The stars of "Men in the City 2" in a conversation about "Depth, talent and craftsmanship"

It is already clear: "Men in the City 2" is one of the summer hits of  2011. We met its director Simon Verhoeven with Stars Florian David Fitz, and Justus von Dohnányi.

Good news, Mr. Verhoeven: So far, there seems to be no single critic saying "men's hearts 2" was really bad.

Verhoeven: No, we have even proper hymns - what even surprises me a little. I think it is because the critics in the first part of work were on you and now they also recognize the craft. By all parties involved, the actors - just everybody. I think that the film remarks is that many very, very good people have worked very hard on it.

"Best German Film 2009" meets "German Film Award 2010 & 2011". "in front of me sits almost the dream team of German Cinema.

Fitz: (laughs) Too much of glory!

Verhoeven: nothing to add

But how 2012 can top it now?

Fitz: It must not even be always topped. If you wanted to top everything, you would get a heart attack indeed. I think we are all quite happy to make beautiful films. And when people look at this, it's more than you may expect.
Verhoeven: We must not forget that you also make films that you think are great and very interesting - but not have the potential to be a Blockbuster. The "Men in the city" is quite a special thing and I do not think it is easy to repeat that again.
von Dohnányi: Absolutely true: But it's only great times, have found a job that's fun. And if it happens that you do something every couple of years that still brings recognition and work well, it's great. We arenot tortured to work.

Especially for you, you spent a decade mimic rather bulky with uncomfortable roles - but the levees break with comedies. Should we not sigh as deep as an actor?

von Dohnányi: Well, there are actually people in the film, not all have too much imagination. Since it is being type-cast in the first place. If you want to breakthrough you need your own time - or occasions. And then in 2009 I had the opportunity to participate in such a beautiful comedy ...

2010 was the season of Florian David Fitz: Bambi, Bavarian Film Awards, German Film Award. And now after L.A.?

Fitz: No, no - for God's sake. I am happy to be here. I studied in America and like the country like crazy. But I think it's a shame that we all always squint to LA - so it makes itself a bit small. You can also make a good film here. This is my language, this is my country.
Verhoeven: And indeed you can see what we have for outstanding actor. Let's take Justus or Flo: They can play on Hollywood-level of course, there's no question. I wish we just had in Germany a similar script of project quality.
Fitz: But you had to get more people to the cinema, as in other countries. Then we had a lot more options and more money - and could still make better films.
Verhoeven: But of depth, talent and craft in Germany the best actors in the world are at home - and I mean that seriously.

Awards for "Men in the City," "Men in the City 2" a huge success - the acceleration has not made the director dizzy?

Verhoeven: I have air for a long time. I haven't made any movie in six years. I have burst all projects - in the financing or even in the script phase. And then of course you have a lot of pent-up energy. Now I know it is very appreciated and can enjoy it, no matter what happens to make a hit with audiences and to have the same positive response from critics. But I know it can also run very differently.

The pressure of expectation on upcoming projects is growing naturally.

Verhoeven: Not from my side

But from the studios

Verhoeven: The studios want, of course, that I have to do Men in the city. This is a purely economic consideration - would wish that I now make Men in the City 3 to 12. But I can only do what interests me - and with "Men in the City," that's it for me now.

So no "Men in the City 3- even warm?"

Verhoeven: Not for me. The story is all told about - and we should leave the party when it's at its finest. That way, says Bruce Berger also in the first film.

"Second part of movie comedy "Men's hearts" ": Here Bruce Berger's latest rap hit!

"Men's hearts" had in the fall of 2009 2.1 million viewers, it's a cinema's tip to smile, flirt, make an appointment* - to understand the men! (* I think it's more about having a date)

Two years after the great success of "men's hearts" is finally coming out to the cinemas the second part of the love-chaos-comedy. For the six representatives of the stronger sex, a new round has begun. What the six men have seen since they left the Berlin Muckibude Fitness World?

Philip (Maxim Mehmet) has his own busnisses, he opened its organic café, girlfriend Nina (Jana Pallaske) is expecting twins. By contrast, his friend Niklas (Florian David Fitz) reached the low point: The once-successful advertiser has lost his job and dreams of a reunion with his great love, Mary (Inez David Björg).

Music producer and ex-Womanizer Jerome (Til Schweiger) has an accident and on the search for meaning returns to his old home.

And labor inspector Guenther (Christian Ulmen) is working on his manhood, which his girlfriend Susan (Nadja Uhl) demanded of him, her ex-husband, Roland (Wotan Wilke Mohring) sits in jail in the meantime.

Just pop star Bruce Berger (Justus von Dohnanyi) almost explodes with energy! The eccentric star has succumbed to the obsession with youth and  in a rapper outfit wants to launch his new hit "Positive Energy" in the market - with BILD.de you can already see the video (above)!

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"Save a million! - The big celebrity special: The quiz with Jörg Pilawa"

Jörg Pilawa plays for the third time his quiz "Save the million!" with celebrity teams. There are eight questions to the finish to score at the end as much money as possible for a good cause. But every wrong answer shrinks the money mountain inexorably.

With 20.000 in 50-euro notes and 22 kilograms of money on the table to catch, even celebrities get sweaty palms - and try to save what can be saved: For good cause!

Who is playing together for so much money, must not only know very well, and blindly understand, but also combine well how to use their money tatically. The celebrity partners also know that they might have a personal quiz "secret weapon",  which can be trick. It can be done by their own mother, best friend or co-star - with whom to count on celebrities, who is gonna take the risk?

