Rocker (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | rocker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Lemke |
| script | Klaus Lemke |
| production |
Hans Kaden , Willi Segler |
| camera |
Bernd Fiedler , Anna Harnisch |
| cut | Jutta Brandstaedter |
| occupation | |
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Rocker is a television film from 1972 by director Klaus Lemke , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
action
The film begins with the release of the rocker Gerd from the Fuhlsbüttel prison . In front of the prison gate his numerous biker friends are waiting, all of them sitting on their motorbikes, to welcome their companion who has been released into freedom with warm hugs. Gerd has been released on parole. His former girlfriend Sonja wants to break away from the rockers and now works as a serious employee, neatly dressed, in the Kaufhof department store . Gerd tries to win her back in a harsh way. A meeting between the two of them scheduled for the evening is ruined by a gang of rocker enemies who, in the dark and masked, knock Gerd down, set his garden shed on fire and tie him to a tree. Sonja has meanwhile started a relationship with the petty criminal Uli Modschiedler.
Uli steals a white "Daimler" ( Mercedes convertible ) from the underground car park at Hamburg's Millerntor , which he tries to sell to a seedy pimp for DM 4000 . On the test drive through the harbor district, the supposed buyer and a friend threw Uli, who had been knocked unconscious from behind, out of the car, whereupon the two brazen thieves race away with the stolen vehicle. Uli is now looking for his sister and trying to get money. He takes some bills from her. When he leaves the house, he is followed by his 15-year-old brother Mark, whose money he has taken. At first Uli tries to get Mark off and send him back home, but very soon he gives up and the two brothers get drunk in a bar on St. Pauli. The wild rocker Uli introduces his younger brother to the code of conduct of traditional men's rituals such as drinking clear grain from the bottle and smoking cigarettes on the lungs. At night Uli finds the stolen white Daimler. You open the car and sleep there. The dubious pimp, who stole the car, steps out of his bar with his assistant onto the nightly street, sees the two drunken brothers sleeping in the Mercedes-Benz and pulls them out of the car, while Mark - being held by his friend - has to watch how the pimp beats his brother Uli to death with a club. Mark runs away from the scene, completely apathetic .
In the morning, Mark, still drunk, sleeps in front of the locked door of the supermarket where he is doing his training. He is woken up by a saleswoman and, greatly disturbed by the events of last night, begins to riot in the supermarket and toss the goods off the shelves. The arriving police bring the boy to reason and then home. Mark is then sent by his sister to live with his parents in Cuxhaven. He falls asleep at the tram stop on Zeppelinstrasse at Hamburg Airport . When Mark wakes up, he gets to know two of Gerd's buddies and finally himself in the pub next door. Gerd met there with his ex-girlfriend Sonja, who had recently found out about the death of her boyfriend Uli. Sonja leaves the scene speechless. After a binge with Mark and his two mates, Gerd pulls the dealer Frank across the table the next day by selling the suitcase with Mark's clothes to the dealer's customers as a suitcase full of drugs. From the 4000 Marks ("4 Mille") that he got, Gerd buys a motorcycle and wants to go to Cuxhaven with Mark. The journey of the unequal duo ends with a stop in a pub - the “Zur Linde” inn in Bornberg on the B 73 - between Hamburg and Cuxhaven. After Gerd has rudely bullied a truck driver in the pub for no reason, he leaves the bar and runs over Gerd's motorcycle with his truck, in order to then flee in his truck. Gerd is beside himself with anger; but you can also see - tears run down the cheeks of the tough rocker, who is mourning his demolished fire chair. Instead of going to Cuxhaven, they hitchhike back to Hamburg, as Gerd forcibly forces the driver they got into, even though the stranger actually wanted to go somewhere else.
Back in Hamburg, Mark recognizes the blonde friend of one of his brother's murderers, follows her to a nightspot on the Große Freiheit and tells Gerd the whole thing. He alerts his rocker gang, who then confronts the murderer in front of the Ulis establishment and beats them up. Meanwhile, Mark smashes the windshield of the Daimler parked in front of the bar with an iron bar. When the police show up, he leaves the place. The film ends with a take on Mark's smiling face, underneath the film title.
background
The film was produced by TV-Union Berlin on behalf of the Second German Television in autumn 1971. It was first broadcast on February 2, 1972 on ZDF. The performers are laypeople and in some cases appear in their role under their real names, which is of crucial importance for the authenticity of the film. The setting is essentially the Hamburg neighborhood . Klaus Lemke later used the same plot as the basis for his 1993 film The Rat .
