# Kokowääh 2
**Kokowääh 2** is a 2013 German comedy and the sequel to [Til Schweiger](https://www.edgepedia.org/til-schweiger)'s box-office hit *Kokowääh* (2011). It was directed by Schweiger with Torsten Künstler as co-director, written by Schweiger and Béla Jarzyk, and released in German cinemas on 7 February 2013.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) With more than 2.7 million admissions in Germany and a box office of almost 20 million euros, it ranked among the most successful German films of 2013.[2](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/154/Kokowaeaeh-2.htm)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kokowääh 2 (Germany, 2013), comedy/romance in German[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) |
| Direction | Til Schweiger, with Torsten Künstler as co-director[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) |
| Screenplay | Til Schweiger and Béla Jarzyk[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) |
| German release | 7 February 2013; 122 minutes; FSK rated ab 6 (suitable from age 6)[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) |
| Production | Barefoot Films GmbH (Berlin) with Béla Jarzyk Production and Warner Bros. Filmproduktion; filming 2 August to 1 October 2012 in Berlin and Brandenburg[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) • [3](https://www.filmreporter.de/news/9623-Til-Schweiger-legt-los) |
| German admissions | 2,749,139 as of December 2013 (FFA figure); ninth place in the annual German chart[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) • [4](https://www.fernsehserien.de/filme/kokowaeaeh-ii) |
| Box office | Almost 20,000,000 euros in Germany[2](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/154/Kokowaeaeh-2.htm) |
## Spoilers
### Story
The film picks up two years after the end of the first part. Henry (Til Schweiger), Katharina (Jasmin Gerat), Tristan (Samuel Finzi), and Magdalena (Emma Schweiger) now form a somewhat chaotic patchwork family in which every member is wrestling with private or professional problems.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9)
Henry tries to establish himself as a film producer and, on his first project, has to deal with a temperamental young star, played by [Matthias Schweighöfer](https://www.edgepedia.org/matthias-schweighofer) as himself.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) Katharina struggles to settle into her role as housewife and mother to the newborn baby Louis, and eventually moves into her own apartment to rediscover herself.[5](https://thetvdb.com/movies/kokowaah-2) Magdalena experiences her first love, while Tristan, recently divorced, tries to ride out a midlife crisis with a much younger girlfriend.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) When Tristan moves in with Henry, the two men find themselves responsible for Louis and Magdalena and hire an attractive live-in nanny, which complicates Henry's hope of a second chance with Katharina.[5](https://thetvdb.com/movies/kokowaah-2)
## Cast and crew
Schweiger again combined the roles of director, lead actor, screenwriter, and producer, as he had on the first film.[3](https://www.filmreporter.de/news/9623-Til-Schweiger-legt-los) Thomas Zickler co-produced, and the film was supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA).[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) Adrian Cranage was the cinematographer, Constantin von Seld and Schweiger edited, and Dirk Reichardt and Martin Todsharow wrote the music.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9)
The main cast:[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9)
- Til Schweiger as Henry
- Emma Tiger Schweiger as Magdalena
- Jasmin Gerat as Katharina
- Samuel Finzi as Tristan
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Matthias
- Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen as Nora
- Nico Liersch as Max
- Julia Jentsch as Rosa
- Gedeon Burkhard as Luc
*Kokowääh 2* was the fifth film in which Schweiger appeared on screen with his daughter Emma, after *Keinohrhasen*, *Männerherzen*, *[Zweiohrküken](https://www.edgepedia.org/zweiohrkuken)*, and *Kokowääh*.[6](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201758.html)
## Production
Shooting began on 2 August 2012 in Berlin and ran over 38 shooting days until 1 October 2012, on locations in Berlin and [Brandenburg](https://www.edgepedia.org/brandenburg).[3](https://www.filmreporter.de/news/9623-Til-Schweiger-legt-los) Warner Bros. Germany had confirmed the project in January 2012, with the release planned for February 2013, exactly two years after the first film's successful start.[7](https://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18472631.html) The German theatrical release took place on 7 February 2013, and the film passed FSK review on 31 January 2013 with a rating of ab 6.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9)
The title refers to the French chicken dish coq au vin, which the phonetic German rendering "Kokowääh" imitates; in the story it is the only dish Henry can cook.[6](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201758.html) The soundtrack was released one day after the film's premiere and includes the song "Hall of Fame" by [The Script](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-script).[8](https://www.becktomusic.de/dateien/kokowaeaeh2_pressetext.pdf)
## Reception
**Box office.** The film drew 2,749,139 admissions in Germany by December 2013, according to the FFA.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) Beta Cinema, the sales agent, puts the German box office at almost 20 million euros and calls it one of the most successful films of 2013.[2](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/154/Kokowaeaeh-2.htm) More than two and a half million German admissions placed it ninth in the annual German chart, and nearly 200,000 Swiss spectators saw the film.[4](https://www.fernsehserien.de/filme/kokowaeaeh-ii) Time Warner's 2013 annual report lists *Kokowääh 2* among its local-language productions.[9](https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive/t/NYSE_TWX_2013.pdf)
**Critics and audiences.** As with Schweiger's other comedies, reviews and popular success diverged. The FILMSTARTS editorial review rated the film 3.0 ("solide"), noting that the central cuckoo-child conflict of the original had been resolved, so entirely new plot strands had to be invented for the returning characters, with mixed results; its users gave an average of 2.6 from about 950 ratings.[6](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201758.html) On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.3 out of 10.[10](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194599/ratings/) On Rotten Tomatoes the Popcornmeter (audience score) stood at 46 percent.[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kokowaah_2) The Swiss review site Cineman judged that the film compensates for its lack of originality with brisk storytelling and no dead spots, while conceding that it reuses proven gags.[12](https://www.cineman.ch/movie/2013/Kokowaeaeh2/review.html) The media-education site medienbewusst.de, although the film is rated FSK 0 by some listings, recommended it for children only from about age ten to twelve because of its coarse humor and puberty themes.[13](https://www.medienbewusst.de/ratgeber/kokowaah-2-ein-til-schweiger-eben/)
## Context in German cinema
The predecessor *Kokowääh* had drawn more than 4.3 million visitors and was the most successful German film of 2011, which made a sequel commercially predictable.[6](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201758.html) A scholarly survey of German mainstream cinema groups *Kokowääh 2* with Schweiger's romantic comedies such as *Keinohrhasen* and its sequels as films that guaranteed consistently high box-office takings for domestic productions.[14](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2466/3/Revised_NC%2012.1%262_2_art_Eicken.pdf) Runtime listings vary across databases: filmportal.de and Filmdienst give 122 minutes, while some cinema and television listings give 110 or 111 minutes.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9) • [15](https://waiblingen.traumpalast.de/index.php?FN=2545&PID=211) • [4](https://www.fernsehserien.de/filme/kokowaeaeh-ii)
## References
1. [Kokowääh 2, filmportal.de](https://www.filmportal.de/film/kokowaeaeh-2_85d98a75dba242ed93209402f024cfd9)
2. [Kokowääh 2, Beta Cinema](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/154/Kokowaeaeh-2.htm)
3. [In Produktion: Til Schweiger legt los, FILMREPORTER.de](https://www.filmreporter.de/news/9623-Til-Schweiger-legt-los)
4. [Kokowääh II, fernsehserien.de](https://www.fernsehserien.de/filme/kokowaeaeh-ii)
5. [Kokowääh 2, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/movies/kokowaah-2)
6. [Kokowääh 2 (2013), FILMSTARTS.de](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201758.html)
7. ["Kokowääh 2" mit Til Schweiger kommt 2013 ins Kino, FILMSTARTS.de](https://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18472631.html)
8. [Kokowääh 2 press text,becktomusic.de](https://www.becktomusic.de/dateien/kokowaeaeh2_pressetext.pdf)
9. [Time Warner Annual Report 2013](https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive/t/NYSE_TWX_2013.pdf)
10. [Kokowääh 2 (2013) Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194599/ratings/)
11. [Kokowaah 2, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kokowaah_2)
12. [Review: Kokowääh 2, Cineman](https://www.cineman.ch/movie/2013/Kokowaeaeh2/review.html)
13. [Kokowääh 2 – Ein "Til Schweiger" eben, medienbewusst.de](https://www.medienbewusst.de/ratgeber/kokowaah-2-ein-til-schweiger-eben/)
14. [Cinema of consensus, Falmouth University repository](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2466/3/Revised_NC%2012.1%262_2_art_Eicken.pdf)
15. [Kokowääh 2, Traumpalast Waiblingen](https://waiblingen.traumpalast.de/index.php?FN=2545&PID=211)
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