Take a deep breath, the family is coming
| Episode of the Bundschuh family series | |
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| Original title | Take a deep breath, the family is coming |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Ziegler Film GmbH |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 1 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 21, 2015 on ZDF |
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| Director | Vivian Naefe |
| script | Mathias Klaschka |
| production |
Regina Ziegler Gabriele Lohnert |
| music | Martin Probst |
| camera | Peter Döttling |
| cut | Robert Rzesacz |
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Take a deep breath, the family is coming is a German TV film by the director Vivian Naefe from 2015. The Christmas comedy based on a script by Mathias Klaschka is based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Sawatzki , which was published in 2013 by Piper Verlag . The focus of the plot is housewife and mother Gundula Bundschuh, played by Sawatzki, who, despite the chaos that can be expected every year, gathers her family again for Christmas and, thanks to the peculiarities of her relatives, steers from one mishap to the next.
The feature film was made by Ziegler Film on behalf of ZDF . Filming began in Berlin at the end of 2014 . In addition to Sawatzki, Axel Milberg , Christine Schorn , Günther Maria Halmer , Judy Winter , Stephan Grossmann , Eva Löbau and Uwe Ochsenknecht appeared in front of the camera of the ensemble film, which received mostly mixed reviews when it was first broadcast in December 2015. In 2017 appeared to 2019 - also referred to templates Sawatzkis - the three sequels of recovery was never mentioned , you are of course invited and we finish school .
action
Gundula Bundschuh is a loyal housewife, her husband Gerald works at the tax office and the two children Ricarda and Matz are well off. Christmas is coming up and the relatives will be visiting every year. Gundula wants “everything to work out this year”. However, she started the Christmas preparations way too late and got into stress. Everyone reluctantly turns a good face into a bad game when the first guests arrive.
Gundula's brother Hadi wants to show everyone what a successful author he is and is presenting his latest book on Lebenshilfe. In reality, it's a total flop and he's gone into debt, which is why he's jealous of his brother-in-law and his secure income. His wife Rose is overly religious and annoys the family with her fuss.
Gerald's mother is a bon vivant who can't get past a bottle of schnapps. As a boutique owner for lingerie, she is always offended by Gundula's mother, who has not given up her way of knowing everything better to this day. In addition, she thinks she has to suffer from the fact that nobody notices how difficult it actually is for her: Her husband Edgar has Alzheimer's disease and is amused with various capers. He is as happy as a child about his Christmas present, an illuminated globe, and walks out into the street with it. It wasn't until much later that the family noticed that he was missing and began looking for him.
Since the dog has eaten the Christmas roast, pizza has to be ordered as a way out. The son Matz has mixed dough to bake cookies, his mother sees an empty bag with hashish in it, which the son threw in the garbage can. Now the mother believes in drugs as a baking ingredient. After Rose has eaten a few of them and thinks she has ingested hash, she forgets all religiosity and also gets drunk. After one catastrophe follows the next, the Bundschuhs send all of their guests home, but keep Gundula's father with them.
background
Take a deep breath, the family is coming is based on the novel of the same name by leading actress Andrea Sawatzki , which was published in 2013 by Piper Verlag . The story was the first book about the Bundschuh family, whose stories have since been continued in other volumes. With a deep breath, the family comes had Sawatzki want to write originally merely a "marriage story" that depicted the lives of two people apart. Since there was no external disruptive factor, she constructed the family and their get-together for Christmas .
The TV adaptation was initiated by producer Regina Ziegler , a neighbor of Sawatzki, who immediately secured the filming rights after reading the novel. Your production company, Ziegler Film , commissioned Mathias Klaschka to complete a script. The filming of Deep Breath, The Family Comes , was finally recorded in Berlin at the end of 2014 . Martin Probst was responsible for the music . In addition to its soundtrack , Nana Mouskouri's “Guten Morgen, Sonnenschein”, Melina Mercouri's “ A Ship Will Come ”, Tony Holidays “Dance Samba with Me” and Vicky Leandros ' “Then You Came” can be heard.
reception
Audience rating
Take a deep breath, the family comes celebrated its premiere on December 21, 2015 on ZDF . With a strong market share of 20.3 percent and a total of 6.54 million viewers, the comedy became the most-watched production of the day. In the advertising-relevant target group of 14- to 49-year-olds, the film behind the documentary soap Bauer sucht Frau and the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory achieved third place at prime time .
