Summer in orange

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Movie
Original title Summer in orange
Summer-in-Orange-Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 6
Rod
Director Marcus H. Rosenmüller
script Ursula Gruber
production Georg Gruber
( Odeon Pictures ),
Andreas Richter ,
Ursula Woerner ,
Annie Brunner
( Roxy Film )
music Gerd Baumann
camera Stefan Biebl
cut Georg Soering
occupation

Summer in Orange is a German feature film by Marcus H. Rosenmüller from 2011. The culture clash comedy is about a group of Berlin Bhagwan fans who settled in the Upper Bavarian province in the early 1980s . After its cinema release in August 2011, the film reached around 570,000 viewers in Germany.

action

Amrita from Berlin lives with her children, twelve-year-old Lili and nine-year-old Fabian, in a Kreuzberg sannyasin commune. When Amrita's current lover, Siddharta, inherits an old farm in Talbichl, Upper Bavaria, the community decides to move to the village to open a therapy center. The conservative villagers approach the newcomers with suspicion, who distinguish themselves with their orange clothing, their meditation rituals and their freedom of movement. Lili has lost her friends because of the move, gets caught between the fronts in Talbichl and becomes an outsider at school. As a result, she adapts to the clothing and rituals of the villagers there, while at home she continues to maintain the alternative lifestyle of her shared apartment. Her little brother Fabian, on the other hand, proves to be more of a hindrance in the search for new friends, as he continues to share his mother's rejection of the locals. Lili, however, feels neglected by her, since Amrita is constantly busy with her personal problems and feels drawn to the Bhagwan confidante Prem Bramana. Siddharta reacts to this relationship as jealously as the community member Gopal when his new crush Leela gets involved with the local postman . At a village festival there is an open conflict between the different groups and people. The orange-clad commune not only meets the other villagers there, but also Lili and Fabian, who play music with the Talbichlers in traditional costume. When Prem Bramana offers Amrita to follow him to Oregon and send the children to a children's commune in England, Lili escapes to the village mayor's wife and causes further complications. But eventually the opposing parties converge.

background

script

Screenwriter Ursula Gruber and her brother, producer Georg Gruber, grew up in a Bhagwan commune in Hohenschäftlarn south of Munich. The book is based on her childhood memories. It was the first script for the documentary filmmaker and studied ethnology . In 2008 she presented it to Marcus H. Rosenmüller, who immediately expressed his interest in the material. Rosenmüller shot his graduation film in Pune, India, in the early 2000s . In search of film material, he had also visited the Bhagwan Ashram located there, but did not find anything. His interest in the book by Sommer in Orange was less about the spiritual aspect than about the contrast between his own conflicting interests: on the one hand, the desire to live more wildly and freely, and on the other, the longing for rules as a basis for life. Gruber's book did not initially contain the "very bizarre, comedic elements"; Rosenmüller developed this together with her.

occupation

Leading actress Amber Bongard (2011)
Petra Schmidt-Schaller (2010)

For the role of Siddharta, the author Ursula Gruber, whose family originally comes from Austria, had already planned the Austrian Georg Friedrich when writing the script . She is referring to the conditions in the municipality in which she grew up, an "Austrian enclave in Bavaria". Nessie Nesslauer and Roxy employee Kathrin Küntzel-Sedler were entrusted with the casting for the other roles . Amber Bongard , Lili's teenage actress, had previously worked as a child actress in numerous cinema and television films alongside prominent actors. Béla Baumann plays her younger brother Fabian in his first film role. He comes from the director's circle of friends, because he is the son of the film composer Gerd Baumann , who also has a small appearance in the film as Lili's father.

After extensive auditions, Petra Schmidt-Schaller was selected late to play Amrita, the most important adult role in the film . According to Rosenmüller, one of the decisive factors for her was that the way she moved while dancing corresponded to his ideas about the sannyasin dances of the time. Schmidt-Schaller had previously worked with the production company Roxy Film in the films The best is only to come and Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland . Also Wiebke Puls , whose permanent theater commitment allows only a few film credits, was originally one of several candidates for the role of Amrita; instead she can be seen in the film as Chandra. Daniela Holtz , born in Bad Cannstatt , was cast as the Swabian Brigitte after a casting. Thomas Loibl was able to exude authority at the casting and impress the women and thus received the role of the charismatic Prem Bramana.

Many of the other actors were already known to Rosenmüller from an earlier collaboration, for example Daniel Zillmann ( Schwere Jungs ) , Brigitte Hobmeier ( The Mother of Pearl Color ) , Heinz-Josef Braun ( Whoever dies earlier is longer dead , best time , best area ) and Bettina Mittendorfer ( Best area) .

production

Main location: farm in Oberbiberg
The Kandlerhof and the Oberbiberg church, opposite the commune courtyard

The film was made under the title Orange as a production by Odeon Pictures and Roxy Film , in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk and in collaboration with Arte . The budget was 3.3 million euros. The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern contributed 850,000 euros for production and 130,000 euros for distribution. About 536,000 euros came from the German Film Funding Fund and 300,000 euros from the Film Funding Agency for project funding.

Talbichl is a fictional place. The shooting took place from May 15 to July 10, 2010 mainly in Oberbiberg south of Munich. The courtyard that the shared apartment inhabits in the film could be used for both indoor and outdoor shots. It is only a few meters away from the Kandlerhof, in which Rosenmüller shot his hit film Who dies earlier is longer dead in 2005. Other neighboring buildings, such as the village church, were also integrated into the plot without the need for a motif splitting, i.e. the division of scenes between different locations, for the exterior shots. The village festival was staged with numerous extras and the support of regional costume clubs in Baiernrain . The primary school in the Miesbach district of Parsberg served as the schoolhouse .

