Two-seat rocket
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Two-seat rocket |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , Austrian German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Hans Hofer |
| script | Hans Hofer, Judith Hasleder |
| production | Danny Krausz , Kurt Stocker |
| music | Bernhard Fleischmann , Boris Fiala |
| camera | Leena Koppe |
| cut | Benedict Rubey |
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Zweisitzrakete is an Austrian romantic comedy by director Hans Hofer from 2013. Manuel Rubey , Alissa Jung and Simon Schwarz can be seen in the leading roles . The location is Vienna .
action
Manuel works as a photo reporter and is secretly in love with his best friend, the interpreter Mia. The two share the same interests and dreams, including emigrating to New York . As a child, Mia dreamed of being picked up by an astronaut in his rocket and flying with him to the stars. When Mia goes to Bozen for a few days on business , she falls head over heels in love with the macho pilot Michele, who comes to her in Vienna. Dreamer Manuel, who was about to confess his love to Mia, is desperate when he learns that the couple are planning to move to Rome . In the self-help group for abandoned men of his roommate Detlev, the decision is made to take Mia back. The men draft a plan to steal an old two-seat rocket from the Technical Museum . With more luck than brains, the project will succeed and the rocket with the code name “Astrid” will be placed on the outskirts. Meanwhile, two policewomen friends separated Mia and Michele, whereupon Manuel's neighbor Mrs. Müller chauffeurs Mia to the outskirts. There she meets Manuel, who is waiting for her in a spacesuit . Together they get on the rocket and fly to the stars in their imagination.
production
The Stilfser director Hans Hofer , a graduate of the Vienna Film Academy , made his first feature film with a two-seat rocket . As a reference to his South Tyrolean homeland, he built Mia's professional stay in Bolzano and the "super pilot" Michele into the plot. The shooting took place in Vienna in summer 2012. The shooting locations included the Naschmarkt , the Prater and the Technical Museum . In a scene in which Manuel, Mia and Detlev drop a tomato, the church tower of Maria am Gestade can also be seen.
As part of the prominent cast, Michael Niavarani and Gerti Drassl can be heard as Viennese voices of two pigeons animated using stop motion .
reception
The film premiered in Vienna's Gartenbaukino on March 1, 2013. According to the Austrian Film Institute , 14,259 people visited it in the local cinemas. Before the premiere, Zweisitzrakete was advertised intensively, especially on Facebook (“We want to go to the moon”). The self-help group's bizarre motivational dance was already shared in large numbers via social media before the film started . A flash mob with the main actors on Stephansplatz should further increase interest.
According to both the director and the media, the film represents an innovation in Austrian cinema . With the two-seat rocket, Hans Hofer wanted to create a “romantic, uncynical fairy tale” that, according to the press, is far removed from the “typically Austrian cinema of concern”. Furthermore, it is neither an oppressive, socially realistic film nor an exaggerated, sarcastic comedy.
The film received mixed reviews. The information portal Vienna Online praised the two-seat rocket as “A life-affirming, romantic comedy that the Austrian film landscape has long been missing.” The Kronen Zeitung cinema editorial team was also positive and titled the film as “galactically funny”. It is about "a modern romantic fairy tale, which is bursting with unbridled naivety of the heart and unleashed enthusiasm and which is precisely why it becomes a smiley trail, based on the motto: A master plan is required for the very great love."
In the Standard , however, it was said that the film relies on “outdated type comics , a dash of slapstick and local color and a throwaway romance that is expressed indirectly.” At most, it is funny to consider this a successful model. The courier gave a similarly negative judgment . It even said that the Austrian cabaret film had reached a "new low". Leading actor Manuel Rubey is wasting himself in "clothes at the lowest school level". The "sequence of bad gags" is only "difficult to beat", the two speaking pigeons and the "unspeakable" men's self-help group were named as examples. The film magazine Ray certified the film to be just as far removed from the comedic "premier class" "as St. Hanappi from Camp Nou or Old Trafford ".
In the IMDb film database , the film received an average rating of 6.3 out of 10 points.
Web links
- Two seat rocket in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two-seat rocket in the online film database
- Official website for the film
- Two-seat rocket at film.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c A man wants to go to the moon: Hans Hofer and the two-seat rocket. Die Presse , February 17, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Statistics / 1982-2015. Retrieved July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Two-seat rocket - trailer and review of the film. Vienna Online, February 27, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz in "Zweisitzrakete". Kronen Zeitung , March 4, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
- ^ "Two-seat rocket": A bad luck raven among pigeons. Der Standard , February 27, 2013, accessed July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Suck on toes in the men's group. Courier , February 28, 2013, accessed July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Two-seat rocket - The difficult path to the premier class. Ray , accessed July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Two-seat rocket in the IMDb. IMDb , accessed July 12, 2016 .