Winter potato dumplings
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| Original title | Winter potato dumplings | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 2014 | ||
| length | 96 minutes | ||
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| Director | Ed Duke | ||
| script | Sascha Bigler , Ed Herzog, Kerstin Schmidbauer | ||
| music | Martin Probst | ||
| camera | Sebastian Edschmid | ||
| cut | Stefan Essl , Denis Bachter | ||
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Winter potato dumplings is a German crime film from 2014 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Rita Falk . The film by director Ed Herzog premiered on October 7, 2014 at the Filmtheater am Sendlinger Tor in Munich and was released in German cinemas on October 16, 2014.
action
In Niederkaltenkirchen there are several bizarre deaths in the Neuhofer family. Provincial police officer Franz Eberhofer and his friend, the private detective Rudi Birkenberger, are investigating. After the Neuhofer's father was electrocuted, one of the sons was killed by a container. Shortly afterwards, the depressed mother of the family is found hanging from a tree in the forest. While Eberhofer's superior Moratschek always assumes an accident, Eberhofer becomes suspicious. In addition, Hans, the only surviving son of the Neuhofer family, sold his parents' house and property and bought a Ford Mustang , which was destroyed during a chase with the police officer.
While the petrol station company OTM paid € 500,000 for the Neuhofer's property, Hans Neuhofer only received € 50,000. The purchase was carried out by the real estate company ImmoNovum from Munich.
Mercedes Dechampes-Sonnleitner, who has recently moved to Niederkaltenkirchen, turns the heads of the men in the village. When she was involved in a fatal accident with Hans, who wanted to make a statement the following morning, Birkenberger began researching ImmoNovum. It turns out that Mercedes is actually called Alexandra Kleindienst and, along with the architect who was supposed to lead the renovation of the house and is actually a Snowfrost driver (a parody of Bofrost ), belongs to ImmoNovum. The company has now moved to Tenerife, where Rudi Birkenberger wanted to go on a romantic vacation with his girlfriend. However, since his girlfriend left him at short notice, he flies there with the policeman Eberhofer, who is reluctant to go on this trip.
When Eberhofer meets Alexandra Kleindienst in the ImmoNovum office, she lets him know that she wants to make a confession in an abandoned church. Once there, he meets Klaus Mendel, the Snowfrost salesman, who threatens him with a pistol and tells him that as a sales driver he learned that OTM had offered a lot of money for the Neuhofer's property, but Father Neuhofer did not sell want. When installing an electric stove, he then electrocuted him. But since his bereaved relatives wanted to sell even less, he also killed them one after the other. Together with his accomplice, he was able to evade € 450,000 when the house was sold. But then Hans Neuhofer became suspicious, which is why he was also disposed of.
After their confession, Mendel and Kleindienst tie up Eberhofer and want to flee, but are arrested by the police who had been contacted by Rudi Birkenberger. The detective recorded the complete confession on his camcorder, but only a noise can be heard on the Eberhofer dictaphone. Nevertheless, both are praised by Moratschek for clarifying the case and mentioned in various newspapers.
title
In the film, the title is not explained, only referred to twice. Grandma Eberhofer expresses concern about her grandson Franz: "Omeiomei Franzl, you're as pale as a winter potato dumpling!", Later she is praised by Rudi Birkenberger: "Mrs. Eberhofer, your winter potato dumplings are balm for the soul!"
background
The film was shot from February 25, 2014 to April 4, 2014 in Frontenhausen , in the Lower Bavarian district of Dingolfing-Landau as well as in Munich and the surrounding area and on Tenerife . The place on Tenerife is the "ghost town" near Abades, a leprosy station built in 1944 but never completed.
Enzi Fuchs replaced Ilse Neubauer in her role of grandma Eberhofer, she remained part of the cast in the following films.
criticism
“Herzog's humor is not for the faint-hearted, the script lacks any literary sophistication. As far as film art is concerned, the orgiastic table dance of the exhausted Flötzinger is most convincing. "
“'Winter potato dumplings' is the better of the two previous films - even better, you have to say. Herzog succeeds in a nearly perfect film adaptation of a provincial thriller and perfectly captures the atmosphere of the Falk books. "
“However, this time director Ed Herzog makes the mistake that he so cleverly avoided in the previous film ' Dampfnudelblues '. He sells slapstick as humor until you end up believing what the regional comedy should actually refute: that Bavarians are idiots. "
"The film, which routinely juggles with set pieces from the subgenre, tends to stay in the mode of the swank and relies on its congenial leading actors, while the satirical-macabre atmosphere of the novel is only carried over in moments."
"Great fun ... characters with an addiction factor ... hearty punchlines ... Conclusion: a wonderfully black-humored crime thriller full of Bavarian originals that also have the original sound on it."
Web links
- Winter potato dumplings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Winter potato dumplings at filmportal.de
- Winter potato dumplings from crew united
- Winter potato dumplings in the online film database
- official homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for winter potato dumplings . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 841 K).
- ↑ Age rating for winter potato dumplings . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Winter potato dumplings. Premiere in autumnal Munich. In: muenchen.de. Portal München Betriebs-GmbH & Co. KG, October 8, 2014, accessed on November 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Winter potato dumplings from crew united
- ↑ Alois Knoller: Serial Murder and Suspenders: Franz Eberhofer is back in the cinema. Augsburger Allgemeine, October 16, 2014, accessed on November 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Alois Knoller: The perfect film adaptation of a provincial thriller. Augsburger Allgemeine, July 25, 2016, accessed November 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Doris Kuhn: Winter potato dumplings. In: Brief reviews of the theatrical releases of the week. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 16, 2014, accessed on November 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Winter potato dumplings. Film service, accessed November 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Walli Müller: Winter potato dumplings. In: Kino & Film. Bavaria 3, October 14, 2014, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; Retrieved November 19, 2016 .