Two Santa Clauses
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Two Santa Clauses |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria , Sweden , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 182 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tobi Baumann |
| script | Tommy Jaud |
| production | Ralf Günther |
| music | Andreas Grimm |
| camera | Uwe Schäfer |
| cut | Martin Wolf |
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Two Santas is a two-part Christmas - TV comedy directed by Tobi Baumann from 2008, written by Tommy Jaud and Bastian Pastewka and Christoph Maria Herbst in the lead roles.
action
The business lawyer Tilmann Dilling and the pool noodle representative Hilmar Kess happened to be sitting next to each other on a flight from Vienna to Berlin. The two opposing men want to be at home with their loved ones on Christmas Eve . Since the Berlin airports are closed due to snow and rain, your flight will be diverted to Bratislava . Tilmann's luggage has meanwhile flown to Budapest, so that he only stands there with his briefcase. Because of his friendly nature, Hilmar finds a train connection to Berlin and the arrogant Tilmann only the ticket. That's why he joins Hilmar with a heavy heart, even though he didn't like him on the plane.
The two of them take a slow train that stops on the open route due to a defect. Hilmar convinces Tilmann to walk to Třebíč , supposedly only a kilometer away , to get a rental car for the trip to Berlin. The unlikely duo get off the train when it suddenly pulls away again. It turns out that Třebíč is actually 19 kilometers away. To get to the next place, follow the tracks.
Because Tilmann is constantly trying to call his family, but cannot find a network, Hilmar throws his cell phone into the air, where it actually logs in for a brief moment. After that, however, it falls on the rails and can no longer be operated. Since Tilmann doesn't know his own phone number by heart, he can't do anything with Hilmar's phone either. Hilmar himself does not seem interested in a phone call in Berlin and does not even respond to his girlfriend's calls, fearing that she will break up with him.
After Tilmann has been attacked by a wild boar, they find an abandoned hunting lodge where they spend the night. The next morning they notice that the hut is on fire because the sleepers have pressed one of Hilmar's pool noodles against the stove. Just as the owners arrive, the hut explodes. The hunters then begin to shoot the two of them and they flee into the valley using a rubber dinghy from Hilmar's range as a sled.
They go in search of civilization and find a gas station where they meet Santa Claus (Erwin) in a BMW with Berlin license plates. Erwin also likes to take them with him. The mood is relaxed on the trip, and Hilmar tells his "hamster joke" (when he was doing community service in the old people's home, one of his protégés died laughing at this joke, which is why Hilmar never wanted to tell it again). Erwin also has a choking fit while laughing and dies. They load the body into the trunk to avoid stress with the Czech authorities and, guided by the navigation device, drive on themselves. However, the navigation system does not lead them to Berlin, as expected, but to a hotel in Prague, where they use Erwin's credit card to book in to sleep. However, it turns out that Erwin was a drug courier and was supposed to bring a kilo of cocaine to Prague. Tilmann inhales some of the intoxicating drug and immediately imagines himself to be heavily dependent. He calls home for help, but his wife suspects an affair because of the background noise.
The next morning a contact from the drug mafia comes and wants to pick up the package. When he pulls out a gun, Tilmann and Hilmar have to flee in a bathrobe. On the run they get costumes and from then on they walk around as Christmas (Tilmann) and snowman (Hilmar). When they drive through the city after escaping from the hotel, they run out of gas, whereupon Tilmann gets a fit of anger and sets off alone to book a flight. He leaves Hilmar at an ice-skating rink, where he gets gasoline with the help of his friendly manner: He repairs a little boy's ice hockey stick and gives him an inflatable Advent wreath, whereupon the boy's father provides him with the fuel he needs. He also picks up a street dog.
Tilmann has now arrived at the airport, but he is not allowed to take his flight because he no longer has an ID. Instead, he buys a bottle of schnapps with the last of his money, gets drunk and tries to run to Berlin. After a few kilometers, Hilmar picks it up in the car. Tilmann recognizes that Hilmar's manner is not a flaw, but a gift.
You survive a police check, because the policeman has a severe visual defect and overlooks the corpse in the trunk. Shortly afterwards, they stop in a supposed clearing in the forest to give the dog some exercise. After getting out of the car, however, the clearing soon turns out to be a frozen lake into which the car collapses and the dog almost drowns.
They are now trying to hitchhike and after waiting for a while they are taken by the Hamburg pimp Ulli, who wants to collect money in a parking lot shortly before the border. But there is a raid there. Because they pee, which puts them in a precarious situation, they are also arrested and have to spend the night in custody. The next morning it is again Hilmar who tells the investigating police officer the whole story and thus gets both of them free.
A senior group will take you on the bus on your way back to Berlin, but you have to present yourself there as a solo entertainer. Hilmar overcomes his fear of the "deadly" joke and has great success in this role. So the two of them get to Berlin happily.
Since the two of them had swapped their boarding passes, Hilmar found Tilmann's suitcase on the door of his apartment and drove to Potsdam to bring it to him. At the same time, Tilmann realizes that he has to help Hilmar win back his girlfriend and drives to the hospital, where she works. So both hold a fiery plea for the other and can convince family and girlfriend.
Ultimately everyone celebrates Christmas together, and Hilmar makes his girlfriend the planned marriage proposal, which she accepts. Tilmann extends his vacation and hires the resourceful Hilmar as a partner in his consulting company.
background
- The film was actually supposed to be shot in Germany; Due to the advanced winter, there was not enough snow, so the film continued in Lapland . In addition, some scenes were filmed in Prague as well as the chase in the rubber dinghy in northern Czech Republic .
- The shooting lasted 48 days.
- The plot of the film has numerous parallels to A Ticket for Two .
- Hilmar learns at a gas station in the Czech Republic that they are on the European route E56 near Iglau ( Jihlava in Czech ), which is less than three hours from Dresden. However, the E56 leads from Austria to Germany, but not via Czech territory. Presumably the E65 was meant, which runs north of Iglau.
- When the travelers arrive in Prague by car, Tilmann claims that the city is not on their way and that they have gone in the wrong direction. However, Prague is actually on the right travel route, as the two men previously traveled from Bratislava in Slovakia via Třebíč and Jihlava through the Czech Republic. Prague is therefore on the correct route towards Dresden and Berlin.
- Towards the end of the film, Tillmann gets into a taxi with an advertisement for Capitol Insurance on the roof. This fictional insurance is the location of the comedy television series Stromberg , which is also produced by Brainpool and in which Christoph Maria Herbst plays the leading role.
reception
The film received mixed reviews - while the acting was praised by the leading actors, the plot was criticized for being flat and too copied from One Ticket for Two .
“The characters follow the tried and tested Ernie and Bert principle (funny versus misanthropic) - a dramaturgical model for the actors that they understand how to use at least in part two. Pastewka gives the eternally cranked cross head, which brings his sullen partner to white heat. […] Christoph Maria Herbst succeeds perfectly in falling away to one side on the thin line between self-control and self-forgetting. The audience has the fun on impact. [...] Otherwise the pitch is cheerful to clumsy. "
“Bastian Pastewka and Christoph Maria Herbst play it really well and are reminiscent of the big argumentative screen couples: Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon , Bud Spencer and Terence Hill , Roadrunner and the coyote . Oh yes, and of course to Steve Martin and John Candy in the film A Ticket for Two, from which bestselling author Tommy Jaud copied his film. Interestingly, the copy is better than the original and does not contain half as many connection and logic errors. Most of the gags in the well-known framework are new, and the roles are not exactly the same. "
Awards
- 2009: German Comedy Award - Best TV Comedy
publication
The film was released on DVD on December 12, 2008 and broadcast as a two-part TV program on December 18 and 19, 2008 on Sat.1 .
It was released on Blu-ray Disc on November 22, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for two Santa Clauses . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Jörg Thomann: "Two Santa Clauses" on TV - Germany, a winter couple . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 18, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
- ↑ a b Silke Burmester: Sat.1 comedy "Two Santas": Feste smirk. In: Spiegel Online . December 18, 2008, accessed April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ A ticket for two Santa Clauses. In: fernsehlexikon.de. December 18, 2008, accessed April 13, 2020 .