Today comes a German hit comedy to Amazon Prime *, which in 2018 over 1 million German visitors to the cinema attracted and brought in more than 9 million euros. Was there The first name by Sönke Wortmann fourth film adaptation a story that resonated in many different European countries.
The first name asks at Amazon: Can you name your child Adolf?
Five acquaintances, two couples and a single meet in Der Vorname for dinner. Stefan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) invite you to their home. Elisabeth’s brother Thomas (Florian David Fitz) is on time, while his pregnant wife Anna (Janina Uhse) will arrive a little later. René (Justus von Dohnányi) is also present.
Everything is going well until Thomas is asked for the first name of his unborn child and answers “Adolf”. Is that a joke? The outrage is great, the historical German legacy weighs heavily and the evening begins to escalate.
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The first name
The first name originally came about as a French play “Le prénom” by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, which premiered in Paris in 2010. The first German theater version followed in Hamburg in 2011. But only that 4 film adaptations within a very short time (between 2012 and 2018) also introduced the material to a large international audience.
Successful film Der Vorname: 4 film adaptations and a German sequel
Below we have you 4 adaptations from France, Italy, Spain and Germany listed that exist for the play. In all countries it is the first name Adolf or Adolphe that causes trouble, only in the Italian version the child is said to be called Benito and thus does not allude to Adolf Hitler, but to Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
In addition, the play Der Vorname was performed on other international stages, which means that there are also TV recordings of these plays from Austria and Co. The first name is not enough for the Remake record of more than 10 film adaptations almost as quickly as Florian David Fitz’s film The Perfect Secret, but it still has a special feature.
Then only in Germany did the success result in a sequel: Four years after the German version of Der Vorname brought Sönke Wortmann 2022 Last name to the movies. This sequel built on the existing characters and conflicts, but told its own story without a film or theater template. You can currently see the sequel as a rental version at Amazon *.
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