Change of position (film)

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Movie
Original title Change of position
Change of position
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Maggie Peren
script Maggie Peren
Christian Bayer
production Jakob Claussen
Uli Putz
Thomas Wöbke
music Marc-Sidney Müller
camera Christian Rein
cut Peter Kirschbaum
occupation

Position change ( subtitle : Better sex for money than no sex and no money ) is a German comedy film by director Maggie Peren from 2007. The production is based on a script by Perens and author Christian Bayer and is about five men of different ages and ages from Munich of social origin who want to help their professional and private success with an escort service for women. Florian Lukas , Sebastian Bezzel , Gustav Peter Wöhler , Kostja Ullmann and Herbert Knaup can be seen in the leading roles .

The film, which was implemented by Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion and co-produced by the TV channels ARTE and ZDF , was shot in Munich between January and February 2007 and premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in September of that year . The German theatrical release followed on October 3, 2007. Despite divided press reviews, the film had around 350,000 visitors in Germany alone by the end of the year, placing it among the twenty most successful German theatrical productions of the year.

action

After a series of internships, the 32-year-old philologist Frank has finally found a job as a freelance editor at the women's magazine Mira . Although editor-in-chief Birte is impressed by his work, she is forced to delete the men’s column for which Frank is responsible and dismiss him for financial reasons. Shortly afterwards, he asks the Federal Employment Agency to mediate, where he is asked in the entrance area by a passer-by, who confuses him with another man, whether he is available for sex for money . When Frank clears up the mix-up, she moves on to the next one, embarrassed, and leaves Frank confused.

During a subsequent visit by his friends Olli and Gy, he tells them about the strange encounter. Meanwhile, she has to struggle with her own financial hardships: The single delicatessen owner Olli is on the verge of bankruptcy and has received an ultimatum from the bank, while the staunch single and police officer Gy after a rear-end collision caused by his new colleague Daphne on duty Must pay follow-up costs of 3,000 euros. Inspired by Frank's story, the two decide to found an escort agency for women, with whose earnings they want to pay off their debts.

Together with Frank, who has been in a relationship for ten years, but wants to support both of them, they find other comrades who are troubled by money in the former manager Giselher and the young Lasse at the employment agency. When friend Sabine Frank reveals that she is cheating, the two split up and he too joins the group as an escort. You distribute flyers and set up a website, but business does not want to start at first. Only after a newspaper reports on the unusual service on a tip from a colleague who is hostile to Gy does it come to a night full of orders.

background

Emergence

Change of position is based on a basic idea of ​​co-author Christian Bayer, who had already developed various scripts on a similar topic , but these had not been put into production. At the beginning of 2004 Bayer was finally able to win over the screenwriter Maggie Peren with his idea, who had made her directorial debut in the same year with the short film Hypochonder . From summer 2004, Peren and Bayer jointly adapted elements of the original script for the later version. They were inspired, among other things, by current topics such as the high unemployment rate in 2005 and 2006 . According to Peren, the seventeenth draft of the script finally went into production.

production

Munich acted as the location for the change of position .

The shooting of the change of position lasted 29 days and took place between January 16 and February 26, 2007 in Munich and the surrounding area. The district around Munich Central Station in particular served as a backdrop for numerous scenes. Other filming locations included a disused factory building, the old Munich patent office and the clubhouse of MTV, Munich's oldest men's gymnastics club, founded in 1879. The film set for the deli was built on the edge of a city motorway in the Giesing district in an empty shop.

The film was produced in coproduction with the TV stations ARTE and ZDF by Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion under the direction of Jakob Claussen , Uli Putz and Thomas Wöbke. The Filmförderungsanstalt supported the project with 300,000 euros, while the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern contributed 350,000 euros to the production and distribution funding. The German Film Fund , which came into force in 2007 , provided 368,000 euros. Change of position was considered the first film project supported by funding. The comedy was Marco Kreuzpaintner's Krabat (2008), Frieder Wittichs 13 Semester (2009) and Neele Vollmars Maria, he doesn't like it! (2009) also one of the original five productions that were distributed under a cooperation agreement between C + W + P and 20th Century Fox Germany .

occupation

Agent An Dorthe Braker was responsible for the casting of the film. The actor Florian Lukas was able to inspire Peren with his portrayal in Sebastian Schipper's feature film Absolute Giganten (1998), but only recommended himself after a joint meeting at the Berlinale , where the director was able to convince herself that, contrary to his usual cast, he was in youthful roles looked "old enough" to fill the role of Frank. After Lukas' acceptance, the role of Gy was cast together with him in several auditions . Sebastian Bezzel finally convinced in a casting scene designed by Peren, with whose improvisation he amused the team. Peren had noted in retrospect that his role was particularly difficult to cast, as there are "hardly any good-looking actors who are really funny".