Reviews
Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse found the comedy to be reminiscent of Loriot's sketch Christmas at Hoppenstedts (1997). The film begins with slapstick , but "soon developed into a remarkably accurate satire on bigotry , prescribed cheerfulness and compulsive consumption." The film works "with crisp dialogues" and the roles are "all cast according to type. Andrea Sawatzki, in particular, uses her expressive facial expressions to add a number of additional punchlines. "
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv described the production as a “ moral acid advice comedy that heralds its petty-bourgeois happy ending with a barely perceptible wink”. The comedy is indeed a "smiley comedy with recognition value", but suffers "dramaturgically from weaknesses" and a lack of depth. In addition, Tittelbach criticized the lack of humor in the script, in which "short-winded punchlines [...] dominated over structural comedy". Tittelbach, however, praised the cast of the film.
Dpa reviewer Ulrike Cordes judged that the production of the comedy “did not leave out any cliché” and was “pretty flat”: “One may wonder how many well-known actors play along in the rough fun. Perhaps greats like Axel Milberg , Judy Winter , Günther Maria Halmer and Uwe Ochsenknecht did it out of friendship with Sawatzki - at least they show admirable commitment in the Christmas story [...] despite all the stereotypical character drawings. Outfit and with a whiskey voice [...] a few highlights as an eternally erotic and constantly drinking mother-in-law. "
Quote meter author Timo Nöthling also criticized the fact that TV films often use Christmas film motifs and clichés. The comedy “instead of using real, tangible characters only uses stereotypes - templates that do not advance the deeper basic idea of a classic Christmas story, but are only intended to provide the greatest possible number of punch lines .” That makes “some smirkers, right.” However, it never gets funny ”. Nöthling particularly emphasized Milberg's "worth seeing because very nuanced game".
Titus Arnu from the Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up that take a deep breath, the family “overflows” with all expectations and described the production as “unbearably predictable […] ZDF Schmonzette ” and “Weihnachtsschulze to run away”. The characters looked “like a catalog full of cliché figures. Only the dog embodies a really believable character. ”On the other hand, TV Today also compares the film with Loriot and his Christmas at Hoppenstedts and declared the TV comedy“ nice fun, […] which Vivian Naefe staged at high speed ”.
continuation
Six months after the broadcasting of a deep breath, the family will have to Majorca filming the second film adaptation of the novel Sawatzkis Bundschuh From recovery was never any question (2014) was added. In addition to director Vivian Naefe and screenwriter Mathias Klaschka , the entire original cast could be recruited for the project; only Christine Schorn's role of Ilse was re-cast with Thekla Carola Wied . In September 2017, the shooting of Sawatzki's third volume You Are Of course Invited followed , which tells about the wedding of Gundula's eldest son Rolfi. Thomas Nennstiel and Alexander Dydyna took over the direction and script from Naefe and Klaschka for the first time. Günther Maria Halmer did not appear again in front of the camera, Claudio Schultes' role of Matz was replaced with Mathis Werneke.
Between November and December 2018, the fourth part of the series was created in Berlin with the Bundschuh family - We are doing Abitur . The film is based on Sawatzki's fourth Bundschuh novel, others do the job , which was published in 2019. While Nennstiel could be signed again to direct, author Florian Hanig joined the staff for the first time. The following year, filming began on the fifth part, which was again shot in Berlin under the working title of the Bundschuh family - Part 5 . Nennstiel took over the direction again. Kerstin Cantz contributed the script for the first time . As already take a deep breath, the family is coming , the film will take place at Christmas time.
Web links
- Take a deep breath, the family comes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for take a deep breath, the family is coming . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 162258 / V).
- ↑ a b c d e press kit . ZDF . Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d Ulrich Feld: "Take a deep breath, the family is coming": Accurate! . Frankfurter Neue Presse . Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ↑ a b Timo Nöthling: The Critics: "Take a deep breath, the family is coming" . Quota meter . December 19, 2015. Accessed December 22, 2015.
- ↑ a b Alexander Krei: Christmas comedy depends on new plum show . dwdl . December 22, 2015. Accessed December 21, 2015.
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Naefe. Relationship advisor comedy . Tittelbach.tv . November 20, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ Julian Miller: Madness under the Christmas tree . Quota meter . December 11, 2014. Accessed December 21, 2015.
- ↑ Titus Arnu: A Christmas Schnulze to run away . Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 20, 2015. Accessed December 22, 2015.
- ↑ TV Christmas comedy for the "Feast of Hicks" . TV Today . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ Based on a novel by Andrea Sawatzki: ZDF is shooting “There was never any talk of relaxation” on Mallorca . ZDF . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b Andrea Sawatzki and Axel Milberg shoot a ZDF comedy in Berlin . ZDF . Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Family Bundschuh - We are doing our Abitur . crew-united.com. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ "Bundschuh family": ZDF is shooting the fifth film in the comedy series . ZDF . Retrieved December 9, 2019.