Can't Get Dead (2020)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Not to be killed |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 95 minutes |
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| Director | Nina Grosse |
| script | Nina Grosse |
| production | Jan Ehlert |
| music |
Stefan Will , Peter Hinderthür |
| camera | Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut |
Tobias Haas , Melanie Schütze |
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Not to be killed is a German television film from 2020 by Nina Grosse with Iris Berben , Murathan Muslu and Barnaby Metschurat . The script for the thriller is based on the detective novel A Slap in the Face by Franz Dobler . The first broadcast on ORF was on August 5, 2020. The film was first shown on ZDF on August 10, 2020 on the occasion of Iris Berben's 70th birthday.
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Simone Mankus is a film and show diva who made a career in the 1960s and 1970s. She enjoyed her life to the fullest and hardly left out anything, had two husbands, affairs, drug excesses and yellow press scandals, was active in show business for many years and had made numerous films.
A few years ago, the former celebrated star fell silent. With the support of her son Jonas, to whom she has never told who his father is, she is planning her comeback . At this point, of all times, she is threatened by a stalker . They therefore instructed the security company by Hans Fallner that her former policeman Robert Fallner, the step-brother of Hans, a bodyguard is to the side.
Robert left the police force after shooting the 18-year-old dealer Marouf in supposed self-defense , and has been in a crisis ever since. Robert actually finds Simone's case ridiculous, which his girlfriend, the policewoman Jaqueline, also blames him for. Simone doesn't make it any easier for him with her debauchery and antics. He hopes to find clues to the stalker's identity in Simone's past, but Simone is not very cooperative.
She lives in her memories and past successes, is moody and drinks. However, she doesn't want to remember her countless affairs, among which the stalker she was looking for could be. In addition to her indebted son Jonas, Jimmy Lanz, Simone's last and violent lover, is one of the suspects. There are also a number of fans and disappointed lovers that Simone cannot or does not want to remember despite Fallner's questions.
Robert tries to set a trap for the stalker, but the plan fails and the stalker escapes. So stepbrother Hans reproaches him. As Simone's concert approaches, the threat from the stalker also becomes more acute. But Simone refuses to cancel her appearance.
While observing Jimmy Lanz, Fallner meets the bar owner Walter Maurer, whose bar Simone frequented in the 80s. Robert learns from Walter's mother Emmi that Horst Bacher from the trade supervisory authority is likely to be Jonas's father. Simone was supposed to take care of Horst Bacher back then so that he could continue to turn a blind eye to the local inspections. In return, Willy Maurer, Walter's father, recommended Simone to a director for one of his films. As the reason why she never revealed the identity of his father to Jonas, she gives Robert that she feared that Jonas could have blackmailed Bacher, who was married. Bacher himself is now in an old people's home for people with dementia.
After another attack on Simone, Robert takes her into his apartment, much to the displeasure of his friend Jaqueline. Robert suspects because of the different threat patterns that there are two different stalkers. During the concert, Simone was attacked on stage. Robert manages to overpower the culprit - the caretaker of the restaurant. Because of her age, he wanted to force Simone not to perform anymore. Soon afterwards there was another foiled attack on Simone in her house: Jimmy Lanz admits to having been instigated by Jonas and his wife Natascha to scare Simone into moving out of the house, which they then wanted to sell. While Robert takes Jimmy away, Simone confronts her son.
Some time later, Simone says on a TV show that Jonas is the best thing she has ever done. She states that she cannot remember the love affair with her bodyguard that is rumored in the media.
Production and Background
The shooting took place from January 14th to February 13th, 2020, the shooting took place in Berlin and Munich .
Produced the film on behalf of ZDF from the MOOVIE GmbH , producer was Jan Ehlert, as Executive Producer acted Oliver Berben .
Petra Kray was responsible for the costume design, Maximilian Lange for the production, Rainer Plabst and Moritz Hoffmeister for the sound and sound design and Britta Balcke and Tanja Drewitz for the masks.
The musicians Andreya Casablanca and Laura Lee from the band Gurr wrote some songs for the film, which were voiced together with Berben.
reception
Maximilian Haase described the film in the Weser Kurier as a genre mix of drama, thriller, crime and comedy, which would do justice to its leading actress, who was always a great critic of the circumstances. The superficial star hype and the look-fixated film business would not only be celebrated in the film, but also get its fat off. The sometimes wonderful scenes with a very young Iris Berben provided the necessary icing on the cake with their mixture of reality and fiction. The film skilfully plays out the dynamics of the unequal duo of glittering diva and withdrawn ex-bull. Fortunately, the fact that they finally get close is much less kitschy than in the obvious Hollywood inspiration Bodyguard .
