12 meters without a head
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| Original title | 12 meters without a head |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sven Taddicken |
| script | Matthias lease |
| production |
Stefan Schubert Björn Vosgerau Ralph Schwingel Uwe Kolbe |
| music |
Christoph Blaser , Steffen Kahles |
| camera | Daniela Knapp |
| cut |
Andreas Wodraschke Alexander Dittner Florian Miosge |
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12 Paces Without a Head (sporadically: Twelve meters without head ) is a German adventure - comedy from 2009. The movie deals with the life of the pirate Klaus Störtebeker , while its life will be more likely than Satire shown. Director in the feature film led Sven Taddicken . The German theatrical release was on December 10, 2009.
action
The pirate Klaus Störtebeker enjoys life to the full with his friend Gödeke Michels : lots of money, lots of women, lots of wine. But one day Störtebeker is stabbed and his life changes suddenly: The once strong and courageous leader behaves fearfully and wants to settle down with the beautiful, young woman Bille. However, he is captured and is to be executed.
The film begins with a man being led to his execution. Before he is beheaded, he asserts that he - Klaus Störtebeker - has led a life in absolute freedom and does not want to miss a single second. The present Hermann Lange notices that this is not Störtebeker at all and advises Simon von Utrecht , who was in charge of the execution , to stop it. But he refuses.
Then the film jumps back a year. Klaus Störtebeker and his team just attacked a ship of the Hanseatic League . A narrator introduces the members of the crew, including Gödeke Michels, the man who was about to be executed in the previous scene. Klaus sees the ship's captain flee below deck and follows him. But the captain can stick a knife in his chest and escape. Klaus goes down and loses consciousness.
Klaus later comes to on a beach. His crew is with him, but they lost their ship in battle. Fortunately, they can get a new boat in their hideaway Marienhafe . Here Klaus meets Bille too. She begs the question of whether it might mean something that he was dead before (in relation to his injury). Meanwhile, Michels flirts with the waitress Okka, but she turns him off .
The next day, Störtebeker's crew set sail with their new ship. In doing so, they discover that it is a rather shabby nutshell. In one corner you will find the skeleton of the previous owner and a Chinese cannon , which you don't know what to do with, as cannons were practically unknown in Europe at that time. Over time it becomes clear that Klaus has changed a lot since his injury - he suddenly became much more anxious. The success rate of the looting suffers as a result. Frustrated by this, the team disappears one night except for Klaus and Michels. Klaus says that it might be better if he too left the ship and leaves Michels alone on the ship.
Michels wants to hang himself. When he knocks over a candle, he sets off a fire that ignites the cannon. Confused by the loud bang, Klaus returns to the ship and saves Michels. The two recognize the cannon's potential. The rest of the crew returned soon afterwards, and with the cannon the number of their looting successes increased dramatically. The city council of Hamburg has to watch helplessly as Störtebeker's team makes sea trade practically impossible. The council has the merchants Hermann Lange and Nikolaus Schocke explain the effect of the new weapon and suggest countermeasures.
When the crew goes ashore in Marienhafe again, Michels wants to impress his beloved Okka with the treasures they have captured, but she informs him that she is now engaged. Klaus demonstrates the power of the cannon to Bille, but she is unimpressed. She asks Klaus to stay on land the next time he comes back. Meanwhile Michels has found Okkas fiancé and wants to vent his frustration by neutering him. Klaus can stop this senseless act of violence by taking timely action.
Back at sea, the other crew members make fun of Michel's failure in love. However, he can't really laugh about it and lets one of the men (magnifying glass) stick it into a barrel, which is then pulled behind the ship on a rope. This is actually only supposed to give him a lesson, but then the rope breaks and the barrel drifts helplessly away.
Michels fears that the Hanseatic League will close , which means that no more merchant ships will venture out onto the North Sea. So he and the team decide to sail to Hamburg and show it to the hated pepper sacks. Klaus knows this is an insane suicide mission, but he can't stop the determined Michels. Instead, one night he sinks the cannon to force Michels to turn back. But then the Hanseatic League warships appear under the leadership of Lange and Schockes. Now armed with their own cannons, they sink Störtebeker's ship and take him prisoner. They report to their superior, Simon von Utrecht, that everyone else has surely drowned.
