What do women do at 3:30 in the morning?
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| Original title | What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
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| Director | Matthias Kiefersauer |
| script | Martina Brand |
| production | Martin Choroba , Franziska An der Gassen |
| music | Rainer Bartesch |
| camera | Thomas Etzold |
| cut | Silvia Nawrot |
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What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? is a German feature film by Matthias Kiefersauer from 2012. The film is based on a script by the author Martina Brand and is about a traditional family bakery in the Bavarian province, the daughter Franzi, portrayed by Brigitte Hobmeier , with her idea of Christmas stollen in the distant Exporting Dubai from the neighborly bakery competition and the impending bankruptcy. In addition to Hobmeier, Muriel Baumeister , Peter Lerchbaumer , Thomas Unger and Julia Eder appeared in front of the camera.
The tragic comedy was realized by Tellux-Film on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and Degeto Film and shot from October to November 2011 in the Munich area as well as in Bad Tölz , Holzkirchen and Dubai. The production premiered in July 2012 at the Munich Film Festival , where the film, originally conceived for television, received such positive feedback that it was decided, What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? to be shown in German cinemas from November 2012. The first broadcast finally followed in December 2013 in the first .
action
Franzi Schwanthaler works as a saleswoman in her father Josef's traditional bakery in a small Bavarian town. After her father is hospitalized after a heart attack , Franzi has to run the bakery alone. Her sister Carmen is traveling from Berlin , but cannot really help her as a city dweller. The sisters also find out that their father has not told them that he owes € 120,000 and that the bakery is about to be foreclosed . In addition, a competitor has opened in the village, which bakes Eastern European rolls and thus clearly undercuts the prices of Josef Schwanthaler's traditional bakery.
Plagued by existential fears, Franzi made contact with Toni, a childhood friend who had learned the bakery trade with her. Toni now works in a large hotel in Dubai . He gave her the idea of offering her art of baking to German emigrants in Dubai. Franzi then decided to travel to Dubai with a sample case with various baked products. Her sister pays the necessary expenses. The hotel where Toni works rejects their products, but it happens that a rich sheikh tastes her Christmas stollen and is enthusiastic. He hires them to bake and deliver 3,000 stollen. Franzi is given a week for this.
Back in Bavaria, Franzi mobilized former customers of the bakery to help her bake the stollen. However, she realizes that the transport to Dubai alone takes four days and that it is impossible for her to meet the Sheikh's appointment. When she has already given up, Toni appears with the sheikh to find out about the progress. The Sheikh offers to transport the tunnels to Dubai in his private jet. Franzi is still not able to make all the tunnels, but the sheikh agrees. He falls in love with Franzi's sister Carmen, while Franzi falls in love again with her childhood friend Toni. Together they travel to Dubai with Franzi's recovered father.
background
What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? was originally conceived as a television film for Bavarian Television (BR) and specially designed for the channel's 2012 pre-Christmas program. The shooting took place from October 18 to November 28, 2011 in Munich , Dubai and at various locations in Upper Bavaria . Two bakeries served as a backdrop for the long-established Schwanthaler bakery. In Bad Tölz , the Ludwig Bauer bakery on Jungmayrplatz made both its external facade and its shop available for the shooting. In Holzkirchen , the owner Robert Hohenadl's bakery again created scenes in the bakery. While Bauer temporarily shut down his operations during the shooting, the daily business at Hohenadl continued as normal. The Christmas market in the film, located on Jungmayrplatz, was set up especially for the shooting before Advent .
The tragicomedy was produced by Tellux-Film on behalf of BR and ARD Degeto . Martin Choroba appeared as the producer . The editorial team was Bettina Ricklefs, Birgit Metz and Diane Wurzschmitt. Financial support received What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFFB). When director Matthias Kiefersauer showed the film after its completion in July 2012 at the Munich Film Festival in the “TV film” category, the audience reaction was so positive that Movienet Filmverleih offered to first show the production in southern German cinemas from November 2012 . ARD and the BR then gave an assurance that the TV broadcast would be postponed for one year in favor of a theatrical release.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from Tittelbach.tv described the production as a "warm-hearted fairy tale with subtle tragic nuances and an agreeable social utopia". The plot of the “imaginative [...] Bavarian-colored everyday comedy” is dramaturgically “cobbled together”, but “sticks a little too much to the existence-threatening, finally controlled main narrative thread. The options of the Bavarian Sidekicks, respectively, of the wonderful cast of supporting roles are not played. "In comparison with other television films cut What do women morning at half past three? but above average: “A bit of social utopia in a tolerable dose, here pacifying the family and maintaining community, there a bit of humane globalization and somewhat tongue-in-cheek cultural-religious rapprochement, presented by good actors or at least those you like sees… that’s something. ”Tittelbach was especially praised for Brigitte Hobmeier’s game.
