Cancellation (film)

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Movie
Original title cancellation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2002
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Elke Weber-Moore
script Elke Weber-Moore
production Peter Rommel
music Warner Poland
camera Michael Hammon
cut Monika Schindler
occupation

Storno is a German film by Elke Weber-Moore from the year 2002. The film describes the experiences of two friends who live in the small Hassenhausen village of Hassenhausen , work together in the supermarket and try to realize their different dreams. In the end, they manage to get involved in the reality of a completely normal life.

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Two young women, friends Stefanie and Gabi, work in the supermarket on a green meadow and dream of their happiness. Stefanie lives with her four-year-old son Florian on their parents' farm, the sale of which the parents are considering for economic reasons. Martin, the only successful farmer in the village, has been shyly wooing Stefanie for years and hopes to get there with tenacity. A connection between the two would also be in the interests of Stefanie's parents, as it would enable them to keep the farm. Stefanie silently longs for Thomas, Florian's father. However, he disappeared after the night Florian was conceived and knows nothing about his fatherhood. Gabi loves daily soaps, dreams of America wherever the sun should shine and is dissatisfied with her existence as the wife of her husband Frank, whose entire commitment belongs to the local volunteer fire department.

One day Thomas turns up unexpectedly. As a security advisor, he is to install new systems in the supermarket. His presence changes everything for Stefanie. She tries to win Thomas over and seeks an opportunity to inform him that he is Florian's father. After a nightly party in the supermarket office, Gabi developed the idea of ​​robbing the safe and thus making her dream of America come true. Frank, on the other hand, is planning to build a new home. Martin is not ready to give up Stefanie without a fight; he always succeeds in preventing Stefanie Thomas from getting closer.

At the anniversary party of the Hassenhausen volunteer fire brigade, Stefanie Thomas finally says that he is Florian's father. Thomas reacts negatively to Stefanie's dismay and does not want to know anything about his fatherhood. After that there is a dispute between Martin and Thomas, as a result of which the toilet truck catches fire. Gabi and Stefanie, accompanied by their son Florian, use the mess to flee to America. To get the money for it, they first break into the supermarket and clear out the safe. However, their car does not start and so they resignedly remain in the supermarket parking lot and wait for someone to come by. Meanwhile, the drunk men of the Hassenhausen volunteer fire brigade cause a short circuit during the extinguishing work, which results in a power failure in the entire region. The supermarket alarm system remains ineffective; the police, anxiously awaited by the two women, don't come. Martin looks for the missing Stefanie everywhere with his tractor and finds the two women and the child in the supermarket parking lot in the morning.

Gabi flies the looted money with Frank to America, where it only rains for three weeks. But the trip brings a new wind to their marriage. Stefanie marries Martin. Thomas is charged with breaking into the safe, but that cannot be proven to him and he leaves Hassenhausen.

production

Elke Weber-Moore chose her home village Hassenhausen in Upper Hesse as the setting for the film Storno . The film was shot in 2001. It was released in theaters on June 13, 2002. In the following years, the film was shown more often on television, including a. broadcast on Arte and on ZDF .

In addition to the 'seasoned' actors Fanny Staffa, Paula Paul, Simon Schwarz, Andreas Patton, Cornelius Schwalm and Regine Vergeen and their 7- and 4-year-old children Zoe and Adrian at the time of filming, most of the roles were with amateur actors from Hassenhausen and the surrounding villages occupied.

criticism

“The biggest spectacle in the provincial farce, 'Storno', is a burning outhouse. Significantly. Because in her directorial debut, the author Elke Weber-Moore dissected with relish the dreary microcosm of a Hessian village of 370 souls ... ”said Cinema .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for cancellation . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 317 K).
  2. ↑ Interview with Elke Weber-Moore. In: piffl-medien.de . Retrieved October 4, 2013 .
  3. ↑ cancellation. In: Cinema . Retrieved October 5, 2013 .