Guests: Til Schweiger & Florian David Fitz Barbara Becker & Ursula Karven Katarina Witt & Frank Elstner

Florian David Fitz: "My Munich"

"Munich lacks any Bohème"   "A rather sloppy soap bubble"

            The Munich "fancy side" is not so attractive to Florian David Fitz. But there's still the parks, the Isar river, the smell of mackerel in the air ... In the questionnaire, the actor describes his life in Munich.

             Every town has small stories and big secrets. And who could unravel these mysteries better than someone who lives there - or at least who has lived there for a while? Every week a celebrity answers in sueddeutsche.de a questionnaire " being Bayerner" (born in Bavarian). This time the actor Florian David Fitz presents his hometown of Munich.

            The Munich-based Fitz family has produced several great artists: the sharp-tongued comedian Lisa, for example - or Michael, who played  the Kriminaloberkommissar (detective comissioner) Carlo Menzinger in the Munich crime scene investigators 'serie along with Leitmayr and Batic. The most versatile is probably Florian David Fitz, named by his biographer as an actor. But that's only half of the truth. Because if Fitz, 36, is not playing the arrogant assistant medical Marc Meier in the RTL TV series Doctor's Diary or standing in front of a camera for a movie, he has to do a lot of other things: he writes screenplays and sang a song for the Disney movie Tiggers great adventure - and, surprisingly, he can also paint just great. For his portrayal of a man suffering from Tourette's syndrome in the film Vincent wants to sea, last weekend, he got the German Film Prize for Best Actor. Florian David Fitz grew up in Munich, where his parents ran a hotel that is now run by his older sister.

Questionnaire

_You live - at least from time to time - in Munich. Why here and not elsewhere?

Family, friends, rootedeness.

_The best thing about Munich is .....

.......the summer: the Eisbach, the English Garden, the Nymphenburg Park, the Isar, the flowering lime trees in the air, the smell of Steckerlfisch in the beer garden and warmd gravel under feet.

_What annoys me the most in Munich...

..... Schnöseleien (people who think they are the center of the universe, they don't look down, always up with superiority) and Geldproletentum (people who thinks money is everything and therefore can do whatever they want, they also like to show off - kind of a douchbag/idiot).

_Your best moment in Munich?

There's too manny of those. I grew up here.

_Which is your favorite place in Munich -  and why?

The parks, if they are empty. And sometimes even when they are full of guitars, bongo, drums and football teams.

_Where every visitor should even drink a beer, where the food tastes great?

Augustine is the best beer. And the White Brewery  has the best best food. However, recently I ate at the lake house the best roast pork in my life.

_Suppose that the U.S. president came to visit Munich: What would you show him?

Would show him anything. Sometimes you have to treat yourself a break. Feet into the water under a chestnut.

_What should be avoided as a visitor?

  Smoking crack at the Monopteros
_What a building or facility in Munich, which is still missing?

Any Bohème. There were a few. It's all over. ("Bohemian society... it´s a fringe group who are "kind of aggressive"... they express their aggressiveness in art..." - a friend kindly explained it and also helped with the other words not in the dictionary)

_Who is your favorite Munich's public figure and why?

I don't have it.

_What distinguishes the typical Munich?

In the best case: laissez faire, a certain humor and charming realism. In the worst case, everything that is said in Berlin.

_What is the secret of Munich to be aired yet?

Let's mysteries remain such.
_If you had to describe Munich in one word -  how would you do that?
Dahoam (home).

_What can I say about you in Munich?

Junge, komm bald wieder. (Boy, come back soon). This is a trick one, "Junge, komm bald wieder" is the title of a song that talks about being away and coming back home, so we think this what Florian meant.
_Please complete this sentence: Munich is overall .. pretty much a sloppy soap bublle. But for those whom look closely, the most beautiful colors of the world is on their skin.

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Cinema Prize: the crowd favorite is the winner

           The German Film Prize in 2011 brought a surprise: the film "Vincent will Meer" and the actor Florian David Fitz were the winners of the most prestigious and, with 2.8 million euros, the most gifted German film awards. In the 61st edition of the award on April 8 in Berlin, the coveted "Golden Lola" the best film was awarded to director Ralf Huettner Roadmovie. The tragicomedy revolves around Vincent, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, runs away from a clinic along with two other psychiatric patients and wants to go to the beach in Italy. The movie had great success in German cinemas in 2010, enthusing about a million viewers - the second among German productions last year.

           The double triumph of the film then came through the actor Florian David Fitz: the Munich of 36 years was awarded to Lola the best leading actor. Fitz, who also authored the screenplay for "Vincent will Meer," with his dramatic performance surpassed the performance of fellow co-listed August Diehl ("Wer wenn nicht wir") and Alexander Fehling ("Goethe"). Other winners at the German Film Prize, awarded a total of 16 categories, were Tom Tykwer (the best direction with the film "Drei"), Sophie Rois (the best lead actress in the movie "Drei") and Wim Wenders ( the best documentary film "Pina").

            The winner Florian David Fitz is a young German actor, until now little known. Since 2000, he performed in several productions of films and television series in Germany. In the role of the arrogant doctor Marc Meier, in the serie "Doctor's Diary", he became known to a wider audience. In 2006, he received the prestigious Grimme Award for his performance in TV movie "Meine Verrückt türkische Hochzeit." In November 2010, was awarded the media's "Bambi" in the category of "national actor." The recent distinction of his work with the German Film Prize for 2011 means a peak in his career. Fitz is considered a modest person, with little interest in the glitz and glamor of the movie world. He is now working on his next project: writing and directing, shooting the best-selling novel by David Safi, "Jesus liebt mich - Jesus loves me."

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