Werner – Beinhart!

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Werner – Beinhart!
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Written byErnst Kahl
Produced byBernd Eichinger
Starring

Voices (animated scenes):

  • Otto Sander: Narrator
  • Klaus Büchner: Werner
  • Andi Feldmann: Foreman Röhrich / Andi
  • Kulle Westphal: Eckat
  • Ernie Reinhardt: Mrs. (Frau) Gloer
  • Eva Mattes: Mrs. (Frau) Hansen
  • Raymond Voß: Präsi
  • Jan Fedder: Herbert / construction worker
  • Benno Hoffmann: Policeman Bruno
CinematographyEgon Werdin
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
29. November 1990
Running time
93 minutes
LanguageGerman
Budget8 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[]

Sequels[]

The film was followed by four sequels:

  •  [de] (1996)
  •  [de] (1999)
  •  [de] (2003)
  •  [de] (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[]

  1. ^ a b c Kirschbaum, Erik (June 28, 1996). "Senator Hopes High For German Toon". Daily Variety. p. 8.
  2. ^ a b "InsideKino – Besucher deutscher Filme in Deutschland" (in German). Retrieved May 20, 2020.


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