What doesn't fit is made to fit (2002)

Movie
Original title	What does not fit is made to fit
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2002
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Peter Thorwarth
script	Matthias Dinter ; Martin Ritzenhoff; Peter Thorwarth
production	Christian Becker ; Thomas Häberle
music	Rainer Kühn ; Stefan Stoppok
camera	Eckhard Jansen
cut	Anja Pohl
occupation
	Dietmar Bär : Werner Wiesenkamp; Ralf Richter : Kalle; Hilmi Sözer : Caraway; Willi Thomczyk : Horst; Peter Thorwarth : Philipp; Alexandra Maria Lara : Astrid; Armin Dillenberger : Marek; Matthias Dinter : Paramedic; Hans-Martin Stier : Mayor; Michael Brandner : Ernst Wiesenkamp; Patrizia Moresco : Gerda Wiesenkamp; Johannes Rotter : Jochen; Tana Schanzara : Mama Wiesenkamp; Nicholas Bodeux : Arno; Heinrich Giskes : Board of Directors; Stefan Jürgens : Architect; Herbert Knebel : Grandpa; Heinrich Schafmeister : City Council; Markus Knüfken : Andy; Jürgen Mikol : gardener;

The film What does not fit is made to fit is a German comedy by director Peter Thorwarth from 2002. The script is based on the short film of the same name from 1997. The film is set in the eastern Ruhr area and forms together with Bang Boom Bang - Ein todicheres Ding (1999) and Golden Times (2006) the so-called Unna trilogy .

He got on the Berlinale the Jupiter -Publikumspreis as the best German film of 2002. One year later ran in ProSieben the series adaptation of the film .

action

Kümmel, Kalle and Horst work for the contractor Werner Wiesenkamp, who runs a small construction company in Bergkamen in the Unna district . Since Kümmel, Kalle and Horst are always numb and the boss Wiesenkamp lives on a large scale, the three employees persuade the boss at his garden party to hire a Polish illegal worker. However, Wiesenkamp hires the young architecture student Philipp as an additional worker (much to Horst's displeasure), who actually only needs an internship certificate for his new employer in Asia. Philipp, who had hoped to get this proof with the help of his uncle (a city councilor) even without real work, is ripped off by Wiesenkamp at the crucial moment.

The following day, Philipp appears on the construction site, still assuming that he will only have to wait for Wiesenkamp's signature. First, however, it ends up on the neighboring construction site, where Wiesenkamp's brother Ernst's construction company is building. When the misunderstanding clears up and the foreman brings Jochen Philipp to the right construction site, the contrast could not be greater: While Wiesenkamp's brother's construction site looks professional, everything on the other construction site seems untidy and improvised. Until Wiesenkamp arrives and brings the Pole Marek with him, Philipp von Kümmel, Kalle and Horst are viewed as additional workers, with the worker Horst in particular harassing the academic Philipp at every opportunity. Philipp should u. a. moor a scaffold, but instead tries to rebook his flight to Kuala Lumpur . Kümmel, Kalle and Horst stage Marek's death by falling from this scaffolding in order to have Wiesenkamp pay them for their silence. Philipp, who sees himself as the culprit for Marek's "accident", runs to alert the ambulance. When this arrives at the construction site, there is no longer any indication of an accident. After work, Kümmel, Kalle and Horst apparently make Marek's “corpse” disappear by chopping it up with a circular saw, packing it in plastic bags and setting it in concrete on the construction site. In the meantime, Philipp is on the go.

On the same evening, Kümmel, Kalle and Horst celebrate a small party at Horst's home - at which Marek is also present and receives his money. Here it becomes clear that Marek is not dead, but has made common cause with the others. During the celebration, Philipp appears at Astrid, Horst's daughter, who was a waiter at Wiesenkamp's garden party and who is also studying architecture. Astrid passed the construction site “by chance” to ask Philipp if he could help her set up her new computer. Horst, who is not enthusiastic about the looming relationship between his daughter and Philipp, throws Philipp out of his house in a more or less friendly manner, not without saying something to him on the doorstep. During the conversation, Marek comes by in the background, but Philipp does not see him. This is only the beginning of a series of scenes in which Marek can be seen again and again, mostly in rooms that Wiesenkamp also visits.

