“Ruhr! We’re shooting!” based on Dieter Hallervorden at Komödie Frankfurt
Ethey’re all a bit crazy on this film set, which is shot on a theater stage. Actor Mario imagines a charisma that nobody else notices. Especially not the Turkish make-up artist he courts. Samira is in a relationship with the recording manager Gigi. Director Frank left his family to elope with the loaded Lola, but this sizzling starlet wants to star in assistant director Oliver’s new script, driving Frank to desperation.
Producer André is threatened by mafia players because he cannot pay his debts. His rich wife Anne, star on the film set, abandons him, especially since she has already put her excess money into this production in which she is supposed to die of adultery. When Oliver realizes that André loaded Mario’s revolver with live ammunition, the chaos is complete.
This is the handwriting of Dieter Hallervorden. The Berlin slapstick and nonsense comedian has the comedy “Ruhe! We’re shooting!” translated into German. The French authors Gérald Sibleyras and Patrick Haudecœur provided him with the template, and now the clothes can be seen in the Frankfurt comedy.
Obsolete participatory theater
Director Thomas Schendel, after all trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, turns out to be a loyal student of his master at the Berlin Schlosspark Theater. He drives a horde of crazy film people through the exquisite stage design from Tom Grasshof’s Villa and Buchskugel Garden and indulges in the interactive theater that has been obsolete for years. The audience is nolens volens forced into the role of extras. Was the unfortunate man who had to take the stage because he was wearing a blue shirt a real spectator or a real extra? Doesn’t matter.
What is positively remembered: actress Arzu Ermen as energetic Samira, who, who does not speak German, sticks a wig and hat with Patex on Anne’s head, as well as actress Ines Arndt as hectic military gigi, who has the troops and audience under control. The rest of the ensemble makes a good face and proven attitude in infantile slapstick. The audience liked it.
“Ruhr! We’re shooting!’, Komödie Frankfurt, Neue Mainzer Straße 14-18, further dates until March 12, daily except Mondays from 8 p.m., Sundays from 6 p.m.