Stenzel's giving of presents

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Movie
Original title Stenzel's giving of presents
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Marc-Andreas Bochert
script Hans-Ullrich Krause ,
Marc-Andreas Bochert
production Johanna Teichmann ,
Martin Choroba
music Stefan Maria Schneider
camera Andreas Höfer
cut Ronny Mattas
occupation

Stenzels Bescherung is a German Christmas film by Marc-Andreas Bochert from 2019 , which was produced on behalf of ARD for Das Erste , and is based on (almost) real events. Herbert Knaup and Johanna Gastdorf play the leading roles of the Stenzel couple, while Anna Fischer , Constantin von Jascheroff and Adnan Maral play leading roles .

The film was announced on the ARD website with the following words: "With fine humor, Marc-Andreas Bochert tells a tongue-in-cheek parable of modern times in the Christmas film."

action

Volkmar Stenzel is traveling in Scandinavia in a caravan with his wife Barbara and they seem to be in a good mood. After Barbara has dozed off, she suddenly hears police sirens and then everything goes pretty quickly. Her husband is asked to get out and then maneuvered in handcuffs to a police car.

Six weeks earlier: 57-year-old Volkmar Stenzel is the branch manager of the Stadtbank in the 12,000-inhabitant town of Gutenow and corresponds perfectly to the cliché of a typical bank clerk: correct, responsible and always ready to listen to customers. When the branch he ran was swallowed up by a Chinese corporation and the young careerist Tutz was sent to him from Frankfurt to deal with "his" branch, Stenzel felt boundless powerlessness, but he was also angry. For the first time he revolted and showed the courage that his wife Barbara, a physiotherapist, had repeatedly asked of him in the past. He takes money from the dormant accounts of the deceased, for which there are no heirs, and first of all grants the shabby daycare center the urgently needed transition loan. His late daughter went to this daycare center. He justified the award with the fact that this financing comes from a secret fund "Bank helps neighborhood" and the bank does not want to be discussed.

But soon there will be other interested parties who are hoping for a loan from this fund. Inspired by his success, Stenzel also grants Mahmoud Umu's brother-in-law Celik, who runs a small car workshop, a loan for a new lifting platform. Mahmoud runs the “Merhaba” restaurant opposite the bank branch, where Stenzel often spends his lunch time. Mahmoud also dragged other business people from the village, according to Ms. Dollinger, who would like to reopen the café in the village at Christmas, Mr. Stemmler from the carpentry, who needs 8,000 euros and the baker David Richter, who needs a new kneading machine. And then there is Ms. Schiller, who wants to set up a tailor's shop. Stenzel doesn't really know how to react, but then agrees to take the loans, but insists that all sums must be repaid by December 20th at the latest. An extension is excluded. Ultimately, he also offers the young street musician Jana, who strongly reminds him of his dead daughter Lisa, a loan so that she can realize her dream of a sound recording in a studio.

When the suspicion arises that master baker Richter is a gambler and in reality probably gambled away the 5,000 euros he borrowed, good advice is expensive. 62,000 euros are missing on the closed accounts. And Tutz absolutely wants to have insight into this. Since Stenzel does not want to give him the password, Tutz gets it directly from the Frankfurt headquarters. When Stenzel found out about this, he made the decision to immediately start the tour to the north planned by his wife with the newly purchased caravan. And so it happens.

Back to the arrest: Stenzel apologizes to his wife and tells her that he has to stay in custody first. Barbara then tells him that she will make the trip anyway, that they had promised Lisa to go to the northern lights, but they never got around to it. That's why she's driving alone now.

From the bridging loan, 51,000 euros are now still open. The caravan might bring another 30,000, says Tutz to his superior in Frankfurt, then 21,000 euros are still missing. The people whom Stenzel helped meet meet at the “Merhaba”. Jana, who is now very successful, also appears and gives a fiery speech. She gives a concert and asks the large number of people who have come for donations. To everyone's surprise, Ms. Zichmund contributed the missing 18,372 euros, who had spoken out against any help the day before. Jana's speech seems to have fallen on fertile ground. Stenzel is released from custody. When he looks at the decorated Christmas tree in admiration on the market square, Barbara suddenly stands next to him, the one with the North Cape, you have to do that together, she says. Everyone who has made sure that Stenzel is free again is gathered in Mahmoud's restaurant and it looks like the dough kneading machine was bought after all, because Stenzel reserves the right to cut the freshly baked Christmas stollen.

production

Production notes, publication

Stenzel's gift delivery was filmed in Berlin and Brandenburg from November 21 to December 20, 2018 . Tellux Film GmbH, whose majority shareholders are the Catholic dioceses, was responsible for the film. The editing was with Diane Wurzschmitt and Stefan Kruppa.

The film was inspired by a newspaper report about a banker from the village, to whom the credo Desk Robin Hood was ascribed. Anna Fischer herself sang the songs she interpreted in the film, Now comes the time and sometime .