The company has now got into financial difficulties, but the three employees and intern Philipp agree to complete the last construction project on time and to help their boss Wiesenkamp out of the financial emergency. For example, they use asbestos insulation that Kalle receives free of charge from his brother-in-law Siggi, who works in a hardware store. During the completion, however, there are unexpected complications, so the house is z. As a prefabricated kit, and excavation work, the four on an old push bomb the US Air Force . Instead of hiring the ordnance disposal service to remove it, Kümmel, Kalle and Horst decide to bury the bomb on the spot and simply build the house a meter shorter than planned in the construction plan. Philipp can now score points here: in a nightly session at Astrid's computer, he not only falsifies the construction plans, but also comes closer to Astrid. With Philip's help, the building project can go ahead as planned, and the initial teasing also suddenly stops. To celebrate this success, Kümmel, Kalle and Horst visit the red light district together with Philipp. Here Philipp tells a prostitute in a drunk state that he had killed someone.

However, when Werner Wiesenkamp's wife disappears with his brother to Mallorca , things take a dramatic turn. The next morning Astrid visits the construction site to ask Philipp why he did not show up for her appointment. Horst then tells his daughter that Philipp was in the brothel with him and the others. Werner Wiesenkamp, who is also a sports pilot , discovers at the airfield that Marek is still alive, whereupon he drives to the construction site to confront his employees. Meanwhile, a police operation is taking place on the construction site, as the prostitute told the police Philip's story. The forensics department finds the plastic bags in the foundation that were concreted in by Kümmel, Kalle and Horst after Marek's accident. However, there are only several canisters of waste oil in the bags and not, as assumed, the dismembered body of Marek. The construction site is then closed by the authorities. Kümmel, Kalle and Horst are employed by Ernst Wiesenkamp, Werner's brother, but dismissed again a short time later. Werner Wiesenkamp is now planning to mount the bomb from the construction site under his sports aircraft and to put it "on his brother's roof". Kümmel, Kalle, Horst, Astrid and Philipp can successfully prevent this project, but they cannot prevent the bomb from detonating while handling the excavator . The explosion uncovered a disused mining tunnel that leads from Werner Wiesenkamp's construction site to the neighboring Ernst Wiesenkamp construction site. Kümmel, Kalle, Horst, Philipp and Werner tear down the old mining supports without further ado. Back in the daylight, they find that the topping-out ceremony is being held at Ernst Wiesenkamp's construction site, and Werner tries to prevent his brother from doing it. Ernst is not impressed, however, and when the erection tree is set down, the shell of the house collapses.

Therefore, the contract to set up the kindergarten does not go to Ernst, but to the company “Marek und Partner”: Werner Wiesenkamp has reconciled with Marek, who has meanwhile become rich through stock trading. Both have joined forces professionally, as a result of which Werner's construction company is restructured. Philipp and Astrid are happy together, while Kümmel, Kalle and Horst work again for Werner Wiesenkamp.

Remarks

In the background of the scene, when Kalle is buying insulation material from the hardware store, you can see a scene from Bang Boom Bang . There Keek and Andy find the dead gulp in the trunk of their car.

The film contains numerous cameo appearances , including Heinrich Schafmeister as Philip's uncle Eberhard, Stefan Jürgens slips into the role of an architect, and in the end credits Herbert Knebel can be seen as grandpa in a wheelchair who is wedged in the too small bathroom. The “ Tote Hosen ” employee Uwe Faust makes a small appearance as a worker.

When casting the film, the actors from the short film of the same name were largely used. Dietmar Bär, on the other hand, is one of the new casts who slips into the role of the late Diether Krebs , who was involved in the shooting of Peter Thorwarth's film Bang Boom Bang - Ein todicheres Ding a year before his death . In the credits the dedication “ In memory of Diether Krebs and Jens Schwager ” can be read. However, Krebs himself can be seen briefly in a photo in which he represents the father of the Wiesenkamp brothers.

The twenty-part television series of the same name with Janin Reinhardt , Hildegard Krekel and Daniel Krauss was created between 2003 and 2006 . Ralf Richter was the only one to take his role from the feature film. The actor Johannes Rotter also appears in the movie: He plays Jochen, the foreman of the neighboring construction site, but replaces Horst in the construction team.

The shooting location in the Unna district of Nordlünern was actually the construction site for the villa that Giuseppe Reina , then a player from Borussia Dortmund, had built at the time. Various indoor and outdoor photos were taken in Dortmund-Neuasseln .

As in Bang Boom Bang , Karl Thorwarth, the director's father, played a policeman again. This time he played the senior officer in digging the foundation.

reception

“As is usual for Thorwarth comedies, the construction worker slapstick unfolds an irresistible Ruhrpott charm, which is underlaid with hearty puns, bizarre slapstick and macabre nuances. Ralf Richter, Willi Thomczyk and Hilmi Sözer play the construction site boys so realistically and ripped off that Alexandra Maria Lara is the only woman on the construction site to have a difficult time alongside the testosterone giants.

Thorwarth's shotcrete burlesque is hilarious up to the last second, but should be avoided by a group of people: If you are currently a client, this film could give you panic attacks. "

- Cinema