Whoever believes will be saved
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Whoever believes will be saved |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
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| Director | Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| script | Jeremy Leven (screenplay) and Marcus H. Rosenmüller (adaptation) |
| production | Max Wiedemann , Quirin Berg , Susanne Hildebrand |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Stefan Biebl |
| cut | Georg Soering |
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Whoever's Believing Will Be Blessed is a German feature film by Marcus H. Rosenmüller from 2012. The premiere took place on July 14, 2012 as part of the 2012 Oberaudorf Music Film Festival . The film was released in Germany on August 16, 2012. The film had its TV premiere on August 11, 2014 in Das Erste .
action
In the small Bavarian ski resort Hollerbach , it has not snowed for five years. Due to the lack of ski tourism and the associated economic hardship, more and more residents are leaving. The landlord Georg and his wife Emilie are desperate, but do not want to move away. But the surprising death of his fanatically religious mother-in-law Daisy gives Georg an idea: she should be canonized . Georg can also win the other villagers over to the idea. He is joined by the teacher Pellhammer, the policeman Hartl, the merchant Gumberger, the undertaker Möslang and Georg's sister-in-law Evi. Georg doesn't tell his wife Emilie alone, as he suspects that she would be against the plans.
So he secretly goes to Rome to apply for canonization. By chance, he met Pope Innocent XIV personally and was able to present his request to him. The Pope then sends an examiner to examine the case and miracles of the sacred Daisy. The responsible Cardinal Santi instructs the young priest Father Paolo Barsotti to check that it is his last chance to prove himself as a capable missionary . However, the young priest falls ill the evening before his departure and asks, in order to save his job with ruse, to drive his little pious brother Vincenzo as a replacement.
As soon as the false priest arrives in Hollerbach, the men of the village begin staging the two miracles they need. At a funeral inspection, they make the body disappear, and the village teacher disguised as the dead woman drives through the stream in a boat. However, the scene doesn't seem very believable. The staging of the second miracle fails fatally. The village teacher has planned a mock raid on the grocery store, in which the policeman is to be shot by the disguised robber Georg and then - after Daisy's prayer - is suddenly healed. In preparation, however, the weapons are mixed up, so that the policeman is really shot. In the hospital, the seriously injured law enforcement officer suffers a cardiac arrest . After praying to the “Holy Daisy” his heart continues to beat, he wakes up from a coma and has a vision. Deeply impressed by this event, Vincenzo calls his brother who in turn informs the cardinal. Then the Pope and the Cardinal set out for the village.
Because Emilie now learns of the planned canonization, there is a dispute and Georg is supposed to move out. He goes for a run and meets the real Father Paolo Barsotti, who is desperately trying to get to his brother, and takes him to the village. As the two Barotti brothers arrive at the parsonage at the same time, where the cardinal is already waiting, Paolo loses his job, while Vincenzo can now let his love for Evi run free. The Pope waits in front of Georg's house, where the two are chased away by Emilie, who cannot believe that the real Pope is at her door. George and the Pope then talked about the incidents around Daisy all night, which also forms the framework of the film. The next morning the Pope proclaims in mass that not only miracles alone are sufficient for canonization, but that the life and work of the deceased are also included. It starts to snow during the fair.
background
script
At the 30th Munich Film Festival , Marcus H. Rosenmüller showed a clip from the film. During the interview with the director "Shooting Stars at the Director's Cut" he commented on the development of the script:
"Every film is about the question of why samma actually there [...] I tried to tinker the topic into a script that was called inheriting and dying , but we didn't get anywhere . Then Wiedemann and Berg came to me with a book by Jeremy Leven ( Don Juan DeMarco ). I don't really speak English at all, but I thought it was laughable. "
production
The film was shot in 38 days in the fall of 2011. The Sonnenalm at Sudelfeld served as a mountain backdrop, while Kastl in the Upper Palatinate provided the village ambience . The scenes that take place inside the Vatican were recorded in the palace of Gloria Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg; the outdoor shots were taken in two days at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
Soundtrack
As in all of Rosenmüller's films since Who dies earlier is dead longer , Gerd Baumann composed the film music.
criticism
“In his latest work, Rosenmüller is nothing and nobody sacred. Rosenmüller not only translated the script by Hollywood director Jeremy Lewen, but also peppered the absurd plot with all kinds of black humor and exaggerated scenes. "
“And then there is a revival and a resurrection - all a bit much, but with Marcus Rosenmüller you always get the impression that he already knows what he's doing. Slap is no shame if he doesn't pretend to be something else. "
“The comedy, which oscillates between Heimatfilm and Bauernschwank, mixes a cocktail of bigotry, behind which tangible economic interests are camouflaged. Although the film doesn't drift into slapstick, it cannot give the characters a profile beyond clichéd typifications. "
Web links
- Who believes it will be saved in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Whoever believes it will be happy at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for those who believe will be saved . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 850 K).
- ↑ Age rating for whoever believes will be blessed . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ 5th Music Film Festival in Oberaudorf. Bayerischer Rundfunk , July 16, 2012, archived from the original on July 26, 2012 ; accessed on March 4, 2017 : "The BR co-production" Whoever believes, will be blessed ", which will not be released until August, was premiered there."
- ↑ Jennifer Caprarella: Comedies are good for the Church as an institution. In: Culture. Focus Online , August 11, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2017 (interview with Christian Ulmen ).
- ↑ Collin McMahon: Shooting Stars at the Director's Cut. In: News. Internationale Münchner Filmwochen GmbH, July 1, 2012, archived from the original on July 4, 2012 ; accessed on March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Vera Markert: Marcus H. Rosenmüller presents his new film in Hausham. Münchner Merkur , August 19, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2017 .
- ^ Ralf Dombrowski : Gerd Baumann in portrait. Musician, composer and soon to be a club operator. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 31, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Literally all kinds of things. "Whoever believes it will be blessed" in the cinema. In: Culture. Süddeutsche Zeitung , 23 August 2012, accessed on 4 March 2017 .
- ↑ He who believes will be saved. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .