Werner - tough!

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Movie
Original title Werner - tough!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1990
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Niki List (real film)
Gerhard Hahn (animation)
Michael Schaack (animation)
script Ernst Kahl
production Bernd Eichinger
music Jörg Evers (real film)
camera Egon Werdin (real film)
cut Ingrid Koller (real film)
Ulrich Steinvorth (animation)
Magdolna Rokob (animation)
occupation

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Werner - tough! is a German comic adaptation from 1990, which contains both real film and cartoon sequences. The film is based on the Werner comics by Rötger "Brösel" Feldmann , who also plays in the film. The cartoon sections are woven into the real film framework. The film has had four sequels so far.

Framework story

One night the pastor Adalbert Amen broke down his car near a piece of forest. By chance he discovers a being called Rumpelstiltskin , an experience that will help him at the end of the film.

In the next scene, crumbs appear for the first time. It is in the hands of King Curmudgeon the Grown, the ruler of the county of Vulture Grave in the Debacle Mountains. Brösel was supposed to amuse them with a film. Curmudgeon, however, suffers from an illness, the chronic laughing muscle cramp, and therefore cannot laugh. He makes it clear to Brösel that he already had comedians like Dick und Doof , Heinz Erhardt , Karl Valentin , Buster Keaton , Otto Waalkes and Woody Allen beheaded because they couldn't make him laugh. Brösel now has three days from the king to make him laugh.

When Brösel is sitting in his dungeon cell and has no ideas, he unexpectedly receives help from Rumpelstiltskin, who gives him a magical ballpoint pen with which he can draw brilliant stories. In return, Brösel has to promise the fulfillment of a wish. Brösel, who hardly has an alternative, accepts the offer and begins to draw with the miracle pen, the scene continues into the film drawn by Brösel. When the king saw the film, however, he couldn't laugh at it and had Crumbs beheaded. Here Brösel wakes up from his dream.

Back in reality, Brösel's film producer Gerd Geldhai is standing in front of his door and wants Brösel to finally finish his drawing drafts. Thinking of a tip from Rumpelstiltskin from the dream, Brösel draws “a swank from his youth”, which the viewer gets to see again as an animated film. At the end of the insertion, Brösel has finished his work and sends the drawings to the post. The clerk, distracted by a pretty blonde, confuses Brösel's package with another. As a result, Brösel's drawings end up in Siberia, and Gerd Geldhai receives a package full of hot water bottles.

Brösel made a second attempt and went back to work, which was again shown as a cartoon. When he's finished, he wants to personally bring the drawings to the producer. However, when he is speeding into a tunnel on his motorcycle, he collides with a truck, the driver of which was not looking at the street, but at his Werner comic. Crumbs end up in the hospital. But he is not to be beaten. In the hospital he uses a syringe to draw “ink” from his smoker's leg and uses it to make new drawings and thus another chapter of animation. This material finally makes it to the premiere of the film, on which Brösel appears accompanied by his nurse. The film satisfies both the producer and the audience.

When Brösel has to go to the toilet during the premiere, Rumpelstiltskin appears to him and demands that his wish be fulfilled: Brösel should marry him as a thank you for helping, because the king had laughed at the rhyme at the moment when Brösel was beheaded that Brösel had uttered as the last words. When both of them stand in front of Pastor Amen at their wedding, Rumpelstiltskin does not want to reveal their names. But the pastor remembers the incident in the forest and begins to guess. After the first two attempts ( Alf and Steffi Graf ) Rumpelstiltskin feels safe, but when the pastor mentions her real name on the third attempt, she becomes loudly angry and turns into a pretty young woman. The wedding can then continue and ends with a joint drinking song, to which the entire congregation and the pastor join in. After the wedding kiss between Brösel and the young woman, the latter turns into a frog.

The next morning you see Crumbs lying in bed with the nurse. Brösel is woken up by the phone: Film producer Geldhai tells the shocked Brösel that he has a contractual option for a continuation of the film. It remains to be seen whether the scenes between Brösel and Rumpelstiltskin took place in reality or only in Brösel's dreams.

Action of the cartoon sequences

The football game (demonstration to the king)

Werner welcomes the audience from his attic apartment at the weekly market in Kiel. He throws a soccer ball in the middle of the early morning market crowd and thus causes an involuntary soccer game between sellers and visitors, which is "directed" by the police officers Bruno and Helmut, who are of course also involuntary referees. With some biting remarks, Werner comments on how the uncontrolled ball game gradually destroys the market and ultimately leads to an angry brawl, in which the two police officers no longer have any control.

The burst pipe (demonstration at the king)

This piece describes a section from Werner's apprenticeship and introduces his training facility with master Röhrich and journeyman Eckat. The trio is tasked with sealing a leak in a screw connection at Ms. Hansen. But still in the stairwell there is an argument with Mrs. Gloer, who has just mopped the stairwell: Werner, heavily laden with a wash basin and additional building materials, forgot to kick off his shoes in the hallway. Mrs. Gloer fishes for Werner with a mop, who then falls to the floor and breaks the sink. Now he is supposed to cheer again, while Master Röhrich tells him to give Eckat a hand in Frau Hansen's apartment as soon as possible. In the meantime, Eckat tries to fix the leak by tightening the valve screw connection, but then gives up and explains to Werner, who is now present, that a valve exchange is necessary. Master Röhrich, who arrives after a drink with Mrs. Hansen, intervenes, lengthening the pliers with a pipe and then tearing off the valve from the pipe, so that the apartment is flooded. Werner is sent to close the main line, which turns out to be difficult due to the missing key for the basement. Meanwhile, Master Röhrich has to clear Mrs. Gloer's toilet, where he becomes so jammed that his head gets stuck in the basin and the toilet bowl tears off. Carrying the toilet on his head, he stumbles through the apartment and rushes out of the window like an artist. When he got downstairs, he stumbled back into the house, disoriented, and when he arrived in Frau Hansen's living room, back out of the window into the now completely dirty and flooded courtyard of the house. Werner designs the out of control situation like a show by commenting on the pathetic attempts of his master to find his two co-workers (where he repeatedly falls out of the window) like a sports presenter and assigns postural grades.

Building site

You see Werner once again in his company. He is supposed to get a radiator and a gas bottle for Eckat with his moped to the big construction site. But things are so difficult that only a trailer can be used. Werner believes he can dust off a trailer hitch, but his master regulates it in his own way with a piece of wire. While Werner is on the move, he dreams of a bigger chopper and speeds downhill towards the construction site. Because the brake on his moped failed, he ended up in the mud and distributed the items for Eckat in the area. In order to free the trailer, he occupies the crane and destroys a lot or lifts the toilet block in which Röhrich is doing his business. Eckat saves Werner from the master, but he is furious and turns the two of them into a snail. Werner and Eckat are supposed to work concentrated, but after the foreman has disappeared, Eckat prefers to go to the bricklayers for a beer. Werner uses this to build a gas bomb. But he is disturbed and Eckat calls him to drink beer with the masons. When Röhrich and the inspection manager, Mr Hüpenbecker, inspect the construction site, Werner's bomb explodes and destroys a large part of the shell. Röhrich and Hüpenbecker survive the explosion disoriented and are led out by Eckat and one of the bricklayers. Fortunately, Werner went to vocational school the next day.

At the TÜV

Werner meets his rocker buddy Herbert at the TÜV . Werner wants to register his sausage blinker, which can also be used with other canned foods. Herbert, on the other hand, has a beer can holder to enter. While the two wait for the test engineers, they tamper with the machines and describe them as not traffic-friendly. A wild discussion ensues between Werner, Herbert and the inspectors about the question of what a motorcycle should look like. Since the two refuse to make the entries and there is a hail of insults on both sides, Werner and Herbert decide to leave the TÜV premises.

In the hospital

Werner is seriously injured in the hospital and only needs rest and sleep. But he is constantly woken up by the nurses and cleaning ladies; first to wash and measure a fever, then to make bed and to the head nurse's rounds and lastly because of breakfast. Werner's aggressive behavior encourages the nurses to give him a sedative and an enema. Meanwhile Werner is woken up again, this time by the cleaning lady and her noisy vacuum cleaner. This hits the closet, where Werner has stashed his last beer reserves, which are now flooding the hospital. The head nurse is hit by the tidal wave on the way to Werner's room and the syringes are thrown into the air. The chief physician and his colleagues are currently on the rounds and are being anesthetized by the syringes, the head nurse is given her own enema to taste. Werner escapes from the hospital, swimming in a barrel, directly into the sidecar of Andi's motorcycle and both "bowl" towards the beach. But once there, Werner falls asleep immediately. When his buddies arrive, attracted by smoke signals, they mix him a strong coffee to get him back on his feet. Whipped up by the coffee, Werner runs to the beach and makes a "flat head" into the water.

