Two over the mountain
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| Original title | Two over the mountain |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Torsten C. Fischer |
| script | Sathyan Ramesh |
| production | Kerstin Schmidbauer |
| music | Stephan Massimo |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Benjamin Hembus |
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Zwei über Berg is a German television film by Torsten C. Fischer from 2012 , which was produced on behalf of and for Das Erste .
Das Erste wrote at the start of the film: “A comedy about the fine line between friendship, love and work: Sometimes you have to put everything in life to the test in order to rediscover the tried and tested. This must also Gisela Schneeberger and Günther Maria Halmer seen in this witty romantic comedy of a different kind. Directed by Torsten C. Fischer, the outstanding ensemble, which also includes Rita Russek , Ulrich Noethen , Elena Uhlig and Erwin Steinhauer , engages in an exchange of blows brimming with dialogue wit and situational comedy, in which everyone involved is scratched and a new one Get a chance. "
action
Alfons Keilinger, head of the bed house “Die Welt als Bett”, is actually happily married to his wife Margot. When he hired the young designer Jette Klee, he got into trouble with his decades-long designer Paul Hufnagel, a very eccentric man. Hufnagel believes that Keilinger wants to slowly dismantle him and replace him with Klee. The two men have known each other for a long time and Keilinger is convinced that he has to take care of Hufnagel since his wife left him, which broke his heart, as he tells his secretary Hannah Zorn. Hannah is the good soul of the company and lives primarily for her work. She also manages to get Hufnagel to agree to work with Jette Klee for a period of one year.
When Keilinger invites Hannah, who is secretly in love with him, to dinner, he doesn't make her a declaration of love, as she briefly believes, but asks her to cover his liaison, which he has started with Jette Zorn. He wants Hannah to befriend his wife so that he can have his back so he can spend more time with Jette. Margot Keilinger runs a dance school and so Hannah accepts her invitation to visit it once. In fact, the women become friends. Hannah realizes how lonely Margot actually is. When Hannah and Margot visit their favorite landlord Carl Valentin, the sparks seem to fly between him and Margot, who by the way already suspects that her husband is cheating on her. In turn, she asks Hannah to keep her eyes open.
Margot invites Hannah to a wellness weekend at Tegernsee. Alfons Keilinger and Jette are there for a regatta this weekend. Margot found two tickets for the event at home and is convinced that her husband will be there with his lover. Hannah is now in a quandary, on the one hand her loyalty to her employer and on the other hand the affection for her new friend. When Keilinger asks her again for a favor, Hannah makes a decision that culminates in her abandoning the situation. Now, however, she sits between all the chairs, not only has she lost her job, Margot also ends her friendship. Alfons Keilinger is not doing much better, he is without his most loyal strength and has not only lost Jette, Margot doesn't want to know anything more about him either.
The next morning, Keilinger stands at Hannah's door, quite drunk. He stubbornly follows her on her tour to an alpine pasture, which she does at regular intervals. After bathing in an ice-cold mountain stream, he is almost sober again. Both are surprised by a violent thunderstorm and with great difficulty reach the alpine hut that Hannah often visits, which is closed today of all times due to a death. After Keilinger freaks out completely and Hannah has halfway brought him to his senses, the storm drops a thick branch on her head and lets her collapse. Keilinger, frightened, carries her into the hut, whose door he kicks in. There he confesses to Hannah that today he remembered that his wife was his great love. And he asks Hannah not to leave him because he needs her.
Back home, he meets his wife in an unequivocal situation with Paul Hufnagel, yet he explains to her that he has remembered that she was his only great love. Margot explains to him that she had wanted to sleep with Paul for 24 years and that she did so quickly before she wanted to make up with him again.
And Hannah, in turn, not only reconciles with Margot, but also accepts the quasi-proposal from Carl Valentin, from whom she separated ten years ago because of his alcohol addiction, which is also good news for their daughter Maren. And finally, Hannah also gets a dog she has longed for for years, which she takes with her to the bed block during the day.
production
Production notes
Zwei über Berg was filmed from July 20 to August 19, 2010 in and around Munich. The film was produced by Constantin Television GmbH (Munich) in co-production with ARD Degeto Film (Frankfurt am Main) and Bayerischer Rundfunk . The editing for BR was with Stephanie Heckner, for ARD / Degeto with Katja Kirchen. Andrea Oechsner was in charge of production, Anja Samy and Ines Fritsch (set) were in charge of production.
background
Günther Maria Halmer shuddered at the memory of shooting on the Karwendel when he had to climb an icy mountain stream. He didn't have to play the screams, they really came out of him. “But”, said Halmer, “what don't we comedians do when it comes to a comic effect?” Halmer, who had just shot a film with Senta, thought it was “good and logical” that the audience also “wanted to more mature people for a more mature audience ”. The private companies have their target audience up to 49, which they have to serve. He has therefore "never received an offer" from there. But the public broadcasters are “there for the entire public”, which wants to be catered for in all its breadth. And it is "just a fact that people are getting older".
