Sauerkraut coma
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| Original title | Sauerkraut coma | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2018 | ||
| length | 96 minutes | ||
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| Director | Ed Duke | ||
| script | Stefan Betz | ||
| production | Kerstin Schmidbauer | ||
| music | Martin Probst | ||
| camera | Sebastian Edschmid | ||
| cut | Stefan Essl | ||
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Sauerkrautkoma is a German crime comedy directed by Ed Herzog with Sebastian Bezzel and Simon Schwarz in the leading roles. It is the fifth part of the Heimatkrimi film series about the police officer Franz Eberhofer, based on the novels by Rita Falk . The cinema release in Germany was on August 9, 2018. The film was shown on August 5, 2018 at the open air cinema in Starnberg . On February 14, 2019, the film was released on DVD , Blu-ray and various streaming portals.
action
Village police officer Franz Eberhofer is transferred to Munich against his will. All efforts to defend himself against it do not help, he has to say goodbye to his friends and the provincial population he has grown dearly. When he was transferred here years ago, he would not have expected it. There are only problems with his girlfriend Susi, she finally pushes to marry, which Franz is not yet ready for. So the break between them suits him perfectly.
The chief inspector, Elisabeth Mayerhofer, does not receive the newcomer very friendly at the Munich police station. She explains to him in no uncertain terms that the team works here and that going it alone is not welcome. She assigns him a rather spartan desk in an uncomfortable open-plan office that is reminiscent of a factory floor.
In Munich, Eberhofer is moving in with his old friend Rudi until he can find his own apartment, which will not be easy in Munich. His father took over the furniture transport, but now has to discover that his car was stolen from him in the short time he was touring the apartment. It is found in a forest the next day. When Franz and his friend Rudi bring the vehicle back to Niederkaltenkirchen, Franz's father discovers a body in the trunk. Since this was completely wrapped in cling film, you didn't smell any of it on the journey. When the coroner cuts open the foil, Eberhofer recognizes the victim. It's Branka, the mayor's nanny. Without coordinating with his new supervisor, Eberhofer immediately begins the investigation. He first looks around the mayor in Branka's room and finds a large amount of cash there. When Elisabeth Mayerhofer found out about it, she reprimanded him properly. She and her team can very quickly identify two young people as the car thieves on the basis of surveillance recordings. However, they have an alibi for the time of the crime, so Eberhofer concludes that the body was only placed in the car after it had arrived in Niederkaltenkirchen.
When it is certain that the victim was pregnant, Eberhofer tries to use a trick to get a DNA sample from the mayor because he believes he was the culprit. For this purpose he uses Rudi, who happens to find an object in the mayor's kitchen that has blood on it. Without further ado, he secretly takes it with him, as it may have been the weapon with which Branka was killed. This is not confirmed, because the red substance was just strawberry jam, but the paternity of the mayor is beyond question for Eberhofer. Eberhofer confronts the man with the news, but learns from him that he has been unable to conceive for three years. So only his fourteen-year-old son Damian comes into question. When Eberhofer investigates it, it turns out that the mayor's housekeeper had killed Branka because she wanted to protect Damian. She then disposed of the body in the trunk of the car. Eberhofer now has the chance to negotiate a deal with the mayor. He would let his son's affair with the victim fall under the table if the mayor, in return, campaigned for him to get his old job back. But not only that works, he finally manages to propose to his Susi. In the end, the two do not get married, but Eberhofer becomes the father of a little Paul.
background
The eponymous title comes from the fact that Rudi Birkenberger only ever warms up cans in the Munich shared apartment and is therefore happy when Franz Eberhofer cooks fresh food using grandma's self- pounded sauerkraut . Because Rudi can't curb his appetite, the laxative properties hit him with full severity, so that the summoned “Leichenfledderer” Günther jokingly diagnoses a “sauerkraut coma”.
"Thin Lizzy" Elisabeth Mayerhofer, who investigated Franz in the Grießnocker affair , does not appear in the original book. Due to the positive response it received from the audience of the Grießnockerlaffäre , it was included in the script for the film adaptation.