Das Lokal (premiere film)

The last part takes place in a pub run by a Berliner who misunderstands the peculiarities of North Germans and has to take a lot. There is also a Skat round, whose players are plagued by communication problems. Werner and his rocker buddies show up at the restaurant and the president orders "six times juice" from the waiter. However, both of them also have communication problems when ordering. So the waiter misunderstands the "juice" as fruit juice instead of beer and wants to make "pineapple" if desired. For his part, however, the president thinks that the waiter is trying to get his girlfriend Anna wet. As a result, there is a loud frenzy and the restaurant is destroyed.

background

  • The writing of the script began after Eichinger's Constantin Film was contacted in the summer of 1987, initially under the working title Werner - Eiskalt! what was the latest Wernerband published at the time. The animation and real production dragged on from the beginning of 1989 to autumn 1990; Brösel wrote about the completion of the work on the trick part in the book for the film: “Fertich was Dienstachs. I went out and looked around after all this time. - The wall was weak, socialism was weak, Honecker was also weak ... but my buck was still there! "
  • The shooting for the real film sequences took place between June and September 1990 in Berlin , Kiel , and Flensburg .
  • It was released in theaters in Germany on November 29, 1990, and was first broadcast on German television on April 2, 1994 on RTL .
  • The production costs were estimated at 8 million German marks. With around 4.9 million cinema-goers, the film was the third most successful film of 1990 in Germany, behind look who's talking! and Pretty Woman . In its time it was the second most successful domestic film in Germany since the beginning of the recording of the audience figures after Otto - The Film (1985; 14.5 million viewers in Germany as a whole).
  • The soccer game comes from the comic book Werner - All clear? (1982), the burst pipe (aka Apprenticeship II ) from Werner - normal yes! (1987), the construction site (alias Apprenticeship I ) from Werner - Who Else? (1983), At the TÜV from Werner - Ice cold! (1985), In the Werner Hospital - Who Else? and Das Lokal is made up of various stories from the volumes Werner - Or what? (1981) to Werner - normal yes! together. There is no direct template for the beach party, but there is a scene on the beach in Werner - that's better! (1989), and the flat-top comes as a comedy originally consisting of only three pictures from Werner - Or what?

music

The soundtrack title song by Torfrock became number one in the German single charts in early 1991. At first Torfrock had thought up the refrain "As tough as a wreck on the beach, as tough as the employment office", from which the line "As tough as a rocker, as tough as a chopper" became. Previously the song "Pump ab das Bier" by Werner Wicht was number one on the music charts, a song about the glorification of beer feasts (referred to as "pumping out" in Werner jargon). For the time being, however, it was planned that the title song "We need ... Werner" should come from the band Die Ärzte . Since the doctors had officially disbanded at this point, the song did not meet expectations and therefore did not appear as a title song, but as a closing song in the film.

The rest of the music used in the film consists of tracks from the rock 'n' roll or twist era, which Brösel experienced as a child. This time in particular served as a template for the Werner world. Among other things, the title “I am a man” by Ted Herold can be heard.

Reviews

“The attempt by comic artist Brösel alias Rötger Feldmann to launch his successful character“ Werner ”in the cinema is a complete failure, at least artistically. [...] Although technically clean, the film comics lack any wit; the same applies to the makeshift framework action shot in real film. "

- Lexicon of international film

"It is remarkable how this humor in the high points of the comic episodes lives from the preference for the anal and fecal areas."

- Friedrich Koch - pedagogy

"To reinforce and to place a handful of non-film products (including his own beer), Rötger-Brösel appears himself, plays himself and makes himself ready: When the character figure with the phallic prongs and the lisping underside bite a little even if it had a modest joke, that in the film is long gone. "

- Willi Winkler - The mirror

Sequels

Four sequels have appeared so far:

The sequels published in 1996, 1999 and 2003 are pure cartoons, first Werner - Eiskalt! takes up the combination of real and cartoon films from the first part.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ crumbs; Platt, Thomas (1990). Werner - tough! (Book about the film), Semmel-Verlach 1990, ISBN 3-922969-89-5 , chapter Should I do it all alone? (Book has no page numbers)
  2. ↑ crumbs; Platt, Thomas (1990). Werner - tough! (Book about the film), Semmel-Verlach 1990, ISBN 3-922969-89-5 , chapter camera + editing (book has no page numbers)
  3. ↑ Wikipedia: fact or fiction - Torfrock about Werner, Toorfmoorholm and the New German Wave. In: SHZ on youtube.com. Retrieved January 18, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Werner - Very tough! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ "Werner - Beinhart": Notes on a film success. In: Pedagogy. No. 4/1991, p. 52 ff.
  6. ↑ Binary nonsense. In: Der Spiegel . 50/1990, December 10, 1990.