The film was shown for the first time on December 23, 2019 in the ARD Das Erste program.

Music in the film

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, the film was watched by 4.89 million viewers, with a market share of 15.7 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm pointed their thumbs up and wrote with praise: “A nice Christmas goodie that does without a moral index finger. The story goes back to a newspaper report. "Conclusion:" Sweet presents, but not too sticky. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff dealt with the film in the Frankfurter Rundschau and said that it was "a bit of a good boy, but thanks to Herbert Knaup, a drama about the head of a village bank who becomes Robin Hood" is well worth seeing. The critic said that even if the story “at first glance looks like a typical Robin Hood story”, it is “ultimately about something completely different, and that's what makes this film really worth it”: Since the death of his daughter Stenzel only works, has finished with life. When he said, with regard to the closure of the branch, that he felt 'like he fell off the train', that also describes his “general overall condition very well”. Knaup conveyed "the feelings of the man who has been deprived of all joie de vivre since the death of a daughter very subtly". Gangloff wrote about Anna Fischer, who was the most important supporting character in the film, that she “usually provided her roles with infectious joie de vivre anyway” and was therefore “the perfect cast for the young woman whose acquaintance led to Stenzel's change of heart” [...]. The film is "worth seeing", however, "primarily because of Herbert Knaup". There are "very few films in which the participation of the actor was not at the same time a guarantee of a certain minimum quality". Here Knaup succeeds “in an almost painfully subtle way at times to convey the feelings of the sad hero; for that he needs neither words nor facial expressions, not to mention wet eyes ”. Bochert's “great strength” lies “in working with his (main) actors” anyway.

Oliver Junge rated the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine and was of the opinion that “at least the two main actors” should be “wholeheartedly praised: [...] a Christmas film that seems dead in terms of dramaturgy, [captivate] with its quiet tones”. Knaup is allowed to slip into a role "that fits him as perfectly as the dreary, serious suit from the local fashion boutique: that of the obsessively correct, stoically boring, but deeply good-natured bank branch manager Stenzel from the province, who slept through the upheaval in the global financial system has (never before nine o'clock sharp he is on the mat) and suddenly collided with the dubious profitable banking mafia of our day ”. Johanna Gastdorf, who plays Stenzel's wife, knows “how to express the suppressed pain in a finely nuanced way, precisely because she is so clearly unwilling to give it space”. Junge said, even for Degeto, it was “an unusually lame staged film […] and if the stale look and the sluggish narrative flow do not offer any reason for it, then [should] at least praise the two wonderful main actors who are over have such a broad repertoire of soft tones that one hardly misses the screaming ”.

Sidney Schering from Oddsmeter.de also attested to Knaup that he played his role "finely nuanced". "With small gestures and looks he expresses a wistful good-naturedness (or a good-natured melancholy?)", And thus makes "a sad hero who never pity himself too clearly [...]. Next to him, Anna Fischer supports the film as a friendly, naive street singer “. Schering criticized "how well-behaved to honest this film about the small but effective mini-uprising of a well-meaning banker" ends. Constantin was praised by Jascheroff as a "wonderfully snobbish casual bastard".

Anne Diekhoff wrote in the Tagesspiegel , “Here the good old world is fighting against the new digital one”. Herbert Knaup looks a “bit gray” in this role, and that fits “on several levels: Both the world that the ARD Christmas film 'Stenzels Bescherung' tells about and the way he sees it do [e] seem a bit outdated ”. This is "a solo for Stenzel, the correct man of the old sort who only goes overboard this once". The film is told for people “who would like to keep their television programs as if the new, confusing time didn't exist. And this audience [exist] that shouldn't be forgotten if one dreams of modern narrative styles, speed and complexity ”. Those "who can't do anything with such fears" would "not stay long or even not tune in because they have long since lived in a completely different reality, even when watching films".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stenzel's gift delivery see page programm ard.de
  2. ↑ Stenzel's Christmas presents at crew united
  3. ↑ a b Sidney Schering: Stenzel's gift giving see page quotenmeter.de (rash at 60 percent). Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ The first “Stenzels Bescherung”: touching Christmas film with Herbert Knaup as modern Robin Hood see page aktiencheck.de
  5. ↑ a b TV film "Stenzels Bescherung". Knaup, Hans-Ullrich Krause, Marc-Andreas Bochert. New courage for everyone
    (4 out of 6 possible stars)     see page tittelbach.tv . Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  6. ↑ Stenzel's gift delivery cf. tvspielfilm.de (including 6 film images). Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  7. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : "Stenzels Bescherung" on ARD: Miracles are always there.
    In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 23, 2019. Retrieved on February 27, 2020.
  8. ↑ Oliver Junge: "Stenzels Bescherung" - Isn't life still beautiful?
    In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 23, 2019 (including film trailer). Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  9. ↑ Anne Diekhoff: ARD fairy tale "Stenzels Bescherung". Von der alten Sorte
    In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 22, 2019. Retrieved February 27, 2020.