Bad Tölz / Hausham - When Marcus H. Rosenmüller starts a new film, the Oberland is particularly excited.
At the premiere, he reported about the idea but also his own outdoor pool experiences.
When Marcus H. Rosenmüller (“Who dies earlier is longer dead”) talks about his new film, which is all about an outdoor swimming pool, then it is a declaration of love to the good old days.
Memories of your own childhood and home.
The movie "Beckenrand Sheriff" was shot for the most part in Pleystein, Upper Palatinate, but actually the message of the film is a metaphor for all open-air paddling places.
It could also be the lido in Schliersee - the native Haushamer director often spent his youth there in the summer: got on his bike and let himself be lulled to sleep by the chattering and screeching of the bathers.
He told this on Thursday at the premiere of his new film in the Oberland Kinocenter.
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What particularly shaped Rosenmüller: “How little you need as a child to be happy.” Water and a five-meter tower would have been enough.
Besides, nothing was missed.
“You hear everything and are right in the middle of it,” the filmmaker continues.
It was the encounters and the exchange with other people that all met in the outdoor pool or at the lake.
A slowed-down world without WhatsApp, Facebook and Co.
Outdoor pools are places of longing
Filmmaker Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Even if Rosenmüller's “Beckenrand Sheriff” is a typical comedy, the well-known Upper Bavarian filmmaker became a little political at the press conference: “We live in a time of prejudices and generalizations.
People don't meet anymore, they just sit in front of their laptop. ”But real life just happens outside.
Be it in the cinema at folk festivals or in the open air swimming pool: "These are real meeting places."
These were particularly formative in childhood and adolescence.
Therefore, in retrospect, Rosenmüller feels “the outdoor pool is a place of longing”.
The plot of "Beckenrand Sheriff" takes up these memories: Friendship and that the world can be changed if you only believe in it - are topics.
Rosenmüller was won over by the idea and the action
That is why the script by Marcus Pfeiffer hit the director “right in the heart”.
The Munich production company Favoritfilm GmbH was also convinced by the idea and knew - Rosenmüller is the right person to bring the “weird humor” to the big screen, confirmed producer Julia Rappold.
This is what the film is about:
In the fictional Upper Bavarian Grubberg, the unpopular and
grumpy
pool
attendant Karl Kruse
(Milan Peschel) has to
save the
aging
outdoor pool from the threat of closure
. The costs are too high, the swimming pool too old. Mayor (Gisela Schneeberger) wants to close the outdoor pool. And builder Albert Dengler (Sebastian Bezzel) sees his chance to build “tiny houses in a country house style” there. But without Karl: Because he's been
the so-called pool sheriff
in the swimming pool for 30 years
. Therefore, the lifeguard wants to fight against it by referendum.
Gets unexpected help
Karl Kruse also from the bizarre village water polo team, his new trainee Sali (Dimitri Abold), who cannot swim as a Nigerian refugee, as well as from ex-professional swimmer Lisa Dengler and Karl's arch rival Dr.
Rieger (Rick Kavanian).
Rosenmüller is modest, waved him off and instead highlighted the “great cast”.
Above all his new discovery Dimitri Abold, who plays the refugee and swimming pool trainee Sali in the film.
"It was his first feature film", reported Rosenmüller and added: "We will hear a lot more from him."
"Satirical Wisdom" by Peschel and Schneeberger
He also praised the main actor Milan Peschel (lifeguard Kruse).
“I've always wanted to make a film with him.” As well as the Bavarian film icon Gisela Schneeberger.
She plays a resolute mayor who comes out with satirical wisdom in the film, such as: "There is no money for democracy".
For Rosenmüller it was “his fastest film”.
It took two and a half years from the idea to the premiere.
“Beckenrand Sheriff” can be seen in the Oberland and Isar Kinocenter as well as from September 23 in the Tölzer Capitol Theater.