25 km / h

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Movie
Original title 25 km / h
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Markus Goller
script Oliver Ziegenbalg
production Oliver Ziegenbalg,
Markus Goller
music Andrej Melita ,
Peter Horn
camera Frank Griebe
cut Matti Falkenberg ,
Markus Goller
occupation

25 km / h is a German feature film by director Markus Goller from 2018 . Goller directed the film based on a script by Oliver Ziegenbalg , which tells of an unequal middle-aged pair of brothers who, after their father's death from cancer, fulfilled their childhood dream of traveling together on mopeds across Germany. Lars Eidinger and Bjarne Mädel took on the leading roles . In addition, were, among others, Sandra Hüller , Franka Potente , Alexandra Maria Lara , Jella Haase , Jördis Triebel and Wotan Wilke Mohring front of the camera.

The road movie was realized by Sunny Side Up Filmproduktion, which Goller and Ziegenbalg had founded in advance. Columbia Pictures , Pictures in a Frame , Mythos Film and Traumfabrik Babelsberg appeared as co-producers . The German theatrical release was on October 31, 2018. The shooting took place between August and September 2017 in Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Schleswig-Holstein as well as Berlin and Brandenburg . 25 km / h reached over a million cinema-goers and was nominated for " Best Feature Film " at the German Film Prize 2019 . Lars Eidinger and Bjarne Mädel won several actor awards for their roles.

action

The two brothers Christian and Georg see each other for the first time in 30 years at their father's funeral. While Georg stayed as a self-employed carpenter in his home town of Löchingen in the Black Forest and looked after his father, who was suffering from cancer, until the end, Christian is a successful businessman who has traveled widely in Singapore . The two are strangers at first, especially Georg rejects his long-absent brother. But over table tennis and alcohol, the two find each other again and spontaneously decide to catch up on the trip to Germany that they planned when they were fifteen with their mopeds. The plan provides for a number of tasks: eat your way through the menu at the Greek, make an ass bomb from the ten, have sex, do a 20-meter wheelie down the slope, knock over a sleeping cow , pee in the sea in Timmendorfer Strand .

Still drunk and in a funeral suit, they start at the Löchinger Dorfbrunnen. She travels across Germany on the two old mopeds from her youth, almost falling apart several times and often completing the list of tasks by chance. At a wine festival , they meet the married women Ute and Ingrid, impress them with a tap dance performance and spend the night with them. Over time, Georg and Christian get to know each other better again - especially when they happen to visit a hippie festival with hitchhiker Willie. There Christian reveals that he has a son he has never seen. At Georg's insistence, the two make a detour via Berlin . They find Christian's son Konrad and play football with him without revealing themselves. Christian's contact with Konrad's mother Lisa doesn't lead any further. The brothers continue their journey separately, but meet again along the way. They gamble away their mopeds in a table tennis match against the chubby permanent camper dumbbell and his son. After trying to get the machines back secretly, the two of them have to drive on to the Baltic Sea on Georg's moped . In the end, the trip gives Christian the strength to rearrange his life and to finally take Georg, his now married secret childhood sweetheart Tanja, with him on his long-bench moped that he bought 30 years ago for this purpose.

production

25 km / h is the first collaboration between Markus Goller and Oliver Ziegenbalg since their box office success Friendship! from 2010. During Friendship! played with Matthias Schweighöfer and Friedrich Mücke in the leading roles with cars and motorcycles in the vastness of the USA , the speed of the mopeds used in the film, which is limited to 25 km / h, made it possible to set a road movie in Germany, which is smaller in terms of area. Goller and Ziegenbalg also act as producers and founded the production company Sunny Side Up especially for 25 km / h . The film was made in co-production with Pictures in a Frame GmbH (whose managing directors Jan Gallasch and Tobias Herrmann also took over the executive production of the film), Deutsche Columbia Pictures GmbH, Traumfabrik Babelsberg & Babelsberg Film GmbH and Mythos Film GmbH & Co. KG. According to press reports, the film budget before shooting was around five million euros.

