Late Bloomers (2006 film)

• Annemarie Düringer: Frieda Eggenschwyler
• Monica Gubser: Hanni Bieri
• Heidi Maria Glössner: Lisi Bigler
• Hanspeter Müller- Drossaart: Walter Jost
• Manfred Liechti: Fritz Bieri
• Peter Wyssbrod: Ernst Bieri
• Monika Niggeler: Shirley Bigler
• Walter Ruch: Mr. Loosli
• Matthias Fankhauser: home manager Brunner
• Lilian Naef: Vreni Jost
• Alice Brüngger: Lotte
• Andreas Matti: driving instructor Fankhauser
• Urs Bihler: Fabric seller in Bern

Late Bloomers is a feature film by Swiss director Bettina Oberli from the year 2006. Tragicomedy based on a common script Oberlis and the author Sabine Pochhammer and is about the Truber village shopkeeper Martha, who decides after the death of her husband, with the support of her friends a lingerie to open boutique. The main role was played Stephanie Glaser. Also starring Heidi Maria Glössner, Annemarie Düringer and Monica Gubser are seen.

Developed by Swiss television co-produced film was released for screening in Switzerland on 5 October 2006 and was at just under 590,000 visitors to the successful production of the year. The film ranks behind Rolf Lyssys The Swissmakers (1978 ) and Mike Eschmann ' Ready, Steady, Charlie! (2003), the third most all-time best list of Swiss cinema.

Action

With the death of her husband Hans (1921-2005) 9 months ago, the 80 -year-old Martha has lost her zest for life and would love to follow him into the afterlife. The Jassrunde with friends is no longer what it once was. Your village shop in Trub in the Swiss Emmental bobs to herself and her son Walter, the village priest wants to use the rooms for his Bible study group.

When he suggests she should give up the store and start something new, it comes quite by accident during a shopping in Bern, with its lively and optimistic girlfriend Lisi out now to meet in old age her dream of a lingerie boutique.

Is a charming boutique lingerie from the gray grocery store. However, it pushes you in the place, and quickly makes resistance at the population wide. My own son as opposed to the conservative mayor of the fictional tradition Party LLP, Fritz Bieri, son of Martha's friend Hanni against the alleged seduction of sinfulness by lingerie.

Even Martha's other girlfriends besides Lisi, Hanni and Frieda are not quite convinced that the lingerie boutique can be a success. Through the help of various people, including some from the computer and the stick - rate nursing home, Martha starts a successful web shop for their lingerie with embroidered costume designs. With their energy their girlfriends are infected. Hanni makes the driving test on it by the man Ernst earlier refused for reasons of cost, so it does not need the nursing home, Frieda learns to deal with the computer and the Internet. Every time Walter and Fritz forge intrigues against them, to force them to give up the store, she draws from it only new force.

But then dies Lisi in her kitchen suddenly of a heart attack. This had always boasted that she's already been in America, but Walter had this pointed out in an intrigue as a lie shortly before her death. Lisi 's sake, the three friends promise to her grave to pursue their respective projects on. The resistance of the Son is broken when Martha realizes that he has a relationship with Lisi's daughter Shirley.

During a song festival in a meadow there is a direct conflict between Fritz and Martha. The party-goers are convinced of Martha's ideas, including through a spontaneous presentation of her lingerie by the daughter of Fritz and her friend. A small stall with their lingerie is surrounded by many women.

Walter, who had his wife Vreni finally told the truth, is a jerk and can convince the singer of the place of it instead of the old worn tradition flag to show the modern, sewn by his mother.

Reception

Criticism

• Wrote Gernot Gricksch of the tvDIGITAL, this was the Swiss answer to the British Calendar Girls (2003); a great played comedy with wit and charm.

• The lexicon of the International film said: A life-affirming, Swiss with a number of veterans occupied dialect comedy that sent the ciphers and the woodcut - turgid drama of popular home movie circumnavigated and becomes a charming plea for dignity and joy of life in old age.

• Alexandra Seitz of the Berliner Zeitung wrote: While it may Oberlis staging as harmless folk theater of popular prejudices about the supposed backwardness of the rural population use and so make some joke at their expense. At its core, however, takes its story from the clouded Indian summer an unflattering and far more general issue: the troubled relationship between the generations and the disenfranchisement and displacement of the ancients.

• Meike Stolp said at critic.de: It's not Oberli about building their ladies to rock and roll Omas, the clawing your way out of the community in the supposed freedom. Martha, Lisi, Hanni and Frieda feel comfortable in Trub, freedoms they fight only within this community. Likewise Oberli waived the flat joke at the expense of the reactionary children Martha and Hannis. Also, they have reasons for their actions and they will be conveyed to the audience as well. Unlike Beeban Kidron AUTUMN TIMELESS Bettina Oberli relies not just on their charismatic actresses.

Success

Late Bloomers celebrated in August 2006 on the Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival premiere, where the film was celebrated after the show with a standing ovation. Actress Stephanie Glaser, who took her first lead role in the production at all, received at the festival a special Leopard for her life's work.

After his Vorführfreigabe became the film, which was co-produced by Swiss television, the most successful Swiss film of 2006. Late 2011, the film was just under 559'000 moviegoers behind Rolf Lyssys The Swissmakers (1978 ) and Mike Eschmann ' Ready, Steady, Charlie! (2003) to third place in the all-time best list of Switzerland. In Germany and Austria, the production also saw also about 250,000 people.

In September 2007, the Federal Office of Culture (FOC ) announced the movie on the recommendation of its expert group at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 2008. However Oberlis film could ultimately not placed among the five nominated works.

On 14 October 2007, the film celebrated on SF 1 free-TV premiere. He reached an audience of 1.34 million, representing an above-average market share of over 45 %, the highest viewing figures, the SF one could ever measure one feature film. Due to this success and an audience rating of 5.83 was Late Bloomers in January of the following year in Zurich the audience award SF presents Swiss film with Bluewin.

In November 2012, the production after conducting a representative survey among 30 proposals in the Saturday night show Gipfelstürmer Swiss television was before Mein Name ist Eugen (2005) and The Swiss artist ( 1978) for " most memorable Swiss Film " award.

Awards

• In the 33rd edition of the Prix Walo on April 22, 2007, the film won in the category of film productions.
• " Audience Award SF Swiss film with Bluewin " on 17 January 2008 thanks to the best audience rating ( 5.83 ) and highest viewership in the Free TV Premiere ( 1'339'700 )
• "Best Film" and " Best Actress " ( Annemarie Düringer ) at the film festival Cinema Tout Ecran Geneva 2006,