End-maker
Endemacher is a German feature film from 2013. The romantic comedy is Matthias Schweighöfer's second directorial work . The focus of the action is the employee of a separation agency, who ends love affairs on behalf of and on behalf of others and whose everyday life takes a turn when Toto, abandoned by his girlfriend, clings to Paul's heels in his sadness and loneliness. The main roles are occupied by Matthias Schweighöfer and Milan Peschel .
action
Paul Voigt works in a separation agency. He is about to complete his 1000th separation and thus to become a partner in his company. But when he brings the news of his separation to “Toto”, a world collapses for him. Toto does not want to give up his girlfriend and tries several times to take his own life. Paul can't bring himself to a relationship and eventually breaks up with his girlfriend. When Toto moves in with him and initially makes his life visibly difficult, his goal of working as a partner in the agency is becoming increasingly distant. When Toto convinces Paul of his "dancing skills" and thus saves his job, a friendship develops between them. Ultimately, despite his 1000th job at the break-up agency, Paul quits "Happy End" and finds his true love, Natalie. There is also a happy ending for Toto and his girlfriend Katharina.
background
Idea and script
The first ideas for the plot of the film emerged shortly after Matthias Schweighöfer's first directorial work What a Man (2011) was completed. In search of a follow-up project that is “a bit larger than life and at the same time should reflect everyday life and the problems of the audience”, screenwriter Doron Wisotzky Schweighöfer and his partners from the joint production company Pantaleon Films, Dan Maag and Marco Beckmann, presented a short-line one Exposé , which he had already written years ago. This was based on an Internet report about existing separation agencies that end love relationships with their partners on behalf of people . Interested in the material, the team decided within half an hour that the synopsis would serve as the basis for Pantaleon's next film. Wisotzky, who shortly thereafter began working on the script , used a pool of ideas when writing - similar to What a Man - that came about through joint brainstorming and sometimes came from “incredibly bizarre separation situations” of those involved.
While a series of amusing anecdotes initially formed the comedic framework of the script, the conditions of the plot shifted increasingly as the script developed. The focus of the production was not to shoot a visual “encouragement to stop, but to shed light on the pros and cons”. According to Schweighöfer, the focus of the film is on the change of two poles, which are composed on the one hand of the joke about bizarre separation motifs and the negative sides of the end of the relationship, and the question of whether it is “really necessary to break up or” whether one simply chooses the more comfortable way instead of approaching each other again ”. These two poles are personified by the characters Paul and Toto, whose contradictions quickly developed into the heart of the story and added "an additional level of reflection" at the buddy film level to the previously superficial sequence of strange separation situations using different views . The disaffected, emotionally blocked Paul is convinced that he is doing the right thing in his job, while for the hopeless romantic Toto a world collapses with a message of separation.
occupation
For the role of Totos, Schweighöfer's opponent, who was intended to be the director and leading actor from the start , “buddy types” of Schweighöfer's age were initially sought during the casting process . According to Dan Maag, however, the production team quickly found that this would not work as an actor and that the role required an actor who at first glance did not match Schweighöfer. After that, the casting continued under the motto “the weirder the station wagon, the better” and finally came across Milan Peschel . He and Schweighöfer had already stood in front of the camera in 2010 and 2011 in the Tatort production Because they are evil , Detlev Buck's travesty comedy Rubbeldiekatz but also in What a Man . Director Schweighöfer expressed his appreciation for Peschel's game, through which "many nuances arose during the shooting that one could not even plan".
The two leading female roles were primarily cast by young actresses with previously unused screen faces. Although the filmmakers intended from the start to “present fresh new talent”, the search in German-speaking countries proved to be difficult. Since it was possible to rely on largely unknown names in addition to Schweighöfer as the commercial draft horse of the film, the producers had the opportunity to “look left and right of the usual suspects instead of always relying on supposedly safe names. “The Canadian-born Catherine de Léan in the role of Paul's friend Natalie had the team on the screen for a long time, according to her own statements, after she appeared in 2010 alongside Max Riemelt in the German horror production Urban Explorer . Anna Bederke had again attracted attention with her play in Fatih Akın's comedy Soul Kitchen (2009). Although initially there were concerns that Bederke did not resemble Schweighöfer outwardly enough to be able to embody his sister, she finally convinced with her authenticity and type.
Nadja Uhl as Toto's indecisive partner Kati and Heiner Lauterbach as Paul's emotionally cold agency boss Georg Adler can be seen in supporting roles . Manuela Wisbeck took on the role of the "uncontrollable fury" Gabriela, the wife of a customer Paul. According to Schweighöfer, Wisbeck was talked about early on for the role and, in addition to the dimensions necessary for the character, impressed with her “brilliant comedy timing”. Gennadi Vengerov was hired as the maddened oligarch Sokolow, while his wife was cast by Schweighöfer's mother Gitta . The actors Richy Müller , Detlev Buck, Tom Beck and Tim Sander , Silbermond drummer Andreas Nowak as well as the Hessian comedian duo Badesalz can be seen in short guest appearances .