Gisela Schneeberger said that she liked roles "whose character is not one to one open from the start, but rather a facade has to collapse" so that their "true essence becomes clear". The actress commented on the ensemble that all actors have known and liked each other for a long time. That is "also important with such a material if it should come across as fun and relaxed".
reception
First broadcast, audience rating
The first broadcast of the film on September 28, 2012 in the ARD program Das Erste was tuned in by 3.57 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 12.5 percent. Before that, Zwei über Berg was premiered on June 8th, 2012 at the Filmfest in Emden .
criticism
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave one of three possible points for claim, action and suspense, two for humor, pointed their thumbs up and wrote: “Not a smoothly ironed Heile-Welt-Schmarrn, but a bitter-sweet, very pointedly written one Posse. ”Conclusion:“ Lively love dance in the second spring ”.
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv gave the film 4½ out of 6 possible stars on its page and praised it: “'Zwei über Berg' is a comedy delight. Well built, brilliantly played, Gisela Schneeberger inimitable and the nuances in the bickering between the sexes including the delicious finale are well hit. Stupid cow forces 'horny old boar' on the mountain of knowledge. It's screwball-like. Author Ramesh pulls out all the comedy registers, even Torsten C. Fischer's class makes itself felt! ”The critic continued:“ Gisela Schneeberger plays the little woman with the big mouth and sparkling, increasingly moist eyes, between the chairs and her feelings sitting, with a sense of sarcasm and meekness. This is inimitable, unusual for a Degeto film, and extremely entertaining. This heroine, but also the others, her boss (a comedian of the world: Halmer), her ex (the mafioso with the cemented pop singer hairstyle: Steinhauer), her new friend (certainly in all tones: Russek) and the colleagues from the bed industry (delicious egoman: Noethen, always a stunner: Uhlig) are not primarily there to generate the comedy happy ending. [...] This film can be slurped away like a good drinkable white wine, harmonious, light and yet full-bodied, elegant in the finish - a real pleasure. "
Focus Online said the carousel of emotions revolves "quite lively in this comedy about love at work". Hannah was "a splendid role for Gisela Schneeberger, for whom the material was specially found and developed". "There are lots of top-class mimes playing around them, too, who would give the sometimes somewhat simple story the finishing touches." In addition to Halmer, who was "grateful", "not having to be the curmudgeon from the service, but a charmer and female friend", one sees "Rita Russek as his wife, Elena Uhlig as a young lover and Ulrich Noethen as an eternally drunk designer" . [...] "A material about more mature people for a more mature audience, as it can be seen more and more frequently on public television screens."
As usual for Degeto Films , the criticism by Julian Miller on the sitequotemeter.de was negative for this film. The "core elements are the usual ones: a greatly reduced and banal plot, a complete absence of subtlety, a simple and varied story about the unequal couple including the class clause and the visible effort to want to be something like a television version of trivial literature". Screenwriter Sathyan Ramesh came "in all the chaos of the usual melodrama kitsch and in view of the narrowly limited possibilities quite a few nice ideas" and could "also make the dialogues a lot more quick-witted than is usual in these Schmonzetten". But these are “little bright spots” - in the end, “according to the genre, everything is much too overdrawn and overdone. Even if you have seen it much worse ”. Miller came to the conclusion: "If only it weren't for the kitsch and dull script that doesn't give any kind of depth a chance, it might even have been an acceptable film."
Marie-Luise Braun rated the film, which she gave 6 out of 6 possible stars, for the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and wrote that it was “peppered with clichés”. But “in no single second does the story slip into a level or even stupid. Rather, it offers fine puns and splendid acting ”. It was "not a slack comedy with a predictable end", but "a film with humor, bite and light-footed depth". This is not only due to the excellent ensemble, which is complemented by Ulrich Noethen, Erwin Steinhauer and Lena Baader, but also “the editing” by Benjamin Hembus increases “the multitude of facets”.
The film service found: “An intricate (television) love comedy that advocates getting to know the familiar and tried again from a different perspective. - From 16. "
Web links
- Two übern mountain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two over the mountain with crew united
- Two over the mountain see page programm.ard.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two over the mountain see page daserste.de
- ↑ Zwei über Berg, TV-Film, 2010, ARD, BR, Degeto, Germany | Crew United
- ↑ a b Zwei über Berg at filmportal.de
- ↑ a b c Zwei über Berg In: Focus Online , September 26, 2012. Accessed June 18, 2020.
- ↑ Zwei über Berg Fig. Film poster Das Erste (in the picture: Gisela Schneeberger, Günther Maria Halmer)
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^ A b Rainer Tittelbach : TV film "Zwei über Berg". Schneeberger, Halmer, Russek, Noethen.
For a Degeto film like a drinkable white wine see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved June 18, 2020. - ^ Two over mountain short review at tvspielfilm.de (including 19 film images). Retrieved June 18, 2020.
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↑ Julian Miller: Zwei über Berg see page quotenmeter
(deflection quota meter = 30 percent), September 27, 2012. Accessed on June 18, 2020. -
↑ Marie-Luise Braun: Finest entertainment: “Zwei über Berg” in the First
In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 28, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2020. - ↑ Two over the mountain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 18, 2020 .
