Practice Dr. Rabbit leg
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Practice Doctor Hasenbein |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 95 minutes |
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| Director | Helge Schneider |
| script | Helge Schneider |
| production | Hanno Huth |
| music | Helge Schneider |
| camera | Serge Roman |
| cut | Andrea Schumacher |
| occupation | |
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Practice Dr. Hasenbein is a German movie from 1997 and the third by jazz artist Helge Schneider . He wrote the script as well as the music and plays the leading role.
content
The film takes place in a small street in Karges Loch . Here Dr. Angelika Hasenbein, prescribes ointments and offers radiation treatments. The film shows everyday life in a small neighborhood.
The doctor has to deal with the cheeky children from the orphanage run by Aunt Uschi . They annoy his son Peterchen and trick the doctor with an empty box that is supposed to contain a hamster. Ms. Holzkiste applies to be a doctor's assistant, but cannot meet the strict criteria (cooking soup). One event is the cinema premiere of the art film “Ruck, Ruck - Taubenmensch” from the “Big Tortellini”.
The doctor likes to go across the street to a small, cozy cigar shop, chat with the seller and buy a "surprise bag for the gentleman". In the evenings he and his colleague watch cooking programs for singles on TV or play Fitze Fitze Fatze on the accordion . But if everything stinks to him, he goes “to jazz ” and plays the saxophone in a small jazz band.
Overall life is quite leisurely. But just as the party is going on in the orphanage, the war breaks out into the small, ideal world and the doctor has to go to the front. For many years he holed up in a submarine and waited for the war to end.
When he finally returns home, a lot has changed on his street. The people have become unfriendly and snooty and instead of the cozy cigar shop, a game room now dominates the scene. His son married Annegret from the former orphanage, but she does not want the suddenly returned father-in-law in the house. So the doctor moves into the nursing home to jazz with the other senior citizens in a cozy atmosphere.
Characters
A special feature of the film is that some, but not all, female characters are played by men who are either not or only partially disguised as women and who behave neither typically male nor typically female. This results in an unusual resolution of the classic gender segregation. The age of some of the characters is also deliberately surreal.
- Dr. Angelika Hasenbein ( Helge Schneider )
Angelika Hasenbein, doctor , called "Helge". He doesn't have a wife, but she has banned him from smoking. A little too often he also takes pills (in packs). For a slight cough, he prescribes a foul-smelling ointment (“very unpleasant!”) Against tendinitis for 80 marks (to be paid in cash!). The origin of his son is inexplicable to him. In his spare time, Dr. Hasenbein likes to play the piano, organ, accordion and saxophone and plays the Fitzefatzelied as well as jazz with bar musicians .
- Peterchen ( Peter Berling )
The doctor's son is a fat old man who plays with the ball and cannot yet eat alone. He is often annoyed by the elders from the children's home. He later married the girl Annegret ( Carina Berns ) and continued his father's practice during the war.
- Calf factor ( Bernhard Sondermann )
Dr. Hasenbein's factotum is a shy guy in his prime who is interested in mopeds (but doesn't have one) and whistles old communist songs to the working class champagne. After work he likes to stay longer and watch TV with the doctor.
- The kiosk owner Klaus ( Horst Mendroch )
A nice man who sells cigars, moped magazines and surprise bags for men and women (“cost four marks, no!”). Dr. Hasenbein keeps visiting the store just because it's so nice, even if you don't buy anything and just have the same conversations.
- Schneider Voss ( Norbert Losch )
An arrogant old wretch who huddles in front of small children at the doctor and receives a woman's visit (from the wife of the cinema owner).
- The Cheese Merchant ( Werner Abrolat )
Every morning the cheese merchant rolls the cart into his shop and sells fragrant fresh cheese (as well as dummies if need be).
- Cinema owner Besig
Plagued by lack of sleep, Hasenbein's assistant gave him a recipe for 10 cups of black coffee a day. He cannot pick up his wife from the doctor because he has to sleep. A cultural event is the surrealistic short film "Jerk, Jerk - Taubenmensch" shown in his cinema, in which an actor portrays a happy dove for 2 minutes . With mixed success - one viewer dies of a fit of laughter during the screening , the others have divided opinions about the film (“That's the last shit!”, “I think I'm too stupid for something like that.” “One Deaf as a person - should that be art? ")
- Aunt Uschi ( Andreas Kunze )
The grande dame of the city's children's home is a dignified, massive man with a hat and pipe who kindly looks after 4 boys and a girl. She drives a BMW Isetta that Dr. Hasenbein also borrows for the war. The home's hamster, Hermie, is led by Dr. Unknowingly trample Rabbit's leg.
- Annegret ( Carina Berns as a child, Andrea Vonscheidt as Peterchens wife)
Annegret is the only girl and probably the youngest child in the orphanage. Although she helps the older boys from the home to contact Dr. To avenge Rabbit's leg for mourning the hamster Hermie, but it snaps that they stabbed Peter's ball. In the end she lives with Peterchen and has a child with him. She is (in contrast to Peterchen in particular) the only person who gets older in the course of the film, i.e. H. played by an older actress.
Location
Karges Loch was on the site of the Wrexham Barracks of the British Rhine Army in Mülheim an der Ruhr, which was cleared in 1994 .
Schneider's self-criticism
After the film was finished, Schneider was dissatisfied with the result. He made too many compromises during the shooting, many scenes are flat and silly, the sets are too simple, etc. Overall, the film is characterized by a lack of imagination. This experience led him not to make a film for years.
When he was later faced with the task of making an audio commentary for the DVD release of "Praxis Dr. Hasenbein", he clearly expressed his displeasure with the film and simply broke off the comment after 28 minutes.
Regardless of the director's opinion, the film is very popular with fans.
Others
The tunnel in "Karges Loch" is only painted on one wall. Nevertheless, several times in the film it is pretended to be used to drive through.
The final scene recreates the cover of the album " Underground " by Thelonious Monk .
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged that the film was "an experiment which, in its deliberately amateurish style, challenges the viewer's patience, but at least does not fool them."
Web links
- Practice Dr. Hasenbein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Practice Dr. Hasenbein at Filmportal.de
- Practice Dr. Hasenbein at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Practice Dr. Rabbit leg. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .