Toni Erdmann

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Movie
Original title Toni Erdmann
Country of production Germany ,
Austria
original language German , English
Publishing year 2016
length 162 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Maren goodbye
script Maren goodbye
production Janine Jackowski ,
Maren Ade,
Jonas Dornbach
camera Patrick Orth
cut Heike Parplies
occupation

Toni Erdmann is a feature film by the German director and screenwriter Maren Ade from 2016. Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller play father and daughter in the comedic family drama. The film premiered in May 2016 in the competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival . His numerous awards include the European Film Prize and an Oscar nomination. The German theatrical release was on July 14, 2016.

action

The retired music teacher Winfried Conradi from Aachen, who lives alone, tends to make bizarre jokes. The old 68er also leads courses at school and apparently maintains a relaxed relationship with the mother of his daughter Ines and with the mother's partner. Ines, on the other hand, has become a stranger to him, work dominates her life even in the family circle and she is working on her career as a management consultant in Bucharest .

After his beloved dog Willi dies, Winfried takes a vacation to surprise Ines. She is looking forward to a presentation for client Henneberg from the petroleum industry and is not very pleased. But she takes her father to a reception where she wants to meet Henneberg. He first leaves Ines his young, blonde, Ukrainian friend Natalja, talks to others and then turns to Winfried, who uses a joke for the purpose of small talk: He has hired a "substitute daughter" who also cuts his toenails for lack of his own. To Ines 'horror, Henneberg finds this amusing and invites Winfried against Ines' plan to a night out in a club. There Ines made a faux pas : she spoke openly about downsizing and was reprimanded by Henneberg. Winfried immediately tries to protect her in his own way.

The next, actually free Saturday, Winfried again has little from Ines, who diligently concentrates on helping Natalja “go shopping”. When she overslept on Sundays and missed Henneberg's calls, all of her frustration is focused on the unsuspecting and guiltless father, who finally seems to be leaving in the evening. On Mondays, before the presentation, Ines surprises supervisor Gerald with a change in the discussed tactics because the exchange with Henneberg did not go as desired. She treats her colleague Tim, actually her lover, dismissively. However, the presentation is not entirely satisfactory.

When she finally wants to relax with two friends in the evening, Winfried suddenly reappears: With a dark wig and protruding teeth, only recognized by Ines, he pushes himself with champagne and, as "Toni Erdmann", "businessman" known with Ion Țiriac , the irritated , but amused women. Disguised in this way, from now on he intervenes again and again in Ines' everyday life.

After some irritation, she finally takes her father to a meeting with Illiescu, head of the oil department concerned, and, surprised by himself, introduces him as an experienced consultant. Winfried's conversation with oil workers inadvertently ends fatally when Illiescu dismisses one of the workers on the spot. Ines counters her father's horror sarcastically, saying that this relieves her of a discharge. When Winfried is grateful for the hospitality of the workers, Ines attacks him on the way back, saying that his “green attitude” stands in the way of “modernization” and thus of their work.

When she finally falls asleep in the car, Winfried accepts the invitation of the fleetingly known Flavia to the traditional coloring of Easter eggs. Ines, awakened, follows him and experiences how he introduces himself as the “ German ambassador ” and she as the secretary “Miss Schnuck”. In the end she reluctantly agrees to sing the song Greatest Love of All as “fabulous Whitney Schnuck” accompanied by her father on the keyboard . Despite applause, she leaves the apartment without a word. At a loss, Winfried sinks onto the stairs in the hallway, in the background a Kukeri costume. He reveals himself to Flavia, who turns to him but has already seen through him, and stays for dinner.

Meanwhile, the catering service for her birthday brunch is waiting in front of Ines' apartment , which, to Gerald's favor, is also intended to help build a team . The next day, everything is ready when Ines wants to change her tightly drawn out outfit and the doorbell rings in the middle of the equally difficult undressing. Quite spontaneously, Steph opens it almost naked on purpose, refuses her help with getting dressed and declares the brunch to be a nude party. Steph refuses to do this, as does Tim later, who both leave. The Anca and Gerald informed by Tim, on the other hand, assistant and boss, actually come undressed despite their discomfort. A silent, long-haired Kukeri monster appears in front of Gerald, which scares Anca just as much as Gerald, who thinks it's "cool". Ines follows the costume wearer into a park under pretense, only in a thin bathrobe, and finally shouts “Papa!”. After a deep embrace, they part without a word.