Filming
During production, the staff mainly consisted of the same people who had already worked on What a Man . In addition to the screenwriter Doron Wisotzky, so u. a. also the co-director Torsten Künstler , the cameraman Bernhard Jasper , the set manager Dirk Eberling and the two composers Peter Horn and Andrej Melita will be there again. Producer Maag found that the "certain qualitative continuity and collective development" had a positive effect on the shooting through the commitment of the same participants, and especially praised Schweighöfer's further development as a director, who seemed even "more uncertain and hesitant" in their previous joint project, but also " developed an incredible eye for small moments, reactions and timing ”. Was produced circuit maker by founded by Schweighöfer and the co-producers Marco Beckmann in 2009 company Pantaleon Entertainment and the resulting following year subsidiary Pantaleon Films in association with Fox International Productions and Amalia film. The production was significantly supported by HessenInvestFilm , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF). The state of Hesse contributed the largest share of funding with 600,000 euros. The production costs amounted to around 4.7 million euros.
The filming of the closing maker took place from March 20 to May 17, 2012 in Berlin , Brandenburg and Hesse . Shooting started in Berlin, where the filming took place at Hackescher Markt , Alexanderplatz and Potsdamer Platz . Space from the advertising agencies Springer & Jacoby and Scholz & Friends was rented for indoor shots in the fictional separation agency Happy End . The team then moved on to the town of Caputh in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district before recording continued in Frankfurt am Main . In the Main metropolis , whose photographic advantages of the Schweighöfer skyline compared with the American coastal city of Boston , was u. a. Staged for the camera on the roof of a parking garage at Konstablerwache , in a toy store on the Große Friedberger , in the Villa Kennedy , a former Dresdner Bank building on Mainzer Landstrasse , on a golf course in Niederrad and on Wendelsweg in the Sachsenhausen district . The film was also shot in the Darmstadt Clinic. The shooting was completed in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district at Garvensburg Castle in Fritzlar - Züschen and in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district on the Edersee , its dam and at Waldeck Castle .
Film music
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Schweighöfer was again primarily responsible for the selection of the musical background for the production. The songs on the soundtrack , which was released by Polydor Records on January 11, 2013 , were taken from his own music collection and from the Internet . The track “Hurt Lovers” by the British boy group Blue served as the title song for the film and, after their Eurovision Song Contest contribution “ I Can ” (2011), was also the quartet's second single since their reunification in 2009. Schweighöfer and actor Milan Peschel were can be seen in cameo appearances in the accompanying music video . The remaining tracks were mainly characterized by newcomers - or indie artists , including Leslie Clio and Amy Kuney ; the group Abby composed the song "We Won't Worry" especially for the film.
Soundtrack
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| No. | title | Interpreter | length |
| 1. | Hurt lovers | Blue | 3:55 |
| 2. | I couldn't care less | Leslie Clio | 3:16 |
| 3. | We don't worry | Abby | 3:43 |
| 4th | Lost | Martin Todsharow | 1:36 |
| 5. | Don't go slow | Benjamin Francis Leftwich | 3:49 |
| 6th | Time is now | Youthkills | 4:07 |
| 7th | Clouded Conscience | Timothy | 3:17 |
| 8th. | Gasoline Rainbows | Amy Kuney | 4:34 |
| 9. | The Answer | Josh Kumra | 2:56 |
| 10. | Living Lost and Broken | Hurricane Love | 4:04 |
| 11. | Fall Into Pieces | Andrej Melita, Peter Horn | 3:51 |
| 12. | I saw a stone | The Rocketboys | 7:41 |
| 13. | Boy from the Sun | Niva | 2:29 |
| 14th | And the night cries | Timothy | 3:46 |
| 15th | Eight Days | Twin Atlantic | 3:02 |
| 16. | Daddy cool | Boney M. | 3:28 |
| 17th | Hope | Martin Todsharow | 5:18 |
Reviews
Filmstarts.de judged: “Matthias Schweighöfer is resolutely going his own way and once again shows his star qualities in the comedy Endemacher . He has come a step closer to his goal of establishing himself as a director - but has not yet achieved it [...] In the end, the end maker is a clear step up from What a Man , but with his all too obvious squint at the competition from Hollywood shoots the director Schweighöfer sometimes also clearly over the target. "
At Cinema , the critics judged: “The film thrives on the opposing interplay of the dominant, macho Schweighöfer and the bustling, wrinkled face Milan Peschel, who were together in front of the camera in the famous Tatort episode Because They Are Bad . That works great. The stereotypical figure drawings and the roaring humor are less successful. The fact that the worst jokes in the film are at the expense of an overweight woman with swollen breasts doesn't exactly testify to sparkling creativity. The mix-up of Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder is really a scream over 20 years after the fall of the Wall. The Schweighöfer fans will overlook such weaknesses. Nevertheless, it would be desirable that the popular figure finally expand his directorial ambitions to other genres. Conclusion road movie comedy with a good actor duo, but moderate gags. "
Oddsmeter.de assesses it very negatively: “ End-maker gives the shame of others a new dimension. The script by Doron Wisotzky, who wrote the script for the comedy What a Man , is largely responsible for this . Wisotzky messes up almost every imaginable cliché in his story about a guy whose main job is separations. In addition, the plot delivers a series of infantile humor that is very difficult to endure - including fecal jokes and jokes at the expense of fat people or homosexuals. […] The end maker is two-hour slapstick at the lowest level. If you hopelessly think that the tastelessness and agony are finally over, things get worse. In the end, nothing remains but anger over so much cinematic thin shit. "
“The whole thing would actually be a nice comedy idea if Matthias Schweighöfer didn't have such an unfortunate tendency towards the most outrageous foolishness. [...] Instead of clever puns and elegant slapstick, in case of doubt the film prefers rough priman jokes. You can tell that Schweighöfer has taken good care of his colleague, mentor and friend Til Schweiger; the success with the broad mass of viewers eager to have fun will prove him right, after all, Schweighöfer's rather crude, humorous What A Man had almost two million viewers, ”said epd Film .