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv wrote that filmmaker Nina Grosse is more interested in the characters and cinematic moods than in thriller suspense, the film is more drama than thriller. Your staging possesses style and irony, shows taste and a great understanding of the zeitgeist. The actress herself builds on the strong achievements of her last big films, Murathan Muslu as a silent silent man is an ideal cast. Between the two there would be a wonderful interplay of looks and small gestures.
Martin Fichter-Wöß ( Austria Press Agency ) said that the title was program here, and probably only a few actresses have the coolness to celebrate their milestone birthday unpretentiously as an aged diva with a clear tendency towards alcohol. The filmmakers consciously allowed fiction and reality to merge, as the figure of Mankus shows many parallels to Berben, which is underlined by interspersed excerpts from works with the young Berben. Classics such as Supergirl - The Girl from the Stars , Ms. Radish, the Czerni and I or stand-up girls evoked times gone by. Not getting dead also reveals a new facet of the artist: Iris Berben is a surprisingly good singer.
Isabella Wallnöfer said in the daily newspaper Die Presse that the attraction of this film is that you don't know where reality ends and fiction begins. The fact that Fallner begins to be interested in Simone Mankus and it crackles despite the age difference does not seem implausible or embarrassing. Because Berben like Muslu played great. Both showed how to equip a character with depth and sensitivity without outrage.
Julian Miller fromquotemeter.de said that this film is dramaturgically Whodunit and not psychodrama, which bites with its quintessence in terms of content: Who is constantly groping around the Grünwalder estate at night and driving the actress insane does not matter. Much more exciting is what this situation does to her. But unfortunately the film doesn't come up with any particularly interesting impressions. Much too thin in terms of content for the ability of Iris Berben and the reason for this film.
Sylvia Staude wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau that there was absolutely no reason to pull Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner out of the DVD drawer and dust them off. Iris Berben and Murathan Muslu have the much more interesting rough edges than Simone Mankus and Robert Fallner.
Wolfgang Höbel from Spiegel described the film as a "detective comedy that only stumbles in motion because of the sheer pleasure of winking and then becomes quite enjoyable". Iris Berben turns the terrified diva into a Bavarian Venus in a fur coat. The extremely lame bodyguard Fallner would be lolled down by Murathan Muslu. It's fun to watch this security guy flirt with his client like they're Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston; after all, the music is better than in Bodyguard . In some scenes, however, Billy Wilder's Boulevard of Dusk is reenacted.
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The first broadcast on ZDF on August 10, 2020 was followed by 4.75 million viewers, the market share was 18.6 percent.
Web links
- Cannot be killed at crew united
- Not to be killed at filmportal.de
- You can't get it dead on the Constantin Film website
- You can't get it dead on the ZDF website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Can not be killed at crew united . Retrieved June 24, 2020.
- ↑ a b Shooting of the thriller "Not to be dead" with Iris Berben. In: zdf.de. February 11, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Politics, partner search and audience favorites: This is how summer will be on ORF June 2nd, 17th, 2020, accessed on June 24th, 2020 .
- ↑ Kevin Hennings: "Not to be killed": ZDF shows Iris Berben homage on her 70th birthday. In: DWDL.de . June 18, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: ARD and ZDF honor Iris Berben on her 70th birthday. In: Fernsehserien.de . June 18, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Not to be killed. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Press kit: Not to be killed. In: zdf.de. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Martin Fichter-Wöß: "Not to be killed": Iris Berben commits her 70s self-ironically. In: DerStandard.at / APA . August 3, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Maximilian Haase: Iris Berben celebrates the second: Nostalgic homage with stalker. In: Weser Courier . August 2, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Not to get dead". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Isabella Wallnöfer: This supergirl can't be killed. In: diepresse.com. August 5, 2020, accessed August 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Julian Miller: The Critics: "Not to be killed". In : quotemeter.de . August 8, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 .
- ↑ “Not to be killed” (ZDF): Iris Berben can't remember all men. In: fr.de. August 10, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel : She was the most beautiful in the film and television world. In: Spiegel.de . August 10, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Quotennews: Iris Berben's birthday: Almost five million see “Can't get dead”. In : quotemeter.de . August 11, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .