The time has finally come: the new Eberhofer thriller “Kaiserschmarrndrama” starts in the cinemas on August 5th.
We spoke to the main actor Sebastian Bezzel.
Eberhofer's thrillers are always about food. Are you the sweet or the savory type?
Hearty.
Sweet is not mine.
I'm not a big dessert eater.
I am always happy when we come to the Eberhofer shoot in Dingolfing.
Then I'll have a really hearty Bavarian meal first.
Then what do you prefer to order?
Depending on the menu, but mostly roast pork or something like that.
Kaiserschmarrndrama: Sebastian Bezzel likes film series
Back to the film Kaiserschmarrndrama *. For the seventh time, you are embodying Franz Eberhofer. Doesn't it get boring to slip into the role of the Lower Bavarian village sheriff again and again?
No, I think a series of films is great.
In a series, it can really get too much if you shoot the same thing for five months at a time.
But that's great: we're always a few months apart, then we meet again for new tasks.
Especially when I play with Lisa (Lisa Maria Potthoff, Susi actress, editor's note) or Simon (Simon Schwarz, Rudi actor), that's wonderful.
I'm also friends with both of them privately.
You are now even called the Bavarian Bond.
Yes, but I don't think so.
That was a funny marketing slogan when it came to the first hoped-for cinema opening in autumn last year to take over the cinema release date of the postponed bond and which has become independent.
But I don't want to compare myself to Bond, I'm Eberhofer.
And the bond is the bond.
Sebastian Bezzel: "Like Eberhofer, I can tend towards Grant."
And how much Franz Eberhofer is in Sebastian Bezzel?
As an actor, you are ultimately the one who embodies.
Therefore, of course, there is also something of yourself in it.
And of course I have to love the nature of my character, understand them and their actions.
But that's not difficult for me at Eberhofer.
What do you and the Eberhofer have in common - and what is the biggest difference?
Like Eberhofer, I can be inclined to grant.
And the biggest difference ... (thinks briefly.) I already have a lot more interests in life.
I'm also more curious and maybe a little more philanthropic.
When we're on interests in life, the movie is about the serious things: home, family ... you have it all. In Hamburg, however. As a Bavarian in Hamburg - was that a culture shock at the beginning?
No, zero.
Hamburg is a great city.
Besides, Hamburg was no stranger to me.
I've been there many times before.
The culture shock was perhaps more after school, when I came from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Munich.
From the country to the city.
Although that wasn't a big one either.
My parents are both from Munich, so I already knew the city quite well.
Sebastian Bezzel likes to go back north after shooting Eberhofer
The Eberhofer filming took a good five weeks. When you go north again afterwards, will it be difficult for you to say goodbye?
But on the contrary.
In Bavaria I am approached a lot more * than in Hamburg.
It is then very pleasant to be there again and to relax a bit.
To make a film in 28 to 30 days of shooting is an incredibly exhausting story.
How do you switch off after filming? At home in front of the television?
After filming, I sometimes just don't look at anything for a while.
Because it annoys me.
Why?
If I shoot too much, at some point I'll be a bad viewer.
When I know how films are made, I can't switch off.
For example, I think to myself: “Oh, look here, the unit manager is standing behind the door right now.” Plus, after a shoot, it's just nice to go to bed early and read a little.
Sebastian Bezzel: His children don't speak Bavarian
Do your children actually speak Bavarian?
Nope, not really.
You may know two or three expressions, but you can forget that.
When they go to school in Hamburg, I can still roam around at home.
But the linguistic sovereignty comes from the social environment, and that is High German and North German in Hamburg.
One final question: The first Eberhofer film was a surprise success. Now you have the feeling that the films are becoming more and more popular. What is the recipe for success?
I think these are the many lovingly made figures.
Of course with this one main character, Franz, who stands as a grumpy calm in the middle.
At some point such a series of films will become a sure-fire success.
Then people say: “But now I'm waiting for the next film to come and Franz's funny Audi to drive around the corner again.” There are really fans of the car.
What?
Not a lie.
We get the police matters from an outfitter.
When he drives through Munich in the Audi or brings him to Lower Bavaria, he is honked at the traffic lights.
People take pictures of the car and scream: “This is Eberhofer!” I think this is the only film series in which a car and a roundabout come to prominence.
Sebastian Bezzel and Simon Schwarz have their own road trip series at BR.
At “Grenzgänger” you meet people who do something unusual - for example Lisa and Thomas Müller at their stud in Otterfing *.
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