The weather has been anything but bathing weather since the end of July, but the Ainhofen outdoor pool is still very busy: every day, many women and the Constantin Film AG team meet on the grounds early in the morning to shoot a movie.
It is a so-called culture clash comedy, the joke of which lives primarily from the clash of different cultures.
Ainhofen
- The film in which the director Doris Dörrie pulls the strings takes place in a women's open-air swimming pool.
The battle for the only man, the lifeguard, breaks out in this open-air swimming pool.
"Good films like the comedy Freibad live from such bizarre stories," said Judith Gerlach, Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Film-Fernsehfonds Bayern GmbH, who is also the Bavarian State Minister for Digital.
The preparatory work was already very extensive - the Ainhofner outdoor pool is now almost invisible in terms of color: colorful things dominate around the pools, at the kiosk and on the terraces.
A security service from Indersdorf has been cordoning off the entire outdoor pool area since the film was shot.
Until the very end, the film team was looking for extras and children for the shoot.
Excitement in the place caused five police buses that stormed the area.
But it quickly became clear: The action is part of the film.
It can be seen from afar that a large tent was set up for the actresses and filmmakers near the outdoor pool area, which is used for the mask and catering.
The extras are housed in another, smaller tent on the beach volleyball court during the breaks.
Ainhofen head of the outdoor pool, Hans Reif, was heavily involved in the preparatory work and even now not a day goes by without his tractor doing important work for the film people.
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The outdoor pool kiosk has been transformed into a “beach pearl” with everything you need for swimming.
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There are also a few critics who do not understand that the VfB Ainhofen swimming pool support association is making the swimming pool available to Constantin-Film AG for filming and that the swimming pool will not be open to the public until September 10th due to the filming. But the VfB board of directors asks for your understanding: The main thing is to continue financing the swimming pool. "If we had waived the usage fee agreed with Constantin-Film AG, things would look bleak in the club's coffers," said those responsible. Because of the pandemic, one of the association's main sources of income, the “Caribic Night”, has already been lost twice. “That is why the usage fee from Constantin Film represents an important compensation in the club's coffers,” emphasizes the VfB Board of Directors.
When the contract with Constantin-Film was concluded, due to the pandemic, it was impossible to foresee whether the outdoor pool could even open this year.
Until the start of filming, the bathing income was not exactly generous due to the bad weather and the corona requirements.
"Incidentally, the rainy weather has not yet allowed a single nice bathing day," states the second chairman of the outdoor swimming pool sponsoring association, Olaf Schellenberger.
The people of Ainhof also know from many years of experience that after the Assumption of the Virgin the interest of those who love to swim will wane anyway.
In order to avoid financial disadvantages for the people who like to use the Ainhofner outdoor pool, no season tickets were sold this year.
Unused ten cards are valid for three years.
This is what the film is about:
The comedy is supposed to be based on true stories that took place in a summer of the century in the 1960s: As more and more women go to the pool, German women feel harassed and Turkish women disregarded. When a group of Arab women turns up, it gets really tight. Emotions run high, fights break out - for the best seat at the pool edge and for the attention of the suddenly hired only man, the lifeguard. Doris Dörrie wrote the script for Constantin Filmproduktion with her two co-authors Madeleine Fricke and Karin Kaci. The team behind the camera is almost exclusively female. The film television fund is funding the project with 750,000 euros.