After Dampfnudelblues (2013), Winterkartoffelknödel (2014), Schweinskopf al dente (2016) and Grießnockerlaffäre (2017), Sauerkrautkoma is the fifth film adaptation of the Franz Eberhofer series, based on the novels by Rita Falk . A sixth film adaptation followed in 2019 with Leberkäsjunkie .
reception
Audience numbers
The film was seen by 301,000 people in the cinema in the opening week from August 9 to 16. Mainly shown in Bavarian cinemas, it reached number three after a week and even number one in the German cinema charts a week later. In the third week of the game, Sauerkrautkoma was 24 percent above the values of its predecessor, Grießnockerlaffäre , the most successful film in the series to date with over 840,000 moviegoers. A year later, the film was 30th in the Top 100 in Germany with 1,010,131 visitors and grossed 7,971,879 euros on August 18, 2019.
Sauerkrautkoma saw a total of 5.17 million viewers when it was first broadcast on August 19, 2019 in Erste . This resulted in a market share of 18.3 percent.
criticism
The Frankfurter Rundschau judged: “The provincial thrillers with Sebastian Bezzel as the silty Lower Bavarian village police officer Eberhofer are a success phenomenon: the effort, appearance and content hardly differ from comparable TV comedies. Even so, 'Sauerkrautkoma', the fifth film in the series, had over a million moviegoers; and that although a certain routine has long crept in with the adaptation of Rita Falk's novels. Not least thanks to their continuity in front of and behind the camera, the film adaptations function according to the 'every year' principle. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv states: “The murders are just a means to an end, to tell funny stories about lovable and bizarre characters. In fact, each criminal case is the only difference between Martin Probst's stories, which are always accompanied by humorous brass music. A consistent quality feature is also the careful picture design. "
The film service rated: “Well-done crime comedy, which largely avoids clichés, but also does not create any enigmatic charm. The excellent ensemble is once again happy to play and funny. "
Thomas Assheuer from Der Zeit commented: “It is not that 'Sauerkrautkoma' is aesthetically overwhelming for the viewer, the film is suitable for the masses and takes a little bit of the all-round humor of French film comedies. But he is neither reactionary nor kitschy, he has nothing of Söder's clean Germanness, even in Rita Falk's laconic novels, Christian social philistines are lovingly ventilated. "
Trivia
Franz Eberhofer's new office in Munich is neither Police Inspection 15 (as claimed by Rudi) nor the lion's den (as said by Grandma - the police headquarters are located at the lion's den), but rather the traffic police inspection on Tegernseer Landstrasse.
Rudi and Franz's shared apartment is at Candidstrasse 3, not far from the traffic police station.
Awards
- 2019: Audience Award of the Bavarian Film Award 2018
Web links
- official homepage
- Sauerkraut coma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sauerkrautkoma at filmportal.de
- Sauerkrautkoma at crew united
- Sauerkrautkoma in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sauerkraut koma . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 179458 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for sauerkraut coma . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival: Summer cinema fun on the lake . Article dated July 24, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018.
- ↑ 3 million moviegoers for the Eberhofer series, the most successful Bavarian movie series of all time, viewed at presseportal.de .
- ↑ Top 100 Germany at insidekino.de, accessed on November 18, 2019.
- ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Bezzel, Schwarz, Potthoff, Stefan Betz, Ed Herzog. Hearty Bayern fun with Leiche Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Sauerkrautkoma": Homage to Niederbayern accessed at fr.de.
- ↑ Film review retrieved from filmdienst.de on January 17, 2019.
- ↑ The Souls of the South at zeit.de., accessed on November 18, 2019.
- ↑ Bavarian Police - Police Inspection Munich 15 - Sendling. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Bavarian Police - Traffic Police Inspection Traffic Accident Record . Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Assheuer: Audience Award for "Sauerkrautkoma" . Article dated January 17, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019.