Over the borders
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Over the borders |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Ackermann |
| script | Rainer Ackermann Tamara Trampe (dramaturgy) |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music | Wolfram Bodag |
| camera | Thomas Plenert |
| cut | Ursula Henning |
| occupation | |
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Beyond the borders is a DEFA feature film from Rainer Ackermann's cycling milieu from 1990.
action
Paul Krewer wants to make a film about the International Peace Tour and is looking for his well-rehearsed team. Above all, he wants to make a documentary about his friend Thomas Ritter, who is able to win this race. It should also be his last big bike race. But even on the first stage, Ritter fell hard and lost a lot of time on the top. But he also watches the English driver Steve Baxter, who torments himself to the finish, even though he was almost sitting in the broom wagon . After Krewer can almost rule out making a film about a radiant overall winner, he decides to focus on the Englishman as a brave and fair driver from the back field.
But also Falck, the teammate and friend Thomas Ritters, who is better placed after his deficit and has a chance of victory, is now more the focus of interest. So far he was a so-called water carrier for Thomas and is now somewhat in the dark about the new distribution of roles. In the course of the race, Ritter improved his position and was in third place in the order of the drivers before the last stage to Prague. Falck is in first place in the overall standings, but has a damaged chain in a corner. When Thomas wants to give him his racing bike, he refuses and sends it on the chase for the runner-up. Thomas succeeds in the miracle and gains so much lead that it is enough for the overall victory of the Peace Tour in Prague.
There is no material to film Steve Baxter, whose greatest wish was to reach Prague, at the end of the race. When it was finally there, Steve drove the bus past the agreed place and waved goodbye. For Thomas Ritter it was not the last trip after all, because he wants to find out in the coming year whether Falck's breakdown was really real or just faked.
production
Across the borders was shot by the DEFA studio for feature films (Artistic Working Group “Berlin”) on ORWO color and had its premiere on May 7, 1990 in the Berlin cinema Rio on Prenzlauer Promenade. The date was chosen on the occasion of the prologue of the 43rd International Peace Tour taking place on May 8th in Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee .
criticism
Günter Sobe of the Berliner Zeitung describes the strip as a feature film that a documentary filmmaker makes about a documentary filmmaker who wants to make a documentary about a cyclist. As far as the material is concerned, Rainer Ackermann has experiences that stand in the way of the dramaturgical concentration of the conflicts for the first feature film. At the end he calls the film, based on the theme, a flat tire that is said to have cost around four and a half million GDR marks.
The Lexicon of International Films wrote that DEFA documentarist Rainer Ackermann's feature film debut lacks decisive staging and convincing visual language.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 632 .
Web links
- Across the borders in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beyond the borders at filmportal.de
- Beyond the borders at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 8, 1990, p. 9
- ↑ Beyond the borders. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .