Whatever Happens Next
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Whatever Happens Next |
| Country of production | Germany , Poland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julian Poerksen |
| script | Julian Poerksen |
| production | Stefan Gieren |
| music | Mahan Mobashery |
| camera | Carol Burandt from Kameke |
| cut | Carlotta smock |
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Whatever Happens Next is a German film and the directorial debut of the author and director Julian Pörksen . The film celebrated its world premiere at the 68th Berlinale , the screenplay was awarded the DEFA Foundation's sponsorship award at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival, and the film evaluation agency rated it “particularly valuable”. The road movie is a production by The Storybay TV. The theatrical release took place on November 8, 2018.
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One day, 43-year-old Paul Zeise disappears on his way to work. He gets off his bike and leaves everything behind, his wife, his job, his bourgeois life. From then on he roamed the world as a friendly good-for-nothing, sat down uninvited in the car of a cemetery gardener, turned up at a funeral and fraternized with a demented lady, scared a small family, turned up at a student party, traveled with her Host to Poland, lives there as a homeless man on the street, is attacked by incompetent crooks, lives in a hospital where he accompanies a coma patient to death and finally meets the impulsive Nele, with whom he falls in love. Little does Paul suspect that the private detective Ulrich Klinger is on his heels on his aimless journey, which leads from Leipzig via Lodz to Kiel. Engaged by his wife Luise Zeise, the detective follows the voluntarily homeless man, meets people who have taken him in - and falls in love with his client. Finally, there is a different kind of showdown.
Pörksen's film is a melancholy and comical foray through a world full of bizarre characters, a road movie about leaving the competitive society, a celebration of a decelerated, unintentional existence.
Press reviews
“With“ Whatever Happens Next ”, Poerksen succeeds in creating poetry that is the opposite of pretentious: rough, tender, funny and deeply humane. Julian Pörksen's debut is an exhilarating utopia of better people - and better films. "
FAZ, Julia Dettke
"Julian Pörksen's“ Whatever Happens Next ”(Perspective German Cinema) is a great road movie, which, with its random and spontaneous being on the move, does not aim at any old-fashioned social affair, but rather an absolutely biblical saint story. Apart from that, Paul is an absolutely great one Private detective on his heels. "
Spiegel Online, Lukas Stern
“Without looking back. This is how it begins, the life of a good-for-nothing, as the filmmaker Julian Pörksen, who has already presented himself in book form as a prophet of the waste of time, tells it in the road movie. It is a radical story, which Poerksen tells quietly with amusement and deliberately time-wasting. "
Tagesspiegel, Gunda Bartels
"'Whatever happens next' is an original, melancholic, funny, radical approach to a utopia - a rarity in all of our lives. "
badish newspaper
Awards
- DEFA Foundation award for the best script
- "Particularly valuable" rating from the German Film Evaluation Board
- Spiegel Online - Highlights of the Berlinale 2018
Web links
- Whatever Happens Next in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Whatever Happens Next at filmportal.de
- Whatever Happens Next on the Berlinale website
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Whatever Happens Next . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ 7 prizes for 5 Medienboard-sponsored films at the 28th Filmkunstfest MV . ( medienboard.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next - The Film. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next - The Film. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Whatever Happens Next. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ^ Julia Dettke: German Berlinale Films: Tailwind from All Sides . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 19, 2019]).
- ↑ Berlinale 2018: The best films of the festival . In: Spiegel Online . February 23, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 19, 2019]).
- ↑ If everything breaks, some things will be healed. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
- ^ Badische Zeitung: Roasting scrambled eggs in a foreign kitchen - cinema - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .