Swap company for household
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| Original title | Swap company for household |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Karen Muller |
| script | Julius Grützke |
| production | Tanja Ziegler |
| music | Andreas Dicke |
| camera | Markus Fraunholz |
| cut | Susanne Peuscher |
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Swap company against household is a German comedy film by Karen Müller from 2003 with Axel Milberg and Christine Neubauer in the leading roles.
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Bernd Lackner is a successful architect and travels a lot. His children Alex (17), Nicki (15) and Laura (12) are disappointed that he finds less and less time for them. There are always reasons why he cannot keep his promises to you. To make matters worse, he arrives too late for his daughter's birthday and promises her a horse as a present. That in turn goes too far for his wife Katrin, because he should only get a voucher to visit a horse farm. But his older daughter Nicki is also offended that Laura should get such a big gift. Thereupon Bernd promises her to have dinner with her in the evening - just the two of them.
But even in Bernd's company, nothing is going as it should. A deal with Walter Ricken is about to collapse because the plans for the project have allegedly disappeared. Katrin offers to help him in the office because she is also an architect and has only given up her job for the sake of the family. She also founded the architecture office together with him. However, Bernd is of the opinion that he can do it on his own. But despite his organizational talent, something goes wrong more and more often. When he goes out to eat with Nicki, it occurs to him that he also has an appointment with Ricken and now tries to master the appointments in parallel. Fortunately, his assistant Sonja is there, so that Ricken never has to be left completely alone when Bernd rushes from one restaurant to another. But that's exactly what Nicki gets wrong when she follows her father and sees him with another woman. To make matters worse, Bernd ends up in the ladies' room and is put out of action by a courageous lady. He tells Karin about his messed up evening, which ends in a dispute about who has to master the more difficult work. So both bet that neither would be able to do the other's job. The role reversal should begin the next day. While Karin is already on the way to the office, Bernd cares to get the children out of bed. They are also not very enthusiastic that their father should run the household.
Bernd informs his employees and is convinced that Katrin will last a fortnight at the most and will then bring him back to help. However, she immediately notices that the order for Rickens Hotel is already overdue, and immediately rushes to the plans. Bernd, on the other hand, scorches his shirt when trying to iron and in the end nothing goes wrong with the laundry either. In order to organize everything correctly, he draws up a budget. Nevertheless, he can't finish the work and so he tries to buy the food ready and also to hire cleaning helpers. Since the household money is not enough, he secretly gets a subsidy from the company's treasury, which his assistant Sonja does for him. They also keep Bernd up to date on what's going on in the company. He has to find out that his wife has everything under control and that she can even get back jobs that were thought to be lost. Even Walter Ricken is enthusiastic about her.
The contact with his children is less pleasant than he thought, because he now pushes too much into their lives, but still does not listen to important problems. But since it has not escaped them that their father and Sonja have a secret, they put him under pressure with their knowledge. They want him to do his householding duties himself, and he promises to get better. Accordingly, the first self-cooked thing doesn't taste great. Since the children help him with his work, he has time to really listen to them and also to play games. Accordingly, the relationship between them is developing very well.
Meanwhile, Katrin is very busy in the company and even lets Ricken take her out. One day she discovers that there is no money in the company's coffers and confronts Sonja. In the process, she learns that Bernd thought at the time that the office would go bankrupt anyway. Katrin sees this as a breach of trust and argues with Bernd in such a way that he leaves the house and Alex places him in his friends' shared apartment. Since Katrin still has a lot to do in the office, the children are on their own. They miss their father and he realizes how much he misses his family and Katrin. That's why he secretly takes care of the household during the day and disappears in good time before Katrin comes out of the office in the evening. Katrin praises the commitment of her children, who seem to have everything under control. However, more and more often she notices the loving signs that Bernd leaves behind. So he carefully folds the underwear after washing or puts a chocolate heart on the pillow.
When she came back from the office unexpectedly earlier one day, she surprised Bernd while ironing and found out that he had been doing all the work in the house for days. They admit to one another that one is missing in the other. Then they finally reconcile and Bernd moves back to his family.
Production notes
Swap company for household premiered on May 30, 2003, prime time on Erste .
On September 30, 2005, the film was released on DVD under the title Wonderful Men Only - Swap Company for Household .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “ Exchanging a company for a household is a typical Degeto production. A family film that doesn't hurt anyone. The battle between the sexes is fought against the divorce quota in the hope that in the end the audience will at least be right. The only courageous thing about these little films is that, unlike the commercial TV movies, they do without the constant bombardment of the viewer with love, divorce, death and all kinds of conflicts and instead draws their potential for action from normal everyday life. Nothing bangs there, it only ripples in the shallows for 90 minutes. "
For the film service , Tausche Firma gegen Household is a "turbulent (television) love and marriage comedy that questions role clichés and wants to playfully illustrate that women can stand up to their husbands too."
Kino.de thinks that “the story of author Julius Grützke is largely predictable”. “Nevertheless, he always finds a twist that gives his plot a new twist. For example, the relationship between father Bernd and his offspring is beautifully portrayed. With Axel Milberg and Christine Neubauer, watching is fun anyway, but the children's actors (Adrian Topol, Sarah Alles, Roxanne Borski) are also convincing. The staging by Karen Müller alone is sometimes a little awkward and occasionally not fast-paced, but in view of so many malicious lines of dialogue one can get over it. "
The TV Spielfilm awards the best possible rating (thumbs up) and writes: "Sympathetic actors and solid humor make the comedy pleasant fun." And concluded: "Frau-TV: A macho gets very small with a hat".
Web links
- Exchange company to household in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Swap company for household at Zieglerfilm production company
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start dates for swapping company for household . In: IMDb.de. Retrieved August 31, 2013 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Swap company for household. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review on kino.de, accessed on February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 24, 2014.