RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG Closing of shooting for “Tina mobil” (AT) – the new rbb mini-series At the beginning of December the last shots were taken for the new rbb mini-series “Tina mobil” (AT). Gabriela Maria Schmeide plays the main role of Tina. In six episodes of 45 minutes each, the mini-series tells the sometimes funny, sometimes sad story of a woman who doesn’t want to give up at all, in an environment that isn’t shown too often – a story of love, strength, defiance and self-assertion. The script was written by Laila Stieler and directed by Richard Huber. Filming started in September. Filming took place in Berlin-Weißensee, Beiersdorf-Freudenberg and Bernau, among other places. The broadcast in the ARD media library and on “FilmMittwoch im Erste” is planned for the 4th quarter of 2021. – Tina (Gabriela Maria Schmeide) in her baking mobile. © rbb/Stefan Erhard, free of charge – use according to the terms and conditions in close editorial context with the mentioned rbb program and when naming “Image: rbb/Stefan Erhard” (S2). rbb Press & Information, Masurenallee 8-14, 14057 Berlin, Tel: 030/97 99 3-12118 or -12116, [email protected] / Further text via OTS and www.presseportal.de/pm/51580
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The most beautiful so-called early evening series was “Three Ladies from the Grill” with Brigitte Mira and Günter Pfitzmann in the 1970s and 1980s. For three days you could watch Hallodri Pfitzmann deliver sausages and the three dyer women run a snack bar. Heinz Oskar Wuttig and Ulrich del Mestre wrote these hearty Berlin farces.
You have to think about it when Gabriela Maria Schmeide as Tina Sanftleben drives through Brandenburg with her sales van
moves. The little people film is a tricky genre, because kitsch is always around. Tina is fired from the large bakery, for which she has delivered baked goods for twenty years. She cannot find a new job and is self-employed with her own bus. She has two daughters and a son, the other son died and her marriage fell apart. The children’s father is a window cleaner. Tina has a big mouth, she is sentimental, unjust, unreasonable, impulsive and overwhelmed, in short: bomb.
Nobody can write everyday stories as well as Laila Stieler
Nobody can write everyday stories as well as Laila Stieler. Since “Stilles Land” (1992) she has written screenplays for director Andreas Dresen, including “Willenbrock”, “Gundermann” and “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”. There just aren’t any wrong notes in their dialogues. Tina goes from one small catastrophe to another small catastrophe. When “Lütte” is interrogated at school about drinking and marijuana dealing, Tina makes a plea like in the American one
movie courtroom.
“Tina mobil” is also a masterpiece of the cast: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, one of the best German actresses, if not the best, irresistible Berliners, well, really. Max Hopp plays Kowalski, the lurking manager of the large bakery, who has his eye on Maria, as an erotic faun. Steffi Kühnert, Ursula Werner, Monika Lennartz, Carmen-Maja Antoni, AnneKathrin Gummich and Alexander Hörbe belong to the Dresen-Stieler cosmos, but these great actors were hired by director Richard Huber and the casting luminary Simone Bär, who died in January.
The six episodes of “Tina mobil” were shot in 2020; you can see them again in the RBB media library. Thirty years from now, people will think of her like “Three Ladies from the Grill”.