Samba in Mettmann

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Movie
Original title Samba in Mettmann
Country of production Germany
original language German , Portuguese
Publishing year 2004
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Angelo Colagrossi
script Angelo Colagrossi,
Hape Kerkeling
production Hape Kerkeling,
Matthias Wendlandt ,
Angelo Colagrossi
music Karim Sebastian Elias
camera Andreas Höfer
cut Sabine Brose
occupation

Samba in Mettmann is a German film comedy from 2003 and opened in German cinemas on January 29, 2004. The premiere took place three days before, on January 26, 2004 in Essen, the public premiere on January 28, 2004 in Mettmann . The film is based on the script by Hape Kerkeling and Angelo Colagrossi. The film recorded 283,550 visitors by the end of 2004 and achieved a market share of 23.5% on TV broadcast on RTL. On November 15, 2004, the corresponding DVD was released.

The reviews of the film were overwhelmingly, but not entirely negative. The film is referred to as “provincial farce” or “provincial satire” and the outtakes in the credits as “too serious” and “not funny”.

action

Olaf Kischewski runs the “Fleck weg” laundry with his father Benno. Father, son and grandpa live a decent, middle-class, sometimes stuffy life. One day three young Brazilian women burst into the small town of Mettmann and into the lives of the Kischewskis.

The Brazilian Felicidade actually wanted to marry Wolfgang Pfeffer, the son and heir of Mrs. Pfeffer, the owner of a prosperous brewery. But Mrs. Pfeffer thought that Felicidade is not good enough for her son. She has Felicidade and her two bridesmaids kidnapped and abandoned in the middle of Mettmann. Olaf takes the three home out of pity.

But actually Olaf already has enough worries himself: His fiancée Vera doesn't want to sleep with him again until after the wedding, because she has been attending the courses of the US peace activist and self-proclaimed guru Anthony, who preaches abstinence before marriage for some time.

Finally, Olaf Kischewski, his brother Ralf and Kischewski's grandpa decide to break into the Pfeffers 'house to get the three ladies' belongings. Wolfgang Pfeffer has just had a visit from his ex-lover Ursel Rehbein and his current lover Juliane Wollberg, who is smoking a cigarette on the balcony, when Ursel Rehbein told Wolfgang that she was pregnant by him. This upsets Wolfgang, who has heart disease, so much that he succumbs to a heart attack .

Meanwhile, Olaf and Alegra break into the house and collect the three Brazilian women’s belongings. Alegra is still very angry with Wolfgang for believing that he had the three of them kidnapped. She spots him on the bed and beats him when she realizes he's dead. Olaf, Alegra and the others quickly flee. It becomes clear that Alegra did not murder Felicidade's ex-fiancé, and it turns out that Felicidade is a transsexual and that is why Pfeffer did not want to marry her.

At the end of the film, Vera and Olaf, Ursel Rehbein and Anthony and many more characters finally get married. Alegra comes out of church alone and catches all the bridal bouquets.

useful information

  • The film met with a lot of enthusiasm in Mettmann, where most of the scenes were shot. On July 25, 2007 it was shown "open air" on a large screen in Mettmann with the support of the Filmstiftung NRW. About 900 spectators gathered for this event on the historical market square that can be seen in the film.
  • The ringtone on Olaf's mobile phone is the "lucky melody" from the movie No Pardon .
  • Olaf is outraged several times that some fellow human beings use nouns that have an en-ending in the genitive, dative and accusative case without -en ("Save our planet", "If the prophet does not come to the mountain, the mountain will come to the prophet" , "We collect for a circus lion"). He always corrects, but is mostly misunderstood because people wonder about the supposed "plural form".

Reviews

"Level-less clothes full of stale gags that delights in old man's jokes."

- Lexicon of international film

“The story itself is secondary, the bone-dry dialogues and the many small, satirical observations from everyday provincial life are funny. Basically sympathetic joke clothes. "

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Samba in Mettmann . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 583 K).
  2. ↑ Cinema release
  3. ↑ Audience numbers
  4. ↑ ( http://www.quotenmeter.de/cms/?p1=n&p2=21650&p3= )
  5. ↑ FAZ film review
  6. ↑ Film criticism Ed. Dirk Jung ( Memento from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Film review TV feature film
  8. ^ Samba in Mettmann. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 5, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ TV feature film