Stankowski's millions

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Movie
Original title Stankowski's millions
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Franziska Meyer Price
script Johannes W. Betz
Thomas Brussig
production Klaus Bassiner
Michael Lehmann
Sibylle Maddauss
Heike Streich
music Thomas Klemm
camera Peter Ziesche
cut Simone Klier
occupation

Stankowski's Millions is a German television film directed by Franziska Meyer Price from 2011. It was first broadcast on October 3, 2011 on ZDF.

action

In 1991 there was a hangover mood in East Germany. The economy in the former GDR is at an end. The unemployment and poverty among the people are great. Many people blame the trust for the misery.

Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, cannot find a job despite hundreds of applications. His wife thinks he is a failure and leaves him for a rich western man. Only his best friend Rudi, who is also unemployed, still stands by him. Rudi's wife Gerda keeps the family afloat with a badly running erotic - shipping . Werner then receives an interview with a computer company in Munich . The Wessis denounce Werner during the conversation and humiliate him with Stasi sayings. When the secretary pours coffee over him, supposedly accidentally , Werner is sure that he will never find a job as Ossi because of his origins.

Shortly afterwards, Werner meets the trust manager René Vonderecken in a street café, who has problems with his laptop . Werner helps the stranger, who thinks he is an employee of the computer company, because Werner got a T-shirt with the company name because of the coffee stain. Vonderecken promptly offers Werner a job at the trust. Werner refuses because he realizes that he is taken for a Wessi. When his financial situation worsens, the bank wants to take the dacha away from him and his daughter Laura and her friend Fränky want to start a company, he accepts.

Since he is mistaken for a Wessi, the new colleagues find him likeable. However, he does not tell his family and friends about his new job, as they are staunch trust opponents. Werner learns more about the work and the process and plans to turn this knowledge into benefits for his family. So he tries to prevent his son-in-law from buying an ailing fleet of vehicles in Spe for his new haulage company and tries to sell it off to his wife's lover, which is completely overpriced.

Werner uses every opportunity to learn more about the trust. Occasional puns in Saxon and the fact that he drives a Wartburg , he explains with curiosity about the life of the Ossis. Werner is with East - delicacies and his computer knowledge soon a popular and valued colleague.

The scheming Treuhand employee Novak tries meanwhile to sell the fleet to Fränky with the entire company at the inflated price in order to get the commission. Werner has to intervene because Fränky and Laura are expecting offspring soon and they are now threatened with extinction due to 5.5 million marks in debt.

He finds an ally in the chief secretary, who also comes from the East and is bullied by her colleagues for this reason . When forging the contract, however, Werner reveals himself to his family. Shortly after successfully hijacking the forged contract from the trust, he is furiously confronted by family and friends. He is overheard by the assistant Vondereckens, who then reveals him as Ossi. Werner's friend Rudi, who has lost his courage after his wife's bankruptcy , disappears with a gun.

Werner and the others follow Rudi to a trust party in the Berlin TV tower . Fearing that he might shoot someone, they follow him. When the gun turns out to be a water pistol, they are reassured. Meanwhile Werner is released. Vorderecken offers him a high severance payment to avoid anyone finding out that he has brought an Ossi into the company. Werner is now reconciling with his wife because she is impressed that he has done so much for his family.

In the end, all the characters have either started their own business or found a job with which they are satisfied.

reception

Torben Gebhardt from quotenmeter.de praises the television film as a “turbulent and very entertaining turnaround comedy about the trust and its business practices at the time” and gives it a rating of 85%. Thomas Gehringer from Tagesspiegel is also positive: “In any case, the pace is right, the plot is beautifully absurd, the supporting roles are brilliantly cast and you can even hear the Smokies and Rio Reiser in the contemporary soundtrack .” He describes Stankowski's millions as “genre- Pleasure that eviscerates every conceivable East-West cliché ”. Hannah Suppa from Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung compares the film with Captain von Köpenick and rates it as a " lousy comedy" that is nonetheless "thoroughly entertaining". She finds it particularly good that “the satire on the German-German relationship has a conciliatory tone”. For Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv , the film "is written in the style of a classic cheat and role-playing comedy, which is tailored to" solo entertainers "Stumph ... Old-school humor - type comedy with character and artisanal in the context of the genre made rock solid ". He thinks that the "... pace is right, the staff ... handy, the ensemble top-class and well mixed and the story serves all the" clichés "from 1991 that this East-West comedy needs to be dramaturgically good about the To make ends meet. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torben Gebhardt: The Critics: "Stankowski's Millions" on quotenmeter.de from October 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Ossi-Wessi-Vernügen Das große Verpulvern in: Tagesspiegel from October 1, 2010
  3. ↑ Hannah Suppa: Stankowski's millions ": The captain of the trust in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 1, 2011
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Stankowski's millions" on the website: Tittelbach.tv accessed on May 12, 2015