Some time later Ines comes to the funeral of Grandma, Winfried's mother. By changing jobs, she was able to reach her destination and leave Romania for Singapore . As a late answer to her question in Bucharest, Winfried explains that important moments in life cannot be captured and only understand afterwards. Then she uses his joke teeth and puts on grandma’s hat, which animates Winfried to get the camera. She remains in the garden alone with her thoughts.

production

The shooting of Maren Ade's third feature film took place from June to September 2014 in Aachen and mostly in Bucharest . Over 120 hours of material were created. The post-production lasted until shortly before the premiere.

As role models for the character of Toni Erdmann, Ade named the American entertainer Andy Kaufman with his character Tony Clifton and her own father, to whom she once gave a joke. Ade received the joke as a giveaway at the German premiere of an Austin Powers film.

publication

Toni Erdmann was the first German film since Wim Wenders ' Palermo shoot in 2008 to receive an invitation to the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was very well received there. The film was considered a favorite for the Golden Palm in the press , but was not included in the jury's competition awards. During the festival, the global distributor The Match Factory reported sales in numerous countries around the world. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights for North America . The German premiere took place on June 23, 2016 as part of the Munich Film Festival , which Toni Erdmann chose as the opening film. At this point in time, the film's distribution rights had been sold in 55 countries.

After the German theatrical release on July 14, 2016, Toni Erdmann was number one in the art house cinema charts of the AG Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater and had over 860,000 visitors in Germany by the end of February 2017. In the German free TV was Toni Erdmann first time on November 12, 2018 Arte shown.

reception

Toni Erdmann met with an overwhelmingly positive to very positive response from audiences and film reviews alike. The film achieved a new high of 3.7 out of 4 possible points in the international critics' survey conducted by Screen magazine during the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, the film was ranked 100 of the 100 best films of the 21st century in an international review by the BBC . And according to Thomas Assheuer it was “celebrated triumphantly in Cannes”, the two main actors played “great” and “grandiose” and Maren Ades “great achievement” was “a film of the epoch in the guise of comedy” and “last but not least (...) - with considerable polemical energy - a criticism of the type of person whom the all-pervasive neoliberal revolution brought into the world ”.

Christina Tilmann described Ades' film in her review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as “a highly unusual film in the German-speaking cinema landscape”, which deservedly became a favorite with critics and audiences at the Cannes Film Festival. Ade shows in her film "in all the nuances of the mechanisms of exploitation and dependency [...] a vampire world of modern turbo-capitalism", in which Ines has acquired a tank that is so easy to break through if it is not for her father.

Michael Meyns von Filmstarts saw “a family story the likes of which you rarely get to see in this complexity and truthfulness” and comes to the conclusion that it is a “precisely observed, courageous, brilliantly played” film. Despite embarrassing situations, he does not expose his protagonists, but rather "penetrates to their emotional core". It is not about "a banal change" with an "emotional reconciliation", but about the description of "latent depression, hidden accusations and suppressed anger".

In contrast, Jan Küveler expressed himself very critically in Die Welt am Sonntag on the day before the Oscar ceremony: An award "would be a terrible mistake, a fatal cultural bad investment". The film is “scrap, trash, a tragedy disguised as a comedy, an underground sketch parade, which, in order to show the daughter who has been optimized to death, that ambition is not everything, honestly relies on wigs and false teeth. Harald Juhnke and Eddi Arent would turn around in the grave. Toni Erdmann is Charley's Aunt meant in earnest. "

Awards
Peter Simonischek with the Austrian Film Award 2017

At the Oscar ceremony in 2017 and the Critics' Choice Movie Awards , the Golden Globe Awards , the César in 2017 and the British Academy Film Awards 2017 was Toni Erdmann each nominated for the award for best foreign language or foreign film.

literature

  • Heinz Drügh: Toni Erdmann. Attempt on contemporary aesthetics. In: Pop. Culture & Criticism. Issue 10. Spring 2017, pp. 132–153. On-line

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Manohla Dargismay: The Director of 'Toni Erdmann' Savors Her Moment at Cannes , The New York Times, May 22, 2016
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