We say you! Treasure.

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Movie
Original title We say you! Treasure.
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Marc Meyer
script Marc Meyer
production Faysal Omer
music Christian Biegai
camera Peter Polsak-Lohmann
cut Diana Karsten
occupation

We say you! Treasure. is a German movie by Marc Meyer from 2007.

action

In the big city of Berlin, Oliver Eckstein is defenselessly exposed to the loneliness of the single city citizen. So he kidnaps different people around Christmas time to put together a family. “Mama”, “Grandma” and three “children”, all of them without any actual family relationships, all lonely themselves, are forced to move into an apartment in an empty high-rise building with him, “Papa”. Oliver has made provisions: there is enough to eat, the floor is insulated and is on the 17th floor, so that there is no need to think about fleeing or calling for help. He also stole a dog.

However, someone still lives next door. “Grandpa” has stayed in his old apartment and hopes to continue to live here in peace. Relationships develop between the various “family members”: “Grandma” Edna actually likes “Grandpa” Horst very much, “Mama” Sofia begins to look after the baby, the withdrawn boy Ennio slowly begins to thaw and the rebellious punk girl Maya laughs too. Before that, however, there are still various conflicts and difficulties, so Oliver turns off the water out of frustration and locks the refrigerators after the other members of the "family" have not appeared on time for dinner. He also prophesies "Mama" her husband would not love her and would have fathered a child with his secretary. When "Mama" manages to escape, she comes to an empty apartment and finds a letter from her husband, after which she returns to the others.

Despite the cramped situation and Oliver's only apparently democratic regulation of the daily togetherness, moments of family togetherness initially arise. But the artificially created coercive situation cannot last, and in the end everyone returns to their life, which has become less lonely for everyone involved.

reception

“'We say you! Schatz 'is not just a slightly different German comedy, it is initially a not very easily accessible chamber play about loneliness, happiness and stubborn worlds, which is allegorically charged in many ways and in which the tragic moments outweigh the comic ones. "

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“The material, which could be the starting point for a political parable heightened into the grotesque and absurd, is processed into a friendly, humane comedy. The game of unity and alienation as two sides of a family community contains some redundant scenes, but also leads to strong poetic images. All in all a film that avoids gaudy exaggerations and rather quietly encourages reflection on the role and importance of family. "

- Lexicon of International Films

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film review on schnitt.de
  2. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9