Poker face - Grandma rips them all off

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Movie
Original title Poker face - Grandma rips them all off
Country of production Austria ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Erhard Riedlsperger
script Uli Brée
production Oliver Auspitz ,
Andreas Kamm
music Dominik Giesriegl
camera Josef Mittendorfer
cut Frank Soiron
occupation

Pokerface - Grandma plays them all off is a TV movie from 2016 . The Austrian - German co-production, directed by Erhard Riedlsperger , was broadcast for the first time on March 16, 2016 on ORF and on May 6, 2016 on Erste .

action

From the outside, everything is actually in perfect order, the retired Kurt Hofer has been married to Rosa for 35 years, they have a beautiful house. However, he doesn't really take her seriously. He reacts shortly to questions about financial matters, for example when she wants to know which successful business he is celebrating with his son-in-law, the dentist Udo Zimmermann. In the evening, Rosa secretly follows her son-in-law and ends up in Köhn's Flamingo Bar, where she meets the barman Charly. However, Udo told his wife Beatrix that he had to take care of tax matters in his dental practice and therefore came home so late. The next day, Rosa visits the Flamingo Bar again and discovers a poker table in the back room . Charly explains to her that her son-in-law is addicted to gambling . He also has an affair with his dental assistant Jutta, who urges him to confess the relationship with his wife.

After Udo was able to convince Kurt to give him his house because of a planned change in the law on the gift tax , Kurt signs over his house to him at the notary . Trixi receives a letter from the bank, according to which the last eight monthly payments for the practice, the house and the car are overdue and the debts are 300,000 euros, later it turns out that the total liabilities amount to one million euros. The house is to be auctioned. Udo himself goes to a diving station, he tells his lover Jutta that he would like to build a completely new life with her, but he explains to his wife that he fell for speculators where he had invested the entire fortune. After he threatened to go to the police, they beat him up. Trixi and Kurt don't want to believe Rosa when she tells them that Udo has lost his entire fortune in poker . Kurt has a heart attack from all the excitement and is admitted to the hospital.

After Rosa does not want to come to terms with her fate and the loss of her house, she wants to win her house and money back in a poker tournament. Charly is supposed to teach her the rules, but at first he refuses because he had lost everything himself, but later declares himself ready to do so. A love relationship begins to develop between Charly and Rosa. Rosa finally manages to win the tournament and get her house back. She leaves her Kurt and starts a new life with Charly.

production

The shooting took place in October and November 2014, the shooting took place mainly in Graz , locations were among others the casino there , the main train station , the Griesplatz and the Jakominiplatz , the Klosterwiesgasse, the Kunsthaus Graz and the Grazer Schloßberg . The film was produced by MR Film , with Austrian broadcasting and ARD ( Degeto Film ) involved, and the production was supported by Cinestyria and the City of Graz. Conrad Reinhardt was responsible for the production design, Caterina Czepek for the costume design and Axel Traun and Herbert Verdino for the sound.

reception

When the film was first broadcast on Das Erste, 3.92 million viewers followed, corresponding to a market share of 14.6 percent. The film reached up to 804,000 viewers on ORF.

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the film “despite the stupid title is an amusing Degeto comedy just because of the evil dialogues”. The title would sound like undemanding clothes, but because of the dramatic performances and the subtly malicious dialogues, that is out of the question. "The secondary characters are a bit one-dimensional as a draft as well as in the representation, but Froboess and Karl Fischer as Rosa's teachers are worth seeing."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pokerface - Grandma rips them all off (2016 TV Movie) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Only the setting is Styrian in this TV film . Article dated March 16, 2016, accessed July 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b series “Grandma plays them all off” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on July 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Poker Face - grandma gambles all off - tv.ORF.at . Retrieved July 5, 2017.