Turkish for Beginners (film)

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Movie
Original title Turkish for Beginners
Turkish for Beginners - Der Film.JPG
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Bora Dagtkin
script Bora Dagtkin
production Christian Becker
Lena Schömann
music Michael Beckmann
Heiko Maile
camera Benjamin Dernbecher
Torsten Breuer
cut Charles Ladmiral
occupation

Turkish for Beginners One is German feature film adaptation of the same name ARD series from the year 2012 . The production, which completely retells the story of the series, was directed by series creator and screenwriter Bora Drachtkin , who made his film directing debut with the adaptation . Based on the original plot, the remake tells of the encounter between the Schneider and Öztürk families, who survived a crash landing by plane during a trip to Thailand and are sometimes more and sometimes less forced to get to know each other.

The film was produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion in coproduction with Constantin Film , ARD Degeto , BR , WDR , NDR , Panda Plus and Bluverde Filmproduktion . Apart from Emil Reinke , the entire TV cast could be reassembled for the screen version, especially Josefine Preuß , Elyas M'Barek , Anna Stieblich , Adnan Maral , Pegah Ferydoni and Arnel Taci .

The film premiered on March 6, 2012 in Munich premiere , the theatrical release followed on 15 March 2012 found.

action

Lena Schneider has developed into the opposite of her mother Doris, shaped by the upbringing of an old 68er therapist, whose core was primarily demonstrated by freedom from rules and penetrating unconventionality. She tries to control everything and strictly rejects feelings. In celebration of their baccalaureate is a Thailand vacation at. While Doris dreams of party nights together, Lena only wants to read on vacation and keep her mother at a distance. At the same time the Öztürks are planning a vacation in Thailand and are leaving for the airport. On the way there, the two families meet at a red light and sit next to each other on the plane.

After a few hours, the aircraft gets into turbulence and has to make an emergency landing due to an ash cloud in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Almost all passengers are rescued from the lifeboats unharmed and accommodated in a hotel. However, Lena soon wakes up in a life raft after it has run aground on a beach. With her are Cem, his sister Yağmur and a stuttering Greek named Costa. When the troop freed themselves from the air island, the youngsters discovered that they were stranded on a desert island. Over a radio in an abandoned hut, they learn from their parents that the signal from the direction finder on their life raft is too weak to be located. They are currently waiting for better equipment from Thailand.

When the group tries to bring the direction finder to the top of the island to increase the range, they discover that the backpack with the direction finder has drifted into the sea. When Lena tries to get the backpack back, she steps into a sea ​​urchin and develops severe allergic reactions. Cem takes Lena, hoping for an antidote, to a native village where they had previously observed a sacrificial ritual. There, Cem discovers that the natives speak German fluently and that the woman from the supposed sacrificial ritual is still alive. It is Uschi, a researcher who came to the island to research the life of a cannibal tribe . She gives Lena an antidote and allows Cem to use her phone, which he uses to call her parents.

Metin and Doris now find each other. After the two were on the beach together, they made an appointment to visit a disco boat. There Doris crashes with the surf instructor Ivan and has to find out in his hut that he is a callboy and only wanted to sleep with her for money. Doris and Metin spend the following day together and finally sleep together.

On the island, the youngsters smoke a peace pipe with the natives. Lena thinks Cem wants to sleep with her and takes several puffs of the drug. Cem first presents her with a hip-hop song that she is not very enthusiastic about. Another dispute about the spiritual maturity of Cem arises. Then the peace pipe begins to work and Lena asks Cem to sleep with her. He carries her into the hut and on the way to the bed bumps into Lena's camcorder, which starts recording. Cem goes to bed with Lena.

In the morning, Yağmur sits by the bed and insults the two of them for their alleged goings-on. When Costa appears in the hut with the natives after the celebration, Cem responds to the won bet regarding cohabitation with Lena, who overhears the conversation. Yağmur then helps Costa rectify a mishap, whereupon the two kiss and discover that Costa does not stutter when he touches her hand.