The recordings were made on 35 mm film with Arricam LT and Cooke S4 optics. The color scheme in the scene and costume design emphasizes the differences with predominant shades of blue for the villagers and orange for the residents of the community, which, however, increasingly break up in the course of the film.

Soundtrack

As in all of Rosenmüller's films since Who dies earlier is dead longer , Gerd Baumann composed the film music. He also wrote a birthday song especially for summer in orange , since the most commonly used Happy Birthday to You was supposedly still under copyright protection. Members of the Bananafishbones were also involved . Composed of Baumann Wonder song sings Rosalie Eberle . The soundtrack was released on September 2, 2011. Normal sales Indigo on CD.

publication

Marcus H. Rosenmüller at the premiere on August 11, 2011

After Sommer in Orange had not been invited to the Munich Film Festival in 2011, the first previews took place on July 9 and 10, 2011 at the Oberaudorf Music Film Festival and the Freiburg Film Festival. After further previews, including at the Five Lakes Film Festival and several large open-air cinema events in southern Germany, the official film premiere took place on August 11th in Mathäser in Munich . On August 18, Sommer in Orange started distributing Majestic Film in 160 German cinemas and reached ninth place in the cinema charts with 40,000 visitors on the first weekend; over 34,000 had previously seen the film in previews. In the first month after the cinema release it stayed in second and third place in the arthouse cinema charts of the AG Kino-Gilde , after three months it had reached over 500,000 in Germany and by the end of 2011 over 535,000 viewers. So Sommer in Orange took 15th place among the most successful German films of the year. In 2012 the film reached over 34,000 additional viewers. With a total of 569,646 viewers, Sommer in Orange is the second most successful film by Rosenmüller after the number of visitors from the Filmförderungsanstalt, after Whoever dies earlier is longer dead (as of the end of 2012).

In Austria, the film saw 22,600 cinema-goers, in Switzerland almost 3,000. The cinema release in Switzerland was on September 1, 2011 in Austria on September 2.

On January 20, 2012, Summer in Orange was released by Majestic Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in stores. Both come with an audio commentary by the director and the scriptwriter and optional subtitles as extras. The Blu-ray is equipped with additional bonus material, including six canceled scenes, outtakes , a quarter-hour making-of , the BR documentary Der Sound der Heimat about Rosenmüller and the music of his regular composer Gerd Baumann and Rosenmüller's 1999 as a student at the Hochschule für TV and Film Munich made short film Kümmel und Korn .

The first broadcast on free TV was on July 5, 2013 on the Franco-German cultural channel Arte . On July 13, 2013, the film opened the ARD summer cinema series for this year in the first .

criticism

The lexicon of the international film judges: “The colorful kaleidoscope of episodes and conflicts portrays the India-enthusiastic seekers of meaning as well as the Bavarian provincials with mild derision, but unfolds too short of breath in view of the abundance of narrative material. Some original directing ideas as well as the good music add value to the conventional film. "

Benedikt Gondolf presented the film in the ZDF cultural program Aspects : “Rosenmüller's characters are sometimes close to the cliché, but the great actors never give them up to ridicule. The film is popular, down to earth, not know-it-all in the best sense of the word. [...] A mix of slapstick and nostalgia, a homeland film that entertains and goes to the heart, with spiritual added value. "

The film magazine Cinema awards a rating of 75% for the “warm-hearted cultural class comedy about an esoteric sect and its obscure rituals” and writes: “Rosenmüller's film consists of many lovingly observed details and weird character drawings. The quirky demeanor of the sannyasin is satirized with a wink without ever exposing them to ridicule. "

Bianka Piringer writes on kino-zeit.de: “Rosenmüller stages community life as pure parody, the adult members are characters to be taken less seriously than exaggerated comedy characters. Her most prominent feature is childlike enthusiasm […] As in Who dies earlier is longer dead , the director once again hits a comedic tone that is not afraid of the adversities in village life and always has a refreshingly revealing effect. [...] The effects used to illustrate daydreams and fantasies are also reminiscent of the fairytale magic of the first film. The basic tone of the story has also remained, which is as mild as it is mischievous ”.

Vision Kino , an initiative of public and private institutions for media education in schools, recommended the film for educational work from the 7th grade onwards. The "light comedy that shows the world of adults through children's eyes" offers points of contact with topics such as personal ideas about life, bigotry and lies on the part of adults, prejudices and demarcation of groups, questions of faith and world views as well as the question of whether the Bhagwan movement has one Sect was.

Some critics were disappointed that Summer in Orange does not achieve the originality of Who dies earlier is longer dead or the subtlety of the previous Roxy film production Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland . According to Sandra Zistl, who writes in Focus -Online: “Subtle, loving humor is more than the first gags that come to mind when 'Preißn' penetrate a Bavarian village and do not make the slightest attempt to integrate. This is clumsy thigh-thumping humor that doesn't get any better that the film has a second serious message. Namely, that the Communards, when it comes to interpersonal ownership and the exclusivity of their group, are perhaps even more narrow-minded than village society. "

Awards

At the award ceremony for the Austrian TV and Film Prize Romy , Sommer in Orange was nominated in 2012 in the categories of “Best Film” and “Best Screenplay”.

Web links

Individual evidence

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