Yesterday evening ARD, the largest TV station in Germany and second largest broadcaster in the world, screened a movie ‘Einfach Rosa – Wolken über Kapstadt’ (‘Simply Rosa – clouds over Cape Town’), a most beautiful representation of Cape Town, and comes at a most welcome time to attract German tourists to our beautiful city and neighboring towns. It was filmed in Cape Town earlier this year.
The storyline briefly is that Mark and Nandi from Berlin fly to Cape Town to get married, with only four days to plan the wedding, with wedding planner Rosa and her assistant (in the photograph above, taken at Maiden’s Cove, with Camps Bay in the background) racing through Cape Town for flowers, a wedding cake, a wedding dress and suit, rings, and more.
The film showed off so much of our city’s beauty, including:
- Table Mountain, with South Easter clouds and without
- Camps Bay beach, and its Promenade
- Victoria Road between Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles Hotel
- Lion’s Head
- The colorful beach huts of Muizenberg
- Kayaking on a very calm ocean
- Bo-Kaap
- The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
- The Restaurant at Waterkloof in Somerset West, with its modern building hanging on the edge of a mountain cliff, is the focus for an important part of the movie action.
- The Cape Town International Convention Centre doubles up as the Cape Town International Airport
- A MyCiTi Bus features in the background
- Bread in Woodstock doubles up as a bakery.
The bride-to-be’s mother lives in a mansion in what must be Bishopscourt, and she tells the father of the groom-to-be that he does not have to pay for the wedding, as he should not think that ‘black people’ in South Africa are all poor! The father-of-the groom is grumpy, complaining about the variable Internet connection. He also moans about the prices of the food at The Restaurant at Waterkloof, mentioning R1400 for a starter, ludicrous of course. He regards the price for a venison main course at €50 as indulgent and expensive! The grumpy father also makes the dreadful statement that Cape Town is the ‘crime capital of the world‘! The wedding caterers are called ‘Restaurant Stellenbosch’. The fantastic sunny weather all summer long in our city gets a very favorable mention.
The movie ends off differently compared to how things were planned, but it works out well for all the key characters of the movie! And it is Cape Town that comes out best of all!
‘Einfach Rosa – Wolken über Kapstadt‘, ARD, 2015. Two Oceans Production. Cape Town.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Tel (021) 433-2100 Twitter:@WhaleCottage Facebook: click here
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Cape Town has always been popular with German tourists many of whom buy second homes although those figures have dropped 50% year on year according to the deed office despite the favourable exchange rate due to the visa and other immigration issues now addressed so it remains to be seen if the sizeable German community will continue growing . I hope it does but most cannot vote which is a problem .
Every local knows a German or an Austrian but the big question is when the ANC take the Cape (just a matter of time now) and when service delivery levels plummet will the Germans be so tolerant of crime and grime that is so prevalent in other provinces?
Remember Bob Dylan’s song “times are a changing” well the Cape is always changing for better or worse but tourism will always depend on competent management and target marketing which in the past has been an absolute joke with the motley fool brigade of Alan windbag and CTT and the idiots behind the helm and the disastrous CTRU now thankfully gone
What lies ahead .? Pass me the Chinese restaurant fortune cookie
Interesting views!
It’s racist.