Werner – Beinhart!
| Werner – Beinhart! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Niki List (live action)
Gerhard Hahn (animation) Michael Schaack (animation) |
| Written by | Ernst Kahl |
| Produced by | Bernd Eichinger |
| Starring |
Voices (animated scenes):
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| Cinematography | Egon Werdin |
| Distributed by | Constantin Film |
Release date | 29. November 1990 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
| Language | German |
| Budget | 8 million Deutsche Mark |
| Box office | $24 million[1] |
Werner – Beinhart! is the first German comedy-comic-film adaption based upon the most successful German comic Werner by "Brösel".
Production
Shooting took place in Kiel, Flensburg and Berlin between June and September 1990.
The film contains animated sequences that are embedded in those of the live-action sequences, which form the background story.
The football-game-scene is from the comic Werner – Alles klar? (1982), the pipe burst scene (alias Lehrjahre II) derives from the book Werner – Normal ja! (1987), the road work scene (alias Lehrjahre I) is from Werner – Wer sonst? (1983), the TÜV-scene is seen in, Werner – Eiskalt! (1985), the hospital scene is from Werner – Wer sonst? and the eatery-scene derives from Werner – Oder was? (1981) and Werner – Normal ja!.
Reception
With 4.9 million tickets sold, it was the third most successful movie in theaters in Germany in 1990, behind Look Who's Talking and Pretty Woman, and one of the highest-grossing German films in the 1990s with a gross of $24 million (€19.7 million).[1][2]
Music
- The soundtrack-themesong by Torfrock peaked number 1 in the beginning of 1991 in the German singles charts.
Sequels
The film was followed by four sequels:
- Werner – Das muß kesseln!!! (1996)
- Werner – Volles Rooäää!!! (1999)
- Werner – Gekotzt wird später! (2003)
- Werner – Eiskalt! (2011)
The first sequel, Werner – Das muß kesseln!!! (Werner - That's Hot), was the most expensive German animated film of all-time, with a cost of $12 million (8 million Deutsch mark). It opened on 633 screens on Thursday, June 27, 1996.[1] The sequel performed better than the original, with 1.5 million admissions in its first week, the second-highest ever for a German film at the time, and almost 5 million admissions in total, generating a gross of €24 million.[2]
External links
References
- ^ a b c Kirschbaum, Erik (June 28, 1996). "Senator Hopes High For German Toon". Daily Variety. p. 8.
- ^ a b "InsideKino – Besucher deutscher Filme in Deutschland" (in German). Retrieved May 20, 2020.
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