter Kordesch |
| Model flight artist | Johann Gundacker |
| Mrs. Schmidt | Bettina Barth |
| Mrs. Klein | Bea Frey |
| Mrs. Habitzl | Silvia Fenz |
| 1st choir singer | Robert Peres |
| 2nd choir singer | Peter Blue |
| Choir singer | Jutta Pichler |
| secretary | Nicole Nell |
| architect | Fritz von Friedl |
| Guitarist in the hotel | Helmut Sicherheitsitz |
| Singer in the hotel | Mandy Oswald (Mandy from the Bambis ) |
Background information
Mother's Day is based on a cabaret hit by the Schlabarett group . Düringer and Dorfer , two newcomers to screenwriting, submitted the project to the Austrian Film Fund, received a modest budget and, with Sicherheitsitz , chose a debut feature film director .
What is special about this film is that few actors play most of the roles. The four Schlabarettisten ( Dorfer , Düringer , Händler and Nowak ) and Billisich embody a total of 24 characters.
Together with India , Mother's Day stands for a style of Austrian (Viennese, in terms of environment and language) cabaret film that has now become typical . Some quotes achieved the status of winged words in Austria , such as the (not orthographically defined) "I sogs glei, I wors ned!" ("I'll say it right away : It wasn't me!"), With which grandpa killed the guinea pig commented.
Musicians like Roland Neuwirth and Willi Resetarits play supporting roles in Mother's Day .
Web links
- Mother's Day - The harder Comedy in the Internet Movie Database (English)