God of Happiness (film)

This article is about the 2015 film. For the Chinese deities, see Sanxing (deities).

God of Happiness
Directed byDito Tsintsadze
Written byDito Tsintsadze
Produced byOliver Damian
Birgit Kemner
Elaine Niessner
Tommy Niessner
Guka Rcheulishvili
Temur Ugulava
StarringLasha Bakradze
Elie James Blezes
Nadeshda Brennicke
Tina Meliava
Ufuk Bozkurt
CinematographyRalf M. Mendle
Edited byMartin Menzel
Production
companies
27 Films Production
East End Film
Manny Films
Koro Pictures
Distributed byKinostar
Release dates
  • November 2015 (2015-11) (Biberach)
  • 23 June 2016 (2016-06-23)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesGermany
France
Georgia
LanguageGerman

God of Happiness is a 2015 German-French-Georgian black comedy film directed by Dito Tsintsadze and starring Lasha Bakradze, Elie James Blezes, Nadeshda Brennicke, Tina Meliava and Ufuk Bozkurt.

Plot

The film tells the story of a former film director Georgi (Lasha Bakradze) originally from Georgia who plays minor parts in crowd-scenes. He also earns money on the side as a pimp of Ngudu (Elie James Blezes) – his black friend whose clients are wealthy older women with tastes for BDSM.

The two unsuccessful men are always short of money and live in a dingy apartment in an industrial area on the outskirts of Stuttgart. Ngudu uses magic to communicate with his mother, who lives in an African village. They have so little money that Georgi is even forced to sell Ngudu's beloved God of Happiness statue.

Georgi's 15-year-old daughter Tina (Tina Meliava) who lives in Canada with her mother is coming to visit him for the first time in 10 years. He has always pretended to her that he was a successful actor.

Now Georgi must stage a fake life of a rich movie star for Tina. Ngudu's contacts with rich women help him find a villa and an expensive car for Georgi. Georgi convinces his acquaintance, the wooden-legged coke-snorting vaudeville actress Mia (Nadeshda Brennicke) to play his German wife.

Tina arrives, she is quiet, observant and claims to not speak any German. She also has secrets of her own.

Later their plan becomes in danger when Mia's jealous ex-boyfriend Rocco (Ufuk Bozkurt) arrives and stirs up trouble.

But Tina is not easily deceived and the more Giorgi tries to hold on to his lies, the more the situation threatens to spiral out of control.

Cast

  • Lasha Bakradze as Giorgi
  • Elie James Blezes as Ngudu
  • Nadeshda Brennicke as Mia
  • Tina Meliava as Tina
  • Ufuk Bozkurt as Rocco

Production

This film is very important to me…maybe even too personal, but this could make things even stronger!

— Dito Tsintsadze.[1]

There were some differences in the original script. Georgi character's original name was Guram. Tina was originally written as a son named Rati.[2]

The filming began on 6 August 2013 in Stuttgart. Initially the title was Wettbewerb (Contest).[3][4][5] The filming took four weeks.[6]

Some lines which the politically incorrect Mia says in the film were improvised by Nadeshda Brennicke.[7]

Reception

Critical response

The film was praised for its acting and deadpan humor which some critics compared with the work of Aki Kaurismäki.[8][9][10]

Jürgen Haase, member of the Biberach Film Festival said that "At the first glance the film appears to be a small-scale story which you think you know but instead develops into one which always has exceptional situations, poetic ideas and a laconic wit where life seems like a game".[11]

Awards

In 2015 it won the grand prize of Biberach Film Festival – the Golden Beaver.[12][13] Dito Tsintsadze won the Best Director prize at the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival and Ralf M. Mendle received the Best Cinematography award for his work on the film in the year 2016.[14]

References to other films

The film references the 2000 film Lost Killers by Dito Tsintsadze which also stars Lasha Bakradze and Elie James Blezes.

References

  1. ^ "God of Happiness at VIFF". Indie Cinema. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Film Info: WETTBEWERB". german-films.de. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Dito Tsintsadze dreht "Wettbewerb"" (in German). kino-zeit.de. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  4. ^ Von Oettle. "Drehort mit Aussicht auf den Hügeln von Botnang" (in German). Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  5. ^ Daniel Hackbarth. "StZ-Videoserie zu Filmdreh in Stuttgart – Der Mann mit dem Überblick" (in German). Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  6. ^ Birgit Heidsiek. "Dito Tsintsadze wraps up his new tragicomedy Wettbewerb". Cineuropa. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  7. ^ Fatema Mian. "Film – God of Happiness". BR Fernsehen. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  8. ^ Thorsten Hanisch. "God of Happiness" (in German). kino-zeit.de. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  9. ^ Reinhard Tschapke. "Vom Leben mit süßen Lügen" (in German). NWZ Online. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  10. ^ Angie Pohlers. "Ihr Galgenvögel!" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  11. ^ Gerd Mägerle. "Goldener Biber geht an "God of Happiness"" (in German). Schwäbische Zeitung. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  12. ^ "Georgian film 'God of Happiness' wins top award at German festival". Agenda.ge. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  13. ^ "Goldener Biber für Tragikomödie" (in German). SWR Fernsehen. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  14. ^ "VIFF 2016 Winners". Vienna Independent Film Festival. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

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