The lexicon of international films stated: “Silly mixture of road movie and buddy comedy, which uses the usual clichés of the gender war, about the coldness of a society in which feelings are the object of a service but knows nothing to say. What is remarkable is the enthusiasm of the two main actors. "
Product placement
Some reviews also refer to the product placement in the film: Lea Hermann wrote for Focus : “At some point, surreptitious advertising in the closing maker gets on your nerves , which actually has nothing to do with sneaking. The products are very clearly placed. Sometimes a chocolate bar is clearly visible next to Paul in bed, sometimes cans of a well-known energy drink manufacturer fall out of the car. Or you think that advertising is on when Paul stares for what feels like five minutes at the display of his smartphone with the very recognizable brand logo. "
The world was somewhat sober: “Only the all too conspicuous product placement is outstanding.” In an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Schweighöfer explains: “It is of course true that Bahlsen was our product placement partner. A great deal because we will continue to work together - in a spot that promotes both the cookies and our film. These are the rules of the game: whoever sets up a company has to pay bills. "
success
The end maker celebrated its premiere on January 7, 2013 at the Cinestar cinema in the Sony Center in Berlin and was released for public screening in Germany on January 10 by its distributor. After the end of the first screening weekend, the feature film had around 455,000 moviegoers, displacing Peter Jackson's novel adaptation The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (2012) from the top of the German cinema charts. When it was shown in 451 cinemas, the copy cut was above the 1000 visitor mark. The film had the most successful start to a German production since Til Schweiger's Kokowääh (2011). Around a million viewers saw the film within two weeks. In 2013, 2,481,019 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film the 11th place among the most visited films of the year.
With a total box office earnings of 18.5 million euros and more than 2.5 million visitors advanced circuit maker to F * ck You, Goethe and Kokowääh 2 to become the third most successful German film production of the theatrical year, 2013.
Awards
- 2013: Romy for best feature film
- 2013: Audience Award of the German Film Award
Web links
- Final makers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official film site
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the closing maker . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 136 463 K).
- ↑ Age rating for closing makers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah press booklet . In: ThimFilm.at . Fox International Productions . Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ A b c Kathrin Rosendorff: Schweighöfer is shooting in Frankfurt again . In: FR-Online.de . Frankfurter Rundschau . April 27, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ SCHLUSSMACHER - shooting diary 2 (HD) - German / German . In: FoxKino . YouTube . April 19, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Jörg Ortmann: Schweighöfer is shooting his new film here in Frankfurt . In: Bild.de . Bild newspaper . January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ Gideon Gottfried: Soundtrack - Ending Maker . Hitparade.ch (Hung Medien). Retrieved March 2, 2014.
- ↑ Blue - Hurt Lovers . Hitparade.ch (Hung Medien). Retrieved March 2, 2014.
- ↑ Closing maker> Review at Filmstarts.de, accessed on November 15, 2018.
- ↑ Film review retrieved from Cinema.de.
- ↑ The theater critics: "circuit maker" in Quotenmeter.de .
- ↑ Criticism of the end maker at epd Film.
- ^ Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Lea Hermann: Successfully parting with Matthias Schweighöfer at focus.de, accessed on November 15, 2018.
- ^ A b Matthias Schweighöfer: New film by and with Matthias Schweighöfer at welt.de, accessed on November 15, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Schweighöfer is the new Schweiger ( memento of March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at archive.org, accessed on November 16, 2018
- ↑ The end maker. kino.de , accessed on January 25, 2013 .
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f