Wild Mouse (film)

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Movie
Original title Wild mouse
Country of production Austria ,
Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Josef Hader
script Josef Hader
production Veit Heiduschka ,
Michael Katz
camera Andreas Thalhammer ,
Xiaosu Han
cut Ulrike Kofler ,
Monika Willi ,
Christoph Brunner
occupation

Wild Mouse is a feature film by Josef Hader from the year 2017 . The Austrian - German co-production was released in Austria on February 17, 2017, in Germany and Switzerland the film started on March 9, 2017. The premiere took place during the Berlin International Film Festival 2017 on February 11, where the film will be shown in the competition for the Golden Bear was invited.

action

The 55-year-old Georg has been a respected and feared music critic for a Viennese newspaper for many years. His editor-in-chief Waller unexpectedly fired him one day due to austerity measures. Georg hides this from his 43-year-old wife Johanna, who wants a child from him and is mainly busy waiting for the next ovulation in order to realize her desire to have children.

During the day, Georg uses his newly won free time to renovate an old roller coaster called Wilde Maus in the Prater together with his former school colleague Erich, who is also unemployed, and his Romanian friend Nicoletta and make it fit to drive again. During the night, Georg starts campaigns of revenge against his former boss, which initially begin as minor damage to property, but quickly escalate to larger attacks and soon endanger Georg's carefully built bourgeois existence.

Johanna finally receives an offer from Georg's former boss and learns from him that Georg has long been unemployed.

In the end, he wants to shoot Waller, who is sleeping in a mountain hut with his friend, but Georg doesn't make it. Then he wants to commit suicide in the snow, but is discovered by two farmers, flees almost naked and finally returns to Johanna.

production

The main actors at the premiere during the Berlinale 2017
Wilde Maus Hochschaubahn in the Wurstelprater in Vienna's 2nd district

The shooting took place from September to November 2015 in Vienna and Lower Austria , and the shooting took place in Vienna's Prater , among other places . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and the Province of Lower Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting and ARD ( Degeto ) were involved. The film was produced by Wega Film , co-producers were Majestic Film and FreibeuterFilm . Hjalti Bager Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Max Wohlkönig for the costume design and Christoph Kanter for the production design.

For Josef Hader, who also acted as the main actor and was responsible for the script, this was the debut as a director. The title of the film is the " Wilde Maus " gondola in the Wurstelprater .

The film was released on DVD in 2018 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

Film music

reception

The Süddeutsche Zeitung said it was "remarkable how well Hader mastered the craft of filmmaking in his debut". He succeeded in "very funny and very sad pictures, mostly they are even both at the same time". The film is "wonderfully laconic, neatly assembled, with the cabaret artist's sure sense of grotesque, evil punch lines".

The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "It is not the most original or sophisticated film of the Berlinale, but it is easily the funniest." The world described the film as "elegant, consistent, perfectly genre-mixing social grotesque" that is "entertaining and maddeningly funny" . The portal femundo praised the film as an “intelligent and entertaining comedy about […] the lack of communication and the unreasonable demands of everyday life”.

The Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , on the other hand, said that the film was “not exactly a recommendation for further film projects with Josef Hader as the sole director and screenwriter”, that it didn't have much to offer visually and judged: “The erratic plot also opens up more secondary threads than he can usefully merge. The absurdly abrupt end is almost logical again, because every attempt to round off the story should have failed ”. Similar to the variety , which spoke of a "visually adept, but not memorable directorial debut".

In Austria, the film recorded 52,332 visitors on the first weekend, making it the most successful theatrical release of an Austrian film since Poppitz in 2002. As a result, the film was awarded the Austrian Ticket for more than 75,000 visitors. In Germany, Wilde Maus had the best start for an Austrian film. With 264,284 visitors, the film was the most successful film of the Austrian cinema year 2017, according to Film Austria .

In 2017 the film was nominated for the DACHS script award ( Five Lakes Film Festival ).

Awards and nominations

  • 2017: Diagonale - Prize for the most innovative production performance, Prize for the best artistic montage
  • 2018: Austrian Film Award 2018 - nomination in the categories of best male actor (Josef Hader) and best male supporting role (Georg Friedrich)

Web links

Commons : Wild Mouse  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Wilde Maus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 165060 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Wilde Maus . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Wilde Maus (2017) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved on January 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Profile at berlinale.de (accessed on February 1, 2017).
  5. ^ Courier: Josef Hader and the "Wild Mouse" . Article dated November 2, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2017.
  6. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Wild Mouse . Retrieved on January 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ filmladen.at: Wild Mouse . Retrieved on January 7, 2017.
  8. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  9. ↑ orf.at - “Most exciting film start” for strife . Article from January 7, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ orf.at - Josef Hader for the first time as a director . Article of October 31, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2017.
  11. ↑ derStandard.at: The STANDARD edition "The Austrian Film" is now an impressive 310 pieces . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ Wild Mouse: Film music . Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  13. ↑ profil.at: “Wilde Maus” with the participation of politicians . Article dated February 21, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017.
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Komik des Niedergangs" . Article dated March 8, 2017, accessed November 22, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b derStandard.at: Press review of Haders “Wilde Maus”: The “effortlessly funniest” Berlinale film . Article dated February 13, 2017, accessed February 14, 2017.
  16. ↑ femundo.de: Vienna between nostalgia and daily madness. September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  17. ^ Kurier: "Wilde Maus": Most successful cinema release since "Poppitz" . Article dated February 20, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017.
  18. ↑ List of Diamond-Super-Golden-Austria Tickets 2017 . Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  19. ↑ Record start for “Wilde Maus” in Germany. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , March 14, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2017 .
  20. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten: The local box office winners . Article dated December 30, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017.
  21. ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival 2017: DACHS script award . Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  22. ↑ orf.at: Large Diagonale Prizes were awarded . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017.
  23. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.