Tim Slagman from the online portal Filmstarts.de criticized the fact that it was a typical production by the Degeto company that contained some platitudes and predictability, but found that the “pre-Christmas feel good movie” was “fast-paced, funny and well played” and despite its cliché-style “over long stretches a nice homeland comedy ". As Franzi and Carmen, Hobmeier and Baumeister hit “exactly the right tone” and director Kiefersauer draws “the village and its protagonists crankily enough to arouse interest in them, but not nearly so bizarre that they turn into caricatures”. In doing so, he “pulls up the pace and tension at the right moments, without lapsing into breathless hectic pace. The punchlines are also right, because Kiefersauer develops the comedy from the characters instead of imposing them on them ”.
Oddsmeter.de reviewer Sidney Schering judged that what do women do at half past three in the morning? although "not a miracle in German television film history", but "at least not a typically flat Degeto work" is. Schering described the comedy as “slightly above-average fluctuation, which, in addition to all sorts of stereotypes and platitudes, also has many well-fitting gags to offer”, but is based on “Degeto basic building blocks” that “are not only worn out, but also have a stale aftertaste. Here the perfect little world in the countryside, there the ripped-off, imaginary-modern world of the city dwellers. After short, tragic nuances, the plot strolls towards feel-good escapism. And all of this bathed in a shallow tone of voice - too cranked, too dramatic, too lively, after all, it shouldn't be too lively, that would no longer be suitable for the masses ”. The highlights are "the dialogues between Franzi and her sister, which scored with naturalness and smart timing".
Elmar Krekeler, editor at Die Welt , declared the production as a “dramaturgical Christstollen ”, which could have made “a pretty tragedy”, but was staged in an easily digestible way. Oliver Junge from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found that what do women do at 3:30 in the morning? tell a "slightly different Christmas story" whose premise sounds "stupid", but is "by no means unattractive". The editorial staff of Cinema magazine described the film as "easily digestible food, but made with brains and humor", while Prisma found that the comedy offers "at best TV-compatible images and entertainment" with "too many clichés and only average performance".
success
What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? premiered on July 4, 2012 at the Munich Film Festival . The release for public performance took place on November 8, 2012 through its distributor, Movienet Film. In Germany, the film recorded a total of 27,442 admissions. In 2013, What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? nominated for the Bavarian Film Prize in the category “Best Film Music”.
The film had its television premiere - due to the unplanned theatrical release - with a one-year delay on December 18, 2013 on ARD . With 5.48 million viewers and a 17.6 percent market share, the feature film secured prime-time market leadership on that day . In the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, the market share was an above-average 10%. Since then, the film has been broadcast every year in the run-up to Christmas - sometimes through the third television programs .
Web links
- What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Daniela Lorenz: What women do at half past three . German handicraft newspaper . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f g What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? In: Filmportal.de. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Christmas market on Jungmayrplatz . Merkur.de . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Arab sheikhs also like to eat Bavarian stollen . Stuttgart newspaper . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Interview with Matthias Kiefersauer . Bayerische-Kultserien.de. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? - criticism . Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ a b Tim Slagman: Criticism . Filmstarts.de . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Critique . Oddsmeter.de . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: How to convert a sheikh with Christmas stollen . Welt.de . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Oliver Junge: A cleavage for Prince Mohammed . faz.net . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Editorial criticism . Cinema . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ What do women do at 3:30 in the morning? . Prism . Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ TV ratings: "Footloose" is much more interesting than "The Taste". In: Digitalfernsehen.de. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Bild-Reporterin wins at “The Taste”. In: Meedia.de. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ ARD crime series “Über die Grenz” starts with victory of the day, “The Voice” wins as usual at 14-49. In: Meedia.de. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
