Kokowääh
Kokowääh | |
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Directed by | Til Schweiger |
Written by | Béla Jarzyk Til Schweiger |
Produced by | Béla Jarzyk Til Schweiger Thomas Zickler |
Starring | Til Schweiger Emma Schweiger Jasmin Gerat Samuel Finzi |
Cinematography | Christoph Wahl |
Edited by | Constantin von Seld |
Music by | Dirk Reichardt Mirko Schaffer Martin Todsharow |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | €5.65 million ($7.8 million) |
Box office | $45.4 million[1] |
Kokowääh is a 2011 German film directed by Til Schweiger.[2] It was released in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland) on 3 February 2011.[3] The film stars Til Schweiger, his daughter Emma Schweiger, Jasmin Gerat and Samuel Finzi. Another of Schweiger's daughters, Luna Schweiger, makes a small appearance in the film. Kokowääh is an onomatopoetic depiction of the French pronunciation of coq au vin.[4] A sequel, Kokowääh 2, was released on 7 February 2013 with Schweiger having returned as director, co-writer and producer.
Plot
Kokowääh is set in
Cast
- Til Schweiger as Henry
- Emma Schweiger as Magdalena
- Jasmin Gerat as Katharina
- Samuel Finzi as Tristan
- Numan Acar as the worker
- Meret Becker as Charlotte
- Anne-Sophie Briest as the mother in the supermarket
- Anna Julia Kapfelsperger as Bine
- Friederike Kempter as the agent
- Torsten Künstler as the courier
- Miranda Leonhardt as Maria
- Mišel Matičević as Rob Kaufmann
- Genoveva Mayer as the woman in the bar
- Sönke Möhring as the policeman
- Jessica Richter as Esther
- Luna Schweiger as the daughter in the supermarket
- Katharina Thalbach as the patient
- Sanny van Heteren as Christiane
- Johann von Bülow as the firefighter
- Richard von Groeling as Rashid
- Jahmar Walker as the "Chap"
- Ulrich Wickert as the newscaster
- Birthe Wolter as the receptionist
- Fahri Ogün Yardım as the pizza guy
Production
Kokowääh was filmed in Berlin and Potsdam[5] from 21 July to 13 September 2010. The budget was estimated to be €5,650,000.[7] Director and lead actor Til Schweiger and Béla Jarzyk, who also produced the film, wrote the script in a Turkish hotel in Berlin.[8]
Critical reception
Kokowääh received the Golden Screen Award, which is given to films that have been watched by more than 3 million viewers.[9] It was the most successful film in Germany in the first half of 2011.[10] The film itself received generally good to mixed reviews. Andreas Scheiner of weekly magazine Die Zeit found the film "light and entertaining", though he added it "lacked depth".[11] Dieter Oßwald of the Programmkino.de praised the film as a "strong–point daddy–comedy".[12] Andrea Butz of public radio station WDR2, however, criticized the film for "one–dimensional leaps and drawn characters".[13] Jan Füchtjohann of the Süddeutsche Zeitung also criticized Kokowääh, writing it showed "over long distances like a commercial for yogurt".[14] Boyd van Hoeij described the film in his review for Variety as a ″series of mismatched-duo cliches spun out across a two-hour-plus running time" with ″a pretty decent if unoriginal 80-minute film hiding somewhere in this bloated two-hour-plus exercise″. His prediction: ″Though its $38 million haul makes it Germany's highest grosser of 2011 so far, biz beyond central Europe, Schweiger's only base, will again be minimal."[15]
Other media
Music
The soundtrack album for Kokowääh was released on 4 February 2011 on
Home media
Kokowääh was released on both
Release dates
Country | Release date | Title | Notes |
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Germany | 3 February 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Austria | 3 February 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Switzerland | 3 February 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Luxembourg | 5 February 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Kazakhstan | 8 September 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Russia | 8 September 2011 | Соблазнитель | |
Belarus | 15 September 2011 | Kokowääh | |
Taiwan | 20 January 2012 | 紅酒燉香雞 | |
Hungary | 28 July 2012 | Kislány a küszöbön | TV premiere |
Italy | 1 September 2013 | Kokowääh | TV premiere |
References
- ^ "Kokowaah (2013) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-908215-01-7.
- ^ "Kokowääh". MoviePlanet.com. 3 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Pilarczyk, Hannah (3 February 2011). "Til-Schweiger-Satire: Die Vorgeschichte von "Kokowääh"". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ "Goldene Leinwand 2011 – Kokowääh". filmecho.de (in German). 26 February 2011. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Rheinische Post. 23 August 2011.
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(help) - ^ Scheiner, Andreas (31 January 2011). "Kino wie Nachtisch". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Oßwald, Dieter (31 January 2011). "Kokowääh". Programmkino.de (in German). Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Butz, Andrea (3 February 2011). "Plädoyer für Patchworkfamilien". WDR2 (in German). Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Füchtjohann, Jan (7 February 2011). "Daunenfedern im Gegenlicht". Süddeutschen Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ "Kokowaah". 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Kokowääh (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Deluxe Edition)". iTunes. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- Amazon.com(in German). 4 February 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- Media Control Charts. Retrieved 8 October 2011.[dead link]
- ^ "Official Website". Warner Bros. Pictures (in German). 19 August 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ "Kokowääh". iTunes (in German). 19 August 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- Amazon.com(in German). 19 August 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
External links
- Official website (archived)
- Kokowääh at IMDb