At the waterfall, Lena then confronts Cem with the bet. She slips in the water, gets carried away by the current and ends up in a pond. When Cem asks her to apologize, Doris appears in the jungle and hugs her daughter. At the holiday complex, Doris asks her about a meal that is to take place that evening with Metin and his family. Doris is in love with the Turk and would like to see him again and get to know him better. However, Lena no longer wants to have anything to do with Cem and decides to evict the family. She informs herself on the Internet about the Mafia clan, because of which the Öztürks were included in the witness protection program, devastated Metin's hotel room and sprayed a graffito on the wall with the words “ We found you ”. Metin panics and flees with his children.

Lena feels confident of victory. But when she observed her mother in the evening, who sadly sings karaoke and mourns Metin, she looks at her recordings from the island and also discovers the video from the night she supposedly slept with Cem. It turns out that Cem did not take advantage of the situation, just watched Lena in her sleep. Lena then confesses everything to her mother, and the two take a taxi to the airport, where the Öztürks are just about to adopt their new identities and want to fly to Oslo. The Schneiders still make it on board and Lena confesses to Metin what she has done. Finally, Doris and Metin as well as Lena and Cem find each other again.

background

The Thai island of Ko Kut was used as a film set.

The filming of Turkish for Beginners took a total of 37 days and took place from April 5 to June 21, 2011 in Munich and Berlin as well as in Thailand . The Southeast Asian state served as the backdrop for the Andaman Islands , a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal , which is 800 kilometers west of Thailand and which actually served as the main location of the film. The country had previously been given preference over a number of other potential candidates such as South Africa , Hawaii and the Caribbean , places that were later out of the question for financial reasons. The crew found the exotic locations after long location tours and with the support of a Thai production company that accompanied the team during the filming; including the island of Ko Kut, located in eastern Thailand on the border with Cambodia, and its neighboring island of Ko Chang , on which the scenes in the holiday resort were made. The jungle scenes with Katja Riemann and Günther Kaufmann were also created in the province of Chanthaburi in the interior of Thailand . The project was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the Filmförderungsanstalt and the German Film Funding Fund .

Differences and parallels to the series

Although the film contains an alternative narrative of how the Schneider family and the Öztürk family met, the characters in the series remained largely the same. However, there were some differences between a series and a movie:

  • Yağmur appears much more prudish and reserved in the series than in the movie. An example of this is that Yağmur shows a lot of skin in front of male characters in the film without any problems, whereas in the series she is always buttoned up and usually seen with a headscarf.
  • In the movie you learn the exact reason why Cems and Yağmur's mother died.
  • The series takes place in Berlin-Neukölln, whereas in the film Metin emphasizes that Cem "comes from Zehlendorf and not Neukölln". But Cem wants to become a rapper in both the series and the film.
  • Lena's brother Nils is portrayed by Nick Romeo Reimann in the film ; Emil Reinke in the series .
  • In the movie, Nils has a completely different character than in the series. In the series he looks introverted, but also very sensible. In the film he is portrayed as a freak.
  • Metin takes the dangers of being followed by convicts as a criminal investigator much more seriously than on the series.
  • Lena's ex-boyfriend named Frieder, played by Frederick Lau , also appears in the movie . Frieder wanted to commit suicide and met Lena in a group for those at risk of suicide. This is a parallel to the series character Axel Mende, played by Axel Schreiber . He faked a suicide attempt so that Lena would stay with him.
  • Annette Strasser played the geriatric nurse Susanne in the third season of the series. In the film, she took on the role of the stewardess in the crashing plane.
  • Originally the role of Cleo was supposed to be much bigger. Since the actress was only found after the shooting in Thailand, it was decided beforehand to downsize her role. In the first drafts of the script, Cleo, like Frieder, was supposed to travel to Thailand after Cem was saved.
  • Laura Osswald can be seen in the music video of hookers at the pool as a prison guard. Osswald already played in Doctor's Diary and Schoolgirls by Bora Drachtkin . She also made a cameo in the series of the same name .

reception

criticism

The film received very different reviews. Björn Becher described the production in his review for Filmstarts.de as “one of the funniest German cinema comedies in the recent past.” With a “combination of new pomp and old strengths (…), Bora Drachtkin managed to create charm and to transfer the bitter humor of his series to the big screen ”. Turkish for beginners works “wonderfully as a stand-alone movie and at the same time has the qualities of the original series”. In his directorial debut behind the camera, Dahrekin also proves to be an “excellent director”: The film “not only looks great on the big screen because of the wonderfully captured island setting, but also because of numerous skilfully implemented visual ideas."

Film critic Hans-Ulrich Pönack also wrote for Deutschlandradio : “It hasn't been so wonderfully funny in German comedy cinema for a long time. With punch lines that really deserve their funny name: ironic, accurate, cheeky, thoroughly amusing. The cheeky conversation sparks spray. About clever situation comedy. Blatant ridicule. Smug cliché compote. With pointed ridiculousness when it comes to stupid prejudices. In terms of cramped multiculturalism. In terms of ritualized power games. What a spirited easy-going pleasure! ”He also praised the portrayals of the main cast.

Focus author Jakob Biazza, on the other hand, described the cinema adaptation of the TV series he praised as a flop . The film proves to be “clumsy [and] terribly predictable” and proves “why more and more authors now prefer to write for series rather than for the cinema: If they are well done, the multi-dividers offer infinitely more opportunities for development and characterization.” The bottom line remains "In this case a film that fires gags every ten seconds in order to deal with the conflict between the sexes and cultures in a totally relaxed and cliché-free manner."

Juliane Gringer from the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung was also disappointed . She described “the risk of cinema here [as] unfortunately really completely unsuccessful. The refreshing esprit and the authentic comedy are completely missing. The film version also reveals the original: the credibility of the likeable characters is sacrificed to cheap nonsense in almost every scene. Who is responsible for this remains in the dark. ”She also seriously wonders,“ How all those involved could plunge into such a disaster with their eyes and eyes and a clear mind ”.

success

Turkish for Beginners celebrated its premiere on March 6, 2012 at the Cinemaxx in Munich . On March 11, 2012, the cast and crew started a Germany-wide cinema tour in Hamburg, during which Bora Drachtkin visited the cinema screenings together with Josefine Preuss and Elyas M'Barek . The production was finally released for public demonstration on March 15th. According to press reports, the production already attracted around 90,000 visitors on the first day, including previews . At the end of the first screening weekend, more than 370,000 viewers were recorded in 492 cinemas. With this, Turkish for beginners immediately reached the top of the German cinema charts. With 2,390,245 viewers, the film took tenth place in the visitor rankings at the end of the year, making it the most successful German cinema production.

The free TV premiere of the movie took place on August 26, 2013 in the first . A total of 4.94 million viewers tuned in at prime time, which corresponds to a market share of 16%.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Turkish for beginners . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 773 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Turkish for beginners . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f press release . In: Rat Pack Filmproduktion . Retrieved on March 12, 2012.  ( 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: Dead Link / www.mickey07.com  
  4. ^ Björn Becher: Critique of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team . Filmstarts.de . Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Pönack: Spirited comedy cinema from Germany . Germany radio . March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  6. ↑ Jakob Biazza: Great on television, a flop in the cinema . FOCUS-Online . Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  7. ↑ Juliane Gringer: "Turkish for Beginners" a betrayal of the original . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  8. ↑ Turkish for Beginners on Facebook . Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  9. ↑ Turkish for Beginners, Germany 2011/2012, feature film . Film portal . Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  10. ↑ New number 1 in the German cinema charts . In: ots . Presseportal.de. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  11. ↑ a b German cinema charts: The new number 1 . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  12. ↑ Judith Bonesky: Doner weather: "Turkish for Beginners" fantastic box office . In: Bild newspaper . Bild.de. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  13. ↑ Evaluation of the top 75 film titles of 2012 according to socio-demographic as well as cinema and film-specific information ( memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at ffa.de, accessed on December 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffa.de
  14. ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez (August 27, 2013 , quotemeter.de ): “Turkish for Beginners” inspires young and old , online, accessed on September 10, 2013
  15. ^ Winner of the German Comedy Prize 2012, accessed on October 28, 2012
  16. ↑ TURKISH FOR BEGINNERS wins Video Champion 2012 . FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 25, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff-bayern.de
  17. ↑ When Ruth Pfau enters the stage, the hall is silent . In: The world . Welt.de . Retrieved November 25, 2012.