Where is Fred?
Where is Fred? is a German feature film comedy directed by Anno Saul from 2006 . The production is based on a script by the two American scriptwriters, Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, which the author Bora Drachtkin significantly revised for the German-speaking cinema market, and is about the Berlin foreman Fred Krüppers, played by Til Schweiger , who poses as a disabled person in order to procure a hand-signed basketball of his favorite Alba Berlin player for the spoiled son of his fiancée - and in the process involuntarily become the star of an image campaign of the basketball club.
The shooting, jointly produced by Hofmann & Voges Entertainment and Neue Bioskop Germany, took place between September and October 2005 in Berlin and the surrounding area and was funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF) Bayern and the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA). Other roles include Alexandra Maria Lara , Jürgen Vogel , Anja Kling , Tanja Wenzel and Christoph Maria Herbst . The official cinema release followed on November 16, 2006 in Germany, where the film received mostly mixed reviews. With around 825,000 visitors and total box office income of 5.1 million euros, Wo ist Fred? among the 13 most successful German cinema productions of 2006.
action
The polishing Fred Krüppers wants his beloved Mara make a marriage proposal. He's considering the right moment at a basketball game for the Alba Berlin club , which they visit together. Before Mara agrees to the proposal, her spoiled son Linus should first take Fred into his heart. But he doesn't even think about it. Instead, he would like Fred to hand him a hand-signed basketball by the star basketball player Mercurio Müller for his birthday. Since this ball is always thrown into the disabled stands after the game, this is anything but easy for Fred. During a bowling game, he got the idea of sneaking into the stands as a disabled fan. With the help of his work colleague Alex - disguised as his supervisor - they attend a game. Fred plays a speech and walking disabled person in a wheelchair who can neither speak nor walk. But Ronnie is already waiting on stage, who has decided to catch this ball today. But Fred outsmarts the handicapped Ronnie and catches the ball himself. Fate doesn’t seem to mean that well with him, because after the game it turns out that the signature and authenticity of the ball take another week and an image film about Alba Berlin is also planned, in which Fred is to play. In his role as a disabled person, Alex quickly gave him the name Fred Krüppelmann.
For the next seven days, Fred was forced to play the “handicapped” who can neither walk nor speak. Everything goes haywire on the construction site, and to make matters worse, Denise, who is responsible for the film, is also an attractive young woman whom Fred quickly took into her heart. Because Alex cannot prove that he is a trained nurse, Fred comes to Frau Hildegard's home for a while, where he meets Ronnie again. He quickly finds out that Fred is only faking his disability and blackmailed him with it: For not betraying him, Fred should bring him into the film and thus enable a meeting with his idol Mercurio Müller.
In the course of filming, Denise and Fred get closer and closer until they fall in love. Fred is plagued by doubts as to whether he is doing the right thing, and above all whether it is the right thing to marry Mara, who puts her spoiled son's wish above her relationship with Fred. Since Benno Held, a former professional basketball player and head of the sports marketing agency Service Direkt , who commissioned the film, made major changes to the film and removed Ronnie's desired scenes, Ronnie believes that the agreement with Fred has been broken. So he betrays Fred to Benno Held. But Held does not think of publishing the revelation, as the club cannot use a scandal, and demands that Fred continue to play the handicapped and that the handover of the ball be filmed with him. In this case, however, Fred decides for the truth and confesses in front of the camera in the basketball stadium that his handicap was only invented and that he only faked it in order to get the ball. At the same time, he also confesses his love to Denise. Before that, however, she had overheard a conversation between Fred and Benno Held and left the stadium full of disappointment before she could witness Fred's confession. Ronnie follows her, and Denise finally finds out that Fred loves her, and they both get together.
background
The idea behind Where's Fred? comes from a joint script by US film writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The two filmmakers had originally intended to direct the script themselves for the domestic cinema market, but failed early because of the financing of the project. The material later fell into the hands of the German producer Matthias Ehmke, who offered the script to the Munich producer Philip Voges . In 2003, he secured the German rights to the script with his production company Hofmann & Voges. Neue Bioskop Germany later came on board as a further producer. Senator Film Produktion and SevenPictures acted as co-producers , with ProSieben participating . Financial support was provided by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA).
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Anno Saul was hired to direct , who Voges noticed primarily through his comedy Kebab Connection (2005). Saul named the "wonderfully incorrect and insanely funny stuff" as an attraction of his engagement. The cast resulted primarily from Voges' earlier projects and casting phases, which were led by Emrah Ertem. Jürgen Vogel had already worked with Voges on the feature film Buddies in 1996 . Alexandra Maria Lara and Christoph Maria Herbst , however, joined the project through Ertem, who had already been able to cast the autumn for Hui Buh - Das Schlossgespenst (2006). Anja Kling had previously stood in front of the camera with Schweiger in Michael Herbig's satire (T) Raumschiff Surprise - Period 1 (2004); her older sister Gerit Kling was also cast as her sister in the film. Former No Angels singer Vanessa Petruo and comedian Kurt Krömer appeared in Where's Fred? again made her cinema debut. Til Schweiger and Fahri Ogün Yardım only met while filming. A number of disabled extras and professional supporting actors also worked on the film, including Marienhof actor Erwin Aljukic .
After a year of revision by the author Bora Drachtkin , filming could begin in autumn 2005. These took place from September 2nd to October 24th 2005 mainly in Berlin and the surrounding area. Filming locations included the Max-Schmeling-Halle , the Velodrom , the Johannesstift , the Schöneberg Town Hall and the Sacrow Palace as well as the Großbeerenstraße in the Kreuzberg district . The stadium scenes were created as a mix of real game images that Saul recorded with a total of four camera units on a match day, re-shot set recordings with extras and with the help of digital post- production . Further scenes were implemented with the help of stunt people .
music
The score for Where's Fred? was composed by Marcel Barsotti . The soundtrack for the film was released on November 17, 2006 by Polystar and includes Barsotti's score as well as songs by artists such as Snow Patrol , James Brown , Bob Geldof and Orson , who can be heard in the film.
- Bob Geldof - "Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)"
- James Brown - " Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine "
- Marcel Barsotti - "Where is Fred ?: Where is Fred?"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Where's Fred ?: Fred & Denise"
- New Found Glory - "I Don't Wanna Know"
- Orson - "No Tomorrow"
- Marcel Barsotti - "The puke"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Supi"
- Mr. Scruff - "Spandex Man"
- Absynthe Minded - "Pretty Horny Flow"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Bowling Crash"
- Timid Tiger - "Miss Murray"
- Siebeth - "3 Minutes"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Ronny Kimbel"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Wheelchair Ahoy"
- Bass - "Playing Games"
- Paris - "Freedom"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Really difficult construction site"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Love at first sight"
- Swinging Girls - "Let yourself be pampered with music"
- Marcel Barsotti - "Finale with a kiss"
- The Feeling - "Fill My Little World"
- Snow Patrol - " Chasing Cars "
- James Brown - "Sex Machine"
reception
Reviews
"Anno Saul's new comedy 'Where's Fred?' occasionally comes up with tear-inducing comedy. Mostly, however, she relies on cheap and well-known gags. […] The cast is just as uninspiring as the story: Schweiger as a simple heartbreaker, Lara as the gentle doe eye and Vogel in the role of the spokesman has been seen all too often. And so that nobody thinks that people are laughing at the expense of the disabled, model disabled people like 'Marienhof' actor Erwin Aljukic are part of the party. The German comedy shows itself with 'Wo ist Fred?' once again from their simple side. "
“ Where's Fred? is populist assembly line food, designed on the drawing board according to an emotionlessly calculated recipe; The main ingredients are German cinema 'favorites', a very talented director who has earned merits with amusing and charming comedies, and finally the bought-in script by American film writers who succeeded with an 'exemplary' subject like Santa Clause 2 , but in their own Country still found no money for their recent history. "
"Bland confusion and role-swapping clothes based on an outrageous script, which is less likely to let off steam on the back of disabled people than to create irritating role clichés and portray women either as calculating, as sex objects or as gullible-stupid sheep."
success
Where is Fred? premiered on November 12, 2006 at the Cinestar cinema in the Sony Center in Berlin . The production was finally released for public screening on November 16, 2006. According to press reports, the production already counted around 200,000 visitors in 515 cinemas after the end of the first screening weekend and thus reached third place behind 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough and Borat immediately German cinema charts.
A total of more than 825,472 cinema-goers in Germany saw the film by February 2007. The number of copies distributed has now reached 520 copies. The total national box office result was again around 5.1 million euros. In 2006, the film was ranked 47th in the annual German cinema charts and 13th place among the most successful German cinema productions of the year.
The actor Jürgen Vogel was featured at the Berlinale in February 2007 for his play in Wo ist Fred? and Sebastian Schipper's feature film Ein Freund von mir (2006) were awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for the best comedic performance of the year.
The free TV premiere of the film took place on May 28, 2009 in prime time on Sat.1 . A total of 3.59 million viewers saw the comedy, which corresponds to a market share of around 13.0 percent . In the advertising-relevant target group , the co-produced film achieved an above-average 20.8 percent and thus secured the day's victory among young viewers.
Web links
- "Where's Fred?" In the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "Where's Fred?" At Filmportal.de
- Official website (Flash only)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Where's Fred? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 446 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Where's Fred? Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Where is Fred ?: Press booklet (PDF; 1.9 MB) Hofmann & Voges Entertainment . Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ mobil - The magazine of Deutsche Bahn : You have to be able to indulge, title interview, Gabriela Herpell, 02.2016, p. 70.
- ↑ a b c Where's Fred ?; Germany 2005/2006, feature film (PDF; 1.9 MB) Film portal . Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Leni Höllerer: Mute and lame . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 2006
- ↑ Film review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. film service , 23/2006
- ↑ Where's Fred? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Jürgen Vogel awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize . Net-Tribune.de. December 14, 2012. Accessed on February 11, 2007. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Karim Mahmoud: Til Schweiger on crutches . In: Berliner Kurier , November 13, 2006
- ↑ Mike Oelerich: "Casino Royale" dominates the cinema charts . In: Widescreen . Widescreen-Online.de. December 4, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ a b weekend charts> Germany . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Universe Film - Where's Fred? . In: Blickpunkt: Film . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ film hit list: Years List (German) In 2006 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ^ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Thursday, May 28, 2009 . Oddsmeter.de . May 29, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
