Under power
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Under power |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zoltan Paul |
| script |
Uli Brée Zoltan Paul |
| production | Clementina Hegewisch |
| music | Julian Pajzs |
| camera | Christopher Rowe |
| cut |
Ben von Grafenstein Sebastian Thümler |
| occupation | |
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Unter Strom is a German comedy by Zoltan Paul from 2008, which opened in German cinemas on December 10, 2009.
action
A newly divorced, permanently quarreling couple, an unjustly convicted petty crook on the run, his girlfriend who was pregnant by his best friend, this very best friend, an economics minister who was taken hostage, his secret lover - who happened to be a detective - who are unhappy in their colleagues Inspector in love - they all meet in the summer residence of the no longer married couple Trieb, where the wife's lover has already chilled the champagne in joyful anticipation. Surrounded by uncoordinated police troops, helplessly at the mercy of their own tensions, everyone involved is electrified.
production
The feature film was produced by Clementina Hegewisch, who continues the Next Film film production alone after the death of Laurens Straub .
Reviews
The film was received with displeasure by some critics. However, there were mostly positive reactions. Peter Zander wrote in Die Welt : “ Unter Strom becomes increasingly hair-raising , the title of which is anything but an understatement. Director Zoltan Paul succeeds here, which is rather the exception in Germany, a shrill genre comedy ”, in which film buffs could“ recognize film quotations ”. The Berlin TIP judged: “Zoltan Paul manages the difficult feat of bringing together sophisticated puns and brutal slapstick. The result is an amazingly pleasurable farce, which is completely in the tradition of the classic screwball comedies . ”The Münchner Abendzeitung of July 2, 2009 describes the film as“ [m] utig, funny, weird ”and also remarks:“ Who has a bit of a sense for extreme jargon, has a great time with Unter Strom . "
Daniel Sander, on the other hand, criticizes the screenplay and the dialogues in the Spiegel , which alternated between boulevard-theater-swank and striving Tarantino-coolness, which does not go well together because the film lacks the coolness for the corresponding images. Carsten Tritt only notices stereotypes and clichés, which combined with the predictability of the script only created boredom, and Robert Zimmermann from critic.de notes that something is fundamentally wrong: “Beat for beat, setting for setting, it becomes clear that between the characters is scenic hardly any relationships arise ”, which leads to every cinematic flow of contradicting triviality.
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Undercurrent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Zander: When the kidnapping becomes a minor matter. In: welt.de. December 10, 2009, accessed December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. unterstrom-film.de (PDF file; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ cf. unterstrom-film.de (PDF file; 577 kB)
- ^ Daniel Sander: Comedy "Unter Strom": Fire free for the pun. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Carsten Tritt: About throwing cans. In: Editing (film magazine) . Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
- ^ Robert Zimmermann: Under power - criticism. In: critic.de. December 7, 2009, accessed December 16, 2017 .