Nick Knatterton - The Movie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Nick Knatterton - The Movie |
| Country of production |
Germany Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Niki List Marcus O. Rosenmüller |
| script |
Manfred Schmidt Philip Weinges Günter Knarr |
| production |
Roy Houlette Werner Koenig Marcus O. Rosenmüller Niki List Burkhard Ernst |
| music | Reinhold Heil |
| camera | Hagen Bogdanski |
| cut | Hans Funck |
| occupation | |
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Nick Knatterton - The film is a live comic adaptation by directors Niki List and Marcus O. Rosenmüller from 2002, which is based on the characters and stories of Nick Knatterton . The film has not yet been officially released in Germany.
action
1959: As a child, Berthold Wettelsteck enthusiastically reads comics, especially the one about Nick Knatterton in Quick magazine . One day such a case will become reality and Berthold himself will be right in the middle of it. He witnesses how Nick Knatterton, while trying to wrest the formula for a rejuvenating serum stolen from his greatest adversary, Virginia Peng, is transformed into a wooden statue with a syringe by her assistant Professor Bartap. Virginia Peng falls into an acid basin and is terribly disfigured.
1999, forty years later: Berthold Wettelsteck lives with his teenage daughter Isetta and the dog Knirps. He is still passionate about collecting and reading comics. The wooden Nick Knatterton stands in the corner of his study. When this suddenly comes back to life, Berthold and Isetta are drawn into the argument between Nick Knatterton and Virginia Peng, who, together with Professor Bartap, is still trying to get young and beautiful again with the help of the serum.
backgrounds
The production funded with eight million euros (Filmstiftung NRW: one million euros) was produced by Helkon Media AG together with Nicki Lists Cult Film and featured prominently. However, Helkon Pictures filed for bankruptcy on October 1, 2002 . The film became part of the bankruptcy estate and was never officially released in German cinemas, on television or on DVD. At a screening at the Munich Film Festival in 2002, the judgment of the critics and viewers was unanimously negative. In 2003, a private copy of the film by co-director Marcus O. Rosenmüller was shown in Berlin. In Austria, the film was shown in cinemas for a few weeks from October 21, 2005 and had just 212 paying viewers.
Reviews
The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (now Federal Ministry for Education and Women ) wrote: “Despite the fact that the plot has been shifted to the present day, the film still shows the clichéd role models of the 1950s and 1960s, which in this form are certainly socio-ethical exercise problematic role model effect. Violence also plays too strong a role, even if the acts of violence are often only hinted at. The parodic effect intended by the book and director will hardly be accessible to younger children, which makes admission restrictions necessary up to the age of 6. "
Web links
- Nick Static - The movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nick Knatterton - The film in the online film database
- Homepage of the Austrian production company Cult Film (today Cult-Movies GmbH)
Individual evidence
- ^ Age rating for Nick Knatterton - The Film . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ http://www.movie-college.de/filmschule/produktion/filmdesaster.htm
- ↑ http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=text&fid=15112&rid=117350
- ↑ Nick Knatterton Turned Off and Rejected (February 7, 2005).
- ↑ Nick Knatterton on the website of the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI) , accessed on September 18, 2013
- ↑ Statistics of the number of visitors to the ÖFI for Austrian theatrical releases . Retrieved September 18, 2013
- ↑ JMK - film database search result ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