occupation

Bjarne girl Lars Eidinger
Bjarne Mädel and Lars Eidinger play the brothers

For the role of Georg, the screenwriter Ziegenbalg had already planned the actor Bjarne Mädel while writing . The authority responsible for the occupation casting director Hina Haun also struck girl and Lars Eidinger before his brother. Eidinger and Mädel had hardly known each other before and had not yet worked together. For the shooting, the two had to take tap dance and table tennis lessons. The casting of the supporting roles, in some cases with successful cinema actors such as Sandra Hüller , Franka Potente , Alexandra Maria Lara , Jella Haase and Wotan Wilke Möhring , was carried out without a selection casting . For the actors of the brothers as teenagers, who can be seen via Super 8 flashback, there was a table tennis casting in summer 2017.

Filming

The shooting took place on 37 days between August 1 and September 20, 2017 in Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Schleswig-Holstein , Berlin and Brandenburg . They began in the central and northern Black Forest , where an empty courtyard in the Gengenbach district of Fußbach was the parents' house of the brothers. On the town hall square of Gengenbach, the wine festival was staged at night with Franka Potente and Alexandra Maria Lara as actors and 260 extras. The crew occupied the town hall there as a base for the following several days of shooting in the old town of Gernsbach , which represented the fictional Black Forest town of Löchingen . The funeral was filmed in the Gernsbach St. Jakob Church and in the adjacent cemetery. Night moped rides by the main actors were staged in the alleys of Gernsbach's old town. The Gernsbach butcher's fountain served as the village fountain of Löchingen.

Other locations in Mittelbaden were Berghaupten , Nordrach , Baden-Baden and the Rhine bridge in Wintersdorf . Recordings for a scene in a taxi with Lars Eidinger and Sesede Terziyan as the driver were made at a level crossing on the Murgtalbahn in Baiersbronn . On the Schwarzwaldhochstrasse , filming took place at the 1960s-style petrol station in Kniebis and at the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe . The filmmakers found a typical Greek restaurant at the Alter Markt in Euskirchen , where the brothers in the film eat their way through the menu. In Schleswig-Holstein the film was shot on the Haffkrug pier , in Sierhagen and on the Wakenitz bridge near Rothenhusen . Recordings were also made in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania between Thandorf and Rieps .

In Brandenburg and Berlin, thanks to funding from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , scenes were shot that take place in other regions. The Finowfurt Aviation Museum on a former Soviet military airfield was the scene of the esoteric festival in North Rhine-Westphalia. The production drove 140 extras in buses from Berlin. At Zossen , recordings were made for film scenes from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg. A gravel pit and the forest near the Horstfelde district was the scene of the chase with Wotan Wilke Möhring. Another location in Brandenburg was Bernau-Birkholz . The soccer game with Christian's son Konrad shows the Görlitzer Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

  • Place of Burial: St. James Church and the Protestant Cemetery in Gernsbach

  • The butcher's fountain in Gernsbach served as the “fountain on the market square of Löchingen”

  • Wakenitz Bridge near Rothenhusen (Schleswig-Holstein), in the film Border Bridge of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • The travel destination, the Haffkrug pier

The mopeds

Christian drives a Puch Maxi S that has been converted into a chopper with a high handlebar and backrest , Georg drives a Zündapp ZD 25 TS , the predecessor of the ZD 50 TS . Despite its moped- like appearance without a step-through, it is also a moped with a top speed of 25 km / h . Markus Goller says he used to own such a moped with a long bench, which should enable him to take a girl with him.

In addition to two to three petrol engines, a variant with an electric drive was also available for the shooting of both models . This quieter drive made it easier to record the dialogues, and during the nightly shooting in the narrow streets of the old town, disturbance to the residents was avoided.

Film music

The mood of the score, composed by Andrej Melita and Peter Horn , is inspired by the soundtrack of the US comedy St. Vincent (2014). Goller and Ziegenbalg added well-known pop songs to the score that they had associated with the mood of the film while it was being made. According to Ziegenbalg, by purchasing the worldwide music rights, they exceeded the planned music budget of 100,000 euros by 150,000 euros, for which they were responsible as producers. During the introductory flashback the title is Hot Love of T. Rex to hear. The central table tennis match at the campsite is titled Maschin by the Austrian band Bilderbuch .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film was released on October 26, 2018 on Sony Music as CD and download.

Track list 
No. title Interpreter length
1. Boys don't cry The Cure 2:35
2. Never All the luck in the world 4:38
3. Love survive Michael Nau 2:45
4th Close to me The Cure 3:40
5. Mach Picture book 3:28
6th The Great Commandment camouflage 4:12
7th Cormorant Bird Fionn Regan 3:27
8th. I'll be around Yo La Tengo 4:47
9. Love is a shield camouflage 3:59
10. Happiness Jonathan Jeremiah 3:02
11. When the Poet Sings LA salami 4:19
12. Green Mountain Road Adam Torres 5:35

publication

The official premiere of 25 km / h took place on October 25, 2018 in the Cinestar cinema in Berlin's Sony Center . The theatrical release in Germany, distributed by Sony Pictures, was on October 31, 2018. Austria followed on November 1, the start date for German-speaking Switzerland was November 7, 2018.

In Germany the film entered the cinema charts at number four and temporarily improved to third place in the following week. By the end of 2018, 855,040 spectators were reached here. The film continued to be used in theaters in 2019 and broke the one million viewer mark in the 37th week of the open-air season in July .

In the German art house cinema charts determined by Comscore and the AG Kino , 25 km / h started in second place behind The First Name and climbed to first place in the third week of the game, where the film lasted for three weeks.

Sales for DVD and Blu-Ray of the film started on May 2, 2019.

reception

Critics praised the interaction between Lars Eidinger and Bjarne Mädel as a pair of brothers, including the journalist Anke Sterneborg from Epd Film . She also saw a “beautiful mixture of thoughtful profundity and airy, buoyant lightness” and awarded four out of five stars. Julia Haungs from SWR2 highlighted the “star-studded” cast and the soundtrack as well and said that the film was not a “ midlife crisis tragedy”, “but a thoroughly comical self-awareness trip.” The film service rated the film with three out of five stars and as an "entertaining" road movie, "that brushes the set pieces of the genre against the grain", the "lively written dialogues" would be "interpreted with joy by the two main actors."

Stefan Stosch from RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland was mostly satisfied with the comedy "except for the supporting roles [...] with excellent cast." The scriptwriter and director used all the clichés typical of a road movie, but they always made it ironic that they were aware of it, and avoided moments that were "maudlin 'or even embarrassing. Britta Schmeis was of a similar opinion at Spiegel online : Some platitudes in the film "would be unbearable if Goller didn't embed them in pretty bizarre situations." Matthias von Viereck wrote for dpa that although a lot was "quite predictable", the film was nevertheless entertaining and "the second most beautiful German-language road movie of this cinema season" after Hans Weingartner's 303 .

Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts found that the film “despite a less than original premise and constantly lurking clichés […] is a refreshingly sympathetic feel-good road movie”, “that is deeper and more surprising than one would initially assume.” The comedy offers "a lot of Black Forest local color" and turns out to be "a highly sympathetic road movie comedy with melancholy sags". Goller breaks through the "common genre clichés" and surprises with scenes "that swim against the current, even if the moral of the story actually seems a bit old-fashioned at the end".

Awards

At the German Film Prize 2019 , 25 km / h was nominated in the " Best Feature Film " category. Bjarne Mädel and Lars Eidinger received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for their roles in the film on January 30, 2019 . At the Bambi Awards 2019 , 25 km / h was nominated in the "National Film" category, Bjarne Mädel received the Bambi in the "National Actor" category for these and other roles. In 2018 Lars Eidinger was nominated for the award with the same film and other roles. At the Bavarian Film Award 2019 , Eidinger and Mädel won the actor's award for 25 km / h together .

Web links

Commons : 25 km / h  - picture gallery: actors and locations

Individual evidence

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