Werner – Beinhart!
Werner – Beinhart! | |
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Directed by | Niki List (live action)
(animation) (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:
- (1996)
- (1999)
- (2003)
- (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[]
- German-language films
- 1990 films
- 1990 animated films
- German animated films
- 1990 comedy films
- German comedy films
- German films
- Animated comedy films
- Films based on German comics
- Animated films based on comics
- Live-action films based on comics
- Films with live action and animation
- Films about animation
- 1990s German film stubs