Gustav Peter Wöhler and Kostja Ullmann were suggestions from the producers. While Wöhler immediately agreed, Ullmann also impressed in an audition. Peren originally wanted to cast someone less “pretty” in the role of Lasse, but agreed to necessary changes in the script for Ullmann's cast. As part of this, among other things, the role of Lasse's dominant mother Ulrike, who was later cast by Adriana Altaras , was created. Herbert Knaup was offered his role after a reading by Peren. Lisa Maria Potthoff had already played Schwere Jungs with Sebastian Bezzel in 2006 in the Marcus H. Rosenmüller comedy . To prepare for her role as a police officer, she completed a two-day police internship in shift work at a police station in Bavaria .

Reviews

The editors of Kino.de described the film as a feat that gave “German social comedy new impulses”: “Of course, Peren cannot keep her pace high for 90 minutes and purists could reproach her that her story is not in a cinema format. But the novice director knows how to deal with her characters. ”Peren knows how to“ skillfully use the advantages of the sub-genre that we rarely use and apply them to German sensitivities ”. She proves to be a "close observer of her likeable (loser) characters" and underpins her "dazzling sense of timing and dialogue wit [...] Perhaps it is also the female view of the opposite sex that makes this comedy so cheeky, so lovable, so different. "

The ensemble around Florian Lukas received mostly positive reviews.

Rainer Tittelbach found that the film could have slipped “easily below the belt”, but Peren succeeded “with her first feature-length directorial debut, one of the most entertaining German comedies of recent times”. She “relies on stereotypes, but does not define role models, but decides on the free play of possibilities. At her side is an extremely playful ensemble ”. The result is a “comedy in the spirit of anything goes ”, which “but definitely has an attitude”. Change of position is "not a cinematic masculinity discourse, but a film that primarily wants to entertain ostensibly".

Andreas Staben von Filmstarts wrote: "Peren neither explores its breadth nor does it consistently stick to one of the Poles" that suggests itself here between a subtle social comedy and a sitcom with a sketch structure. Many individual punch lines hit “their clear goal, but the attempts at thematic deepening and condensation remain half-hearted.” In changing positions , “clear assumptions and (pre-) judgments about the characters and their behavior are a narrative principle right through to the end. We laugh because we understand the genre rules followed here, the clichés presented. The unexpected and contradicting reality must remain outside ”.

Thorsten Funke from Critic.de wrote: “The contrast between the individual types convincingly represented by the ensemble results in some successful scenes. Every now and then, something of the protagonists' desperation shines from the smooth surface of the film, which is what makes such a story so interesting. The rest, however, is a mixture of family-friendly sex, situation and mistaken identity comedy, and vulgar feminism. It goes without saying that all five men will find their way to the right woman purified. And even the listening thing works in the end, if not entirely. "

Thomas Krone from the Bonner General-Anzeiger named change of position in his review as a “comedy with the handbrake on”. The film reveals “a lot of feeling for situation-comical conflict formation and figure drawings outlined with tight precision”. The fact that not every punch line in timing and originality ignites is due to the "pale image design and disappointingly hand-tame staging", through which "the film fights its way through like a sports car with the handbrake on". Change of position looks like “like a product for the best public broadcast time in the middle of the week. That's too little for a movie comedy ”.

success

The film premiered on September 12, 2007 at the Oldenburg International Film Festival . The official theatrical release finally followed on October 3rd. Up to and including December 2007, the film attracted more than 350,000 visitors to German cinemas. With grossing € 2,173,654, the production ranks 19th among the twenty most successful German films of the 2007 cinema year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Interview with Maggie Peren . Interview-Magazin.eu. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ Julia Teichmann: When men have to please women . In: Berliner Zeitung . Berliner-Zeitung.de. October 4, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c change of position, Germany 2007, feature film . In: film portal . Filmportal.de. Retrieved on December 6, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmportal.de  
  4. ↑ A men's quintet changes position . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. January 17, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  5. ↑ Change of position . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  6. ↑ First DFFF project "Stellungswechsel" finally in the cinema . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. October 2, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  7. ↑ Fox and C + W cooperate . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. April 6, 2006. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Interview: Men are often to blame . Filmreporter.de. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
  9. ↑ Better sex for money . Stadtpark.info. September 8, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 9, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtpark.info
  10. ↑ criticism . In: Kino.de . Kino.de. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  11. ^ A b Rainer Tittelbach: Cinema co-production "Stellungswechsel" . Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  12. ^ Andreas Staben: Change of position> Film starts criticism . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  13. ↑ Thorsten Funke: Criticism . Critic.de. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  14. ↑ Thomas Krone: Change of position . Bonner General-Anzeiger . Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  15. ^ " Change of position" in Oldenburg . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  16. ↑ film hit list: Years List (German) In 2007 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved September 2, 2011.