Whether you like it or not
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Whether you like it or not |
| Country of production | Germany , Netherlands |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Verbong |
| script |
Katja Kittendorf , Karin Howard |
| production |
Anita Elsani , Ulf Israel |
| music | Konstantin Wecker |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Menno Boerema |
| occupation | |
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Unter Frauen is a German - Dutch feature film by Ben Verbong from 2009 . The production is based on a script by Katja Kittendorf and Karin Howard and is about Laura, who is out of therapy and suffering from cancer , who returns to her parents' house to reunite her hopelessly estranged family on her deathbed. The leading roles include Katharina Marie Schubert , Julia-Maria Köhler , Christiane Paul , Anna Böger , Senta Berger and Jan Decleir .
action
background
The shooting of Whether you want to or not took place from May 5th to June 26th 2008. It was filmed in the format 2.35: 1 (16: 9 anamorphic ) and with Dolby Digital sound, mainly in the MMC studios in Cologne and in the communities of Laboe , Heikendorf and Schönberg in Schleswig-Holstein .
The exterior shots of the parents' house on the Baltic Sea were taken in Dormagen , North Rhine-Westphalia ; A private property in Altenberg functioned as Laura's home .
The tragic comedy was produced by elsani film and 3L Filmproduktion in co-production with CTM-Films, borderline pictures and MMC Independent . The project was financially supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH), the German Filmförderfonds (DFFF) and the Nederlands Fonds voor de Film.
The casting process for Whether you want it or not, stretched over a year. When casting the film, Verbong only considered actors with theater experience. The actors were not invited to audition, but the ensemble as a whole was gradually expanded after discussions with Verbong.
Katharina Marie Schubert and Anna Böger had already participated in Verbong's Herr Bello (2007), the film adaptation of the Paul Maar children's book series of the same name , and recommended themselves for another collaboration through their play. Julia-Maria Köhler was recommended to Verbong by producer Anita Elsani and her Dutch colleague Huub Stapel , who appears as a priest in the film. Christiane Paul has been on Verbong's wish list for a long time; Senta Berger had envisioned the director in the role of Dorothea from the start.
reception
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from the Frankfurter Rundschau called the tragicomic cancer drama a “great ensemble film”, which is characterized above all by Verbong's direction. Bild.de, on the other hand, found that the film was “a story about family, euthanasia and loss told with great warmth and an astonishing amount of humor.” Kino.de wrote: “Somewhat predictably, the image façades are crumbling, the sisters argue and reconcile. Catharsis everywhere. Sometimes the action balances the sentimental edge by a hair's breadth and never creates the force of Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea in Me . It is thanks to the actresses that the story doesn’t crash into too much sentimentality and sentimentality ”.
Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts said: “Unfortunately, apart from the euthanasia topic, the film is far less successful. Many of the twists and turns seem constructed and the drawing of the sisters who are not suffering from cancer is characterized by cliché after cliché […] The approach of tackling serious issues such as illness and euthanasia with bittersweet humor is laudable, but it does not come here. Whether you like it or not is too schematic and uses too many clichés to make a lasting impression. ”The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , on the other hand, gave the production the title valuable . In its assessment, the Film Evaluation Board wrote: “The way director Ben Verbong approaches these existential issues of life and death is amazing, without denying the seriousness of the situation, but humor and lightness outweigh the rest. The great ensemble, made up of young talents and established German actors, carries this bitter and at the same time conciliatory story about life with the deadly disease and leads it to a courageous and consistent conclusion [...] Great German emotional cinema ”.
success
Whether you like it or not, it premiered on April 22nd, 2009 in the Lichtburg cinema in Essen . The release for public demonstration took place on April 30th. After the end of the first screening weekend, the production counted around 4,800 viewers in only 49 cinemas and, after Phantomschmerz (2009), entered the German cinema charts as the second-best, German-language new start in the following week at number 31. The free TV premiere of the film took place on November 5, 2013 on Sixx . A total of 1.76 million viewers saw the film, of which 0.64 million were in the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds.
Web links
- Whether you want to or not in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Whether you want it or not at filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Whether you want it or not . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 811 K).
- ↑ a b c d e f g press release . fdb.cz. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: tragicomic cancer drama . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . fr-online.de. August 14, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ↑ A terribly emotional family . In: Bild newspaper . Bild.de. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ↑ Whether you like it or not . In: Kino.de . Kino.de. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ↑ Christoph Petersen: Whether you want it or not> Filmstarts criticism . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
- ↑ Whether you like it or not !: Predicate valuable, comedy; Feature film, Germany 2011 . FBW-Filmbeval.de . Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ↑ a b returns home to die: "Whether you want it or not!" . In: Rhein-Zeitung . Rhein-Zeitung.de. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ^ German films and co-productions in the cinema: 18./19. KW . ProducersAllianz.de. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ↑ a b Family therapy: “Whether you want it or not!” With Senta Berger on sixx . In: press portal . Presseportal.de. December 12, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2015.