Blood brothers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blood brothers |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Özgür Yıldırım |
| script |
Nicholas J. Schofield Jan Ehlert |
| production |
Fatih Akın Oliver Berben Klaus Maeck |
| music | Sven Helbig |
| camera | Matthias Bolliger |
| cut | Sebastian Thümler |
| occupation | |
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Blutzbrüdaz is a German feature film by director Özgür Yıldırım from 2011 . The music comedy starring rappers Sido and B-Tight is based on a script by the two authors Nicholas J. Schofield and Jan Ehlert and is about the two Berlin musicians Otis and Eddy, whose sudden breakthrough in the music business puts their friendship to the test . The cast include Milton Welsh , Claudia Eisinger , Tim Wilde and alwara hofels and rapper Alpa Gun , Florian Renner , Liquit Walker , G-Fu and Tony D to see.
The project was realized by Constantin Film and Corazón International in collaboration with MOOVIE and SevenPictures Film under the direction of Fatih Akın , Oliver Berben and Klaus Maeck . The shooting took place between February and April 2011 in Berlin. The comedy polarized critics after it was released for public screening on December 29, 2011. With around 530,000 visitors, however, Blutzbrüdaz was able to place itself among the twenty most successful German productions of the year. A soundtrack , Blutzbrüdaz - the Mukke to the film , was released on December 2, 2011.
action
Otis and Eddy are best friends. In private, the two, who are constantly broke, pass the time by rapping each other. When they can't get into a club again, they break into the window to take part in a battle . But before Otis can rap a word, the two are thrown out. Finally they wait in front of the club and intercept the organizer Fusco. You rap something to him, he is impressed, but asks for a demo tape . Otis ends up with DJ Desue , who starts a trial session with the two of them. The rhymes and the flow are good, but the raps don't come across as good. They assume that this is due to the inferior microphone, but they have no money for a better one. Otis first pumps his girlfriend Suzy, who can only lend him 10 marks . Then Otis' semi-criminal friend Adal invites her to a party, which is also attended by Sony promoter Facher and his assistant Jasmin. However, the two suggest that the young rappers better rap in English. Finally, Otis' half-criminal friend Adal takes care of getting a microphone. It turns out he wants to steal one with them.
After the first recording session, the tapes sell like hot cakes in the Fusco record store. They call themselves Blutzbrüdaz . Fusco offers to act as your manager and arranges an appearance for you in Braunschweig . Jasmin and Facher are also at the concert, which is ecstatically celebrated by the audience. Facher offers the two of them a contract. Against the wishes of their manager and at Eddy's insistence, they accept. The first single is directly at the expense of artistic freedom. The two are persuaded to sing a hook line , and when the single comes out of the press shop, Otis' rhymes have been replaced by Eddy's. In Otis, doubts are slowly growing as to whether the decision was the right one. However, he continues to make a good face so as not to stab his friend Eddy in the back and finally to be able to offer his girlfriend something. At a television show, however, it comes to a scandal: Instead of two songs, the Blutzbrüdaz should only rap one song, namely the one with Eddy's singing. When her appearance was announced as "Eddy and the Blood Brothers", Otis had enough and he left. Jasmin can barely stop him from attacking Facher. At home, his girlfriend throws him out, and he breaks his foot in his rage. As Eddy's career takes off, Otis is at its lowest point.
He can finally borrow 20,000 marks from Adal: But he is now Otis' manager. Otis goes back to Fusco and the two set up their own recording studio. Otis writes songs like crazy about his lost friendship with Eddy. These disstracks are supposed to be “the next big thing”, and Adal starts a guerrilla marketing campaign with them. Eddy's posters advertising his first album are simply pasted over. Everything seems to be going well until Adal causes a car accident and the driver involved calls the police. Otis is supposed to run away with the cocaine for him, but the latter refuses. Both leave the scene of the accident head over heels. But Adal has lost more of the cocaine that was hidden in the car and now wants his money back from Otis. When he is playing records with Fusco, Adal tries to catch him, but with the help of Jasmin, who happens to be visiting the club, Otis manages to escape. Otis learns that she no longer works for Facher and the two sleep together. But Adal doesn’t give up, he breaks into the recording studio and sells the master tape to Facher. He also presented Otis with his toggle contract, which Otis signed: For two years, Facher heard every Otis track. Otis then decides to wipe one thing from Facher: He uploads all of his tracks to the Internet and offers them free of charge via file sharing . Then he goes to a concert by Eddy, mounts the stage and raps a disstrack, which finally makes Eddy ridiculous. Eddy leaves the club, but first pays Otis respect with her old handshake.
background
The film comedy was shot between February 13 and April 5, 2011 in Berlin and the surrounding area. Both the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding as well as the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the German Film Funding Fund , the Film Funding Agency and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media contributed financially to the project.
Soundtrack
On December 2, 2011, the soundtrack for the film, Blutzbrüdaz - the Mukke for the film, was released . While the standard version of the soundtrack album only contains new songs by Sido, B-Tight and other German rappers, the deluxe version contains a second CD with instrumental pieces. Some of the songs written by Sido and B-Tight are rapped in the film by their characters Otis and Eddy .
reception
criticism
Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts described the film as an “easy-going, fun, disarmingly self-deprecating comedy, which shows that Sido does not need a mask [...] Despite or precisely because of the comic exaggeration, the portrayal of Berlin rap and hip-hop is Milieus precisely and always looks real. The breeding ground for the story is natural and the amusing dialogues breathe local color ”. Towards the end, however, the production gets tangled "in the pitfalls of a run-of-the-mill dramaturgy, which means that the film loses some of its momentum on the home straight".
David Siems from epd Film described the film as "a hip-hop film that was meant to be ambitious but completely out of touch with life". Much of the production seems “constructed” and offers “flat jokes, tired laughs” that result from a “cheap paint-by-numbers story”. In addition, Blutzbrüdaz has "no flow, no timing and no respect for the seriousness that is part of the comedy genre". Yildirim's “figures are so overdrawn that you simply cannot believe them. There remains the bland aftertaste that Blutzbrüdaz is primarily a PR vehicle for Sido ”.
Cinema magazine found that Blutzbrüdaz was an "uninspired underdog story full of platitudes". The film is “better than the unspeakable piece of work times change you ”, but “the naively told story about the street rapper Otis, who, together with his friend Eddy, despairs of the mechanisms of the music industry, is particularly captivating”. The blunt efforts of various showbiz and ghetto clichés ensure that: "From sleazy record bosses to Muslim drug addicts to exuberant disco orgies, everything is represented."
Jens-Christian Rabe called Blutzbrüdaz “not a good film” in his review for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and wrote: “Sido tries [on] a newcomer story with autobiographical elements that follows a romanticized idea of hip-hop. Shot by Özgür Yildrim and co-produced by Fatih Akin, that's better than the Bushido saga Times Change You . But for the most part it remains bland, ridiculous and without international standards [...] You don't get the impression that they really put their heart and soul into this film, or that they could. "
Gross profit
In Germany, Blutzbrüdaz recorded 128,139 moviegoers after the end of the first screening weekend; including previews even 154,699 viewers. As the only newcomer to the top ten, he was sixth in the cinema charts. With a total of 115,453 visitors within just three days, the comedy was ranked 43rd in the most-watched German cinema production of 2011. The film had a further 413,381 viewers in 2012. Blutzbrüdaz thus ranked 18th in the national annual visitor charts for 2012. The total number of viewers was 528,834.
Web links
- Official website of the film
- Blutzbrüdaz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blutzbrüdaz at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Blutzbrüdaz . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 732 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Blutzbrüdaz . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Blutzbrüdaz, Germany 2011, feature film . In: film portal . Filmportal.de. Retrieved on November 21, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b David Siems: Critique of Blutzbrüdaz . In: epd film . Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Blutzbrüdaz> Filmstarts Critique . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
- ↑ EDITORIAL REVIEW . In: Cinema . Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- ↑ Jens-Christian Rabe: Germany remains a hip-hop desert . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Sueddeutsche.de. December 29, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ↑ a b Christopher Klausnitzer: German Charts: “Sherlock Holmes 2” stays in front, “Blutzbrüdaz” the best newcomer . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. January 3, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ↑ Annual hit list (national) 2011. Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed on August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Annual hit list (national) 2012. Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed on August 30, 2019 .
