Over my corpse
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Over my corpse |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rainer Matsutani |
| script | Rainer Matsutani, Sebastian Niemann |
| production | Jürgen Hebstreit |
| music | Nikos Platyrachos |
| camera | Gerhard Schirlo |
| cut | Hana Müllner |
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Only about my corpse is a German comedy film by Rainer Matsutani from 1995 with Katja Riemann and Christoph M. Ohrt in the leading roles. The film opened in theaters on August 31, 1995 and received several awards.
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The selfish macho Fred is the head of the placement institute "Amor" and likes to get involved with his attractive customers. When his wife and business partner has had enough of his affairs, she has Fred murdered by a professional killer. Shortly before he finally dies, he manages to enter into a deal with death: if he brings three heartbroken women to happiness within three days, he will get his life back.
Shortly after his accident, Fred ends up in Rita Hauser's coal cellar, which his agency has not yet been able to find. She wonders how Fred got under her coals and offers the dirty and battered man her help.
In the meantime, Charlotte Wischnewski receives news of her husband's accident. However, since the accident victim himself has disappeared, Charlotte complains to the hired killer and unceremoniously kills him with a poisoned arrow. She finds a new ally in her colleague Frosch and assigns him to look for Fred, because she wants to be sure that he is really dead and that she has the company to herself.
Fred realizes that he has various delusions. After a reincarnation, his mother appears to him in the form of a turkey, which he finds in Rita's refrigerator. When Rita experiences her Sunday roast talking to Fred, she briefly faints him. But she too has a secret, because she is a militant animal rights activist and, among other things, frees rabbits from test laboratories. So she offers Fred and his mother to live in her house for the near future. When he stands up for Rita's rescued animals, she also wants to help him with his tasks in return. First, Fred wants to take care of his sixteen-year-old daughter Lisa, whom he had completely neglected in recent years and who has gotten into the clutches of pimps. Because Fred cannot die, he survives their attacks and, with Rita's help, can save the girl and see to it that the pimps are arrested. With that he has completed his first task and turns to the second: Lisa's mother. She threw herself out of the window twelve years ago because of lovesickness and since then her soul has not found rest. He succeeds in persuading Barbara to leave earth for good.
Charlotte is still looking for Fred and hopes to finally find his body. He again suspects that his wife is the third person he is supposed to help her happiness. Therefore, he wants to make up with her, although he slowly realizes that he has fallen in love with Rita. When Charlotte accidentally hits herself with one of her poison arrows and dies, Fred fears that he will not be able to complete his last task. In his desperation, he argues massively with Rita, who then wants to take her own life. At the last second he snatches the syringe she wants to use to kill herself. He has thus unplanned the third task to get his life back, and ultimately finds his true love in Rita.
Awards
- In 1995 Katja Riemann won the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for the film.
- In 1996 Katja Riemann was awarded the Actor Prize at the Bavarian Film Prize.
- In the same year Rainer Matsutani received the Pegasus Audience Award for the film at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival .
- Katja Riemann was also awarded the German Film Prize in 1996.
- In 1997 Rainer Matsutani received an award at the Gérardmer Film Festival .
- In 1998 the film was recognized for its special effects at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema .
Reviews
"Far away from the usual relationship comedies and problem-laden navel gazes from Germany, Rainer Matsutani presents a bizarre fantasy comedy with his debut, whose mixture of horror and slapstick provides surprises and tempo."
“The wonderfully weird comedy by the feature film debutant Rainer Matsutani is not another type of relationship comedy, but an idiosyncratic, stylish mixture of fantasy, horror and slapstick. Matsutani's joke [...] is skilfully over-the-top and can also rely on excellent actors - Katja Riemann is convincing as the fledgling wallflower Rita and Christoph Ohrt is a charmer bursting with virility. Lovers of black humor get their money's worth. "
“An over-the-top black comedy with an excessive amount of intertwined plot threads, bizarre and macabre, exuberant and silly, but always remarkably resourceful. The expenditure on equipment and technical effects are offset by excellent acting performances that absorb the grotesque game. "
Web links
- Over my dead body in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Only about my corpse at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review , Blickpunkt: Film , quoted in the review section of the DVD at amazon.de, accessed on August 20, 2008
- ↑ Film review , VideoWoche, quoted in the review section of the DVD at amazon.de, accessed on August 20, 2008
- ↑ Only over my corpse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .