Rubbeldiekatz

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Movie
Original title Rubbeldiekatz
Rubbeldiekatz.JPG
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Detlev Buck
script Detlev Buck
Anika Decker
production Henning Ferber
Marcus Welke
music Enis Rotthoff
camera Marc Achenbach
cut Dirk Gray
occupation

Rubbeldiekatz is a German travesty comedy by Detlev Buck from 2011. The production was based on a script by Bucks and the author Anika Decker and is about the young Berlin actor Alexander Honk, played by Matthias Schweighöfer , who is looking for the big breakthrough as Woman disguised to take part in a Nazi film . He falls in love with his colleague, the successful actress Sarah Voss, played by Alexandra Maria Lara , who at first doesn't notice anything about his masquerade.

The joint production by Universal Pictures International , Film1 and Boje Buck was filmed between January and February 2011. In addition to Schweighöfer and Lara, Buck, Maximilian Brückner , Denis Moschitto , Max von Thun and Max Giermann appeared in front of the camera. The comedy celebrated its theatrical release in Germany on December 15, 2011, where it received mixed reviews. With box office earnings of around 14.5 million euros and over a million viewers, the film was among the ten most successful German productions of 2011. Rubbeldiekatz was nominated for the German Film Prize and was awarded the Romy for “Best Cinema Screenplay ”.

action

Actor Alexander Honk appears in the local theater as the lead actor in the play Charley's Aunt , where he plays a man disguised as a woman. In order to get a role in a Hollywood film about the time of National Socialism , Honk dresses up as a woman and does the casting as Alexandra. The director casts him on the assumption that Alexandra is really a woman. When Alex celebrates success in the snowy park with his brothers and their buddy, with whom the brothers live together, he meets the actress Sarah Voss. She has just broken up with her boyfriend, who cheated on her, and spontaneously spends the night with Alex. When the two wake up, she has to go to the shoot - Alex too. Once there, disguised as a woman, he meets Sarah again, with whom he has a lesbian relationship in his film role . Sarah doesn't recognize the disguised Alexandra and gets to know her as a best friend. Without a disguise she doesn't see Alex for a long time.

Alexander's brothers Jürgen, Basti and their buddy Jan as well as his ex-girlfriend Maike also appear on the film set and create additional stress for him. Later on, Sarah spends a night with the actor Thomas, who is also involved in the film project. When Hitler actor Jörg, Thomas, Alexandra and Sarah go to a bar together, Jörg makes his affection for Alexandra clear; “She” is in love with Sarah and tries to talk her out of Thomas. When it becomes apparent on set that Alexandra is not a real woman, Alex signs a confidentiality agreement and is expelled from the premises. Sarah doesn't forgive him for the lie, and Alex returns to the theater. When Sarah , who lives in Hollywood , is making her next film on the North Sea , Alex looks for her there and confesses that she still loves her. She rejects him. Back in Berlin, however, Sarah comes to Alex at the theater. The two kiss and Alex brings them home to his shared apartment .

production

Emergence

Author Anika Decker wrote the screenplay for Rubbeldiekatz especially as a vehicle for leading actor Matthias Schweighöfer , whom she met in advance during the shooting of the Til Schweiger films she wrote, Keinohrhasen (2007) and Zweiohrküken (2009). Decker developed the basic idea of ​​customizing Schweighöfer's role as a woman with Andrea Willson, Head of Universal Pictures International , after the actor jokingly stated in an interview that he would like to play a female character one day. A screening of his film The Red Baron (2008) finally confirmed Decker's impression that Schweighöfer's face had enough “fine feminine features” for such a role.

After Schweighöfer had expressed his interest in the project, the author started working on the script together with Film1 Filmproduktion, which she continuously revised with the support of producer Marcus Welke. The first version, which was created in parallel to Zweiohrküken and another Decker project, was completed after a year and a half. The idea of ​​the film in the film came about after a visit by Schweighöfer, who was in front of the camera for Bryan Singer's Operation Walküre - Das Stauffenberg Attentat (2008) in Berlin , and whose shooting, according to Decker, was both an "absurd" model for other gags as well as an “interesting” addition to the actual plot, the confusion situation of the protagonist .

Director Detlev Buck , who was initially unavailable due to further appointments, only got into the project “a whole corner later” according to Decker. Together with him, additional approaches were developed that had a significant influence on the later version of the script . Decker produced a total of eight frames before shooting began. Due to the genre, she later described the production phase as "more difficult" compared to earlier projects. Of the accusation that the film copy elements American travesty - comedies like Tootsie (1982), they also distanced himself explicitly.

Filming

Berliner Straße was the location of the filming and performance on the premises of the Babelsberg film studio .

The shooting of Rubbeldiekatz took place from January 3rd to February 28th 2011 in Berlin and Babelsberg as well as Hamburg and Sankt Peter-Ording . Filming locations included the Great Tiergarten in Berlin, O2 World Berlin , the RAW Temple in Revaler Strasse, Hotel Adlon and Berliner Strasse , a permanent open-air backdrop on the premises of the Babelsberg film studio . Other scenes were created during the costume designer Guido Maria Kretschmer's show at Berlin Fashion Week .

Outside the capital, the film was primarily filmed in Hamburg's Jenisch-Haus , its surrounding park area and on the Reeperbahn in St. Pauli , which was specially partially blocked for filming. At Hamburg Airport , a Cessna Citation XLS served as a backdrop on the runway of the business aviation center . In Sankt Peter-Ording, around 200 extras support the filming of the pier on the beach in the Bad district. The scene was originally supposed to take place in Tuscany , but according to Buck it was finally relocated to Schleswig-Holstein due to the “better and finer light” of the northern German winter .

Both the Filmförderungsanstalt and the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein supported the project, whose working title - based on the film produced in the feature film - was Woman in Love , with 500,000 euros each for production and distribution funding. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg again contributed a total of 720,000 euros to the production. Film director Michael Glawogger , presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf , fashion designer Guido Maria Kretschmer , model Eva Padberg , actors Dejan Bućin , Christoph Marti , Isabell Polak , Karolin Peiter , Hans Löw , Ezio Toffolutti and Lara's partner Sam Riley are among others in smaller roles or . Cameo to see -Auftritten.

Naming

The Jewish saying "Rub the cat" as an invitation to act quickly goes back to the money cat . As the forerunner of the wallet, it was worn on the belt to store coins. Anyone who “rubbed” the cat during price negotiations counted the coins in the bags by swiping over them without removing them - so they were about to make a purchase decision.

Soundtrack

Track list 
No. title Interpreter length
1. Opening (Score) Enis Rotthoff 1:06
2. LOVE The BossHoss & Nena 3:44
3. That Man Caro Emerald 3:18
4th Sexy and I Know It LMFAO 3:19
5. Young and demanding (Score) Enis Rotthoff 1:07
6th Heart of Stone Jonathan Jeremiah 3:23
7th Oh boy Miss Li 3:17
8th. On the tree (Score) Enis Rotthoff 4:01
9. The bomb Pigeon John 3:23
10. She's always a woman Fyfe Dangerfield 3:14
11. On the beach (Score) Enis Rotthoff 2:53
12. Teach me tiger April Stevens 2:20
13. Spirit in the Sky Norman Greenbaum 3:58
14th Good Friends (Score) Enis Rotthoff 1:29
15th I'm sorry The Monterz 4:08
16. You don't love me Caro Emerald 3:52
17th Team meeting (score) Enis Rotthoff 1:31
18th His name is Waldemar Zarah Leander 3:05
19th Lifetime Maxwell 5:29
20th Cuddle sex (Score) Enis Rotthoff 2:11
21st Strangers in the Night Rea Garvey 2:46
22nd Final (score) Enis Rotthoff 2:23

Reviews

Rainer Gansera from the Süddeutsche Zeitung called the film a "course of embarrassment". Rubbeldiekatz is "a film with gags on a German level" that gets lost in "a tangle of parody and quotation". It is very astonishing that "Buck could not give this material, which is overflowing with situation comedy, any original turns". Lovelessly “he ticks off the standards, and Schweighöfer is only visually convincing as a puffed-up blonde - there is no acting spark.” The director fidgeted “himself. His attempts to be funny take on such forced and desperate form that in the end only one feeling remains: He would have better left this cat in the bag. "

Got his role tailor-made: main actor Matthias Schweighöfer .

"Because life and identity crisis are serious, while art, heart, pain and confusion are serene, this fundamental tragedy is of course given a smile," wrote Spiegel critic Andreas Banaski. Buck formulates “his direction as follows: 'fast, cheeky, but without platitudinous humor'. And whether or to what extent he is at the right address with the gender struggle specialist Anika Decker, who as an author before Rubbeldiekatz created the basis for no-ear bunnies and two-eared chicks , everyone can work out for themselves. "

Björn Becher von Filmstarts, on the other hand, particularly praised the director Detlev Bucks. In his variation of Tootsie he "likes to lose the common thread", which he "but over and over again with his staging". The comedy is “sometimes flat and mostly exaggerated, but precisely because of that” it is “a lot of fun”. Even if some things don't work in film “and the film-in-film navel gazing remains rather flat, the turbulent, chaotic comedy is a lot of fun. Matthias Schweighöfer is also convincing as a woman, and Buck makes full use of the comic potential, especially in the absurd scenes apart from the main plot ”.

The rating of the Cinema editorial team was much more critical and described the film as a “German Tootsie version with good actors, but only moderately sparkling gags”. Buck is "repurposing the worn-out recipe for success in Rubbeldiekatz without being able to derive any particular originality from the fumbling joke". The figures are "excessively overdrawn, caricature-like [...] and superficial". The magazine only found words of praise for Schweighöfer's performance.

Even Time -Redakteur Christof Siemes was disappointed: Rubbeldiekatz was "so simple assembled that each Krippenfigur foresee the act" can and create only with "further pieces from cinema and Klamaukgeschichte a certain complexity. The prominent cast is supposed to console the clearly visible weld seams of this mash-up from the pen of Anika Decker […] However, Alexandra Maria Lara's wooden play is as far away from Hollywood as a stable lantern is from the star above Bethlehem . "

success

The pre-screening of the film took place on November 30, 2011 at the Cinemaxx at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and on December 1, 2011 at the Hamburg Cinemaxx cinema at Dammtor . The film was released for public screening in Germany on December 15, 2011. After the end of the first screening weekend, Rubbeldiekatz counted around 256,103 visitors in 468 cinemas and thus placed itself immediately behind the animated film Der Puss in Boots and the newcomer Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol on number 3 in the German cinema charts. The film reached the one million mark after the third week of play. With more than 1,059,197 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was in seventh place of the most-watched German cinema productions of 2011. Another 1,041,541 visitors again helped to achieve fourth place in 2012. The total number of viewers was around 2.1 million .

In Austria the production again celebrated its premiere on December 16, 2011 in Switzerland on December 22, 2011. Rubbeldiekatz stayed in the top 25 in the German-speaking Swiss cinema charts for six weeks and reached number 7 in the tables. The film attracted a total of 37,373 viewers to the cinemas.

Awards

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. The jury described the production as “a brilliantly written and acted comedy with good punch lines on very different levels. He even finds an original twist for the obligatory romantic ending by letting Alexander play Charlie's aunt of all people ”. Furthermore, the film won the Romy 2012 for best book (feature film).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for Rubbeldiekatz . Youth Media Commission .
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  20. ↑ Elena Ochoa Lamiño: Cinema premiere of Detlev Buck's new film . In: The world . Welt.de. December 3, 2011. Accessed December 31, 2011.
  21. ↑ Christopher Klausnitzer: German Charts: "Puss in Boots" asserts itself against "Mission: Impossible 4" . Film starts . December 20, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
  22. ^ "Rubbeldiekatz" team celebrates millions of visitors . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. January 2, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
  23. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2011 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  24. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
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  28. ^ Romy 2012