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Das perfekte Geheimnis

Regie: Bora Dagtekin          Gesehen am: 19.11.2019 Wertung: 06/10

„Ist das irgend ne Art therapeutisches Experiment?“

Aufmerksamen Lesern dieses Filmblogs wird nicht entgangen sein, dass dem deutschen Film hier in der Regel eher kritisch begegnet wird. Bora Dagtekin ist hierbei ein schwieriger Kandidat, hat er mit „Fack ju Göthe“ doch tatsächlich eine frechen und erfrischenden Beitrag zur hiesigen Komödienlandschaft erschaffen, deren Lorbeeren er jedoch bereits mit dem zweiten und dritten Teil zu verspielen begonnen hat. In seinem neuen Film „Das perfekte Geheimnis“ versammelt er nun nahezu alle halbwegs ertragbaren Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler des Landes hinter einer äußerst interessanten Prämisse. Es stellt sich somit die Frage, ob er dem deutschen Film damit auf die Beine helfen kann.

Besagte Prämisse ist so simpel wie genial: was würde wohl passieren, wenn ein illustrer Freundeskreis auf die Idee käme, für einen Abend jedwede Handykommunikation offen zu legen? Nicht wenigen Zuschauern wird diese Vorstellung das nackte Grauen über den Rücken jagen und genau darauf setzt Dagtekin in dem nun folgenden Kammerspiel. Das sich abspielende Scharmützel weiß dann auch durchaus zu unterhalten, krankt jedoch bei sich fortsetzender Laufzeit an dem scheinbar nicht zu unterdrückenden Drang, jede Idee bis in die Absurdität zu übertreiben, die sich eben in deutschen Komödien immer wieder aufs Neue breit macht. Alles muss eben auf Teufel komm raus `bigger than life´ sein. Gerade in diesem Fall ist das besonders traurig, da ein wenig mehr psychologisches Feingefühl so viel spannendere Entwicklungen aus der interessanten Prämisse hätte rausholen können. Bora Dagtekin erweist sich somit vielleicht noch nicht unbedingt als Sargnagel des deutschen Films so wie Til Schweiger, bei dessen neuem Film „Die Hochzeit“ bereits der Trailer ausreicht, um Übelkeit zu erzeugen, aber das Mojo von „Fack ju Göthe“ scheint sich nicht so recht wieder einstellen zu wollen. Wirklich schade.        

Rico Handorf          

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What a cast...looking forward to seeing this movie 😍🤗

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Suck Me Shakespeer (Fack ju Göhte): Film Review (x)

Turkish-German director Bora Dagtekin and star Elyas M’Barek reteam for another winner, following their hit TV series "Turkish for Beginners" and its 2012 cinema spin-off.

A criminal who can barely spell is forced to become a substitute teacher in Suck Me Shakespeer (Fack ju Göhte), the new comedy from Turkish-German director Bora Dagtekin and star Elyas M’Barek, whose hit TV series Turkish for Beginners inspired the eponymous 2012 box-office smash.

The German title is a phonetic transcription of F*ck You, Goethe and immediately suggests the protagonist’s poor spelling as well the film’s school environment and irreverent tone. This story of a newly-released convict who becomes the world’s worst teacher in order to get to his buried loot consists of too many stand-alone set pieces and is, at almost two hours, definitely too long. But the rapid-fire dialogue, the amusingly over-the-top acting and antics, and the great chemistry of M’Barek and female lead Karoline Herfurth (reunited after 2001’s hit comedy Girls on Top) ensure audiences will nonetheless have a pretty good time.

The film’s $9 million local opening was the best score for a German film this year and second-biggest opening of 2013 and could also interest producers looking for Bad Teacher-inspired remake ideas.

Zeki Mueller (M’Barek) was in jail for 13 months, just enough time for Goethe High to construct a new gym on the exact spot where Zeki’s stripper friend, Charlie (Jana Pallaske), buried his loot. In order to get regular access to the school’s basement, from where he hopes to drill a tunnel to his spoils, Zeki takes on a job as a substitute teacher offered to him by the prim principal (Katja Riemann, in a delicious cameo), who is one teacher short after one of her staff (Uschi Glas) had been so maltreated by her students, she jumped from a second-floor window, shouting “They’re all monsters!”

Nevermind that Zeki has no teaching certificate or any accurate knowledge of German (his mangling of the correct gender and cases is a running gag). Of course, Mueller finds himself teaching a class that’s full of horrible teenage monsters indeed, who devise booby traps that have nothing on the work of seasoned special-ops soldiers. By dialing the film’s tone way past hysterical -- and at times, hysterically funny -- from the start, Dagtekin succeeds in creating an atmosphere in which anything goes, but as in his previous work, he does ensure that the characters remain recognizable, even if their personalities have been greatly enlarged to augment the laughs.

Mueller’s main foil is the bespectacled good girl Lisi (Herfurth, M’Barek's equal on all fronts), a fellow teacher who went to Goethe High as a teen. Her behavior is as saintly as Zeki’s profane; where she gets all worked up when someone chews gum in class or uses an inappropriate word, her against-all-odds love interest does nothing but smoke, drink, swear, flip the bird, push one kid’s head under water or shoot another -- and that’s when he’s teaching. Their sweet rapport is a nice antidote to much of the gross-out, caricature-like humor, and the occasional injection of highbrow references, such as a ditzy blonde student who’s called Chantal Akerman, is further proof that Dagtekin is a master at blending different registers. He's equally apt at balancing the story of the protagonists with that of the impressive lineup of supporting players, who are all clever variations on clichés and are played by the impressive ensemble.

Though many scenes, which editors Charles Ladmiral and Zaz Montana punchily string together, work fine in their own right, not all of them snugly fit into the film’s larger story arcs, with the writer-director at times repeating himself, such as an unnecessary second school excursion or a trip to Charlie’s strip club.

An updated version of the world’s most famous school play, Romeo and Juliet, is good for the film’s biggest belly laugh. Combined with the English-language pop songs on the soundtrack, it injects the proceedings with a sense of Anglo-Saxon cool. Visually, the film’s dominant colors are pink and cobalt blue, further underlining that this tale is set in an alternate universe.

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Elyas und Karo am Set von dieses perfekte Geheimnis 😍

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Elyas M'Barek und Florian David Fitz mit ihrem Ba…: https://youtu.be/8qcgF9EwBAE

Das perfekte Geheimnis won the Bambi award 🤗

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Es geht los mit den Dreharbeiten von „das perfekte Geheimnis“. Regie und Drehbuch: Bora Dagtekin.

Kinostart ist der 31. Oktober 2019.