Stromberg - The Film

Movie
Original title	Stromberg - The Film
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2014
length	123 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 12
Rod
Director	Arne Feldhusen
script	Ralf Husmann
production	Ralf Husmann
camera	Johannes Imdahl
cut	Benjamin Ikes
occupation
	Christoph Maria Herbst : Bernd Stromberg ; Bjarne Mädel : Berthold "Ernie" Heisterkamp ; Oliver Wnuk : Ulf Steinke ; Diana Staehly : Tanja Steinke ; Milena thirty : Jennifer Schirrmann ; Laurens Walter : Lars Lehnhoff ; Maja Beckmann : Sabine "Sabbel" Buhrer ; Sinan Akkuş : Sinan Turçulu ; Tatjana Alexander : Tatjana Berkel ; Max Kluge : Marvin; Peter Rütten : Mr. Pötsch; Carsten Meyer : Günni alone entertainer; Michael Wittenborn : Klaus Klinkhammer, Chief Human Resources Officer; Jürgen Rißmann : caretaker; Stefan Lampadius : Steffen Lambert; Suzanne Landsfried : Landsfried employee; Maximilian Mauff : Jonas; Dagny Dewath : Helena; Jan Georg Schütte : Bustard; Rita Winkelmann : Employee Rita Klüver; Marc Zwinz : Mr. Bröker; Frank-Walter Steinmeier as himself; Prashant Prabhakar : Associate Prashant; Frank Montenbruck : Montenbruck employee; Joe Henselewski : employee Müller; Andreas Hermann : Employee Hermann; Ariane Raspe : Tailor employee; Godehard Giese : Hartmut Münchow; Karin Hanczewski : Hotel receptionist;

Stromberg - The Film is a German comedy film directed by Arne Feldhusen from 2014 . It was financed by a crowdfunding project initiated in December 2011 and by German film funding. The premiere took place on February 18, 2014 in the Cinedom in Cologne, the cinema release followed two days later. The film continues the plot of the five-season television series Stromberg and concludes it at the same time.

action

It is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Capitol-Versicherung company, and an anniversary celebration is coming up. The corporate management invites the entire workforce to a country hotel in Botzenburg. Stromberg decides that his claims department will not attend the ceremony. Like most of his colleagues, Berthold "Ernie" Heisterkamp, who is now Stromberg's deputy, does not understand this decision, which leads to a first power struggle between the two. Stromberg later learned by chance from the caretaker that massive job cuts are planned at the Capitol and that the Cologne location is to be closed. This triggers fear of the future in him, which is why he decides to go to the party after all in order to secure a safe position at the headquarters for himself.

The entire department u. a. with Stromberg, "Ernie", Jennifer, Ulf and Tanja including their foster son Marvin makes their way to Botzenburg. The excursion - starting with the outward journey in the rented bus - is characterized by a power struggle between Stromberg and Ernie, in which Stromberg finally prevails. Even with the personnel director Klinkhammer, whom he met for the first time on arrival at the hotel and initially made a negative impression through racist and sexist comments, he later made a good impression through his entertainer skills. He saves the boring gala evening by presenting a self-made satirical film about the Capitol and a hurriedly composed hit song ( Let Papa do it ). Klinkhammer offers Stromberg a position at the head office in order to have someone who communicates the mass layoffs and speaks “the language of the people”.

Klinkhammer Stromberg spontaneously procures its own company car as well as an invitation to the “board party” after the actual event in a remote country house. Stromberg goes to the party with Jennifer. However, this turns out to be an orgy between the male board members and prostitutes, which Stromberg leaves again because of his newly inflamed love for Jennifer. This begins a series of events: Klinkhammer is disappointed with Stromberg and has the key for the company car withdrawn from him. Shortly thereafter, Stromberg received his termination without notice, which he took as an opportunity to report the planned mass layoffs to the other employees. The result is a protest movement against the Capitol, which more and more employees are joining and which even has a lot of media coverage, in the course of which Stromberg is highlighted as the leader of the movement and even stylized nationwide as a symbol against capitalism.

The film ends with Stromberg holding an unspecified, but apparently high position in the SPD . In the Willy Brandt House he arrived in Berlin by Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed, then he gives interviews and comments on this by saying that he was "at the top".

background

In December 2011, money was raised through a crowdfunding project for the planned film for the ProSieben series Stromberg . Within a week, 3,000 donors raised 1 million euros of the 3.3 million euros in production costs. Filming began on February 19, 2013 in Cologne and lasted until April 2013. The cinema release was on February 20, 2014. The scenes at the hotel were shot in the Westphalian Arnsberg at the Dorint Hotel & Sportresort Arnsberg / Sauerland . The Garath Castle in the south of Dusseldorf served as a country house for the "Executive Party".

For the soundtrack of the film, Christoph Maria Herbst used the song Lass das Papa do it. which was written by Husmann and Stefan Raab . The song was released as a single on February 14, 2014 and hit the German single charts .

Gross profit

In mid-March 2014, the film passed the million mark in cinema viewers. From then on, the film made a profit, and Brainpool paid out 50 cents of profit to the crowdfunding investors for each cinema ticket purchased. A total of 1,169,607 euros was distributed to investors in October 2014, so that a total return on capital of almost 17% was achieved over the period of several years. The investors also received a DVD signed by the main actor Christoph Maria Herbst.

At a production cost of 3.3 million euros, Stromberg - The Film grossed around 10.5 million euros ($ 14,524,912).

reception

In the Tagesspiegel , Jan Schulz-Ojala praised the humor of the film, the performance of Bjarne Mädels and that the film can be understood without prior knowledge of the series.
Daniel Kothenschulte gave a positive review in the Frankfurter Rundschau , which emphasized that the film reached a new audience.
Marcus Wessel from Programmkino.de praised the teamwork between the screenwriter Ralf Husmann, the main actor Christoph Maria Herbst and the director Arne Feldhusen. This would leave no doubt that the Stromberg series would work as a movie.
Sebastian Gebert sees his expectations of the film, driven up by the series, confirmed. The flick is not just something for Stromberg fans, but for everyone "who wants to laugh again in the cinema".
Kim Reichard praises the fact that Stromberg was once again able to shine in many moments, but notes that prior knowledge of the series would enhance the film experience.