Zettl (film)
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| Original title | Zettl |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 109 minutes |
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FSK 0 JMK 8 |
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| Director | Helmut Dietl |
| script | Helmut Dietl, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre |
| production |
David Groenewold , Gerhard Hegele , Helmut Dietl |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Frank Griebe |
| cut | Alexander Dittner |
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Zettl is a German film comedy from 2012 . The director Helmut Dietl also wrote the script together with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre . Michael "Bully" Herbig plays the title role of a Bavarian chauffeur who wants to make a career in Berlin at all costs .
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The gossip reporter Baby Schimmerlos fell victim to a motorcycle accident in Berlin. Its former chauffeur Max Zettl, a failed student at the journalism school, would do anything to finally get his media career going. He succeeds in winning the favor of the publisher Urs Doucier, who actually wanted to found a new Berlin gossip magazine with Schimmerlos. Doucier now appoints Zettl as editor-in-chief of this magazine and leaves the city. With this position, the capital and the trust of the publisher, Zettl is preparing to set up an editorial team. He succeeds in winning the wheelchair-sitting photographer Herbie Fried for this new project. Together they are looking for a lucrative story for the zero issue of The New Berliner magazine. Zettl's friend Verena, who is also the secret lover of German Chancellor Olbrich, 'Olli' Ebert, puts Zettl and Fried on a hot trail. The Chancellor has not been seen in public for weeks and in a TV interview by phone fakes a stay abroad while he is being treated in a private clinic in Berlin, where he eventually dies. Zettl and Fried get involved in the power play of the two politicians Scheffer and Gaishofer and help to keep the Chancellor's death a few days from the public. In exchange, Zettl gets explosive information about the Berlin mayor Veronique von Gutzow. She is transsexual and is currently planning to undergo sex reassignment surgery in the clinic where the Chancellor died. Since the publisher Urs Doucier fell in love with her and came to Berlin because of her, he is now disappointed that his future wife is having surgery. His stay in Berlin is therefore obsolete and with his departure Zettl is also rid of his beloved editor-in-chief. He is to be transferred to Cameroon and become ambassador there. While he is about to check in with Verena at the airport, he is ordered back: He has been appointed as the new government spokesman.
History of origin
According to Helmut Dietl's idea, the television series Kir Royal was produced as early as 1985 , in which the Munich crowd was poked up. He now had a similar plan for the Berlin scene, with the storyline being rolled back to the life of a gossip reporter. As with Kir Royal, they wanted to hire Franz Xaver Kroetz for the lead role. However, according to Dietl's statement, he wanted to change the script too much, whereupon Michael Herbig was chosen.
Reviews
The film was devastatingly criticized by the critics of various newspapers. The main point of criticism was, above all, the overloaded script that the director had written with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre and which, in the opinion of many critics, nipped most jokes in the bud. Against the criticism of the Berliner Kurier , in which the "lousy" quality of the script was attributed to "long-term brain damage" as the late effects of Stuckrad-Barre's cocaine use, von Stuckrad-Barre took legal action.
In addition, the director Helmut Dietl was accused of having reached neither the wit nor the level of the original Kir Royal .
"Common sense can only explain this rubbish like this: Helmut Dietl, this original Munich plant, had a nightmare in which he was transplanted to Berlin [...] The film not only lacks any subtlety, there are no indications that it is During the shooting there was a director who would have paid attention to the speed, the punch line or even the connections. Dietl must have been so terrified of Berlin that he just wanted to pop his displeasure at the feet of the city and its financiers. "
“'Zettl', which was still considered the film event of the month last week, now appears as a further example of the fact that the worse punishment is often not the continuous withdrawal but the fulfillment of the longing. Whoever wanted the sequel to 'Kir Royal' has it now. There won't be a better one. And that can be meant comfortably. "
“'Zettl' looks like a drunk trying to tell a complicated political satire: every punch line is swallowed, but the same unimportant things are spat out again and again. A movie like a hiccup; impossible to retell, [...] But 'Zettl' doesn't even work as a bizarre number revue, the film simply lacks the angry joke. "
“In the idle state of his cute social hubris, Zettl hangs hopelessly behind a reality in which a bargain-hunting class bookkeeper as Federal President always says 'you' when he speaks of himself and a lousy newspaper sells its lousy methods as journalism. And then the nice bully Herbig proudly says as a funny Zettl that he is 'unbeatably characterless' - in a world that has got used to amoral professions like the investment banker. That could be cute, if only it wasn't so boring. "
“A director tries to amuse himself with the decadence of politics - and in the process literally drowns in the generous state film subsidy fund. With 'Zettl' a humorous nightmare comes true: You feel generously entertained - and easily forgets to laugh. "
“In Berlin, on the other hand, this film has nothing, or better: it has lost everything. [...] No, not even the capital deserves such a film. Breathtaking! Yes, it is breathtaking how far Helmut Dietl goes below a level that he once set himself. "
“The ashes of Baby Shimmerlos. Helmut Dietl's comedy »Zettl« is a brilliant, but nonetheless soulless satire on Berlin's political scene. "
“Zettl” should be so much, a satire on the Berlin republic, on the political and media caste, not a continuation, but a continuation of “Kir Royal”. But as is so often the case when you want too much, the plan doesn't work. "
"Breathless, hectic satire between cabaret and hearty peasant theater, which impales the 'fooling' in the country less subtle than rather coarse, but apart from a few dramatic and verbal highlights, it is never convincing in terms of film and comes across as a toothless and harmless number revue."
In the interview that Dietl gave after he found out that he was suffering from cancer, he noted that he had suffered "from the malice that poured over the film" and became depressed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Zettl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 048 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Zettl . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ TV broadcast Page no longer available , search in web archives: Stilbruch , broadcast on January 26th, 2012 at 11 p.m. at rbb .
- ^ TV program Nachtkultur , broadcast on February 2nd at 11 p.m. on SWR TV .
- ↑ "It has been proven that cocaine only increases performance in the short term, long-term brain damage is the rule." In: "Die Berlin-Stänkerer" , article by Sascha Langenbach in Berliner Kurier (online) of February 3, 2012, accessed on February 9 2012
- ↑ "Like an insulted liver sausage" , report by the Meedia industry service from February 7, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2012
- ↑ "Stuckrad-Barre im Boulevard-Kreuzfeuer" , article on Der Spiegel (online) from February 8, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2012
- ^ Film review Dietl's Nightmare of the Berlin Republic from February 1, 2012
- ↑ Film review Comfort yourselves, it won't get any better from February 1, 2012
- ^ Film review Koma Royal from January 31, 2012
- ^ Film review The caricature of the original caricature from February 1, 2012
- ^ Film review On Searching and Finding Satire, February 2, 2012
- ^ Film review of Helmut Dietl's new comedy “Zettl” - Berlin didn't deserve that from February 1, 2012
- ^ Film review from January 30, 2012
- ↑ Film review totally bogged down: Helmut Dietl no longer has a bite from February 2, 2012
- ↑ "Cancer - I was just missing that" . Interview conducted by Giovanni di Lorenzo. Die Zeit No. 49 / November 28, 2013, pp. 15-17.
Web links
- Official website
- Zettl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zettl in the Lexicon of International Films
- Zettl at filmportal.de