66/67 - fair play was yesterday

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Movie
Original title 66/67 - fair play was yesterday
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Carsten Ludwig ,
Jan-Christoph Glaser
script Carsten Ludwig
production Alexander Bickenbach ,
Manuel Bickenbach ,
Jon Handschin
music Dirk Dresselhaus
camera Ngo The Chau
cut Sarah Levine
occupation

66/67 - Fairplay was yesterday is a German feature film from 2009. The film is about a clique of violent football fans around Eintracht Braunschweig .

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The plot of the film takes place in May 2008, at this point in time - as it actually happened - Eintracht Braunschweig is fighting to stay in the Regionalliga Nord, threatens to miss the qualification for the new 3rd division and thus to football insignificance to sink in. The film begins with a flashback around a six-person hooligan group from Eintracht, whose members have problems reconciling their bourgeois life with their passion for football and brawls. In the film, the individual problems of the six young men are interpreted in more detail, as in the case of Florian, the leader, who acts as a guardian of the group, as in the case of Tamer, who takes care of the maintenance of his bar "66/67", which is the meeting point of the troops and has to fight for his fatally ill father or like Henning, who is dissatisfied with his job as a police officer.

Florian himself has a relationship with Tamer's sister, the attractive actress Özlem, who suggests that he move to Berlin, but he refuses because he feels too tied to Braunschweig. One night four of the six members of the group break into the Eintracht Stadium to steal the copy of the German championship trophy in order to surprise their buddy Christian, who wants to propose to his girlfriend Mareille at a home game in the stadium. They are surprised by Christian, of all people, who works as a security guard for the Braunschweig security company, and flee. Christian, furious, confronts Florian, who was not there when the break-in, in front of his apartment, but he can finally calm him down. Then Florian tells Florian about his plans for the future using a notebook.

Finally there is a surprise at a home game of Eintracht in the stadium, where all members (except Otto, whose stadium ban was blown at the entrance) want to surprise the unsuspecting Mareille with Christian's marriage proposal. This surprise goes completely wrong when Mareille disappears in front of the large backdrop and thus seals the separation. After this disappointment, Christian withdraws into the background, depressed.

The group then receives a call from rival hooligans from Hannover 96 who want to duel with a brawl at a rest stop near Lehrte. Florian persuades Christian, who initially wanted to throw himself off a roof because of his private situation, to take part. Arrived at the rest area, the group received a phone call that the Hanoverians had withdrawn. Frustrated, they mess with another uninvolved group of fans dressed in red who are currently at the rest area, brutally beat them up and ultimately flee. Florian then immediately goes to see Özlem in Berlin, who throws his childish behavior at his head and the final break between the two occurs after she flew out of his apartment because she found a diploma from him while rummaging through his apartment he had deliberately kept from her.

The next morning Henning found a missing person report from Mareille at his workplace. He is also one of the burglars in the Eintracht stadium, because his father, himself his superior, finds a portrait of Paul Breitner he stole from the stadium in his locker and therefore suspends him from duty. Henning notifies the boys of Mareille's disappearance and connects Christian with it, who has recently not been heard from. In an arbor in Christian's in-laws' allotment garden, Florian finally finds Mareille, sadistically tortured and injured by Christian.

The backward span finally ends and continues into the funeral service of Tamer's father Ahmet in the bar “66/67”, where everyone is present. Florian tries again to persuade Özlem to stay, but unsuccessfully. Overjoyed, Florian and Otto learned on a street corner from celebrating fans that Eintracht still managed to stay in the league. The film ends with a drug trip that takes the two of them back to Istanbul , just like during the film.

Production and film launch

66/67 is a production of Frisbeefilms and Jetfilm in coproduction with the ZDF series Das kleine Fernsehspiel and ARTE . Most of the shooting took place in Braunschweig in July and August 2008 , including at many of the original locations of the local fan culture, such as the Eintracht Stadium . Other locations were Wolfsburg , Berlin and Istanbul .

The film premiered on September 27, 2009 at the Zurich Film Festival . On November 10th, 2009 it was shown for the first time in Braunschweig during the November film festival. On November 19, 2009 it ran with 25 copies in German cinemas, where it reached around 11,000 viewers. On January 29, 2011, it was shown on TV for the first time on ARTE.

additional

The title "66/67" is an allusion to the only win so far in the German football championship of Eintracht Braunschweig in the Bundesliga season 1966/67 .

Reviews

The lexicon of international film judges: "A dramaturgically coherent ensemble film that certainly knows how to convey the fascination of the feeling of togetherness that is only superficially established in football, but also shows which repression mechanisms are kept alive by the martial group dynamics."

Tomasz Kurianowicz calls the film “outstanding” in the FAZ and classifies it as “one of the few and important German generation films of the present”. Besides the actors, he also praises the scriptwriter and director and compares the end of the film with Flaubert's upbringing of the heart .

Awards

66/67 - Fairplay was yesterday won the Golden Eye as best film in the German-language feature film competition of the Zurich Film Festival 2009 and was nominated for the 2012 Grimme Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 66/67 - fair play was yesterday . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 694 K).
  2. ↑ 66/67 - Fairplay was yesterday at mediabiz.de, accessed on April 21, 2011
  3. ↑ 66/67 - Fair play was yesterday. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 23, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Tomasz Kurianowicz: Eintracht in Braunschweig , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 29, 2011