Global Player - Wo wir sind isch vorne
A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization. The family-run company "Bogenschuetz & Sons" has produced solid textile machines in Hechingen, a small Swabian city in southern G…
Global Player - Wo wir sind isch vorne
A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization. The family-run company "Bogenschuetz & Sons" has produced solid textile machines in Hechingen, a small Swabian city in southern Germany, for generations. But nowadays demand is down since Asian competitors are cheaper. Michael Bogenschuetz (39, junior boss) is forced to negotiate on a sale with the Chinese behind his father's back. But father Paul (90, senior partner) finds out and tries to get help from Michael's sisters Marlies (45) and Marianne (49) to rescue his life's work... GLOBAL PLAYER tragicomically portraits a family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization. —sabotage films GmbH Company boss Michael Bogenschütz is desperate. The family business, once a leader in the manufacture of textile machinery, is on the verge of bankruptcy. He is painfully aware that globalization has not stopped at the Swabian town of Hechingen. In his distress, Michael thinks about fresh capital from Chinese investors. He has secretly made contact with them, as father and senior boss Paul doesn't think much of it. But the family has drifted apart: Matthias is enjoying a drop-out existence in Thailand, Marlies is devoting herself to green ideas in Cologne and Marianne is working as a translator in Berlin. The sisters are there for the patriarch's 90th birthday, and Michael lets them in on the seriousness of the situation. Paul cannot bear the sight of the delegation from Shanghai on his company premises. Without further ado, he turns to his daughters and asks them to lend on their houses. He is in for a pleasant surprise. Because everything is at stake. —SWR
Global Player - Wo wir sind isch vorne
Comedy,Drama
Film Details
A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization. The family-run company "Bogenschuetz & Sons" has produced solid textile machines in Hechingen, a small Swabian city in southern Germany, for generations. But nowadays demand is down since Asian competitors are cheaper.
Michael Bogenschuetz (39, junior boss) is forced to negotiate on a sale with the Chinese behind his father's back. But father Paul (90, senior partner) finds out and tries to get help from Michael's sisters Marlies (45) and Marianne (49) to rescue his life's work... GLOBAL PLAYER tragicomically portraits a family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.
—sabotage films GmbH Company boss Michael Bogenschütz is desperate. The family business, once a leader in the manufacture of textile machinery, is on the verge of bankruptcy. He is painfully aware that globalization has not stopped at the Swabian town of Hechingen.
In his distress, Michael thinks about fresh capital from Chinese investors. He has secretly made contact with them, as father and senior boss Paul doesn't think much of it. But the family has drifted apart: Matthias is enjoying a drop-out existence in Thailand, Marlies is devoting herself to green ideas in Cologne and Marianne is working as a translator in Berlin.
The sisters are there for the patriarch's 90th birthday, and Michael lets them in on the seriousness of the situation. Paul cannot bear the sight of the delegation from Shanghai on his company premises. Without further ado, he turns to his daughters and asks them to lend on their houses.
He is in for a pleasant surprise. Because everything is at stake. —SWR.