Michels managed to get away with his life and seeks shelter on a farm. There he also meets Lupe, who (after being hit hard in the face) tells him how he survived. The two try to start a new life as a radish farmer. But Michels can't stand this poor, boring life for long. He steals a horse and sets out with Lupe to save Klaus Störtebeker from execution. They dress up as security guards and free him from his prison, and Michels tells him about his plan to get a new ship and continue their pirate life. But Klaus refuses - he no longer wants to be a pirate. Michels will then be willingly arrested to enable Klaus to escape. This is followed by the execution scene that the viewer knows from the beginning of the film. This time, however, it is a little longer; it ends with Michels (when the sword is already swinging towards his neck) one last time “ Fuck the Hanse! “Roars.
Then you see Klaus, probably a few weeks later, sitting by the campfire and telling children about the adventures of the great Klaus Störtebeker, including that he walked twelve meters without a head after his execution. When the children are finally in bed, the ghost of Klaus Störtebeker , Gödeke Michels , appears to Klaus . This tells him that he has to embellish the story much more. He begins to list a few ideas that actually belong to the legends about Störtebeker today, e.g. B. that a traitor poured lead into their helm.
production
The shooting locations were the town of Kappeln in Schleswig-Holstein , the Middelaldercentret in Nykøbing Falster, the Danish port town of Nykøbing Falster , the town of Barth and the Hanseatic town of Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The premiere of the film took place in Husum. Participated in the film production include a. Magnolia Film Production, Warner Bros., and Desert Film . The distributor is Warner Bros. Entertainment . The cost of the film is six million euros.
criticism
“Vital adventure cinema with moments that are as comical as they are dramatic, which the Störtebeker legend continues to fabulously and tells as a full, conflict-filled and eventful story of the friendship between Störtebeker and his ally Gödeke Michels. An atmospherically dense rebel fantasy with good actors, rock'n'roll music and a contemporary use of language that entertains a handful of "thugs" as imaginative speculation about the life, thinking and work of a handful. "
“Hardly surprising that with a budget of six million euros, Caribbean fights with lavish digital effects cannot be carried out, that '12 meters without a head 'is more a film of faces than action. Taddicken, who previously directed unorthodox family comedies ( My Brother the Vampire ) and love stories ( Emmas Glück ), concentrates on his buddies, played with commitment by newcomers Ronald Zehrfeld and Matthias Schweighöfer, and on situation comedy that does not always ignite, although the loss of Störtebecker's Mojo, its emasculation, would have offered more ammunition. In the wake of Captain Sparrow, pirates are once again the rock stars of their time. Anachronism is a style principle. The décor leads into the past, the language into the modern, while the music of the somewhat leisurely swaying story makes steam with glam rock and punk. The film was mostly shot at sea, with three replica cogs. The makers sacrificed a lot for this heartfelt project, not least their own resistance when Schweighöfer, sleeping, sucked Zehrfeld's toes and he, starving, had to eat a crawling spider. "
“What makes 12 meters without a head but also extremely worth seeing are the backdrops, the buildings and the historical locations. Above all, Hamburg and the small port city, in which the pirates seek refuge, offer historically plausible places that are also linked to impressive images of nature; and that both on the high seas and on land. As far as the sets and the choice of the production design are concerned, they have adhered to models such as the - much less funny - historical film Luther , which stands apart from the widely announced and artistically and commercially terribly failed TV films that are the stuff of myths and legends break down for television in often a short time. The buildings and costumes are not just empty material here to fill the picture, but rather enter into a symbiosis with the play of the actors and the plot and form the coherent picture of a real pirate story. Unlike in films such as Sven Unterwaldt's comedy Siegfried , Thaddickens film saves us the artificial attempts to conjure up the flair of a bygone era by overemphasizing. One point of criticism may be of a strange nature, as it does not affect the film directly, but the trailer: There, men are presented who are ready for anything, “just not for love”. In contrast to the trailer, this aspect is rather secondary in the film. Only Störtebeker himself repeatedly quarrels with his feelings, which, however, remain subliminal for the time being; Women and the beloved can only be found on land anyway. Love is on board, but is not in command and does not form the film's narrative. Viewers who expect this from the film will therefore be disappointed. "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Details of the locations on imdb.de
- ↑ Information on production on imdb.de
- ↑ Information on the budget
- ↑ 12 meters without a head in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Film review on kino.de
- ↑ Film review on critic.de
Web links
- official website
- 12 Paces Without a Head in the Internet Movie Database (English)