At the beginning of the film you can see a member of the motorcycle club riding a chopper that has the same painted tank in Stars and Stripes design as actor Peter Fonda's Captain America motorcycle in the epoch-making biker film Easy Rider by 1969. When the assembled rockers happily greet their released friend Gerd in front of the prison gate, a member of the motorcycle club shouts euphorically “ Bambule! ".
In the scene in which Gerd is sitting in his room, leafing through a photo album and listening to the song Jingo by Santana at high volume , whereupon an older man complains about it, there is a large poster of actor Marlon Brando in his on the wall Role as rocker boss Johnny Strabler in the legendary 1953 motorcycle film Der Wilde .
In the scene in which a truck driver drives the motorcycle of rocker Gerd ready for scrap, Lemke takes up a theme that is described as a modern legend in the book The Spider in the Yucca Palm by Rolf Wilhelm Brednich as the “revenge of the truck driver”. The same theme is used in the 1977 film A Boiled Rascal with Burt Reynolds . Dieter Hallervorden also used the plot together with Kurt Schmidtchen as a rocker in a sketch of the series Nonstop Nonsens from the 1970s.
Towards the end of the film, when Mark Modschiedler and Gerd chase the young blonde woman on the street in St. Pauli, whose friends have beaten his brother to death and Gerd beats up the perpetrators with his approaching motorcycle club as a punishment, Mark and Gerd stand next to the famous sex -Theater Salambo .
Regarding the authenticity of the language used in the film Rocker , the director Dominik Graf judged in the documentary Eye to Eye - A German Film History , shot by film scholar Hans Helmut Prinzler and film critic Michael Althen , from 2008: “ These are films that you have to do protect, you have to keep it, you have to preserve it. It could be that at some point they will never be broadcast again […] With the film, Klaus Lemke is archiving a language that no longer exists […] ”.
Soundtrack
The film is musically accompanied by contemporary titles.
- Rolling Stones : Sister Morphine
- Rolling Stones: Moonlight Mile
- Santana : Jingo
- Them : It's All Over Now Baby Blue
- Elvis Presley : King Creole
- Led Zeppelin : Rock'n'Roll
- Santana: Black Magic Woman
- Rolling Stones: I Got The Blues
Cult status
The film enjoys cult status in some circles, especially in Hamburg . The Hamburg 3001 cinema therefore regularly has it in its program. The reason for this is the sometimes involuntary comedy of the characters' sayings, at least from today's perspective. In addition, the neighborhood is known to many, so that a certain authenticity is perceived. The fact that the plot is actually dramatic and tragic raises the film above crude entertainment. However, screenings of the film usually have a party character. Nordic nasty one-liners like
- "Two or three years."
- "You don't flatter me, cake!"
- "I'm pulling four more millennia this week" - "You're only pulling rivets"
- "Have you ever banged?"
- "Daimler is Daimler, and that is my Daimler."
- "Those who can smoke can also drink."
- "Out of Hamburg, away from leather."
- "So you mean you won't get the money back, you folding chair, or what?"
- "I don't care now either."
- "You don't care about anything, you cold buffer."
- "You are going to Hamburg now, I swear that to you!"
- "You're a guy or something, straighten up!"
- "Yes, look and see, nothing comes of it."
- "Yes, pour, bring on, a beer, double cola rum and he doesn't know what he's drinking."
- "Can you please tell me what time it is?"
- “Then we have to go there. Reinforcement with a few men. You, watch out, you go in there and hold them up for a moment with a chat and I'll get a few people. "
- "Outside everything is full of leather!"
the audience likes to have a say.
Reviews
Director Dominik Graf in his laudation at the 2010 City of Munich Film Award ceremony for Lemke:
“His film 'Rocker' was a turning point for 1972, first of all for Lemke himself. […] When you saw the first broadcast of Rocker on ZDF in February 1972, you won't forget when and where it was was. [...] Rocker was my entry into something that I couldn't define, I had no idea about the West German city streets, no idea about desolate-looking people on motorbikes, about the neighborhood, about another West German world [...]. It was television as a pure life experience. "
“Klaus Lemke's third TV film tries to provide an authentic description of everyday rocker life and, with its crude jargon and the unadorned description of the neighborhood, wrote television history. An almost unleashed camera set new standards in the field of television film. "
Web links
- Rocker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rocker at filmportal.de
- Photo gallery of the rocker shoot
Individual evidence
- ^ Feature film Rocker , directed by Klaus Lemke. Description of contents in the booklet of the DVD edition by Zweiausendeins + Monarda Publishing House, Halle (Saale) , 85 minutes, without bonus material, 2011.
- ↑ Soundtrack on www.rocker-film.de
- ↑ Volker Behrens: Between Kiez, Knast and Krad. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 20, 2010, accessed May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Dominik Graf In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 29, 2010, p. 10.
- ↑ Rocker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 22, 2017 .