Pig's head al dente (film)
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| Original title | Pig's head al dente | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2016 | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
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| Director | Ed Duke | ||
| script | Stefan Betz | ||
| production | Kerstin Schmidbauer | ||
| music | Martin Probst | ||
| camera | Philipp Sichler | ||
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Stefan Essl , Marco Pav D'Auria |
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Pig's head al dente is a German crime film directed by Ed Herzog from 2016 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Rita Falk and is starring Sebastian Bezzel and Simon Schwarz in the leading roles. After steam noodle blues (2013) and winter potato dumplings (2014), the film is the third German crime comedy about the police officer Franz Eberhofer.
The German theatrical release was on August 11, 2016. The TV premiere took place on July 26, 2017 on Das Erste .
action
Provincial police officer Franz Eberhofer has to struggle with relationship problems in addition to the crime. During a discussion with his girlfriend Susi, she tells him that she will soon be moving to Italy with her lover Luca. After his grandmother insists that he fight for his Susi, he talks to her, but since he lacks any diplomatic sensitivity, as usual, he cannot change Susi's mind. She is leaving. Eberhofer's father and grandma are therefore planning an expedition to the south to bring their future daughter-in-law back. At the same time, however, Eberhofer received an order from his boss Moratschek to stand ready for him as a bodyguard after he found a severed pig's head in his bed. Moratschek therefore believes he is on the hit list of the escaped psychopath Dr. Küstner; he panics, even moves in with Eberhofer and, to his horror, fraternises with his pot-smoking and Beatles-listening father. In order to put things back in order, Eberhofer has to solve the case as quickly as possible. However , he doesn't have much to expect from his colleagues in Landshut . They consider Moratschek's accusations to be pipe dreams, because when Eberhofer requests the KTU, the pig's head has disappeared. In addition, the officials claim that Küstner has long since gone into hiding in Portugal. But they are wrong. Küstner sneaks through the woods and assassins a mushroom picker who gets in his way.
Eberhofer calls his old friend Rudi Birkenberger to help him. When he hears that the psychopath Küstner has broken out, he becomes a little nervous, because he had accompanied the prisoner transport at the time and, like Moratschek, he was threatened with revenge by Küstner. Rudi suggests sending Moratschek to the door as "bait", which, however, does not meet with much approval. Meanwhile, Küstner waits patiently in his trailer to find the right moment. However, Eberhofer is never far away. That changes when he has to take Moratschek and his father to the hospital with acute alcohol poisoning and they have to stay there for some time. Küstner uses this and mingles with the clinic staff, but cannot do anything. Eberhofer has since found out that Küstner is behind the alleged alcohol poisoning because the red wine bottles that the two of them had consumed contained poison.
Released from the hospital again, Moratschek holed up with the Eberhofers. When Rudi finds out that Küstner is traveling with a mobile home, he has a new plan. He calls Eberhofer's colleagues in Landshut and pretends to have been kidnapped in a mobile home. To describe his kidnapper, he gives the size and appearance of Küstner. Barschl immediately uses his entire team to find the mobile home. Küstner now realizes that he is being chased by the police and unceremoniously sets the mobile home on fire. Before that he had put the body of the mushroom picker behind the wheel and so the Landshut police assume that they “caught” Küstner. Eberhofer doubts, however, because you can no longer look at a charred corpse. Until they are certain, Eberhofer goes on a trip to Italy with Moratschek, his father and grandmother to get Susi back. Without Eberhofer knowing, his friends Flötzinger and Simmerl also follow him, so that everyone in Italy has a lively party when they meet. At first, Susi is not overly surprised when Franz suddenly stands in front of her. When Luca then begins to insult him, however, she takes Franz's side and they reconcile. Eberhofer receives news from Rudi that the dead person in the mobile home is not Küstner and that Moratschek is still in danger.
Küstner is now approaching Moratschek's wife. He makes her call her husband to come to her. This plan works and Moratschek falls into the trap of Küstner. Tied up with cable ties in his own house, Moratschek has to watch as Küstner feasts on his success. But salvation is near. Eberhofer and Rudi rush back to Germany and let Moratschek's wife know about their plan. She is supposed to order pizza so that Eberhofer can catch the pizza delivery boy and put knockout drops on the food . But Küstner is clever. He surprises the two of them and plays Russian roulette with them . Fortunately, Rudi Küstner can offer a slice of pizza in good time and thus put him out of action. After handing Küstner over to the Landshut colleagues and taking some embarrassing photos of him beforehand, Eberhofer drives back to Italy. When Susi hears that Franz saved his boss's life, she is deeply impressed and is sure that Franz is the right one for her.
background
The realization of a third film about the police officer Franz Eberhofer was announced by the film studio Constantin Film in April 2015 .
The shooting took place in the summer of 2015 in Bavaria, among other places, in Höhenried Castle , in the Dingolfing hospital , in front of the Landshut police headquarters and in the market town of Frontenhausen . Additional scenes were also filmed on Lake Garda .
After its premiere on August 3, 2016, the film was released in Bavarian and Austrian cinemas on August 11, 2016.
Poison in the movie
Rudi Birkenberger names hellebore as the plant with whose poison Moratschek and Eberhofer's father were poisoned. “Botanically: Veratrum,” he adds. This is wrong. Hellebore is botanically Helleborus (German Christmas rose); the genus Veratrum mentioned is the Germer family. Both are poisonous; which one was used remains open.
criticism
The review in the film service says: “A thriller in which almost all characters congeal into clichés and one episode of slapstick follows the next. Only the main actor convinces with his withdrawn play. "
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “As a dry, humorous, pleasantly quiet hero, Bezzel once again consolidates his relaxed role profile. Bloéb's psychopath also has his moments. "Otherwise, the critic has" nothing against slapstick, but the Rabatz is too much and the weak dramaturgy is fatal. "
Filmstarts.de came to the verdict: “As positive as the villain stands out in 'Schweinskopf al dente', the numerous other narrative threads that rob the third part of a large part of its dynamism are just as meaningless and watering: Franz Eberhofer, whom Sebastian Bezzel [...] embodied here once more with a good portion of dry humor, ”stands out a little. However, "the moments between Eberhofer and his boss [...] are packed with silly slapstick and cheap slapstick [...], but at least they actually have an impact on the outcome of the story." "The love problems between Franz and his Susi become so casual dealt with that they could have been deleted entirely. Then maybe there would have been a little more momentum in the tired cinema thriller. "
In its review, the Süddeutsche Zeitung also criticized the fact that "the turbulence surrounding a psychopathic killer, which village policeman Eberhofer (Sebastian Bezzel) has to deal with this time" is presented by director Ed Herzog as a "parade of lousy Bavarian clichés". The original charm of Dampfnudelblues , the first film adaptation of the Eberhof series, has evaporated in this film adaptation.
Web links
- Pig's head al dente in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pig's head al dente at filmportal.de
- Pig's head al dente at crew united
- Pig's head al dente in the online film database
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for pig's head al dente . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for pig's head al dente . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Pig's head al dente - The third film adaptation of the Rita Falk bestseller will be released in August 2016 at constantin-film.de, accessed on August 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Pig's head al dente": Finally a homeland thriller again! on tz.de, accessed on August 7, 2016.
- ↑ Frontenhausen is and will remain a film location! on markt-frontenhausen.de, accessed on August 7, 2016.
- ↑ Pig's head al dente. Film service, accessed August 7, 2016 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Ed Herzog. Entertaining at a low level, film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Film review at filmstarts.de , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Schweinskopf al dente , Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 11, 2016, accessed on August 11, 2019.